In Cold Dark
An interactive space story about rediscovering a life, our friendships, our choices and regrets.
Three years scouting the distant reaches of the galaxy. You’ve been all on your own, but now it's time to head back home … to SAGI 499: a divided colonial society on the edge of the Sagittarius spiral, and your home. Old friends calling, new faces to meet, political turmoil … and hints of something far stranger. What will you choose?
#### What is In Cold Dark
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In Cold Dark is a sci-fi point-and-click branching narrative. You're returning from a distant exploration gig with your trusty glitchy AI, SPARC, and soon you'll need to decide your priorities.
  
#### What do you want to do?
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* Navigate interstellar jumps?
* Read a book?
* Watch your favourite show?
* Tackle sector colonialism with the Voiders?
* Reconnect with your old love?
* Make a new one?
* Just do your thing and survive?
The story places a focus on irrevocable decision-making each playthrough, and a blend of pixel art and paintings make for a unique and striking journey through the spiral arm of the Milky Way.
  
#### Who are we?
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**The director:**
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Efehan Elbi is an animator, author, and interdisciplinary storyteller. With a constant desire to craft stories whether in colour, code, poetry, or prose, “In Cold Dark” aims to bring these elements together for an interactive tale of life choices, regret, and striking spacey futures.
**The team:**
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done \ undone is a collaborative studio of friends, with a love of many kinds of games, art and experiences.
  
✨✨ We're still in development! So look back for more details and news ✨✨
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## Best Month Ever!
**_Best Month Ever_** is a modern point-and-click story-driven adventure of Louise and her son Mitch. Life is hard for Louise as a single mom, struggling to make ends meet. But things can always get worse, and after being diagnosed with a terminal illness that leaves her with one month to live, the clock is ticking for her to raise her son. But how do you explain that to an 8-year old kid? Mitch is picking up things fast - like a duckling, he observes his mother and imitates her behavior - but time is running out and Louise has to think carefully about making the right decisions and setting a good example for Mitch to follow. Together, they hit the road to take back the time that was stolen from them and live a lifetime as mother and son in 4 short weeks…
This intense family trip takes place during a groovy 60s era. Mother and son are thrown into both dangerous and funny situations, all of which impact their relationship and future. Their intimate tale plays out against the backdrop of a United States torn apart by political tensions and divided by brutal social inequality.
You will learn about the facts and decisions from the past in flashbacks and through memories of the grown-up Mitch - the narration constantly switches between the “past” (the 60s) and the “present” (the 70s). Finally, we jump back in time to decide what choices Louise made and how they affected the future of the two. Players’ decisions will also help shape a unique image of her as to what kind of person she was.
* **Decisions REALLY matter!** To keep track of Mitch’s growth as a person, each choice you make adds positive or negative influence to three statistics: Righteousness, Confidence, and Relations. As a result, this changes your story on the go, which makes each player's experience feel unique.
* **Mother & Son relationship** - Not only will their individual fates be subject to change, but also their mutual relationship. Best Month Ever is above all else the story of the touching, challenging and unique bond that can only exist between a mother and son.
* **Different Outcomes** - Turn on, tune in, drop out… and decide! Different choices result in different endings of the game. It is up to the player to decide what kind of person Mitch will become and what exactly happened during his memorable journey through the USA with his mother.
* **Weird 60s trip** - What a time to travel it was! Canned Heat was singing about “Going Up the Country” while Bob Dylan asked “How does it feel” to have no home and live on the street. Louise and Mitch travel across the country, meeting bikers, hippies, Klansmen, Native Americans, and far-out wanderers of all sorts.
* **No losers here!** - Don’t be a square, you can’t ‘lose’ in Best Month Ever! Your decision will shape Mitch as an adult person. He may of course get some kicks on the way, but hey, the story will still be unique and rewarding! Can you dig it?
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## Legacy Bites
Play cards to save the population of humans and the rest of the animal kingdom!
Key Features:
Random Game with optional deck building
Campaign Mode containing 24 missions
Gameplay:
The world is divided into human and animal populations. Your goal is to keep each population within specific boundaries.
A game is played over various rounds. Each round a threat card is played by AI which changes the population of humans and animals in the world. The player receives 1-4 cards for that round to negate the effects of the threat card. Although the threat card only affects populations when the round ends, player cards may affect populations that round and up to the next two rounds. Plan and play cards carefully. After the last round ends all remaining population modifiers are played out. Keep an eye out for that! To make matters even more interesting, the boundaries for each population may change during the game! And there is a round timer! You'll need quick hands and a quick mind to succeed!
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## Bai Qu: Hundreds of Melodies
This is a review of Bai Qu, which is the sequel to Shan Gui.
### ✏ Introduction
Opportunities often happens in our lives. It may be a big deal or just a tiny spec.
In this story you start as Xiao Su, a relative of Li Jiayun. Su then recieves a package of what may it seems like a diary of Jiayun. Investigating, Su realized that Jiayun had passed away. Soon later a man knocked by Su's doorstep and introduced himself as Wei Qiuwu, the main protagonist of this story. He then tells Su about his relationship with Li Jiayun and the reason to trust him. Thus ends with Qiuwu telling the whole story of his adventures with Jiayun.
*– [Real player with 270.9 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198110671125)*
Updated English version for my dude:)
It happened one year before Shan Gui.
This work introduces the warm daily life of Hejia, and Jiayun who'd become the four sister of the He family. The scenery in Nanjing is as awesome as ever.
Six main options, three branches, the farewell of Jia Yun, the fantasy world of He Jia, the deep love of Yang Qin.
All the plots are about the embarrassment of the Jiayun diary. At the beginning, the news of the death of Jia Yun was revealed. After three routes, the peaks and turns, this is actually a warm story tells friendship and family-ship between the girls.
*– [Real player with 21.4 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198339012887)*
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## Heaven's Hope - Special Edition
Good, not great.
It's specifics:
- Visually superb.
- Fully voiced, perfectly subtitled.
- Verbose, yet not annoying; instead it's rather charming.
- The humour is German, and this game is the historical source of this horrible stereotype, i.e., it's not funny.
- The story is interesting enough. It's about a bunch of angels (from the Christu mythos) being mean to everyone and to each other, one of them relentlessly using a mouse as a slave.
- The puzzles are often rather weak and abstruse. Sometimes things that cannot possibly work actually work, while things that would make sense fail with no explanation, a pitfall that better games avoid.
*– [Real player with 13.1 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198201620245)*
### TL:DR
A **fun but linear point and click game** with charicaturized characters and medium production values. Play this if you are interested in the **story** and can tolerate the lack of freedom/emergent gameplay.
### Audio
Atmospheric effects are ok to good.
**Music is quite enjoyable and seems fitting** to the themes, think Sleepy Hollow with a little angelic choir sprinkled in.
**Voices are mostly good, but they are poorly timed**. Considering the gold rule of comedy, the game suffers a lot from empty space in between lines of speech. It was very noticeable at the beginning but became less noticeable as the game progressed.
*– [Real player with 10.9 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198010123808)*
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## Musicle
Doesn't load youtube vid; Doesn't load local mp3; Just doesn't work.
*– [Real player with 0.3 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198039488837)*
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## Half Past Fate: Romantic Distancing
Got this game with a small rebate (about 4$ US) ,i loved the subject,with everything going on right now,i decide to give it a shot.I find in easy to relate to Stephen(one of the caracter),also the SNES feel is great,music is nice…remind me of sone NES and SNES music,that bring's a lot of memories.It's not a dating sim per say,it's more like a story driven game.
This game definitly deserve more attention.If you love story driven games,this is a nice 4 bucks who make you forget your miserable empty life like mine...The only downside,it's pretty short(just over 90 minutes) and there's not much of a replay value
*– [Real player with 2.0 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198002466839)*
Played this after the first Half Past Fate game and caught me off guard how short it is compared the first one. That aside, this spin-off features the same gorgeous art style, good writing, and down to earth and relatable characters. I recommend it if you've finished HPF and want to explore some other aspects of the world and get to know more characters.
Also, we never learned what our resident himbo's occupation is :( ..
*– [Real player with 1.6 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198107992438)*
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## Hollow Bliss
Your experience in **Hollow Bliss** depends on your choices, deaths, and consequences. Take control of five high school friends who end up trapped within a dark home, its twisted residents out to get them. As you explore the house, the space changes around you, and how you interact with it and respond to its dangers will make an impact on your chances to make it out alive. Everyone can die, but more than that, the imprint they leave can either benefit or hurt the chances of the others also trying to survive. You're in a horror scenario, it's up to you to make your choices of how to get out of the situations you find yourself in.
After the death of his childhood best friend, _Chris Lansan_ struggles to feel normal with his friends, old and new. There was a comic he and his deceased friend were working on before her unfortunate passing, but it was in her possession when she died. He goes with his group of friends; _Dustin, Julia, Hailey_, and _Sarah_, to ask his mother if he could take the comic as a memento. After strange hostility from the mother towards Chris, seeing how important this is to Chris, Dustin proposes they sneak in when the mother goes out to find and fetch the comic. When they do so however, they find themselves trapped within the home, and unfortunately not alone.
Hollow Bliss is a gut wrenching 2.5D horror narrative game experience that plays out differently depending on you.
**FEATURES**
* You're in control of a horror scenario, who lives and dies depends entirely on you.
* 32 endings, with various alternate ways every scene in the game can play out.
* Every character has a unique ability, which if they die, is lost to you.
* The game remembers previous runs, the past may come back to haunt you.
* Twisted and strange horrors that'll leave you guessing and what could possibly come next.
* An original soundtrack and positional 3D audio adds to a thick atmosphere, best experienced with headphones..
* A cast of characters who have more to them than you may initially assume. They may win you over.
_Pulling down the moon would be easier._
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## Mayhem in Single Valley
*I played in v 4.0.02 and finished the game in v 4.0.04.
**Playing status:** 100% achievement
**Grindy Achievement(s):** No.
**Optional Achievement(s):** Yes (29 achievements, all of them are missables).
**Difficult Achievement(s):** No.
### Intro
There is mayhem in Single Valley. Everyone turned into radioactive, mindless monsters that can kill you in one hit. Explore the whole valley, dodging all monsters along the way, to save everyone.
**Pros:**
- A lot of collectibles to collect, some are hidden in tricky places
*– [Real player with 15.7 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198132503739)*
### The 80s Never Felt So Good!
(a review copy of this game was provided. Check out my full review on GeektoGeekMedia)
What a fun ride! I want to hurry and finish the review so I can play more! _Mayhem in Single Valley_ is a polished, sharp, fun little adventure game that hits ya like a catchy 80s pop song; you can't get it out of your head!
Jack Johnson (no relation) is about to fly to the city to attend art school–a wonderful opportunity and chance to escape the dead-end lifestyle of his not-so-well-to-do family. All that remains is a couple of chores and...what's this? Mysterious shadow entities dumping toxic waste into the town's water supply? Oh, dear! Well, what's a helpful/mischievous lad in a red-hooded sweatshirt supposed to do but grab some trashcan lids and fight mutant forest animals!?
*– [Real player with 8.6 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198031751010)*
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## Escape Planet 17
In Escape Planet 17, you are under the skin of Natan, a detective from the Narcotics Department. While investigating a new drug circulating on the streets, Nathan sees his partner being killed and both are framed for involvement in trafficking among others crimes. Nathan is unjustly accused, convicted, sent to a prison planet and removed from his family. During his stay on planet 17, Nathan devises a plan to escape, but a series of macabre crimes initiates a security protocol and prevents his plans. Get involved in an obscure plot involving violent gangs, synthetic drugs and a symbiotic experiment company. Giving up is not an option, escaping the planet is your mission, even if you have to get your hands dirty with blood.
Well-established platform game mechanics, with adjusted controls.
Skills such as double jump, dash, wall jumping among others.
Unique system of interaction with characters: Choose between bribing, influencing or threatening characters.
Use shields, vests, and bandaids to protect yourself and recover your life.
Unique system to equip weapons and multidirectional aiming.
An Interactive Inventory system with the ability to save, load, drop and other options to manage several items.
A game with fluid narrative and a great and unique History.
* #### Draw and Handle Weapons:
The game has a unique weapon draw weapon system, inspired by the classic megadrive game Flashback - The Quest for Identity.
* #### Hacking:
You have the ability to hack some terminals to activate doors, elevators, manage your Notoriety and more.
* #### Fighting Skills:
Use your close combat skills to fight enemies, very usefull when your weapon is out of ammo.
* And much more;
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