A Chamber of Stars
Each person has a universe inside of them.
A personal universe with characters influenced by the observable reality around them. Your friends, the fans, the local shop clerk, each person you pass without giving pause is another universe. You make up a story about them, they form a story about you. The universes expand.
I always wonder how similar our universes can be. You and I. Will I ever be able to pierce through and present myself, my real self, or will the information be lost in translation? The thing rattling around in our heads can’t be all that different. We both still get choked up over the same melodies, it’s only human to do so, right?
Maybe, if you would like it, I could play something for you. Lord knows your songs are still rattling around in my head.
The singularly named Starr, an enigmatic performer, guitarist and songwriter, has somehow survived the constant shifting tide of the musical landscape. Decade after decade, this artist has remained relevant in culture’s eye. After multiple personas, genre manipulations and controversies, the public is still buzzing. “What will Starr do next?” The rumors say their upcoming album will be the fated magnum opus…
A Chamber of Stars is the sequel to 2018’s The Endless Empty. Through six unique worlds the life of the rock n’ roll hero, Starr, will be pieced together. Exploration, choices and performances will change the course of a life and will alter the songs that are produced. A Chamber of Stars will feature a mix of classic adventure games, puzzle solving and unique rhythm game performances all within a fully realized surrealist universe.
Nothing heavenly or divine; just filthy mortal music here.
Read More: Best 2.5D Story Rich Games.
A Day Without Me
Game Bagus nih buatan anak Indonesia, lumayan lah buat senam jantung sedikit di beberapa aspek :v, udah tamat dalam waktu sekitar 3 jam baru tamat 100% sama semua collectible.
Kelebihan (+)
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Puzzlenya Bikin Pusing
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Gambarnya Lumayan Bagus
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Plot Twist di Akhir
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Map nya Luas
Kekurangan (-)
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ada beberapa Glitch
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Tempatnya Terlalu Pusing wkwk
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bisa ke tempat yang harusnya belom boleh di datengin
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Jalannya Terlalu Lama
Ditunggu Kelanjutannya
– Real player with 4.4 hrs in game
Read More: Best 2.5D Horror Games.
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Indie developers from Indonesia may be a minority, but they are definitely on the rise! Take the Dreadout franchise or the recent demo Who Is He: Let Me Out- and what’s one thing they got in common? HORROR!!! Gamecom Team’s A Day Without Me (ADW) is yet another! The dev’s portfolio includes having worked on the mobile game Babol, with a Crash-Bash likeness but as an animate box and Parakacuk, a gang-based brawler set in a school!
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game
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
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You’re in control of a horror scenario, who lives and dies depends entirely on you.
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32 endings, with various alternate ways every scene in the game can play out.
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Every character has a unique ability, which if they die, is lost to you.
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The game remembers previous runs, the past may come back to haunt you.
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Twisted and strange horrors that’ll leave you guessing and what could possibly come next.
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An original soundtrack and positional 3D audio adds to a thick atmosphere, best experienced with headphones..
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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.
Read More: Best 2.5D Choose Your Own Adventure Games.
The Franz Kafka Videogame
A point & click which celebrates surrealism more than the novelist himself.
It is an original puzzle/adventure game inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka. But unfortunately, the story has very little to do with Kafka, except that the protagonist of the story, named simply K. is involved in events that are beyond his own control and tries to find the way out of it (kind of, there are no clear motives for what he’s doing), which is somewhat Kafkaesque, I must admit.
The art style is well-done and nice. Although is nothing surprisingly spectacular, is queer enough to allow characters like K. to seamlessly inhabit the same world as the Duck or Insect Detective without being too jarring. I also genuinely enjoy a lot of the music the game has to offer, even if the loops are relatively short. It manages to generate the correct theme and feeling the game clearly want the players to feel.
– Real player with 8.1 hrs in game
Do I ever try and like this game…
There are a great many issues that are hard to overlook and a great many subtle nuances I keep trying to convince myself are worthwhile canceling out the problems, but ultimately I can’t…I just can’t.
On first playthrough I was excited about the artstyle and potential subject matter… and upon delving in I was even more pleased with the small pieces of detail and pastice that are probably lost to most; be that the Scheele green walls, the SS Blumfeld (the elderly bachelor), and I did get so many giggles from the vulture wine advert; but so much of it was just so shallow and of no substance and concequence. The more I tried to prove that was not the case to myself the more I found quotes and disclamers from the sources proving my wimsy wrong.
– Real player with 7.4 hrs in game
Astebreed: Definitive Edition
First: ignore the “TOO EASY” reviews. They are jokes. None of them took note of score, 1CCed Hard mode or even COMPLETED it.
One of the best, most underrated indie games out there, made doubly impressive by the development company’s obscurity & status as part-time devs. Despite classic arcade-like design principles, it’s not a “nostalgia game”; it can hardly be described as “X meets Y”. Maybe Sin & Punishment’s cinematic on-rails presentation + a shmup’s bullet dodging + Alien Soldier’s sheer variety of stuff to do… but that wouldn’t really do it justice.
– Real player with 48.1 hrs in game
This review will be primarily focused on the Definitive Edition release and it’s new features. Owners of the original version will automatically receive the Definitive Edition update for free.
SCORE: 8/10
Pros: Extremely fast-paced action with varying degrees of difficulty, absolutely stunning visuals (further enhanced particles and blur for the Definitive Edition), extremely memorable soundtrack (new tracks have been added), high replayability even for a considerably short game. Extensive (and even slighty interactive) gallery provides fans of the game a more in-depth look at virtually everything involved with the lore. Further enhanced optimization options (including higher resolution support).
– Real player with 43.1 hrs in game
Bolt Riley, A Reggae Adventure
It would be in my best interest to give a glowing review since I want to see this game completed but I need to be honest about the progress made so far. I do realise this game is considered Early Access and I know the budget for this game is pretty small, and you should keep that in mind too (if you end up reading the in-depth review linked below), but ultimately, is it something I would recommend to my friends or the gaming public in its current state? Considering the artwork still needs some touching up, bugs were encountered way too frequently, the UI needs fixing and the first chapter is way too short, probably not. I’m hoping that Adventure Mob will eventually prove me wrong though, as I really want this game to succeed.
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
Bolt Riley is a well-intentioned but uniformly misguided proof of concept.
Presumably the developers naively underestimated the effort required to achieve the level of quality best suited to their vision. Instead, they opted to release an embarrassingly short and painfully butchered appetizer.
One should be easily inclined to forgive unrefined details in Early Access but no update in over a year severely burdens the game’s credibility.
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Eggy
If this game ended after The end? Level I would have given it a good review but it doesn’t. The game ends after Vulcano which is a poorly designed hell compared to the rest of the game. It’s like going from easy to expert. It took me 6 hours to casually make it to the last level but since then I have spent 14 hours trying to complete Vulcano with no luck.
– Real player with 20.0 hrs in game
I just fully completed the game and I can definitely say: it was absolutely worth my time, effort and money. Eggy is a fantastic 2D-platformer with intriguing physics, stunning environments and a lot of creativity.
The game can be frustrating at times, but unlike games such as Getting Over It, Eggy does have checkpoints. Everytime you make it to another checkpoint after a hard section, you feel satisfied and motivated to continue playing.
The game also truly rewards creativity. While there always is a path available to go, thinking out of the box can occasionally work in your favor and reward you with a shortcut or secret.
– Real player with 14.4 hrs in game
GlitchPets
PLATFORMING MADNESS S+ RANKING OUT OF 10 BUT A BIT GLITCHY.
Ah in all seriousness though glitch pets is a wonderful and interesting take on the platforming genre and completely takes convention (and while not abandoning interesting level design and ideas) and throws it out the window. Aesthetically this game is a pleasing fever dream meets a music video meets a crashing operating system. I found myself blissfully pulled into this games visual style, laymans terms its trippy af. And it isn’t afraid to go overboard with its graphical style and presentation either and for that I apploud it. The design of these levels fits in with the artstyle as well, platform’s scattered about the world and slides provide a very solid platforming experience in what seems to be a fractured and beautifully chaotic world.
– Real player with 10.1 hrs in game
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– Real player with 8.2 hrs in game
Element X
Love it ! Already a great game, could become a must have with such potential !
– Real player with 37.2 hrs in game
Great game and an impressive bullet hell. A small note though is that a single enemy will spawn off screeen at the bottom, so just as a warning for if you can’t find that last enemy. This doesn’t change may rating though because for me that just shows that they can make the game even better. Honestly hoping for a multiplayer game mode though, because then things would get real interesting.
– Real player with 15.5 hrs in game
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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