Beyond This Side
Beyond This Side is an episodic game. This contains the first two episodes.
Update: Apr 17, 2021. I still do not see a release date for the third episode; this is an unfinished product.
This dev is transitioning from HOPAS to adventure.
This is a perfect game for someone who plays Hidden Objects and wants to learn to play Point and Click or Adventure games. It does not fit into any one category. It is a bridge between.
Sometimes I want to play am easy game that I do not have to work at, just sit back and look at the art; this is that game.
– Real player with 10.7 hrs in game
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This adventure game is episodic, there are currently 2 out of 3 available which takes around 2-3 hours to complete if you not skipping the dialogue. I am not sure how we going to obtain episode 3 because I can’t find the info on the store page (is it free DLC or paid DLC?). Anyway, the game is only $5 which is fair, maybe even a little underpriced if you ask me. However, this gameplay is somewhat different from a traditional point&click adventure, it kinda feels more like a hidden-object game because of the puzzle design. Whenever you have to do some kind of activity the game will ask you to do things like jigsaws, pattern matching or hidden-object mini-games. The controls have a few small problems, you have to walk by using A+D or holding the mouse, I think you should be able to just click the mouse instead. Also, the game for some reason double checks everything - click on the item and then confirm that you take it on the bottom of the screen (just take the damn item!).
– Real player with 5.9 hrs in game
Bioid
Bioid is an exploration adventure and puzzle game from two dreamers.
Owl-like’s Space Library features oddities from across civilizations and the crossroads of worlds. Just open the book, and unknown creatures burst forth or drag you into the book. Worlds collide in the Library! Offering you the opportunity to become a mediator between various funny and paradoxical creatures.
The White Bioid Reef stands out among dimensions. It’s a conglomerate of shape-shifters with powers of telekinesis and gravity control. Open tunnels in the bioplasm and travel through white labyrinths to meet higher-intelligence creatures. Fight the parasitic thorns and world devourers.
Have fun exploring while listening to great ambient music.
Read More: Best Adventure Point & Click Games.
Inked: A Tale of Love
To make this shorter, just to mention a few things that might interest someone:
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Ineresting story
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Solid gameplay (controles can be set in the Options and easy to control)
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Game not to short, not to long ( I don´t know about others but for me it was great to have full 8 - 10 hours expirience)
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Beatiful enviroment and componented music
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Challenging and interesting levels and puzzles (Well still sometimes easy sometimes hard but it is easy to cooperate with puzzles)
– Real player with 37.1 hrs in game
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Thank you, Somnium Games. Inked is beautiful. It’s sad. It’s heartwarming. It makes me wanna cry. It amazes me. Its music calms me. Its sound makes me chuckle (cute little footsteps). This is, by far, the most imaginative, innovative masterpiece of art I have seen since FEZ and Braid. The way it’s done is superb! I’ve seen no bugs so far, I enjoyed every second of it and only little gripe I have is right thumbstick can be really slow on moving the objects. It would be cool if it could accelerate as you move it. But don’t miss this beautiful work of art that has captured my heart. :) 3 3 3
– Real player with 23.7 hrs in game
Kalaban
In A Nutshell
🔵 Pros
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Decent free-roaming, survival horror gameplay.
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No hand holding: players need to figure out everything on their own.
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Quests also being “mini-puzzles” based on how to use found items in solving problems.
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Sufficient variety of equipment and enemies.
🔴 Cons
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A few but significant bugs that can lead to major gameplay disruption / force a reload.
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Autosave-only saving system at each area transition, no manual saves whatsoever, not even at fixed points.
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Sometimes certain quests can glitch, preventing progression.
– Real player with 5.3 hrs in game
This is a 2D top down horror themed survival/twin stick brawler hybrid game with a rich story and handmade artwork. Explore an alternative universe Finland and fight off creepy monsters, keep yourself alive long enough with the tools in your inventory and you may unravel the choices-matter interactive story.
There’s a few good points here, the atmosphere is good and the game launches under Windows 10, which puts the game above so many other indie titles. As far as handmade art goes, it’s perfectly acceptable and fits well with the theme. Unfortunately there’s some deficiencies, too. Resolution and controls are both fixed and can’t be changed, which makes the game fall below minimum standards for PC. Also, the game lacks polish and suffers from many gamebreaking bugs and crashes. Finally, twin stick top-down genre died a long time ago shortly after 3D accelerators became available back in 1995 with the S3 Virge.
– Real player with 5.0 hrs in game
Voyage
This game is a great experience when introducing a loved one to video games.
It unfolds at a peaceful pace. This is not a platformer, yet it has platforms. It is not a walking simulator, yet there is walking. This is not a visual novel, yet it unfolds like a great book ending. It is not a puzzle game, yet it has puzzle logic. I would place it in the vague category of adventure games as it has its unique traits that took sparsely from different genres.
I played with my young kid and we loved it. The atmosphere is unique and fills the narrative to the point that the lack of dialogues carries on perfectly in my opinion.
– Real player with 4.6 hrs in game
Highly recommended.
I played this with my 4 year old and we had a great co-op experience. Naturally, I gave my little one the Controller and I took the good old keyboard myself.
I also role-played with my character. Basically, my character was always scared of everything and 40% confused and I used this to have long conversations and discovery activities with my little one.
The best part my little one liked is the “things we could do collaboratively”.
So I highly recommend this for parents who want to spend some time with their little ones.
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
十三月のふたり姫／The 13th month
◆“Sleeping Beauty”？
The fate of the world is bound to a princess lost in an endless sleep… The famous fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty” is completely reimagined and redesigned as Visual Novel… With a demonic imagination and originality, the creators will lead you through a fantastic and illusionary world…
【Story Summary】
The princess was just too beautiful. She was given all the good qualities of this world, such things as beauty, grace, kindness, tolerance, and honesty. It would soon be the princess’ 16th birthday.
Bad Dream: Stories
This game is amazing! I highly recommend if you haven’t tried these games out already!
– Real player with 8.9 hrs in game
Bad Dream: Stories is a collection of older games in the Bad Dream series, in a new, remastered form.
Pros
1. Runs in 60FPS with option for 30FPS.
2. UI looks better and is less cluttered.
3. Graphics are cleaner and sharper.
4. Atmosphere is dense and claustrophobic.
5. Soundtrack is A++.
6. Achievements. Still as bone hard to unlock as they were in BD: Coma.
All in all a really nice remaster, and I can easily recommend this to anyone who likes a point and click game with a very twisted atmosphere.
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
Colorize
A nice 2 hour adventure. The trailer makes the game seem slower than it is. At its core, you must go as fast as possible to complete the level to get 3 stars.
The narrative although compact – is rich with adventure.
I can not recommend this game enough for a mere 2 dollars. Home run!
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Having a cute aesthetic and decent music isn’t enough to save this non-game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P19MKMwTaU
If you haven’t already decided to pass on Colorize, go ahead and watch my video. You move your character while touching spots on the screen to activate effects and change the world. In the About This Game clip, it shows the platforming present in Colorize, and it’s complete and total garbage. There’s no hint of where, precisely, platforms are hidden. If you tap on slightly the wrong spot a platform won’t become active despite being colored in.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Creepslore
Welcome to the world of CREEPSLORE, where text shown in all caps means someone is SHOUTING!
Take part in a surreal, interactive arthouse adventure inspired by older Adventure Games mixed with Choose Your Own Adventure books and RPGs. Supported by it’s massive list of (112+!) characters, heartfelt story, and uniquely weird art style, Creepslore is here to make you laugh, cry, and question it’s creators' sanity and overall well being.
The game takes place sometime during the 1970’s, and is told from the point of view of a sarcastic character who gets suckered into an adventure after arriving on a monster filled island. Realizing there’s no way back, he now has to deal with a bunch of intoxicated creatures with idiosyncratic tendencies (ergo: they’re also stupid) who think humans are the de-facto best gourmet food option.
What this game offers:
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surreal & tongue in cheek humor
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a story with 5 completely different scenarios (no forced repeats of dialogues to unlock ‘extra’ content!)
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18 explorable locations, ranging from cities to swamps
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more than 110 individual characters
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pre-rendered backgrounds created in Quake
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even MORE NUMBERS to grab your attention
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text, text and some more text
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a sad fish
What this game DOESN’T offer:
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saving the world
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cute anime girls
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fan-service
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a happy fish
PS: if you’ve ever wondered why the Giant Spider in Skyrim carries coins, and where the hell it puts them, we’ll, let’s just say we have the answer to that.
Just Take Your Left
I super wanted to give this game a positive review, but it’s not quite ready for prime time yet. Even though I ultimately felt I had to give this game a thumbs down, please still consider supporting the developer by picking it up, perhaps on sale, especially if it looks like the kind of game you might be into.
Just take your left is a very short mouse-driven game by Mehrdad Rezaei, who seems to be a solo Iranian developer. Your character is an agent of some sort who is sent to steal a diamond from a castle, but is antagonized along the way by a small mouse who is determined to stop him.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
this game has nice artwork and great character animation, a lot of though has gone into how the character reacts to objects, which is great to see.
I managed to get stuck a few times but not so stuck you’d give up or start hunting down a tutorial,
A little moan is quality control and grammar but English isn’t the guys first language, and considering its the cost of a burger the character animation is so much nicer than some dearer games, no aimless wandering about and dodgy “use” animation here!
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game