We. The Revolution
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Well, it was not perfect, but a very unusual and memorable gaming experience. The story of the Judge of the Tribunal, Alexis Fidel, who was at one of the most significant moments in the history of his country - the French Revolution - on the very crest of a revolutionary wave, which is rapidly beginning to turn red. Large-scale historical figures, ordinary citizens, judges, poets, dissolute women, grooms - they all pass through the ruthless court of the Tribunal, a guillotine blade hangs over each one, and only your signature and seal separates life from death.
– Real player with 16.4 hrs in game
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A quick overview
We. The Revolution is a story-driven adventure game with strategy elements developed by Polyslash. The game takes place during the French Revolution, and it combines historical realities and characters with fiction. In the three acts, you go through the start of the revolution to its near end.
You play as a judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal, Alexis Fidèle. Your goal is simple – keep your head on your shoulders. To survive, you need to maintain good relations with Revolutionaries, commonfolk, Aristocracy, Juries, and your family members. However, this is not a detective game, as some would expect. You are not there to find the truth. You are there to achieve your own goals, and it is solely on you who you set free, send to prison, or straight to the guillotine.
– Real player with 15.1 hrs in game
BO020880
This is a very moving visual novel that does an excellent job of creating small vignettes, introducing the player to many characters. I really felt how they emphasized the weight of a human life, how much was lost in this horrible attack. It’s very short; I recommend you spend half an hour to play.
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
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A beautiful way to tell a terrible story. Well done.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Dark Renaissance
From the Author of the best-selling Medici series Matteo Strukul, comes a new exciting Interactive History Drama, pushing the boundaries of video game storytelling and narrative depth.
Dark Renaissance is an adventure game with RPG elements and a compelling and dramatic story, true to historical events, characters and places of the 15th century.
Embark on a journey through key places of the Renaissance world, from Italy to China, going through the fascinating lands of the Middle East and Transylvania. Lend your sword to Lorenzo de' Medici and fight formidable enemies, such as the cunning Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, the treacherous Anguana and the impetuous Duke Ercole d’Este.
In a land of immense Beauty and ageless mysticism, where families of ruthless powermongers wage battle through generations, the mother of all wars is bound to happen.
In the heart of Firenze, Italy’s cradle of culture and art, Lorenzo il Magnifico, heir to the Medici Family, sits on his throne of riches. After having conquered the economic power of Italy, the Lord of Florence senses a new threat coming, meant to jeopardize his ruler’s status quo. With its power and financial establishment at a stake, The Magnificent must recur to the most legendary soldier on the battlefield: Marco Badoer, a tormented Capitano di Ventura who survived the twilight of Middle Ages to be born again in an age of discovery and wonder.
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The darkest and grittiest Renaissance epic ever built in a game.
Discover the story of Marco Badoer, one of the last knights of the famed Ordo Draconis, a chivalry order so bloodthirsty that counted Vlad the Impaler himself among its ranks.
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Meet the rockstars of Italian Renaissance.
From Lorenzo de' Medici to Leonardo da Vinci, you will walk on the shoulder of giants and explore world-famous landmarks such as Venice and Florence. But be wary: ancient pagan magic, Eastern mysticism and occult knowledge will drag you into the darkest corners of human mind.
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Countless options for roleplaying.
Shape your path through nuanced branches in an intricate web of political conspiracies and moral dilemmas. Will you unleash your vengeful primal self? Or you’ll rather stay balanced as a monk through wise decisions? The choice is yours.
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The art of War.
Choose among several weapons of the time, face your enemies in strategic duels and lead your troops in open field battles. Get ready to become a strategist, thanks to unique staged combat sequences blending opera and brutal RPG action.
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Sex, drugs and gambling.
From the opium-filled hammam of Constantinople, to the alcova of the most beautiful courtesans in Florence, the darker side of European history will unveil in front of your eyes, while a romance and social linking system will let you decide to desecrate your body as much as you wish.
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Enjoy high-class Renaissance living.
Behold the beauty of Italy in all of its splendor during the Main Quest, and kick back with a glass of wine at Villa del Drago, home to Marco Badoer. To transform this old house in a luxurious mansion, filled with fine Tuscany spirits and tasty food, it’s up to you, thanks to the currency and historical accurate card games.
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A political manifesto from the past.
After condemning the horrors of totalitarianism and datacracy in the award-winning Dry Drowning, Studio V goes back to its roots, to push again the boundaries of philosophical and political discourse in gaming. Swept under the rug of a beautiful world, tales of corruption, violence and dirty money await for the player to be discovered.
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Original soundtrack.
An original symphonic score by the award-winning composer David Logan, mixing and matching ancient and modern styles.
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Evil Shogun
Finished in less than an hour. Too short for this price. Dialogs are lame and the story is underwhelming. Puzzles take 3-4 seconds to complete.
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
❗❗❗ Warning: Mac/iOS ONLY ❗❗❗
There is no warning about this anywhere on the Steam page, this game does NOT work on Windows.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Highly Likely
This is one of the most tedious, poorly crafted, boring, pointless games I’ve ever played.
The art is phenomenal. The developers' interactions with folks on the internet is disappointing. It’s buggy and slow and repetitive.
There are no puzzles, there’s barely a story, there is no skill involved, it’s poorly translated, it’s a little sexist, and the characters' motivations are all over the map. There’s literally a segment in this game where you need to cross a river, so you hold the joystick to the left for over a minute while he slowly turns a crank. This happens multiple times. The most engaging moment of the whole thing is a long and laborious multi-part fetch quest.
– Real player with 4.6 hrs in game
Highly Likely is a short and light-hearted point-and-click game that is set in a rural Ukraine and follows a man named Mikola as he tries to get himself out of an enormous debt that he owes to the bank. He finds himself a new business opportunity, one that is risky and could land him in trouble with the law, but he knows that he’s got no other choice. This is the basic story premise that is very relatable and could happen to just about anyone.
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
Historium VR - Relive the history of Bruges
Awesome! History lessons via VR. The graphics and movement are great and you really caught me off-gaurd with the opening scene. Very enjoyable. This is a great way to experience history and have the knowledge stay with you. Very nicely done. More please. :-)
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
This experience (I have no better word for it) was one of the things that inspired me to get a Samsung Mixed Reality headset. (I was very reluctant as I was concerned with motion sickness, but have felt no ill effects, FYI…) All I can say is that while very short, this is an absolutely amazing experience (there I go again)! I love historical games and this is like a dream come true to be so immersed in a historical environment like this! I only hope that some day soon, there will be full games made like this that very interactive! This is mind boggling!
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
Nicolas Eymerich - The Inquisitor - Book 1 : The Plague
What an obscure point&click -game. The puzzles aren’t really all that hard, but some actions have to be executed in a certain (sometimes cryptic) order, which makes it hard to complete the game without resorting to a walkthrough here and there. Navigation is fuzzy. The animations and characters are so unbelievably ugly they’re almost endearing. There are so many easter eggs it’s enfuriating - just as you think you finally found a pixel that’s useful it’s yet another dev team logo or a pointless Monkey Island reference.
– Real player with 12.4 hrs in game
Magnificent story, but awful ending.
This is a fantastic experience until the disappointing ending. We play one of the greatest figures in the history of Christendom and the setting is perfect. The terrors and degradation that great Christian martyres such as Nicolas Eymerich had to edure and cleanse were many and he goes about eradicating festering filth very well.
The dialogue is a major plus as we are treated to wrods of wisdom throughout and the voicework is done perfectly as it really gives you a feel for how life was at that time for the church brethren.
– Real player with 8.5 hrs in game
Calluna
Calluna might just be a bit of a hidden gem. Too many times I’ve seen a small indie dev team execute a really interesting concept poorly but this is not the case with Calluna. I was surprised at how smoothly this first-person, semi-open world, historical adventure game runs. The environments are really pretty and the missions you’re on in the 4 different stories do not feel repetitive. You will adventure in the streets of Bergen, Paris, and Cairo as Ole Bull but from very different perspectives - an ambitious child, a whimsical pre-teen, a stubborn, sickly and broke young adult, and an accomplished musician in his 60s. They all bring out a different dimension of Ole Bull and teach you about his life without actually feeling like an educational game. It just feels like an adventure game.
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
Calluna is only the third game I’ve accepted through Steam Curator Connect. The reason? It looked different to the usual games I see or play, and it had a rather unique/niche theme. It looked like a simple and pleasant way to learn about things I likely wouldn’t have learnt about via any other medium. I can’t imagine I would have watched a documentary or read a book or even a Wikipedia page about the life and experiences of Norwegian composer and violinist, Ole Bull.
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– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
Four Last Things
OVERALL: 9/10
This is a gem ! I don’t how steam did it but it finally succeeded in recommending me a true unique niche game that actually had me interested straight away. If you have a soft spot for the renaissance period this game is an experience to witness! A wonderful little world based off of many real paintings (from Bosh, Bruegel to quote a few) mixed and mashed together in an incredible way ! It’s gorgeous and the music is also top notch suiting every scene. The game is a clever no nonsense point click with a great sense of humor and self awareness. It even remembers me the tone of the monty python’s Holy grail. It sadly is way too short but as an indy project which was made by 1 man only I think, I strongly recommend you support this game if it intrigues you in anyway. And hopefully another project of this kind will emerge.
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game
Who knew committing the seven deadly sins could be so fun!
Four Last Things is a comedic point’n’click adventure game entirely composed of renaissance paintings. In Four Last Things, you play as a man who must do all seven deadly sins over again so that he can confess and be forgiven by a specific parish. It’s an inter-church bureaucracy thing, you understand. The humour here is very similar to Monty Python, and I’d consider this a must have for Monty Python fans.
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– Real player with 5.2 hrs in game
Gold Rush! Classic
Classic Sierra Adventure Games;
So, that intro from the beginning makes me sigh from the inside. These games (for me) are memories of growing up and sitting on my father’s knee and learning about computers…(the next step involved constructing my own PC from scratch, but that’s a different story for a different time)
Sierra INVENTED the adventure genre as far as I’m concerned, and “Gold Rush” is not only an excellent example of a classic adventure game, it is also the benchmark for self-involved concepts as well as being true to life history.
– Real player with 195.7 hrs in game
This game can be super annoying if you don’t know what to expect. Part of it is the primitive mechanics. It’s not like today’s point and click game where you click on a location and the character will move there. You have to use your arrow keys to direct every step of the movement. You also have to instruct the character what to do. Encountering another character will not automatically trigger conversation. You have to tell your character to ‘talk’ by typing this in. If you don’t type in the correct series of words, this will also halt your progress. And last but not least, there is potential to fall into a big hole in this game. Let’s say you did not pick up a certain something on level one, well if you don’t have it at level 10, you can forget finishing this game … Still, there is a lot of charm to this game with its graphics and story plot. I recommend it on sale. I would also like to play the updated anniversary edition.
– Real player with 6.6 hrs in game