DARK AROUND YOU

DARK AROUND YOU

Not a bad game, with nice graphics and pleasant gameplay. Played for a couple of hours and it was worth it.

Real player with 2.8 hrs in game


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Dark Around You is yet another 2D retro pixel platformer polluting the Steam marketplace. This one has a telekinesis gimmick where you can drag things around with the mouse pointer to help you do the platforming.

While this was built in Unity, it doesn’t seem like an asset flip as there’s a bespoke story and some pretty uniquely done mechanics and visuals. Kudos to the developer for that.

They chose to use obsolete retro pixel “art” as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It’s unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. Resolution and controls are locked. There’s a really unpleasant screen filter/effect that makes the camera sway as you move around, it made me feel a bit queasy, and I couldn’t see any way to turn that off. These flaws push this game far below minimum acceptable standards for PC.

Real player with 0.1 hrs in game

DARK AROUND YOU on Steam

Dizzy Two

Dizzy Two

So there’s a DIzzy game on Steam! Not really clear what the involvement of Codemasters, the Oliver Twins or whoever owns Dizzy these days is, but I’m accepting this in good faith.

This is a fairly typical Dizzy arcade adventure, resembling the 16-bit versions with full colour graphics rather than the black sky 8-bit originals. It starts out in an actual house instead of one of those treehouse things, seeming to put Dizzy in more of a realistic setting than usual. I’ve played for a bit and found some annoying platform-jumping bits where you’ll struggle for a while just to get back to where you started… Which is, of course, totally on brand for Dizzy. The puzzles I’ve encountered so far make sense; if anything they’re a bit too obvious.

Real player with 5.6 hrs in game


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Real player with 3.2 hrs in game

Dizzy Two on Steam

Where is the meaning?

Where is the meaning?

«Where is the meaning?» is a single JRPG game made by two Russian developers with very special attitude to this genre. The action takes place in unknown universe where the player should make conclusions what is happening around. You are the geometric figure «square» which need to reach the end of this world. But does it exists? You should find it out in this dangerous and strange adventure.

  • Minimalistic and not overextended unique JRPG with smoothly evolving gameplay

  • Emotional voiceover with no language barrier

  • Funny dialogs and non-pretentious characters

  • Well-designed side-quests which you can skip on

  • Every enemy has unique dialog

  • You can beat the game without any battles if you do

  • You will meet tons of references easter eggs on your way

  • Minimal tiring dialogs and battles

  • Complimentary reviews of two friends who played the game


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Where is the meaning? on Steam

Whispers in the Dark

Whispers in the Dark

The author was definitely trying to scare me, well, he did it. The game turned out to be quite original, but with some technical flaws. It’s too dark and a lame flashlight that doesn’t shine a damn thing.

Real player with 1.2 hrs in game

I really enjoyed this game. It wasn’t super scary but had a good horror atmosphere throughout it. The story was also pretty good as well. It was still rough in a few spots and I think it could benefit from a note or something at the beginning that lets you know the controls like crouch, interact, and tasks. Overall for the price I would recommend this game. If you want to see some game play you can check out my video below.

https://youtu.be/3A1RJ9lK48k

Real player with 1.0 hrs in game

Whispers in the Dark on Steam

Beyond The Darkness

Beyond The Darkness

Have you been able to overcome your fears?

Horror tale with unique mechanics.

Beyond The Darkness is a horror adventure game in which you have to help little girl Millie overcome her nightmares and find her parents.

In this game we have to play as a little girl Millie, who, by a strange coincidence, got into her most vivid memories. The day when they presented their favorite toy, the first trip to school, the meeting of the first friend, and so on …

Each level is a memory darkened by a certain fear, with unique mechanics of interacting with the light that is the salvation in this game.

Beyond The Darkness on Steam

Cold Wind

Cold Wind

there is quite literally nothing to do besides run and check trash. Not worth the one dollar I spent on this horrid abomination

Real player with 0.4 hrs in game

DO NOT BUY THIS THE GAME IS LAGGY AND THERE IN NOTHING FUN

Go Watch my Review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MGx8AhDeVQ

Real player with 0.2 hrs in game

Cold Wind on Steam

DarkHouse

DarkHouse

DarkHouse is a survival game in a night psychiatric clinic in the genre of first-person horror. A mysterious creepy doctor is tearing at your heels trying to kill you.

Uncover the mystery of the psychiatric hospital by collecting elements for the ritual to bring the infernal monster back to the underworld.

The main character: A vulnerable girl Sofia lives alone with her grandmother, in order to somehow make ends meet, she moonlights as a nurse at night in a psychiatric clinic.

DarkHouse on Steam

Everless

Everless

Everless is a 2D, top-down, singleplayer, puzzle game where the player plays through pre-built stages with different puzzles. Currently there is only one “Gamemode” which is a storymode and the game has no save function.

What can you do in this game?

  • Move around.

  • Pick up boxes.

  • Move around and pick up boxes… wait is that all you can do?

  • Use your brain… wait but I can already do that in real life…

  • Atleast we have original art and soundtrack… I suppose.

Everless on Steam

Francisca 2

Francisca 2

The hide and seek mechanics are weird. It seems like the ghost girl AI just hones onto the player most of the time. And this is on day one of the game. One time she was inside the house upstairs looking for me because the game before I was upstairs in the last bedroom where she always found me. So I think she was looking where I was the last game but I tried hiding in the garage. After that she always found me in the garage. She was close enough that I could see her through a window in the garage door but yet there was no danger sound.

Real player with 0.7 hrs in game

Great game would recommend to anyone else who is not high iq like me.

Real player with 0.3 hrs in game

Francisca 2 on Steam

Happy Day

Happy Day

As a fan of these games, I was disappointed about this one. It’s a tiny map and there’s basically nothing to do. All you do is just wish your neighbors a Merry Christmas and kill them with snowballs or guns or just explode them. The ammo on the guns run out very quickly too. You could also just explode the town straight away and there would be nothing left. Usually if you even try to explode something it freezes and crashes. Even though it’s cheap it’s still not worth the money.

Real player with 0.8 hrs in game

Game too laggy and crashed most of the time. Playing on Acer Nitro 5 with NVidia GTX 1650.

Real player with 0.3 hrs in game

Happy Day on Steam