Marfusha
Girls' Frontline meets shoot-em-up
One morning I was looking at new releases at Steam. Usually I don’t find something interesting, but for some reason Marfusha has caught my attention. I briefly looked at screenshots and without a second thought bought Marfusha.
And you know what? Marfusha turned up to be a great game!
The gameplay is simple but heavily addicting. You are playing as Marfusha, a girl who drafted into the army since the country Kazolmya, where she lives is at war with all surrounding countries. Marfusha gets the duty to protect the wall from different robots who try to destroy this wall. Every day you get salary which you can spend on cards and, of course, paying taxes, which becomes more and more expensive. There are different types of cards, some will increase your stats, some will give you a weapon(which can break so you’ll have to buy a new one, keep that in mind), some will give you useful items like mines or barricades.
– Real player with 13.2 hrs in game
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”To protect homeland and someone you loved, what did it costs?”
Molten Iron: Marfusha is an indie project I’ve been following creator/artist for a while and impressed how something simple can be so enjoyable despite some flaws. A 2.5D tower defense shooter game developed by one person named hinyari9.
This review is based on version 1.0.0.3. It contains subjective opinion and partial spoiler.
The World with No Exception
Game title is based on young bakery clerk; Marfusha who is drafted as a border guard due to trooper shortage. Marfusha has no choice but to obey the order and survive to reunite with her younger sister again.
– Real player with 12.6 hrs in game
PSYCHO-PASS: Mandatory Happiness
The first thing that you must know if you are considering playing PSYCHO-PASS: Mandatory Happiness is that pressing 1 on the keyboard opens the menu. Press 1 to open menu.
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The second thing is probably how it runs on PC. This is when a warning is necessary: some testers with Windows 10 64-bit reported late in the test period that the game wouldn’t play after the last patch was pushed.
During the beta test period, which formally ended almost 2 months ago on 1 March, NISA were suitably responsive to fix issues. After the test ended, some testers have posted problems but nothing has been heard from NISA, possibly because NISA stopped monitoring or being active on the beta test forum. Given how responsive NISA were during the test period, I believe it is reasonable to have some faith that NISA will fix the Windows 10 64-bit bug.
– Real player with 56.8 hrs in game
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Reading this review will certainly clear your hue.
When we love a series, it is not uncommon to wish for a video game to be made in the same universe. Whether the game is actually good is up to how it is handled. A lot are bad, but there are some that rise up and is great. With 2 seasons and a movie behind it’s belt, Psycho-Pass comes up to bat with their own game: Mandatory Happiness.
This visual novel takes place somewhere between season one with a few hints on what episodes already or have not happened yet. But if you are new, whether you never knew it was an anime or never had the time to watch it, do not be intimidated. Mandatory Happiness does appeal to fans the most, but they do not suspect everyone to know all the terms and how the universe works. It subtly tells you about everything that is relevant while also filling up a tip menu. It also helps that the story is easy to follow, even if you never looked at the tips, you will get it enough to understand.
– Real player with 46.3 hrs in game
Synergia
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Synergia
Developer: Radi Art
Publisher: Top Hat Studios
Pros:
1. The story is an entertaining piece as it’s dark and gritty, while keeping itself levelheaded as it doesn’t exaggerate or downplay during the entire game.
2. The story’s uses an excellent mix of Cila’s development and surrounding conflicts of it’s dystopian world, as it involves humanism, rebellion, and human x android legalities.
– Real player with 17.0 hrs in game
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Synergia is a Cyberpunk visual novel heavily reminiscent of Blade Runner and similar stories focusing on androids and their place in future society. It is set in an unspecified year on a desert colony planet, dominated by an oppressive state known as the Empire. The protagonist, Cila, is an operative and negotiator working in a special police unit tasked in dealing with malfunctioning or rebellious androids – a role that is a culmination of her troubled past and a painful fall from grace as a celebrated soldier in Imperial Spec-Ops formations. Demotivated and depressed, Cila barely manages to perform her duties and her miserable routine is only disturbed by her friend, Yoko, gifting her a replacement for her broken companion android – Mara, a machine that feels more human than most people in the corrupt city she lives in.
– Real player with 11.7 hrs in game
Chuusotsu! 1st Graduation: Time After Time
Review with accompanying gameplay videos on Sinical Network
I recently received this game for free as a curator connect offer for my group Visual novel, JRPG, Anime. This kinetic visual novel from Studio Beast and Fruitbat Factory features a trio of unemployed teenage girls Arue Marisugawa, Koiro Hachisuka and Arara Fujisaki with Arue as the protagonist in this episode.
Arue, Koiro and Arara were ineligible to wear any authorization seal which renders them unable to hold any permanent stable employment and hence became Chuusotsu. Arue plans to take a re-evaluation exam and become a government official after missing a crucial exam during middle school from being hospitalized. To be able to survive in a foreign city on a stipend without having to work, Arue has to participate in an experimental study where she has to stay in Tabula Rasa apartments with Koiro and Arara, achieve sufficient synchronicity among themselves and give an answer to the philosophy of life.
– Real player with 11.4 hrs in game
Chuusotsu is a cute sci-fi slice of life medium length (by medium I mean between 8-18hs, anything above is already into the longer side) kinetic visual novel with a lot of layers behind the seemingly simplistic front.
You follow the misadventures of Marisugawa Arue as she tries to reform her life as a shut-in, reach her dreams and obviously make some friends along the way. However, things quickly take a turn into the weird and strange but thankfully with a satisfactory conclusion and lead up to the mini sequel.
– Real player with 11.4 hrs in game
LONELY, LUSTFUL, ARROGANT, HATEFUL
I’ll have to downvote this because of the LONGNESS of the first two challenges, either you encourage to replay or you make it utterly painful, sheesh.
The characters, the idea and the mystery are pretty decent tho.
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
The game is a series of puzzles followed by character dialogue until the ending which is something else. Any mistake during the puzzle section is fatal for one character who is then permanently absent for the rest of that playthrough. Every dialogue segment is unique for every combination of surviving characters.
I have mixed feelings about the puzzles. I liked them on my first playthrough, but they do not have any replay value and you will likely have to replay them multiple times to unlock extra story content. My favorite part of the game is the dialogue which feels intriguingly offbeat. I also just love the survival-puzzle game idea which I haven’t seen before.
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
The Orchard of Stray Sheep
The Orchard of Stray Sheep
I personally really enjoyed playing this VN. Tbh.. I was kinda bored in the first ~20 minutes, but then I started getting into it. The story is really fascinating and the girls are cute af. (but that’s ofc a question of taste)
It has multiple endings and has around ~10hrs playtime. (depends on how fast you read - i needed 11,5hrs cuz I’m a really slow reader)
overall: I’d recommend this game if u want to spend some time with cute girls lol
– Real player with 13.0 hrs in game
Before you start if you want to get straight to the point
Click here for full review and explnation of why I do not recommend this visual novel at all.
Developed by Namaage and published by Sekai Project onto steam. The Orchard of Stray Sheep is a short visual novel with a school theme on the surface set in a “academy” with 3 endings 2 being “Bad endings” and 1 being thee “True end”. On the surface The Orchard of Stray Sheep looks like your typical high school cliche visual novel, but it is not what you think it is, instead It has a darker side that you will discover as you read through the visual novel.
– Real player with 11.3 hrs in game
Vengeful Heart
Great cyberpunk VN with a heavy, HEAVY emphasis on the ‘punk’, Vengeful Heart was a brisk, thrilling read! The aesthetic was great, the music is great, the whole novel is criminally underrated. The plot is exactly what I was hoping for and even more pulse-pounding than I expected. It’s not perfect - a couple of the plot beats fell a little flat, like Little Jimmy and the two romantic options' jealousy - but overall it was a worthwhile read.
Don’t pass this one up!
– Real player with 40.0 hrs in game
What Am I in For?
Vengeful Heart (VH) is a visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian world. The game is purely a reading experience, with only one choice players make close to the very end of the game. Outside of megacities, life is very difficult due in large part to the lack of water and heavily polluted desert sands. Players follow the story of a hydraulics engineer turned activist leader by the name of Josephine Lace, formerly employed by Nepthys, the largest water company in an unnamed city. She ends up losing both her home and job, then soon after begins her crusade against the many injustices her former boss slowly enacted over the course of the story.
– Real player with 35.5 hrs in game
ABYSS OF THE SACRIFICE
I bought this because I loved the Nonary games (999, Virtue’s Last Reward and Zero Time Dilemma) and the Danganronpa trilogy, and was looking for something similar - a crazy and violent anime visual novel interrupted by puzzle / escape room like sequences.
This game indeed does scratch that itch, and I really don’t consider it to be bad at all…. But Steam only allows for a thumbs up or down, and my thumb goes down because it’s just nowhere near as good as the aforementioned games are and I couldn’t help but be disappointed. Disappointed by the story (which is not terrible, it’s just okay - 4 out of 10 in my book) and especially by the puzzles. A couple of the puzzles are well designed and really enjoyable too solve, but many are tedious (you know these kind of puzzles where you’ve figured out the solution conceptually, but need forever to figure out how exactly the game expects you to put this solution into practice? You’ll find plenty of those in here…). A handful of puzzles are also illogical and make almost no sense to me, even after looking up the solution, and worse: two puzzles are solvable but outrageously difficult and thus just feel completely out of place - they are in a completely different league than all other puzzles in the game and will take forever to solve for the average casual gamer (and looking up solutions online isn’t easy, this game isn’t very popular apparently, and I could only find a walkthrough in chinese that’s not easy too understand in the google-translated English version, and Videos on YT).
– Real player with 125.9 hrs in game
[h1][b]Game Overview[/b][/h1]Five girls meet in an isolated underground city. As they slay and betray each other, what fate awaits them at the end of their journey? Hope? Or despair? Enjoy an immersive story, fully voiced and boasting multiple endings!
[h1][b]Nyanco's Review ヽ(=´▽'=)ﾉ[/b][/h1][b]Five trapped anime girls attempt to escape a room in a giant underground city! Can you achieve all the endings?ヽ(´• ω •')、[/b]
[h1][b][1] Intro [/b][/h1]ABYSS OF THE SACRIFICE is an anime escape room adventure game developed by INTENSE and published by D3 PUBLISHER. It was originally released in 2010 as a PlayStation Portable exclusive title. It blends escape room gameplay and adventure/visual novel elements featuring five girls trapped in a vast underground city. Now it has been remastered and delivered to Steam for PC players to experience. Is it still worth playing? Let's take a look at it with Nyanco-chan! (ฅ'ω'ฅ)
– Real player with 41.1 hrs in game
Dead Hearts
You can listen to OST on Gamejolt page!
In Dead Hearts you play the role of Zero, Nekojin living in a village in the mountains. One night the village is invaded by elite knights of the neighboring empire, Araynia. You, your sister and childhood friend, are the only ones to emerge from this event. After a successful escape, you are forced to survive in the wilderness and wander for a long time to a prosperous city to join the gendarmerie and take revenge.
Dead Hearts is an RPG with dynamic action, battles happen in real time with a view from above. Earn levels, items, silver, companions, new skills and better equipment to face increasingly powerful opponents. There are many different quests in the game to move the story forward… or to help a settler from the surrounding village with his problem of rats. The game has several endings, and some romance with some of the characters, as well as the dynamic character of the main character, which changes depending on the choices made or events in the game world.
The continent on which the action takes place was divided into 2 parts: Western and Eastern.
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The western part is mainly desert, and is mostly inhabited by elves.
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The eastern part is more diverse, both in nature and in the races living there.
In the west there are nations:
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Theocracy of Elfrand
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Dishan Empire
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Satsuran Kingdom
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United Commonwealth of Continental Nations
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Chetiak
In the east there are nations:
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Principality of Ywjilthar
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Araynia Empire
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Chetian Federation
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Vrignian Monarchy
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Polonian Republic
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Abria
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Wiederescian Republic
In the game world there are four, uncovered, humanoid races:
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Humans
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Elves
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Nekojin
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Angels
Lingering Fragrance
Full review with accompanying videos on Sinical Network
https://www.sinicalanimenetwork.com/post/2018/11/01/lingering-fragrance-review
This kinetic visual novel with adult content (ecchi CGs, text and dialogue only) by BLESTWORKS, 橘子班 and NVLMaker features 3 different unnamed male protagonists in 3 different stories in a dystopian Chinese setting.
In the first story Lingering, it features the first protagonist who is going to enjoy two days at a resort for the rich, powerful and famous with his high-school girlfriend Daisy after they both take many part-time jobs to afford their tickets to the resort. They plan to spend their last two days together at the resort to enjoy their last moments together before they separate, go to attend higher education and have their memories of each other erased in order to have a job and a future assigned to them by the government.
– Real player with 15.9 hrs in game
[OK]
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Steam Achievements is very interesting to get better playing
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Steam Cloud for playing on another Computers
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Have Character’s Voice
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Interesting Story
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Can use Controller
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Nice Characters style (New Review)
[NOT OK]
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This doesn’t have resolution option for game when using Windowed mode. I’m using 1366x768 display, when I choose Windowed, the screen can’t moved or doesn’t fit screen…Solved… Thanks Developer -
Is graphic are hardly ? I’m get 30 FPS when at Title menu.
– Real player with 7.3 hrs in game