Travel Fanz
OVERVIEW
Travel Fanz is a 2D game about Tourism and Travel. It is a micro budget game in early access mode. Installs are available for Windows and Linux Desktop. More location maps will be added over time. New maps will always be free. You only pay for the game once.
MAPS
Each map represents a real world travel location for your Tourists to explore. The maps currently available are:
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Isle Of Wight Map
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Bavaria Map
GAMEPLAY
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Managing Tourists and their travel experience.
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Opening Attractions, Hotels and Services.
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Sending Tourists to locations on the map.
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Exploring real world Attractions on the map.
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Gaining and spending Happy Icons.
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Buying Travel Gear for tourists.
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Managing Tourist Fatigue and Hunger.
HAPPY ICONS
Happy Icons are the currency in the game.
Earn Happy Icons by sending tourists to Attractions, Hotels and Services.
Happy Icons are used to open locations, enable Bonuses and Facilities.
The game ends when you have accumulated 100 Happy Icons.
UNHAPPY ICONS
Tourists can also gain Unhappy Icons if they get too tired and hungry.
Unhappy Icons trigger negative tourist events.
TOURIST RATING
The Tourist Rating indicates how much the Tourist is enjoying their trip.
Once the Tourist Rating reaches +100, the Tourist gains you one Happy Icon and the rating is reset to zero.
TOURIST LIKES
Each Tourist has their own unique set of LIKES.
Tourists gain Happy Icons faster if they visit locations which offer their LIKES.
TOURIST DISLIKES
Tourists also have Dislikes which can give them a negative travel experience.
ATTRACTIONS
On the map you will discover many Attractions such as historical buildings, natural landscapes, wildlife, artistic and cultural sites.
HOTELS
These are locations where you send Tourists to recover from Fatigue.
SERVICES
Food Services are locations where you send Tourists to recover from Hunger.
Other Services enable Tourists to buy activities and Travel Gear.
TOURIST EVENTS
If you have gained Unhappy Icons, then Tourist Events can be triggered.
Events have a negative impact on the Tourist’s experience.
TUTORIAL MAP
The Tutorial Map can be loaded as a new game to allow you to step through the gameplay.
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Hisato no Saku
A quick, fun, and replayable experience.
I failed pretty quickly on my first playthrough, but on my second I made it all the way to the end and did fairly well with my food stores and my village survived the winter.
Thinking I had it all figured out, I played again a couple days later and was not able to achieve the same success again, failing a number of times, and making it to the end once but without enough food stored for my whole village.
There are a lot of little details to pick up on for strategy, and then of course there is some luck involved as well. I hope to eventually make it to the end with a village population that is actually happy but I have a feeling that will take some time.
– Real player with 5.4 hrs in game
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I was looking forward to this based on cool art style and hoped for a chill game similar to “papers, please”
So far it’s delivering on my expectations. The gameloop is somewhat random, and there aren’t so many ‘stranger’ types I’ve encountered, so it seems fun to replay but not infinitely so (and FWIW the slow text scroll to end each night can’t be skipped).
Update: I’ve had no issues since the developer’s first update. It runs as expected and is a fun 20-40 minute challenge I still haven’t beat. Recommended.
– Real player with 5.0 hrs in game
The Faded
The Faded is an episodic pixel art horror adventure game. In this story rich adventure game, you will play as a 14 year old girl, Ume who gets lost in the infamous Perish Forest, strongly known for its supernatural and haunted activities. Many people enter the forest to suicide but whoever goes in, never comes back.
Features:
· RPGmaker style pixel art game with rich storyline.
· Chapter 1 is set in the forest environment which includes not only ghosts as enemies but also several wild animals.
· There are a bunch of puzzles to solve in the game like, finding a graveyard ghost, defeating a pack of wolves with a deadly weapon (an umbrella), sneaking through enemies and much more.
· Your choice matters with different outcomes.
· Lot of jump scares and instant kills.
· We are also giving you the cutest pet of the world, a BAT. Yes, a FLYING BAT, which will help you to progress in the game. Pets will be different in the different chapters.
· Pets will have ability which will help a lot to escape from this perilous forest and you can name them too.
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Reigning
Short also Acheivements dont work and nothing unlocks when you finish Blanche.
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
This feels like a demo to a demo. There is only 7-10 minutes of content and far more locked options than available options. 3 of the Achievements also don’t work/can’t be attempted either. How awful.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
The Dragon and the Djinn
Everyone knows the story. The young man who came out of nowhere to become the Emir of Ghariba when the previous ruler went missing. The djinn who helped him by granting wishes. The Grand Vizier Jaafar, whose noble birth and political skill placed him in the palace at the Emir’s right hand.
What they don’t know is what happened next - and that’s where you come in.
The Dragon and the Djinn is a 620,000 word interactive epic fantasy novel by Athar Fikry, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
A dragon has appeared, threatening the safety of Ghariba and its new emir’s precarious reign.
You have a destiny. You’re not sure yet what it will be: perhaps you will protect the city, or become the greatest wielder of magic in the land, or gather enormous wealth.
You also have a sister. She believes that it is her destiny to slay the dragon, with a magic sword made by the warrior Iskander who has traveled from a far-off land in search of legendary creatures to fight.
Most importantly of all, you have a djinn, given to you by Jaafar himself. Your djinn will help you achieve your destiny by granting your every wish…or so you hope.
Navigate the politics of palace, court, and city; make allies - or enemies - among the people; all while the dragon soars overhead, threatening Ghariba more with every passing day. To find your way forward, you’ll have to use your magic, your wits, your courage, your faith, and of course, your djinn.
Will you help your sister slay the dragon? Will you try to slay it yourself? Or will you try to befriend it, learning deeper secrets of magic and the city’s past? Or will you simply take advantage of the chaos to make yourself the richest person in Ghariba?
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Play as male, female, or non-binary; gay, straight, or bi; asexual, aromantic, or both; cis or trans.
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Achieve your destiny as a dragon-slayer, a silver-tongued poet, the protector of the realm, or something even greater
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Wish for more wishes! (No, sorry, you can’t actually do that.)
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Secure the reign of the current emir, or scheme to depose him and replace him with another ruler - perhaps even take the throne yourself
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Fly on a magic carpet
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Find love with a dragon-slaying warrior, a charming court poet, an idealistic prophet, a lofty priestess, a wealthy noble - or even your djinn!
Be careful what you wish for…
Coffee Talk
One Chocobee Miruku please!
One of my all time favorite games is Va-11 Hall-A and ever since, I’ve been on the lookout for similar games ever since to scratch that itch it left behind. The closest I’ve gotten was playing The Red Strings Club which does have you literally pouring drinks to bring out certain emotions in your customers, but it turned out to be disappointing (for me at least). When I heard about Coffee Talk though, I knew I was going to pick this one up and play it as soon as I could. My decision was hammered home even more after I played the demo. Well, now that Coffee Talk is released how does it fare?
– Real player with 22.5 hrs in game
i stole this template ive always wanted to make one of these hehehe
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this game was not that difficult at all. as i wanted to work on achievements though, i did use a guide from the start. without the guide, i do not think i wouldve gotten the “best” ending the first time. overall, i think the game is a fairly normal difficulty.
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this game has beautiful pixel art!!! i love pixel art. the art in this game is clean and i like it a lot. i wont say its amazing, but overall i think the art for the game is very nice and i think it plays a large part of the enjoyment for the game. each character is very unique and sticks out to me in good ways. there wasnt one character design that fell flat, they all made good impressions on me.
– Real player with 20.4 hrs in game
NORSK: Epistle
Definitely a worthy purchase if you want to experience something new, especially for the price. Solving puzzles in different dimensions is a new concept at least for me and probably the best and most entertaining thing about this game.
– Real player with 5.6 hrs in game
Alexey’s Winter: Night adventure
I enjoyed playing this short point and click game. The hand drawn scenes have a great sense of place and the snow gives shivery cold feeling so I really felt sorry for the main character locked out of his apartment. The music was a good match for the game. The dialogue was very funny and endearing.
I had a small technical problem with my computer before I could play this game but the devs were really helpful and responsive so that the game works as it should now.
I hope the developers add some more episodes as I would definitely play them.
– Real player with 20.5 hrs in game
Alexey’s Winter: Night adventure is a very short point & click adventure set in the 1989’s USSR. The game was initially launched in 2017 on the mobile platform and gained positive feedback from the players. At a later date, it received a second episode (and as of Sep 26 2021 a third one) and underwent several design changes. This version was now ported to Steam as a paid item, while the mobile one remains free but was reverted back to one episode only.
The story follows Alexey’s troubles during one cold winter night, trying to get back his lost apartment keys. After a series of intricate puzzles he manages to regain access to his home, only to find out that in the meantime his TV was stolen. This sets the plot for the second and third episodes, which are slightly longer than the first one.
– Real player with 11.1 hrs in game
Seven Wonders of St. Clementine
I waited a while for this game. it looked super interesting and spooky but around 4 hours in and the game is overly slow not to mention the MANY spelling and grammar errors sprinkled around the somewhat cringe worthy dialog. The art and gore was amazing though along with the concept of the story it’s self though in a whole? this Visual novel has potential but was executed poorly.
– Real player with 11.1 hrs in game
The quick time events are honestly terrible, unlike VN’s such as The Letter where the QTE’s are simple tasks while a scene unfolds. This is just button mashing half the time to a static image, and other half the time they are puzzles which you’d think would be enjoyable. Except they are just memory tests, nothing interesting.
Then there are the list of typo’s and errors.
Heck i’d fix it for them they are so obvious.
– Real player with 9.8 hrs in game
The Ultimate Trivia Challenge
While the game is fun and addicting, it is also very frustrating as some of the answers do not correspond with question. An example would be… Who was the 42nd president and it would give you multiple actresses to choose from. In the spelling catagory sometimes the answers would have the same answers. However, if you chose the right answer it would be considered wrong because you picked the “wrong” box
This game needs a serious overhaul of it’s answers.
– Real player with 8.9 hrs in game
I think this is a fun trivia game, I love the party mode and was able to stream it on Mixer without a problem. My favorite mode would have to be the sound bites. I was able to play this game for over 3 hours without getting bored or having things seem repeatitive. My friends and I laughed so hard at each others rushed wrong answers. We truly had a lot of fun playing it. The biggest issue with this game if I am to be honest is the amount of errors it has in it. Spelling, grammar, not correct options, wrong answers, etc. I think it takes away from the game a bit but in the end for $5 it’s still fun to play with friends.
– Real player with 3.7 hrs in game