Farm Life: Natures Adventure
Poorly optimised android port and/or an unfinished port. But as not in early access approach this as a full game.
Way too buggy, including game ending faults at the moment. Not sure the game will contain enough levels to even compete within the genre with the gameplay coming across as cookie cutter. The engine feels clunky and delayed.
The fun of the game is not coming from challenge or story for me.
The tutorial shouldn’t even exist as it explains the easier sections of the game, then does not even touch on the more complex areas and the help files aren’t helpful.
– Real player with 6.9 hrs in game
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Veeeeery clunky controls and game breaking bugs. The first time the game hicked up completely, couldn’t even get past entering all the data for creating the farm. On the second save I bought a milktool by accident and every NPC now says “Thanks for buying that.”, rendering me unable to purchase anything. I also have one strawberry seed I can plant endlessly. Developer, try harder please.
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
Blimps
This game is fantastic. It’s a roguelike, not quite like instant death, but in that, you can potentially end up in a crushing amount of debt based on how crappy of a captain you are. But if you are an excellent decision-making-capitalist-smuggling-hacker, you can dig yourself out of any hole you might find yourself in this game. Besides, you can always just start a new game.
There’s a bit of a learning curve, but it’s not that hard to read the Help tips and what Falcon tells you to do. I like the fact that it has its own way of doing things. The game itself is like an operating system mainframe. It reminds me of FTL and a bit of the old school PC Sim City that had all those secret text-based codes!
– Real player with 5.8 hrs in game
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I really enjoy this game, but it’s not for everyone, especially people who only play modern games. This game is purposely trying to appear as a classic Commodore 64 game. That alone makes it interestingly enough to pick up. The art seems perfect for the tone of the game, which is somewhat silly in places while still never overshadowing the rest of the game.
The reason its not for gamers who only play contemporary games is because it almost too perfectly emulates a C64 game you picked up from a garage sale with no manual. It provides almost no instruction of what to do or how to do it. The first 10 minutes are going to be spent trying to figure out how to leave the hangar. You’ll be flying around slowly putting together what does what and where you need to do what in. Heck, there isn’t even any auto-save (at least, none that I have found).
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
For the People
Worth it if it’s on sale, it’s very short but good. The translation is weak at times, which can make it confusing what decision you are supposed to be making. Also the mouse cursor freezes/lags if you move it faster than a snails pace but you can’t enable hardware cursor or the game doesn’t even start. Maybe just my rig.
One thing that is poorly translated that I wish I knew before playing: on the map where you exchange resources with other towns is a number in very large font that says “the party has given you an order, X days til dispatch”. It means the party is requesting that number of metal from your town and you want to have it on hand when it reaches “0 days til dispatch” then it will be subtracted overnight. Dispatch as in you are sending the metal to the party. I spent a few hours experimenting with save scumming just to figure this out, thinking it was a bug and my resources were just disappearing!
– Real player with 13.8 hrs in game
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IN A WORD: MAYBE
IN A NUTSHELL:
WHAT TO EXPECT: Stylised visual novel. Narration oriented Choose Your Own Adventure. Heavily scripted story. Bureaucratic simulation. Aspects of social management. Laced with political intrigue. Communist/Coldwar era aesthetic/ambience. Contains several endings. Designed for some replayability. Requires lots of reading. Single-player only.
ACHIEVEMENTS: A GOOD MIX.
STATUS: COMPLETED.
WHO FOR/WHEN TO BUY: FOR FANS OF THE SUBJECT MATTER. A MINIMAL SALE AT LEAST.
– Real player with 11.3 hrs in game
Rouge Patrol
The war between Rouge and Bleue has gone beyond either nation’s capacity to wage it. First they drafted the men and then boys… women were conscripted in turn. Now, with all spent - and surrender unthinkable - the grinding machine of war has turned to girls.
Fourteen years old, Sergeant P.G. Tails has lost everything to Bleue and will stop at nothing to achieve their destruction. But, as she leads her unit into the unending conflict, she begins to realise that the price of revenge may be paid, not by her, but the girls she has come to love. Worse, she carries a secret that puts her in more danger from her friends than her enemies…
Description
Rouge Patrol tells an epic and heartfelt story about friendship, loss, and a young girl’s conflicting drive to avenge what’s been taken while preserving what remains. You will take on the role of Sergeant P.G. Tails and, through a fusion of visual novel and stat-raiser mechanics, explore a branching and perilous narrative.
Each member of Rouge patrol has her own history and interrelationships. But, as their commanding officer, your choices will determine their future. Form friendships with any or all of them, but balance socialisation against the pressures of maintaining your found family’s ability to survive the missions you lead them into.
Featuring:
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Ten main characters and multiple sides, all with over thirty unique poses
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Full HD CGs, backgrounds and sprites
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Separate health, morale and relationship systems that impact characters' appearance and behaviour
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Multiple story branches
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Individual stat management for the whole patrol
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Levels, exp, ability tests, perks and all that good stuff
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Four branching romances
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Tragic friendships!
The Vellescian Gambit
The Vellescian Gambit is a very neat game that looks like a visual novel, but is actually more of an economics-based puzzle game embedded in a well-written but compact visual novel. I highly recommend it for those looking for a new twist on the VN genre, or games with economics or trade-related themes.
Your character is given a particular mission that needs to be accomplished with limited resources and time, and nearly every single choice has small consequences that add up and determine what happens. In this sense, it is quite different from your run-of-the-mill VNs, where the player has very limited control over what happens. You freely choose from many possible options, ranging from which routes to take and the pace of travel, how much protection to hire, and what commodities to buy and sell along the road (or whether to do any trading, as it can cost you precious time).
– Real player with 19.3 hrs in game
Pros:
+Pretty good artwork and soundtrack
+Nice story
+Very interesting puzzle-like gameplay
Cons:
-A bit short
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Distant Dials
Distant Dials is a science-fiction MUSH (multi-user shared hallucination). It’s a multiplayer game requiring the player to create parts of the experience with others.
Distant Dials is a game relying on dialogues taking place in 2875. The player is a human who shall through discussions with others or with an IA, understand his current state and the state of mankind in this era. He will maybe reach another level of understanding allowing dialogues with 9 other players on issues of the past leading to where humanity is right now.
CyberWhiskey: Guy’s Room
CyberWhiskey: Guy’s Room is a little adventure game made by what must be a small team. It is small but has a fun goal, getting to work on time while solving little puzzles that resemble the tasks we must all do to get ready. Just got to work on time on the second attempt! This game is hard but beatable if you pay attention.
I would like to recommend other players try out this game if you like games about the future, or click and point adventure games. It doesnt have a lot of options and you cant skip text on the second playthrough which makes the second playthrough a little boring but is rewarding when you get to work on time. Also, developer please add some sort of save feature.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
DIDN’T KNOW THE FLAVOR TEXT YOU READ ON THE TOILET IS IMPORTANT CAW CAW
IT IS CALLED POOP LORE CAW CAW , DON’T SKIP OVER THE POOP LORE CAW CAW
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Mother of All Secrets
Mother of All Secrets is an RPG full of occult mysteries, investigations, and intrigue. Become a young ward at an old and remote orphanage. Live your new life for fourteen days as the enigmatic masters of the House prepare you and your mates for the impending visit of the mysterious Guest.
The House’s walls conceal a small world of stories, plans, and conspiracies. Every hour is fateful here. Decide where to go, what events to participate in, which goals to pursue, and who you should influence. Will you be ready to learn the ultimate truth on the last night of your stay at the House?
A Living Breathing House
Become a part of the close-knit community of the orphanage. Other wards, your teachers, caretakers, and even the family of House owners — behind every living soul, there are goals, plans, and desires. With every hour, individual plots progress, secrets unfold, and choices are made that alter the House forever.
Your Own Story
Create your own character and live out a unique story — only you decide how to spend each and every hour. Go about uncovering the asylum’s secrets however you like. Make friends or enemies at your own discretion. Explore the darkest and most dangerous corners of the House. Unravel other people’s schemes and draw up your own plans. Obey or risk breaking the cryptic rules that govern the orphanage and face the consequences. What will you do with your freedom of choice?
High Stakes
Perform actions in every scene by playing cards. These cards determine your character’s skills, items, and even relationships. Different cards allow you to influence others, gain an upper hand during encounters, apply the knowledge and traits you have acquired, or push the narrative towards the desired outcome. Remember that other characters possess their own set of cards which they can play against you! Study the abilities and intentions of others before reshuffling their decks and transforming their personalities. How will you play your hand?
Fate of Kai
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A new good looking point and click adventure? Yea, let’s play it. But, but… this is not one.
It is something new. Something that plays completely different. It is a story that does not follow a path of time. It is a book, where you do things, get something, turn a few pages back and use the thing you just got. Kind of getting something from the future. Does it make sense? No, to be honest not for me. It does allow for some interesting puzzles, though.
– Real player with 7.8 hrs in game
Fate of Kai is a short comic book adventure where the player can pick up actions out of speech bubbles and use them in other places to see different events play out in subsequent pages. The only words in the entire game are the alterable actions, every other plot turn and twist is told through the artwork, which is very well done. The game is split into seven chapters that tells the whole story from beginning to end.
– Real player with 2.7 hrs in game
Fantasy Inn Simulator
*NOTE: As the game is in early access not all of these features are implemented, check the early access description for details.
Fantasy Inn Simulator is a tavern management game where you can furniture your tavern, brew your own beer, run a small garden, and build relationships. You are an innkeeper, on a journey to transform a run-down tavern into a bustling social space. Based in a cheerful fantasy setting, Fantasy Inn Simulator is home to people to meet, places to explore, and cheerful relaxation. Along your journey, you’ll discover new things to brew, farm, cook, and build to create your perfect fantasy tavern.