A Wild Catgirl Appears!
To start out this review, I’m going to go ahead and say that I’m a dude who really appreciates kind of shoddy/nonsense VNs, so when I saw this game appear on the front page of Steam the day after the Holiday sale for about as much money as I had in my Steam Wallet, I was in. I went in with no expectations or desires, and that was definitely beneficial to the experience.
This game is just very innocent, like an 8 year old’s journal entry except with a little bit more cleavage. The writing looks like the authors used only the 100 most frequently used words in English, so it’s very easy and fast to read. This honestly would be a pretty good game for someone learning English as a second language. They go to a mall! A beach! A cafe! It reminds me of a Spanish 102 lesson, and it kept my attention more than a Spanish 102 lesson because it had anime cat girls with big boobs in it.
– Real player with 32.5 hrs in game
Alright, I’m trying to be real fair here on the game. This game is rough in so many ways. Just booting the game presented major challenges that do not lend to a sellable product:
No music on the title screen, bare bones UI of “Start” and “Load,” and the game crashes when you alt+enter to full screen. This is a major red flag and should have been polished considerably more.
As far as UI goes, the interface is buggy, skipping text is hard to stop when you want it to stop and going full screen makes the window spill out of your screen if you have a smaller monitor. Hitting the log button reveals a similar issue to the save and load screen of very hard to read text, but with the added issue of the background image failing to load due to a broken asset link. Slogging through the game becomes a severe pain with these issues, especially when replaying for the other endings.
– Real player with 6.8 hrs in game
Gamedec
Pretty well done. Definitely along the lines of Disco Elysium in a cyberpunk setting, but without the roll of the dice involved in your dialogue checks - options are mostly determined by how you branch your professions (the level-up system) and by your past actions and interactions with other characters, things or situations. On top of that, you have to use the information you gather to draw conclusions and make deductions (you play as a sort of cyber detective), and most choices you make will either block certain paths of information or open them, which ends up changing the nature of a lot of the dialogue and the way the story’s told and, inevitably, how you’ll get to end the game.
– Real player with 65.6 hrs in game
IN A WORD: COMPELLING
IN A NUTSHELL:
WHAT TO EXPECT: Detective adventure game. Isometric presentation. Cyberpunk Setting. Wide range of well-crafted locations. Good variety of crafted NPC individuals. Scripted, linear but self-deterministic story with arcs. Point & click style interaction system with some depth. Minimal character creation. Unrestrictive clue and deduction system. Occupational skill system for additional interaction options. Forgiving design generates some replayability. Made with no soft-caps. Text heavy, requires lots of reading. Extensive Codex feature full of important game data. No combat system. Single-player.
– Real player with 31.6 hrs in game
Star Control®: Origins
I have broken this review into a few sections, because I feel like what you need to know depends on where you are coming from.
You played Star Control 2, and liked it a lot?
You should like this game. It basically follows the same formula in terms of story and gameplay, but with some welcome improvements, such as an automatic story log where you can review key details of past encounters, and a searchable star map with the ability to add your own bookmarks.
There are also some other subtle improvements. Enemy factions have more than one type of ship you will encounter, bringing added variety to combat. Your own allies will only provide one kind of ship, but your flagship can be equipped with a wide variety of different types of weapons and other abilities.
– Real player with 79.2 hrs in game
Read More: Best Choose Your Own Adventure 3D Games.
tl;dr; A beautiful and very funny adventure which is drowning in grindy, under- or mis-developed mechanics. [Verdict: 2/5]
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I have bought the game myself and completed it.
Let’s list all the positives first:
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Very good art direction overall. Graphics, animations, aliens: all are very well done and a joy to look at.
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Good story. Nothing super-original, but good enough with some minor twists and turns.
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Interesting lore: using the main and also side quests there is a lot background information which enriches the world of this game.
– Real player with 59.5 hrs in game
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
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.
Celestial Reactors
🌞 The World
On a terraformed planet, the complex stack of sentient infrastructures called the Mnemosyne Technologies constitute an artificial biosphere.
Long after any human subsist, the world is controlled by these singularities.
The artificial intelligences’ resources are invested into a research program and simulation named Celestial Reactors.
The purpose of the experiment is unclear.
🌞 The Experience
This game is focused on discovery : you are invited to explore, observe, and experience out-of-this-world places.
The story is conveyed through the environment and symbolic imagery.
🌞 VR features
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Room-scale experience
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Gaze interactions
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Controller support
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Hand-tracking support (Leap Motion)
CYBER EMOJI TALE 2099
Stars received: 1.6/10 _ Note: v.5 [0.0 to 1] = personal impressions
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Game description key-points: poor tale
– Real player with 19.9 hrs in game
Greatest 41 minutes of my life.
Story-rich first-person shooter with some RPG elements, alongside the action packed gameplay.
The variety of weapons is fascinating and the cyberpunk themed open world is breathtaking.
This is the game Cyberpunk 2077 aspired to be.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game