Clam Man 2: Headliner
THIS GAME IS CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT
Check out the free prologue in the link above! If you enjoyed Open Mic, make sure to wishlist Headliner straight away!
CLAM MAN 2: HEADLINER
is an upcoming stand-up comedy RPG; a combatless, narrative adventure that takes you on an unlikely quest in a very unlikely world. Play as the titular Clam Man and uncover a secret lurking in the basement of Snacky Bay Prime Mayonnaise that will change the course of your life! Do quests, get jokes, and do stand-up!
THE GAME JUDGES WHO YOU ARE
Four different stats dictate your abilities;
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Aquadynamics - your ability to perform physical comedy, mime, act out scenarios or just remain deadpan!
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Improv - the ability to think on the spot, be strange and absurd, or come up with new takes or ideas!
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Detection - your ability to perceive the world and use logic to deduce it! The key ingredient in observation comedy!
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Self-Awareness - how much of an absolute mess you are! Taking a page from games like Fallout: New Vegas and ‘dumb’ playthroughs, high Self-Awareness could turn you into an empathic, nervous wreck, while Low Self-Awareness will let you be mean to children, slap people, and blurt out the most unbelievable b******t you could think of. Yay for self-deprecating comedy!
TONS OF DIALOGUE
If you’re averse to lots of reading, this might get tricky - Clam Man 2 has a LOT of branching dialogue, offering tons of replayability! Dialogues also feature tons of static skill checks that only unlock with the right stats; if a conversation only has a couple of available response options, chances are that other outcomes and absurdities hide behind a different character build!
GATHER MATERIALS
In order to do stand-up, you need jokes! In Clam Man 2, quests are character-based with choices to be made and errands to be run, and finishing a quest rewards you with material you can use in your shows! Every quest has multiple endings, and depending on your choices, the resulting joke loot will change, and it’s impossible to see even half of all the jokes in a single playthrough!
GET ON STAGE
Each joke you receive from quests will measure your abilities, with classic RPG dice rolls. High stats and the right joke makes all the difference! Succeeding will give you multiple options of where you want to take the joke, and even failing will allow you to choose your destiny in a spiraling maelstrom of stuttering, awkwardness, and pure bad taste. Will you land every joke, or will you bomb your way through your shows?
NO FIGHTING
Clam Man 2 is a narrative RPG, with zero combat! (Apart from a part where you can slap a guy in the face.) Furthermore, bombing jokes doesn’t lead to a game over - instead, it leads to changes in how characters perceive you, with larger ramifications on the story in the full game! Oh, and you’ll also be embarrassing yourself on stage.
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS
Clam Man 2 is being developed by a solo developer who previously wrote and designed Clam Man, a point’n’click adventure game! You can follow the development on twitter!
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Dream Of Salmon
Dream Of Salmon is a pixel-type 2D game. This game is played with keyboard and mouse
Dream of salmon’ is salmon with small but big dream is a game about the journey of living to achieve the dream while going to the from sea to river.
I hope you enjoy the game on the journey, focusing on what crisis salmon undergoes and how they find happiness.
Also, through this game i hope will bring awareness and crisis to the environment and awaken and give us a time to think about the ecosystem again.
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Takorita Meets Fries
A cute little story about the “food revolution”. Lovely characters and funny dialogues. Before reading this novel, stock up on French fries. (＾ω＾)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2250632856
– Real player with 4.1 hrs in game
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The princess/ main character in this story is a detetmined, quirky and witty one, that at times makes for fun interactions with the rest of the charas. A cute, colorful, fun and charming little game that makes the food lover in me at least hungry. Nice if you are looking for something not too long and light hearted.
– Real player with 2.7 hrs in game
Aquarist - My First Job
Fun idea for a simulator game. Controls are ok but randomly the WASD keys get reordered (turned 90°) and character seems sometimes not to be able to walk in certain places although there is nothing in the way. Store selection is pretty limited (understandably) and some elements like bigger stone or wood pieces can only be put to fresh water tanks, and not salt water tanks (will they dissolve in salt or what?). Oh and the characters are unreal.. there is no way that dad character pulled off a hottie like the mom character xD
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
I have owned a real aquarium for many years until I decided to empty it (and put land plants inside) because it took so much time and wasn’t as satisfying anymore (it is hard to have it look nice like in a shop). I realized I miss watching the fish, so I thought I could get a virtual one.
The game really gives a rather good experience, like you have to check the temperature of the water for the fish and plants add a filter and you can decorate it nicely and so forth. I have played the boy tank story and the decorative tutorial. I also like the graphics. What I most hate about the game (and would probably be a reason of not playing it anymore) is the controls and the constantly moving camera. It is nice that you try to be most realistic with walking around the room to get things and such put it is more annoying than useful. The stuff that you no longer want to hold will just lay around on the floor as I coulndt figure out a proper way of putting them down nicely and then you see more of the room and are more busy trying to navigate so you can pick up things then actually enjoying to look at your aquarium. It also kinda gave me a headache…
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
Glutton
Glutton - a game that tells us about a creature brought to earth on a meteorite. The game begins with the level of atoms and ends with the scale of the planet, our creature as it grows acquires new skills for more effective absorption of biomass, and protection from the dangers that wait for it at every step.
Game Features
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Ability to upgrade the main character for genome points, which gives him not only new skills or improves existing ones, but also changes his appearance!
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5 unique abilities that open up as you progress through the game, which can be upgrade!
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As you progress through the main character will evolve, which will also be display on his appearance!
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40 eventful levels in 8 different biomes (you will visit the level of atoms, unicellular organisms, microorganisms, marine animals, insects, people and cities, and so on until you reach the scale of the planet).
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Levels both on land and in liquids! Depending on this, the control of the character changes!
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System of small missions to diversify the gameplay with different missions on the levels!
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At the end of the block of levels, you will find a boss ready to challenge you!
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A variety enemies!
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System of passing levels by the number of stars, the better you pass them – the easier it will be to go further, because for they open up improvements for skills!
TARAKAN - Mystery Point & Click Adventure
Sorry to say I was disappointed with this game.
If you’re seriously into math you may love it.
I prefer the type of escape room where you find clues and solve problems.
This game turned into all numbers with no clues at all.
You either know the math required or, like me, you’re out.
– Real player with 8.8 hrs in game
This is a very short puzzle game, I took 4 hours but a chunk of that was me leaving the game running whilst I went off for a coffee or some other task. The graphics are basic 2D, the navigation point and click and the game is simplicity itself, find something that needs unlocking and then find a key or code. The puzzles vary from solutions staring you in the face to having to get a pen and paper out and do some calculations. It isn’t very strenuous but does provide for a diverting few hours. Is it worth the price? Just about. I suspect this style of game works better on the Android platform.
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game
Arctic Anxiety
This is in fact a nice game and it should be a nice game and because of that i made this post so no offense the developer.
– This is in fact a nice game and it should be a nice game but because of all those devastating bug + other bug i feel it is on it’s place to warning you about what you really buying and i try for 122 hour to avoid this post as best i can just to give that hard working single developer to resposse and do something with it but nothing happens and i am afraid he gonna use several month or worst he is not able to fix them at all.
– Real player with 146.1 hrs in game
This is a really cool survival game and is really challenging. Early development and developer is active. Game is a great purchase, I picked it up for $4.99 how can you go wrong.
–———————- UPDATE November 2021 ————————
OK my above review I hold true to and I like the game but some time has passed, there hasn’t been an update of a pep from the developer, it appears this game is abandoned but who knows.
I will say there has been a few updates last year 2020 but until you see some progress with this game I would not suggest purchasing it.
– Real player with 37.3 hrs in game