Tin Star
Really great game loved every minutes of it. Played it twice taking absolute opposite path and it was very fun both time, second walkthrough allowed me to learn much more about the “bad guys”, the game is not black or white it’s a lot of grey and this is very enjoyable as it adds depth to characters. I really liked how i had all possibilities i could think of in choices especially when it comes to betrayal, infiltration, extortion… The game was well written, some description were a bit tough english not being my first language but overall it was a really easy game to read and very fun to play.
– Real player with 36.1 hrs in game
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Easily my favorite text-based game I’ve played (admittedly, a low bar to clear, since they are so few and far between.)
The story is remarkably multi-faceted. Chapters really do change their flow depending on what choices you make, however, each playthrough will hit the same narrative beats. To put it in a better way, i’s a bit like Mass Effect, in the sense that your choices do shape the flow of the story in between the major, “locked-in” points in the narrative. Companions can also die/try to kill you depending on your actions and stance with each of them throughout critical points in the story. My lover in one playthrough tried to kill me in the next, on account of my earlier, different choices that I made.
– Real player with 29.5 hrs in game
Wild West Dynasty
Wild West Dynasty: Cowboys, Settlers & Gunslingers
America in the 1800’s - the trails to the West: Settlers are committed on advancing further and further towards the US Pacific; in search of a better life, for business or adventure. They founded farms, raised cattle, dug for gold, built settlements and towns.
A small find of gold is often enough to draw hundreds of daring adventurers while quickly a small settlement becomes a flourishing town with saloons, merchants, gambling, adventurers, and gunslingers…
Enter this breathtakingly exciting time and conquer the Wild West. Emerge from being a lonesome cowboy over founding a settlement to becoming the mayor of a gold-digger town: there are hardly any limits to your personal endeavors.
You start out as a lonesome cowboy who comes across an abandoned ranch and decides to stay. You start repairing and expanding. You gather food, hunt for animals and sell their meat and leather to settler trecks. Once you have established a decent ranch, other settlers may decide to stay and ask for permission to settle down. You start building a town with all its classic locations such as saloon, Sheriff office, stores and even hotels. Bandits will come your way, so you better learn shooting and defend yourself and the township properly. Hopefully you will find a wife and have a heir - so that your wild west dynasty can last for long.
Features:
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Realistic Wild West atmosphere played in First Person mode
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Story mode with interesting twists and hundreds of missions included
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Free game: Build a town without Story mode
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Create your own Dynasty which will last for decades
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Open 3D world set in the Wild West
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Start as a settler, build your own ranch and expand it to a prosperous town
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Unique mix of RPG (First Person), Life Simulation and town building
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Horse riding included
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Detailed skill development tree
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Various additional possibilities like gold mining, rodeo riding etc included
Deadwater Saloon
Create Your Character
Playing as a rich and dynamic character in the old west, you will be able to fully customize your attributes to fit your playstyle, such as Mixology, Seduction, and Sneakiness. You will manage your life as well as your saloon, such as maintaining your reputation and getting married. You will struggle with the effects of disease, aging, sanity, and addictions.
Form Relationships
Provide travellers with a distinct drink parlour, gaining legendary stories to regale and build your legend. Interact with townspeople as they populate the town, forging friendships with blacksmiths, sheriffs, and preachers, romance prospective partners, or blackmail, abduct, and murder those who threaten you.
Build
Build your saloon from the ground up. Expand the walls, build bordellos, opium dens, high stakes gambling rooms, and railed porches. Buy and place spittoons, tables, chairs, handcrafted bars, pianos, chandeliers, and diamond dust mirrors.
Manage
Thrive within a complex economy system, stockpiling booze, food, guns, and opium. Research a diverse array of drinks and foods to serve customers. Hire and manage staff from within the town populace, including barkeeps, cooks, servers, prostitutes, croupiers, pianists and bouncers. Help them reach their full potential, or fire and replace them with those more skilled.
Hundreds of Events
Face the forces of nature, meddlesome customers, firebrand Preachers, rival outlaw gangs, and much more. At some point, you will be tested by stronger and more formidable nemesis in longer event chains. Whatever you choose, you will face the consequences of your choices. The frontier is an unforgiving place.
Star Story: The Horizon Escape
It’s killing me but I can’t give thumb up for this one, it is a good game but also buggy one.
First when I started this game I’ve got window with information “ops game crushed..” but funny thing is that you can just click on game window and continue playing it without problem, but this was the fist red light.
I was playing it for couple hours and it was fun but after couple resets of the story some relative parts gets more and more tedious, game sometimes even throw at you two exactly the same random encounter one after another but what really break game for me was… game breaking bug :) After another reset you start on the desert and after a while your character take out sand from his boot and teleport to base, problem is that after go out from the base I ended up just before checking bot for sand and automatically teleporting to base and no matter what I tried I was stuck in that loop only way out of this situation would be to start game once more and hope that I will not stuck somewhere again and I’m not looking forward to check my luck again.
– Real player with 10.7 hrs in game
Reminds me a lot of Stories: The Path of Destinies. Like on that game, you are trapped in a kind of Groundhog Day style time loop, where each time you die you come back to the start of the game, but with your items and some new knowledge from your previous life. The game has 24 endings, and in each one of them you die in the end. The goal of these endings is to find information. Once you find out all you need, then you can go back and do it properly, in a 25th, golden, ending.
The major difference between the games is on the gameplay. Whereas S:TPoD is a beat-em-up, this game is a Choose Your Own Adventure text based adventure, with some turn based combat thrown in. The gameplay basically consists of the game providing you some options, then you choose one and suffer the consequences. Some choices affect the story, and these are clearly marked, but most only result in you gaining resources and/or getting in a fight. The resources are used to craft weapons, ammo and consumables, which are used in order to not die in the fights. So, in essence, this is a resource management game. It is pretty casual, but also nice.
– Real player with 10.2 hrs in game