BORDERCIDE
The detective drank until he passed out, almost like every day, and fell into the arms of the nightmare. This time it was the ringing of the phone that woke him from his nightmare. They called him for the one thing he enjoyed doing in this life. They called him for the one thing he was good at in this life. They called him to do his job. When he heard the news of the murder, he knew he would catch the murderer at any cost. No one could get into him and the murderer. When he heard the news of the murder, he was relieved. He could finally be able to escape from this emptiness. He could finally be able to escape from his nightmares. Most importantly, he could finally be able to escape from himself. Or could he?
Comic-style cutscenes
80+ comic-style cutscenes inspired by Sin City
Use the abilities of the detective
Dodge roll through the bullets
Become invincible using your “Rage” ability
Surprise your enemies with a flashbang
Different atmospheres
A relentless chase in different atmospheres
Other gameplay features
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Enemy variety consisting of 8+ enemies.
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Recover a certain amount of health when you kill an enemy with the last bullet in your magazine.
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Use your character’s abilities and create your own gameplay style.
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Blake: The Visual Novel
Blake: The Visual Novel is the first VN I have played in a very long time, and I enjoyed it. To be fair it does start off pretty slow, but past the necessary introductions to everyone, and once the plot really begins, there is a lot to like!
The music is real cool and jazzy! I found myself really digging the ambient music in the ICC building! The characters are likable except for maybe Lee. Other than that the story that the game builds up in an intriguing one and the twist caught me by surprise!
– Real player with 6.3 hrs in game
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I’ll be entirely honest that when I started this one I really wasn’t sure I was going to enjoy it. I am not really a huge fan of visual novels, and the game took a little while to hook me, but after getting in a little deeper, I found myself increasingly intrigued by the story. The game reminded me of games like Yesterday and The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker in terms of writing and characters. Overall I’m glad I played it, and I look forward to seeing what Ori Mees makes in the future.
– Real player with 5.7 hrs in game
Sketchy Fables
Sketchy Fables is a first-person exploration adventure and can be described as a comic-book that has broken up over a landscape. The story begins with the search for an mysterious child who influences Your reality. Can You still find the child in You?
Features:
*** Fully Hand-drawn & animated game world consisting of about 8000 unique artworks, designed by award-winning artist Alle Jong.**
*** Plays like an interactive cartoon slash artgame/comicbook/Interactive Visual-novel. Sketchy Fables is an personal artistic expression full of poetry & art**
*** There is an Main storyline, but nothing is what it seems..**
*** 3 open save slots**
*** An diverse game environment to explore full of villages and rural landscapes.**
*** Focused on personal exploration with many random encounters & discoveries**
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Blacksad: Under the Skin
Blacksad: Under the Skin is a good game, but a rather unpolished one. It plays very similarly to the Telltale style and is reminiscent of The Wolf Among Us due to its grimy New York crime setting and visuals. You can expect a choice in dialogue options, free exploration of larger areas to find clues, making deductions by linking together your findings and examining characters (like in recent Sherlock games) and some quick-time events (QTEs) scattered here and there in the action cutscenes. As far as I know, the game is an interactive adaptation of a comic book series and features a brand new story not seen in the comics.
– Real player with 22.3 hrs in game
Blacksad: Under the Bugs
TLDR: Great story, great characters, nice music. Bad gameplay, bugs and other things that will turn a lot of people off.
Ok, this will be a tough case to crack. I will tell the problems so people interested in this game be wary, but in the end I recommend it. Basically… this game won’t be for everyone, not because of the story and themes nor because it’s a bunch of antrophomorphic characters in a noir setting…
But because the gameplay is quite bad.
– Real player with 21.2 hrs in game
Choice of Life: New Centurion
Choice of life: New Centurion is a neo-noir detective card game.
The city is bogged down in the dope of azure. The authorities and the defenders of order cannot cope with the flow of a new psychotropic substance pouring into the streets of St. Petersburg.
Who will you become in this troubled time? A champion of the law, restoring justice, or a ruthless avenger who stained his hands with blood?
Decide the fate of the characters on the streets of St. Petersburg. Take a walk along the world-famous avenues, plunge into the luxury of the imperial capital, or descend into the gray outskirts, communal apartments, and gateways.
Investigate, take revenge on your enemies, carry out special operations, weave intrigues, fall in love, have fun … and stop Azure!
Features:
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Stylish graphics, a huge set of cards
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Mysterious atmosphere of St. Petersburg of the future
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Various gameplay mechanics: from detective investigation to action
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Non-linear storyline and multiple endings
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Unique characters with their gameplay
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The story is based on the graphic novel New Centurion: Azure
D.W. Dagger: Chapter One
A noir first-person murder mystery set in a gloomy 1947 Pacific Northwest city. Play as the renowned Detective D.W. Dagger to help solve his latest case. A violent murder, a possible suicide, and a handful of suspects.
Can you deduce what happened?
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As the first case in the upcoming series, test your deductive reasoning skills to piece together the truth of a new violent crime.
Taking inspiration from video games like “Gone Home” and “What Remains of Edith Finch,” as well as the board game classic “Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective,” you follow the narrative told through evidence found within the crime scene. As the lead detective, you must find suspects, determine which evidence helps your case and which hurts it, and ultimately, determine who committed the gruesome act.
This is a small, first case to give players an idea of what the larger series entails. It takes around 30-45 minutes to finish, depending on your detective skills! There is no randomized evidence or alternate paths, so once you complete it, that’s it.
Original Soundtrack by Corey Teply
The Wolf Among Us
I’ve played through this game about 5 times. Each time was fun and engaging. Definitely recommend!
– Real player with 24.0 hrs in game
A therapeutical game about Big B and his inner restraints holding him from killing everyone in this annoying town.
Snow white? More like hope she dead tonight!
Faith kinda kewl tho, “he’s not as bad as he seems 3”
10/10
– Real player with 23.4 hrs in game
Alum
** Το παιχνίδι ολοκληρώθηκε ** (For English scroll down)
Στα θετικά η φωνή του κύριου χαρακτήρα, είναι αρκετά συγκινητικό σε κάποια σημεία, πετυχημένο χιούμορ σε κάποιους διαλόγους.
Ετοιμαστείτε να πεθάνετε αρκετές φορές (σώζετε τακτικά).
Πλούσια φαντασία του σεναριογράφου αλλά δύσκολοι γρίφοι (ειδικά το κεφάλαιο 7 το «έβγαλα» όλο με οδηγό).
Δεν μου άρεσε που είχε κάποιες «επιτηδευμένες πινελιές δυσκολίας» τις οποίες δεν περιμένεις και αναρωτιέσαι τι πρέπει να κάνεις.
Νομίζω ότι πρώτη φορά σε adventure κολλάω τόσο πολύ στο να προχωρήσω (με αρνητικό τρόπο) όταν το παιχνίδι σου προσφέρει τόσα λίγα items.
– Real player with 12.6 hrs in game
Alum reminds me of my impressions of The Chronicles of Narnia. When a teenager, I was quite excited about the series until I read some critics. Then my reaction was like, “What?! This wonderful lion, Aslan, is no more than old boring Jesus? Oh no!” However, Alum’s creators aren’t as subtle as C. S. Lewis; their approach is more like that of Superbook.
You play as a member of religiously driven anarcho-primitivist gang of those who use terror as a way to convince people and would destroy the city’s central heating system just to make people “think out of a box” and “understand things wider” (?!). The Rogations (that’s their name, but it probably should be The Rogues) blame their contemporaries (modern people) that they live in industrialized society and can no longer be guided by “faith” as it were in the Middle Ages; if so, Middle Ages should be returned artificially. Does it remind you some, so to say, not very good people (from the real world)?!
– Real player with 12.5 hrs in game
Methods: The Detective Competition
This game is so charming and wonderful, it’s quickly become one of my favourite games ever! If you like mystery stories and fun characters, I highly recommend you pick it up. And if anything seems interesting, don’t be afraid to try out the demo!
On to the (spoiler free) review! (I’ve never written a review before, so apologies if it reads oddly at all.)
The gist of the story is that, 100 of America’s greatest detectives and 100 of its worst criminals are pit in a battle royale against each other to win a million dollars. (And parole, if they’re a criminal.) You play through the stories of several participants as they advance through the competition, meeting new faces at every turn. The game is split into 100 chapters, and it took me personally about 7.5 hours to play through them all on my first playthrough.
– Real player with 51.6 hrs in game
This is probably one of my top ten games I have ever played, in part because I love solving locked room mysteries so much. I do realize it will not be everyone’s cup of tea, however. Here are (in my opinion) the main downsides of this game: 1. character art is a little lackluster, but you can see that for yourself on the steam page. You do get used to it though, and the character designs do have a lot of personality. 2. The pacing is a little weird. Sometimes you will go through long-ish periods of cutscenes back to back or mysteries back to back. 3. Finally, the ending does leave some loose ends, which could maybe have been intended to pave the way for a sequel (or maybe the game designers just couldn’t decide how to wrap them up, I don’t know). With those downsides out of the way, here are the things I love: 1. mysteries upon mysteries upon mysteries. Both little murder scenes you have to solve and some big over-arching mysteries within the game. 2. The characters are really fun. Both detectives and criminals all have a special method they use to do what they do, and it is very fun to see all of the varieties of detectives and murderers they came up with. You also get to play as different detectives and use their methods of solving mysteries, which is cool. You also get to briefly step into playing as a criminal as well. Again, I’ve never met a game with so many mysteries to solve, so this game was lots of fun for me. To me this game is very worth the $20 it normally costs (so I’d say to definitely get it if it sounds interesting, especially if it goes on sale).
– Real player with 13.0 hrs in game
Murder by Numbers
As soon as I started playing this game, I was incredibly hooked on the detective puzzle format. It was a lot of fun and very relaxing to not have to worry about getting choices wrong and just take my own pace at solving the puzzles. I do have quite a few nitpicks and grievances but this game is well worth the price if you love picross and cute stories.
Story
Overall, it’s a super cute story and I love S.C.O.U.T., Honor, Jena, and Cross, as well as everyone else. The supporting cast were fun to see, but I wish I had gotten more details about them. If you like complete realism in your stories, though, be warned that there’s a lot of points that just don’t make sense. For example, a civilian getting involved with a murder investigation and not being arrested for interfering with evidence, hacking police files, etc.
– Real player with 103.1 hrs in game
I’m at the start of chapter 4 of this game, but want to review it at this point.
Overall, I give this game a thumbs up. But it is a game that I like and enjoy very much, but I also want to say that I found its implementation deeply annoying.
I love picross, and as a collection of picross puzzles, it’s a good game. The completed puzzles don’t try to “look like things” in the way most picross games do - they look like fragments of things. And that’s fine. It gives them freedom to create some really interesting puzzles and you aren’t really tempted to ignore logic and just guess what looks like it fits. The puzzles are challenging and satisfying. I really like that part of the game. I also like that there are a good selection of bonus puzzles. I played all the puzzles (up to chapter 4, including bonus puzzles) on hard mode and can confirm they can be solved with pure logic, which I really appreciate.
– Real player with 76.7 hrs in game