Harvest Island
You play as Will, a kid that lives on a remote island with his father and sister. You give your harvest offerings to the gods by milking cows, petting goats, shearing sheep, and planting crops. The island is big and you’ll be able to traverse to new and unknown areas, discover wild animals that’ll hide in the thickets of trees, and explore the deep, dark, depths of the island’s caves. But you can’t wander off too far from your home. It’s safer to stay in the comfort of your farm.
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Collect coconuts, seaweed, horseshoe crabs, and other peculiar stuff. Offer your gatherings to the gods.
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There are tons of different types of fish that you can catch all over the island. Each fish has their own behavior and habitat. Depending on the conditions, fishing during the day, night, or far off into the corner of the island, will catch you different types of fish.
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Craft various tools from your workbench to help you further explore the island. Create useful items like a ladder, axe, and a fishing pole.
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The gods are always asking you for offerings. Be sure to give them what they want.
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As time progresses, the forest, caves, and seashores changes. You can see the sunset and sunrise while the landscape changes. Or watch the fireflies come out.
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Enjoy sunny or rainy weather. Experience animals hiding from the rain. Sometimes you’ll get a sprinkle, and other times it’ll pour down hard.
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There are many wild animals on the island. You can befriend them, pet them, or even feed them. Sometimes they will give you items they find in the wild or show an undiscovered passage for you to explore.
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Tides fluctuate as time progresses, changing the island’s landscape. New paths open and allow you to explore the island further than before.
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Later Alligator
(WARNING: Massive amount of spoilers in this review)
About 3 to 4 years ago when I bought Night In The Woods it followed a particular progression. I saw the game advertised on Steam, looked at the page and it slowly caught my attention. I then chucked it into my wishlist and there it stayed for a long time. Finally months later, I caved in and bought it on sale. The game proceeded to become one of my all time favorite modern video games and won my heart minutes into the game.
Later Alligator very much followed that same flow. The art style, the characters, it all looked so obscenely adorable that I knew I needed to try this game. Sure enough, in this fateful autumn sale I fell for it. Starting at 1 AM in the morning (Since what better way to enjoy a goofy vibrant day in Alligator New York City than in the dead of the night) I dived into the game and it wasn’t until 5 AM that I finally made myself put it down. Just minutes into it I immediately fell in love with the art direction and the fluent animation. And Pat. Once you meet Pat, never let go. You’ll learn very quickly in Later Alligator what kind of a world it is. It’s a dark, gritty, grey world full of loving parents, overachieving bodybuilders, people relaxing on the streets, and old folks playing card games. And ghosts. If nothing else to be said about the game let it be known that Alligator New York City needs Alligator Ghostbusters because the entire city is crawling with ghosts. It takes some time getting used to the grey filter on everything. At first I wasn’t sure if I liked it but there’s an odd aesthetic to it. It draws your attention to the already colorful and scaley denizens of the world. However from an gameplay aspect it can get cumbersome, more on that later.
– Real player with 20.8 hrs in game
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Early review right now after a quick hour of play.
Later Alligator (and I swear I’m not biased towards this game at all) is a gorgeously 2d-animated, primarily point-and-click, cartoony romp through Alligator New York City. Everyone’s alligators. The gameplay itself is simplistic; unlike normal point-and-click games of this style that you might have come to expect, there’s no picking up items, there’s no real big decision making. It crosses over more with Professor Layton-style gameplay, wandering around the city and picking up little collectibles by clicking on various pieces of the environment.
– Real player with 9.3 hrs in game
Murder at Midnight
This game is pretty amazing! There is so much attention to detail and the tasks are fun to complete. I can’t wait to see what they have in store since this is just early access. I highly recommend getting this game! You won’t regret it.
– Real player with 16.8 hrs in game
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LOVE IT
– Real player with 9.7 hrs in game
Seven Days
So… Seven Days, or Seven Days With You: The Most Precious Memory in Our Lives… sigh … It’s all too bittersweet…
A friend of Shuuichi’s gives him a cursed Blu-ray disc and asks him to watch it and see if it’s actually cursed. Well, as it turns out, an evil girl ghost comes out and tries to possess him, only to be exorcised by his childhood friend Murasaki. It’s then that the ghost turns into a normal looking girl named Chiyako, who in turn reveals that she had died and that there are souls of six other girls in her who had also previously died. But a ghost can only remain in the mortal realm for 49 days, give or take a few. So it’s decided that these seven girls will divide the time they have left between themselves, leaving everyone a week to do what they want with the small bit of life that was left to them before they disappear for good.
– Real player with 48.0 hrs in game
A mysterious adventure well-worth embarking on.
Synopsis
Seven Days tells the tale of Shuuichi Kanzaki, a young man who, thanks to his rather peculiarly resourceful classmate, Masaru Kinokuniya, stumbles upon a cursed video. The man of reason he sees himself as, Shuuichi takes his friend’s “dare” and decides to watch the video, only to realize shortly later, to his own bewilderment, that he was not quite exactly being bamboozled. Out spawns a creature from an otherworldly plane of existence and assaults the protagonist. The bleak situation comes into speculative resolve by a Shinto priestess, and his good childhood friend, Murasaki Sairenji, as she attempts to exorcise the begrudged spirit, the result of which is far from the expected one. Both Shuuichi and Murasaki have to deal with a body which, although now bereft of former hostility, still serves as a vessel to souls of seven girls whose lives ended far too prematurely and who as such harbour profound grievances against the world that has abandoned them. Will Shuuichi be able to grant them their postmortem wishes and the ends they desire?
– Real player with 45.4 hrs in game
The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game
Words can’t describe how much of a masterpiece this “game” is, but I’ll give it shot.
I put game in quotes, because you can’t really call this a game, its more of a vivid memory of your distant self who is a frog detective. The instant I clicked on the “New Game” button I became Frog Detective.
Thanks to the innovative key bindings my keyboard and mouse could truly become an extension of my body, which only resulted in letting this experience become more real. Even though I only have 50 min in this “game” it felt like I went through an entire life of pure joy.
– Real player with 83.0 hrs in game
Short game and with childish art style but somehow unique and charming!
Developed by Grace Bruxner and Thomas Bowke, The Haunted Island, a Frog Detective Game is a short (~1h) by enjoyable adventure that puts you in the role of a lovely froggy detective, who is phoned by his supervisor to investigate a strange case. On an island ruled by Martin, a sloth who crowned himself king, unexplained noises can be heard from crevices. The sloth’s first reaction is to call in a group of ghost scientists, who spend the next two weeks trying to figure out what is going on. Trying, but certainly not succeeding. That is where the Frog Detective, come in.
– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game
Victoria Clair and the Mystery Express
A short but charming Professor Layton-esque murder mystery/puzzle game. There is roughly two or three hours of gameplay depending on how long the puzzles take you.
The puzzles are clever and there is a good mix of challenging/simple puzzles.
The dialogue is enjoyable if not a little cheesy at times!
I thoroughly enjoyed the clever deduction system at the end.
I highly recommend giving this game a go, especially as it’s free!
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
A really nice little puzzler.
While the presentation is functional rather than stunning, this doesn’t matter in the slightest. I actually found it quite charming. The focus is on the puzzles. Having said that, the music is great and the story/dialog are both well written and at times quite funny too.
The puzzles come from a wide variety of types, and are all individually implemented very well. Considering that separate code has been written for each, the interface is nicely polished.
Being generally interested in puzzles, I’d come across many of these classics before. But it was still fun to work them out again. And there were still a few which made me think quite a bit to be confident of solving them all first go.
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
Pit of Evil
I love this game just wish the grammar was better and that it showed quest information,
– Real player with 59.5 hrs in game
Currently playing the game and just have joined this project as a betatester.
I play the German version of the game and compared to another betatest this game has really few gamebreaking bugs.
Image and sound bugs can easily circumvented by copying a similar named file, pasting and renaming it in the same folder. For the current version I only had to do this twice!
But there are many, many passability gliches, mostly in the forests and hills with different planes.
The riddles are really innovative and medium to hard to solve. Their difficulty increases during the game.
– Real player with 35.5 hrs in game
Searching for objects in the forest
The game only has potential if you have young kids to play with as it’s always the same items asked, the level are only 4 different areas where you’ll have to find the same items.. You get the gist of it.
Some words certainly are weird translations or brands instead of modern naming, and some others dont correspond to what it’s supposed to be.
Examples :
Requested item Item in the forest
Leaflet maple leaf
Dichlofos Insect repellant
Field Glasses binoculars
Flashlight Lantern
Those certainly need to be renamed properly, as it is, it’s kind of ridiculous.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6hkJGDzOUA
First Impressions
Having recently played and reviewed the first game, which really disappointed me, I’m not at all looking forward to Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard (FD2). Considering how well received the first game was, I don’t see the developers changing up what they did the first time, as there’s no reason to fix something that’s not broken. Knowing I’d knock it out quickly enough, I decided to play it sooner than later to find out whether I was right or wrong. To spare any potential mystery, I wasn’t off the mark in my prediction.
– Real player with 2.7 hrs in game
Frog Detective is back! A delightful sequel to the original game
Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard picks up right after the events of the original game, The Haunted Island: A Frog Detective Game. In a lot of ways, the games are very similar, both are a short and easy point & click adventure game, where you play as the titular Frog Detective, who need to gather clues and figure out who the culprit is within the case. This time, you are aimed to solve a new mystery. You need to figure out who wrecked the parade the townsfolk of Warlock Woods were preparing to surprise their new neighbor, an invisible wizard?!
– Real player with 2.6 hrs in game
Magical Eyes - Red is for Anguish
Magical Eyes - Red is for Anguish is a mystery visual novel about bizarre incidents unfolding around the town, intermingled with a complicated mixture of human intentions. It is not your usual moege nor an otomege in fact I was quite a surprise for me since I did judge it from its cover at the start and I did not expect much at all. Magical Eyes - Red is for Anguish is developed by POMERA Studios and publish by Fruitbat Factory It has 1 ending but has choices, choices that use a reasoning system that unlocks bonus content upon successful answer. It will not affect the ending in any way except for S rank scenarios unlock and materials unlock.
– Real player with 25.9 hrs in game
Magical Eyes-Red Is For Anguish is a VN in which you have to find out why these crazy events are taking place in town. So if u like mystery genre then u will like this VN. Just a small bit is that this VN does start slow. Once u get past the slow part of the game the VN will start to pick up.
This VN u will play as Yuu, Chiharu, and another side that is ???, The ??? is for because u will be playing through other’s POV. Although u will play more of Yuu’s side in this VN.
I really liked the characters a lot. I can’t decide who is my favorite. Probably Rin and Pops:) Also the characters have voice acting in this:) Only Yuu doesn’t have a voice though.
– Real player with 25.0 hrs in game