Family Mysteries 2: Echoes of Tomorrow
The voice actor playing our hero is terrible. He sounded as though he might actually be a janitor from Germany who was working at the Artifex offices when the original voice actor quit in disgust over the obvious theft of the Terminator storyline for this game. So Artifex frantically searched for someone to fill in for him and they wound up begging Hans the Janitor to do the voice of the inventor turned foolish lover turned emotionless wreck who gets arrested or locked up easily 35 times in this game. Terrible choice. At one point, his wife is put into a trance where her face is covered in lines and our hero screams, “Tina, no!” but it comes out as, “Teeenerrrrr norrrrrrrwwwwrrrrrr.” It was so incredibly godawful. I was ashamed and embarrassed for Hans. He was totally out of his element. He should have been at home with a blanket over his legs and a stein in his hands instead of pretending to play a much younger inventor of A.I. watches.
– Real player with 22.2 hrs in game
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This was an entertaining game, with an unusual sci-fi flavour. While still a bit more linear than I’d like for a premium game, I enjoyed the HO scenes, which were an interesting and often challenging blend of sci-fi (or electronic) and regular objects.
Pros:
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the art and music is consistently good and suits the theme very well
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the story isn’t especially novel, but it’s generally well-executed
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the main character was interesting, and you can get his comments on various items and animals in the game (he has a quirky sense of humour at times)
– Real player with 8.5 hrs in game
Escape2088
Decent escape room. controls were easy, zooms were appropriate, and puzzles were pretty hard.
Very high graphics, which make for large download size and long initial start up time, yet no animations for the ending (which I did not understand at all just from a black screen and sounds) or even just a garage door opening.
Each room has a half hour timer, so expect to spend about an hour total if you are good at these games (some of my play time was paused for dinner - which DOES NOT stop the timer) but if the timer runs out, you still get to keep playing, so it is really just an achievement timer. There is a timer achievement and another achievement in each room.
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
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Really excited about OnSkull’s new game.
Puzzles are on point, not too hard or too easy.
I also really like what they did with the lightning in this game, starting with the neon sign in the beginning, it creates a nice moody atmosphere.
One recommendation I would make is the addition of a “Give hint” button in case someone gets stuck at some point in the game.
Overally a very nice installment, would definitely recommend.
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
Mechanic 8230
Mechanic 8230 is an adventure game in the genre of Point-and-click. Help Mechanic find his robot friend RO-2 and unveil secrets about this destroyed world.
— Immersion in a new world of s distant stylized world;
— Cozy “illustrative” retrofuturistic atmosphere;
— Puzzles are intertwined with a fascinating plot;
— Unique soundtracks for each level in Ambient style with elements of cyberpunk by Alexandr Zhelanov;
— Variety of levels! Each of them is unique in structure.
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Sanatorium «Anthropocene Retreat»
Sanatorium Anthropocene Retreat
cons:
lack of instructions.
no sound.
no options.
sucks.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals
A decent game for fans of the Enki Bilal’s Nikopol trilogy, and his works in general. But ONLY for the fans or people at least knowing either the graphic novels or eventually the film “Immortel (ad vitam)” (the best - both; the movie is/or was free to watch on YT). I think that only then the player can appreciate the content by entering this dark future sci-fi, enjoying original designs and nice pieces of Bilal’s characteristic graphics from the trilogy.
People not knowing what the Nikopol trilogy is about - should be very careful about the title. I suppose those are majority of the negative reviews here. You will just not get the point here - like it or not, but this particular game can be only treated as an extension to those other works. There are many unexplained references to those, so you would probably miss half of joy.
– Real player with 8.1 hrs in game
It’s unclear whether something important is either lost in translation, or just expected to be found in sources outside of the content of the game, but either way, the events in Nikopol feel like a drug trip; nothing that happens ever seems to make much sense, and everybody who inhabits its world operates on some inscrutible, Lynchian-esque, fever-dream logic that never reveals itself to the player over the course of the game.
To further complicate things, the game’s frequently frustrating and obtuse puzzles are presented—visually and mechanically—in a manner that would have seemed quaint in a game 10 years its senior; as difficult as it may be to tell at face value, Nikopol was released contemporaneously with titles like Dead Space, Fallout 3, Far Cry 2 and Mirror’s Edge, just to name a few.
– Real player with 7.7 hrs in game
One Way: The Elevator
This is a really lovely game which has been created with so much care and attention to detail. The story is quite sad but in the end very uplifting (no pun intended) as you make your way up the elevator and beyond. There’s a lot of mouse clicking to do to find everything you need and to gain all the achievements but I that didn’t put me off at all as I love making sure I’ve not missed anything vital. The game will still complete without achieving everything - which for me, makes it highly re-playable in order to finally find everything and to find the hidden areas which add quite a bit of extra time to the game. I enjoyed all the puzzles and found them very logical but you need to take notes of anything you feel might be significant for some. Other puzzles are mechanical and there is no skip feature - which is perhaps the only flaw in this game. I loved all the characters that you meet along the way and there is much humour, detail and so many little animations that I’m surprised at the price as this must have taken a lot of time to develop. I loved the previous Cotton games but this is my favourite so far and I hope there is a sequel or something very similar in the pipeline as I for one will be buying it without hesitation.
– Real player with 21.8 hrs in game
What a cute (and a bit sad) game! The art is adorable and the music is relaxing. The story is great and since thee’s no actual verbal dialogue, it can be understood and played by everyone regardless of your language (of course you still have to navigate through the menu and whatnot). The story had a bit of depth to it, and it does leave the player a bit of guesswork in the end, but no matter how you piece together the ending, it’s still really good (although, again it can be a bit sad). The puzzles themselves are mostly easy, I only had a bit of trouble with 2 or 3 of them, but I could eventually figure them out.
– Real player with 7.6 hrs in game
The Corridor: On Behalf Of The Dead
I truly enjoyed playing this game. The atmosphere was what kept me going to explore and discover more of what was going on here. If you liked playing Observer and Soma this game is right along those lines but with it’s own twist. It’s got a nice flavor of creepiness without resorting to jump scares to make you feel uneasy. . The ending is with a ‘to be continued’ tag and I do hope that there will be more game play to follow. Achievements are available which if you try to complete them will aid you in solving more of the mystery.
– Real player with 61.0 hrs in game
The Corridor: On Behalf Of The Dead is a story based Sci-Fi / Horror game that focuses mostly on setting a strong unsettling atmosphere while adding sci-fi elements around it.
You spend most of the game walking around exploring memories and piecing together the story. The cohesion system really works well and adds a nice survival mechanic.
Audio is relay nice too and adds a disturbing layer to the experience.
8/10
– Real player with 47.4 hrs in game
The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day
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Developed by the Russian studio New Game Order (formerly known as ComonGames), The Uncertain: Last Quiet Day is a 3D Point & Click adventure, with a strong storyline and quite ambitious direction. It’s the first episode, released in late 2016, and it took 4 years until we finally got the second chapter.
In a world where humanity has long perished, robots have replaced us, maintaining their own evolution. Inspired by our way of living, these machines work, learn, and socialize with each other remarkably resembling humans and their daily life. RT-217NP is a prime model of its kind, a robot whose curiosity allows him to grow at his own pace. He wanders around the city repairing and building tools, which he can sell to keep his curiosity alive.
– Real player with 8.0 hrs in game
Robots or The Pandemic? I’d Choose Robots ♥
The world has ended. The robots had taken over. This neat post apolopytic game is from the eyes of a cute robot named RT (insert model name here). He was leading a normal robot lifeu when an incident makes him question what is wrong or right. Humans are gone but are they?
Story
I thought out of most point and click adventures I played, this game has one of the best stories out there.. I adore end of the world games and I love cyber punk or futuristic games in general, so in that related theme this game has an amazing story. I mean artifical intelligence and robotics are being developed for the last few years. What is intriguing about the plot is like the pandemic (HEY 2020!) robots taking over the world CAN happen folks. This game covers only beginning of the story and is relatively short but was incredibly sufficient for a part 1. In the views of RT you hear what he says about humans or human life in general which is very entertaining. Are you uncertain to help, or do you not want to help or do you want to help? That is up to you. and depending on the choices you make you progress the story or reach bad ends. The story is very very linear , so do not expect miracle side plots.
– Real player with 7.5 hrs in game
VICCP
An extremely challenging puzzle game which is perfect for anyone that likes to be challenged and likes to think of solutions that are outside of the box. There are multiple endings to the game, I still haven’t found them all but I really enjoy the variety of endings available and the level of difficulty required to find them.
– Real player with 10.4 hrs in game
Im SO irritated that their appears to be a game breaking bug with turning on the monitor within the first 30 seconds of playing. I have even gone to youtube to see if Im doing something wrong and following exactly along and clearly my game is broken. Apparently you should be able to turn the monitor on with a power button, its not even a puzzle but my game does not work! I tried posting in the steam discussion and bug submissions. Considering this is a new game you would think the dev would be at least somewhat involved with responses so people don’t start posting bad reviews…. not so far.
– Real player with 8.3 hrs in game
A Day In Space
A Day In Space takes you on a one-day immersive trip into space.
You find yourself in space, with 3 of your fellow crewmates killed by strange circumstances. Talk to crewmates to investigate, whilst finding hidden collectables and playing mini games.
I was able to have the chance to playtest this game and am grateful for it.
– Real player with 4.9 hrs in game
This game is a quick little puzzle like game where you take on the role of a crew-member trying to solve the deaths of three other crew.
This game will not blow you away with its graphics or story and while the Humour may be a little crude at times it is a decently fun little game and I would say worth a pickup, the plant water task is much better then it was a treasure hunting all the stickers was a nice little adventure.
– Real player with 4.4 hrs in game