Memories of Fireflies
The game is genuinely creepy. It features a good balance between the run and hide, leaving you on your toes, not knowing what to expect next. The visuals are very pretty and the story interesting!
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
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Indie stealth puzzle platformer + atmospheric + interesting mechanics = Hide, crawl, run, light up as you delve through the mysterious world and evade creatures of all sorts. Controller recommended. Released previously as Fireflies.
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– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
SELINI
SELINI is an emotional 3D single player adventure full of colors, sounds and dreams, played in a side scrolling fashion.
PUZZLES
Time management, memory challenges, observation, resources management and gravity mastering are some of the skills needed to proceed with the story.
Other than that, You can always:
-Collect crystals to unlock doors
-Collect energy for your space-home
-Push and drag objects to access new areas
-Use levers to control abandoned machinery
-Manipulate gravity
-Transform the world
NOSTALGIA
Composed in a retro-futuristic setting, the discrete but penetrating music plays an enormous role for the cocktails of emotions that each area has to offer.
An old radio that plays a forgotten tune of a distant time, or a VHS tape that reveals a hint if the protagonist’s obscure past.
MADE IN GREECE
Search for collectible items in white houses with blue windows or drive an old fishing boat on calm waters, from one fallen little port to another.
SELINI is a game being developed in Greece and inspired by Greece.
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Dark Fantasy: Jigsaw Puzzle
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☑ Gorgeous
☐ Beautiful
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☐ Working
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☐ Disgusting
☐ MS Paint
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☐ Kids
☐ Teens
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☐ Everyone
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audio ====
☐ Masterpiece
☐ Extremely Good
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ Ear rape
==== difficulty ====
☐ Dark Souls
☐ Difficult
☐ Not Easy
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☐ Super Easy
☑ Grandpa
☐ New Born
==== pc ====
☐ NASA Super Computer
☐ Rich Af
☑ Fast
☐ Ok
☐ Bad
☐ 1990
☐ Stone /pc /difficulty /audio /players /game-play /graphics
– Real player with 232.1 hrs in game
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I only got this game because I grew up doing puzzles and I like fantasy art. The art is typical female-based fantasy art and the pictures are nice. There are 20 different pictures. They follow the D&D and fantasy art concept that less armor is more when it comes to female characters.
To complete the 100 achievements, you have to do each puzzle 5 times. Each puzzle has 12, 24, 48, 96, and 192 pieces. Obviously, the fewer piece options are very easy. The 96 and 192 piece options take longer. Some of the 192 piece puzzles took me between 20-30 minutes. There is a hint option, but I didn’t use it other than to see what it was. You can also save the puzzle that you are working on and go back to it.
– Real player with 15.3 hrs in game
The Cruel Dreamer Marchosias
About This Game
The Cruel Dreamer Marchosias is a dark fantasy third-person exploration adventure game centered around Wolf and Book joining forces after one night within the forest an attack occurs resulting in the death of Wolf’s family. Book manages to save Wolf in time by forging a “Contract” and escaping through the “Gate”.
A tragedy. A promise. A dark journey. Join Wolf on their mission to right the atrocity committed against their family. Together with the mysterious entity ‘Book’, Wolf will brave the monsters lurking in the shadows, explore long-forgotten ruins and solve mysterious puzzles in order to reach an ancient castle located between worlds, and the key to restoring their lost family.
Take control of Wolf and Book as you play across various levels full of obstacles, mystery, and breathtaking music.
Key Features
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For fans of experimental story-driven games with some light puzzle solving and platforming
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A short game that lasts 1-2 hours
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A personal, dark fantasy story made by a solo developer
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Supports a fan-translation system for subtitles (see Steam forums for details).
Dark Fantasy 2: Jigsaw Puzzle
tl;dr: puzzle game to calm down after a stressful day. Can be played one-handed, but this audience is better served elsewhere. This is art, not some cheap manga stuff. @Devs: waiting for Dark Fantasy 3, 4, 5 and counting, will definitely buy them too!
Long version: Relaxing puzzle game, second installment, which is better in any aspect than its predecessor. You can play 24 aesthetic fantasy images which are of high and consistent quality and you can split it into more pieces to increase the difficulty.
– Real player with 13.2 hrs in game
If you like puzzles and you liked the first game, you should like this one. If you are a puzzle traditionalist, go buy a real, physical, tabletop puzzle since you might not like the fact that you can’t rotate pieces or put pieces together outside the main puzzle itself. However, being able to rotate pieces would also make the puzzle much more difficult for a number of reasons.
My only complaints are the same as the first game. The boards and some areas of the puzzles can be very dark, making it hard to even see if a piece is missing. And you can still just move pieces all over the board until they finally find a home.
– Real player with 9.3 hrs in game
Kingslayer Tactics
Kingslayer Tactics is a unique low fantasy game set in the chambers of European castles at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth century. You play as the Kingslayer called “The Raven”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wQd55tNpUc
In this interesting and mysterious renaissance world you will learn the tactics, strategy and adventure of a person dedicated to his goal. Sneaking through castle corridors and fighting with hordes of royal guards is not the only thing you need to do. Planning your next step and upgrading your weapons is equally as important.
Interesting and mysterious world
The game world is inspired by the European kingdoms and principalities, but the realities of the game are far from historical facts. The game takes the player on a journey through mysterious lands, set in an alternative version of the Renaissance Europe
The story
Enter a dark and mysterious story about “The Raven” and discover his secrets. Since the story about the Kingslayer was told for the first time in a tavern, it is still floating around among european sorcerers.
Tactics, strategy and adventure
Kingslayer is a unique combination of tactics, strategy and adventure in one game. Top-down shooter mechanics mixed up with stealth gameplay elements and RPG features creates an interesting and addictive gameplay.
Unique gameplay features
1. Upgrade your weapon by replacing steel parts with unique elements made of precious metals.
2. Turn into a raven in order to avoid a deadly threat and get into hidden and protected chambers.
3. Explore the refined locations, wander around the world of the 12 Kingdoms in the form of a “Raven”.
4. Collect important information about your goals, learn about the game universe and obtain rare artefacts by completing artfully designed quests.
5. Learn the story about a complicated character that combines the characteristics of a villain and a noble knight, but gives no pretext for clearly define his moral choice.
Rest House
A very peculiar obsession of Don Quixote paints this game’s cerebral narrative. The levels and artwork are muddled, jarring, and provide a fenestrated glimpse into the developer’s unusual psyche. A commitment worth its value if you’re into strange games.
Warning: The game offers links to external websites usually found at the end of each level to Youtube videos, Leaderboards, and other websites. Some of these links were blocked by my antivirus for malicious code. Some of those loaded in-game windows to these external websites that my antivirus blocked as well.
– Real player with 8.1 hrs in game
Nothing makes sense in this game, it is literally 3D models just thrown all over the place. The author calls it an abstract adventure, but you can tell it was like the programmer just took a 3D model tool and w/e assets he could find and stick them in. That said the “game” itself is full of faults. You can get stuck while walking up a staircase, you can get stuck on an edge, you can get stuck inside a room you can’t reopen cause a ball rolled off the switch.
The puzzles are annoying, pushing a huge butterfly statue that flips around in all different directions is a tiring process. It gets stuck on everything. Pushing a rolling ball that seems to defy gravity and friction is a process much like listening to nails on a chalkboard.
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
The Guilt and the Shadow
So, this is yet another gloomy indie game about psychological disorders.
There’s little to say about this one. In its own genre it’s probably OK. The visuals are stylish and the sound design is quite awesome.
But the story doesn’t really catch your attention. The monologues and occasional dialogues are quite unnatural. And the gameplay part just plainly sucks. You walk slowly, you need to backtrack the levels all the time, it’s surprisingly hard to find a proper spot to start climbing a ladder. So, all in all, as a game this thing kind of fails.
– Real player with 8.5 hrs in game
An emotional experience about the torments of a man plagued by the “guilt” of his mother’s suicide (“shadow”).
Set in a black and white pencil drawn world, the player guides the mentally ill protagonist through a succession of dreams/nightmares.
To advance in the game, we have to solve simple puzzles to unblock passageways or unlock memories.
The pace is slow, giving the time to the player to immerse itself in the dark atmosphere of the game. And the game can be finished in one setting, which I would recommend in order to not lose the connection to the story.
– Real player with 5.3 hrs in game
Tormentum - Dark Sorrow
This game is dark, despondent, despairing and depending on how one defines horror, it could be that too. A point and click not so adventurous “adventure” game. (Adventure because it does fall into any other catergory, not really, other then maybe supernatural. But even that would be a stretch.) Has a moralistic tone of more right vs wrong, then good vs evil.
Story: The condemned arrives with a fellow prisoner at a castle specifically designed for torture, torment, and purging souls of their evil through pain, suffering, and grief. (Dark, very dark, in tone.) The condemned man is told this in his jail cell by the horned guard, who also informs the condemned man he (the guard) will back to torture him. Of course, the condemned man does not wait around for that. This begins the journey through the Hell-bound castle, and meeting its various denizans. After that it is a trip though the wastelands, dealing with the inhabitants, and eventually to the condemned man’s goal, a structure of uprised arms with a shrouded female statue inside. Ethical choices are made throughout, in the simply question kill or not kill.
– Real player with 9.5 hrs in game
Awakened behind the twisted metal bars of your cell suspended far above the earth, a magnificently gnarled airship humming ominously above as it carries our mysterious hooded protagonist from their unknown past to a hellish new reality behind the confines of a massive and ghastly prison complex. Will you give in to your new existence of demonic incarceration, or will you find the will to journey into the pits of hell itself and find your freedom?
Tormentum is not a tale for the queasy, with brutal depictions of death, despair, and torture the imagery within is enough to make the average modern horror fan piss their pants in terror. The game comes from a seriously engaging and tasteful angle despite this, and everything is done in a fictionally compelling way that serves the narrative and not just for the sake of shock. The core element in Tormentum is atmosphere, and its surreal influences show to the very root.
– Real player with 9.4 hrs in game
Dungeons & Bombs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmBW_QWMS_o
A neat, little sokoban puzzle platformer game with crates and bombs as the title suggests. Go through the various levels and rescue the hot bearded princess. Difficulty-wise, it varies nicely over the course of the game with the 50 or so levels getting slightly harder as it progresses. New additions of obstacles makes it fresher and keeps it fun. The puzzles themselves does get you thinking with having to make the moves taken within the levels matter in order to proceed and reach the end of the levels. From alternating pop-up spikes to various dungeon monsters, there are a lot of things to face. Of course, with there being bombs, bombs and more bombs, there are a ton of explosions. Visually, it looks quite cute with the little characters and design of the game. The music and audio is also a great combination with the arcadey and retro type which makes it kinda feel more oldschool. Price is cheap enough being only a dollar, after having a price reduction, so it is worth a try for those interested in a cute, little puzzle game. Those into the sokoban genre is also in for a treat. So overall, is nice little buy.
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game