The Book of Regrets
Not a bad hidden gem. I definitely enjoyed myself figuring out each ending. The story of the game is pretty good, and I loved the various endings. The price tag isn’t too bad, considering the kind of game you’re getting. There were some slight bugs I noticed in the game, but they didn’t appear that often and usually only if I was spamming the space button too quickly in certain areas. The fight scene in the end was a bit annoying, although it does add a bit something else to the gameplay. The puzzles in-game are way too easy, so if you’re looking for hard puzzles, you won’t find them in this game. However, the bulk of the game was figuring out what choices you should/shouldn’t make, so the puzzles weren’t much focus anyway (I think there are only 2 puzzles in-game).
– Real player with 24.0 hrs in game
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Enjoyable & well-made - a true hidden gem of a game!
If you like Choose Your Own Adventure books/games, you must try this one. There is a choice to be made on every screen, and those choices can lead to vastly different outcomes and yield vastly different storylines. To get the full experience (and to understand the real story), multiple playthroughs are needed. However, each playthrough is never tedious, because you discover new things and start to figure stuff out. It took me around 4-5 hours to get most of the endings, including the “true” ending of the game (which was pretty ingenious btw).
– Real player with 13.7 hrs in game
Angkor: Celebrations
A fun variant of the match three genre.
The story is that you are collecting items for some ritual, but it is really only a conceit to give the game a theme. It does that well enough though.
The art is nice much of the time, though the quality varies. I find the music quite pleasant, but you can turn it off if it bugs you.
There are a variety of levels of difficulty to suit your taste. You can give yourself a time deadline or a move deadline depending on your style.
There are a variety of odd things you have to do to move ahead, some common, like ‘match the piece that is locked in place’ or ‘match next to a piece to cause an effect.’ There re also squares you need to match multiple times to finally get it to count as clear.
– Real player with 111.9 hrs in game
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AR-K: The Great Escape
After playing the first 2 episodes I can safely say that this is the best episode so far!!! The developers certainly improved the game quality in both ways: technically and direction-wise. The following points sums up the following:
Pros:
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Gameplay quality much improved from first 2 episodes
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Puzzles more interesting
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Protagonist given more depth in character
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Story development much more natural
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Render quality improved
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This episode is much more bug free than previous 2 episodes
– Real player with 27.8 hrs in game
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It’s great when you come to a game and it’s a lot better than you thought it would be. While I enjoyed ar-k 1 and 2 and I do recommend those games to play first, this for me is a lot better - story, graphics, setting. The writing was very good and if you didn’t want to read everything, you didn’t need to click on that character’s bit of conversation but could come back to it if you wanted. I liked the humour, and it was witty in parts. It is the perfect balance of not just a good story which is vital in an adventure game but also good interactive gameplay.
– Real player with 18.4 hrs in game
Halloween Trouble 3: Collector’s Edition
Just like the others in this series–same music, same game play. I like them for a mindless time passer.
– Real player with 17.6 hrs in game
Knuckle Sandwich
If you’d like to keep up the the development of this project, consider joining the Knuckle Sandwich Discord Server.
About
Guide a young man through his first day in Bright City – a bustling island paradise with a horrible secret. Find a new job, make new friends, and attempt to solve a mystery revolving around a ludicrous gang and a fanatical cult.
In this RPG, you defeat enemies in turn-based battles by completing minigames unique to the foe you’re facing. These minigames are made up of a variety of challenges, including rhythm games, shoot-em'-ups, memory puzzles, and quick-time events.
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An offbeat and personal story with a focus on humor.
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Over 100 fast-paced minigames specific to each enemy and playable character.
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Vibrant city locations to explore on a fictional Australian island.
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A massive cast of characters, including several partners to join you along the way.
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A huge soundtrack with music by Nelward, Beardy, Gyms, Barchboi, and Brainfoam.
Human Origin
What is this game? It’s you watching and listening to a guy ramble on and on incoherently about subjects.
How to get achievements? Just load up the game and minimize. Chill out on the web for a couple of hours while achievements slowly roll in.
– Real player with 2.2 hrs in game
I dont even know, what the purpose of this game is but seems funny :D mol
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Horror Girl Puzzle
It actually seems that among the 100-achievements, profile-limited games that are coming out these months on Steam there are some of them worth the while. I mean, I see every week a ton of “everything + puzzle” game or similar titles and of course most of them are asset flips and little else.
Developer Anatoliy Loginovskikh made a great effort in his drawing style here and he shows us his best horror-themed girls' operas, that of course compose the base of this puzzle game.
We will in fact be asked to solve puzzles through various mechanics, mainly by dragging and rotating the various pieces. And we will compose some really beautiful artworks, all made specifically for this game.
– Real player with 46.5 hrs in game
- ### Morlan’s shorts:
No more and no less weird than the other games from this developer. At first it’s a simple twist-puzzle but later there are..elements added. The nude-tentacle-girl-art is quite well done and I liked it and the little other puzzles are fun. It’s a very very short game though so you may want to pick it up on sale.
Don’t waste more time reading lengthy reviews.. time is of the essence!
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
Basketball
I r8 this game 8/8.
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game
It’s a very short game, but the dialogue in this game made me wish it was longer. Genuinely funny and enjoyable experience.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Bolt Riley, A Reggae Adventure
It would be in my best interest to give a glowing review since I want to see this game completed but I need to be honest about the progress made so far. I do realise this game is considered Early Access and I know the budget for this game is pretty small, and you should keep that in mind too (if you end up reading the in-depth review linked below), but ultimately, is it something I would recommend to my friends or the gaming public in its current state? Considering the artwork still needs some touching up, bugs were encountered way too frequently, the UI needs fixing and the first chapter is way too short, probably not. I’m hoping that Adventure Mob will eventually prove me wrong though, as I really want this game to succeed.
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
Bolt Riley is a well-intentioned but uniformly misguided proof of concept.
Presumably the developers naively underestimated the effort required to achieve the level of quality best suited to their vision. Instead, they opted to release an embarrassingly short and painfully butchered appetizer.
One should be easily inclined to forgive unrefined details in Early Access but no update in over a year severely burdens the game’s credibility.
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Night Cascades
Diane Carter never expected her folklore degree to get her a job offer from the local police department, but when a rash of occult-themed fires sets the city on edge, she is called in as a special consultant on esoteric religion to help find the culprit.
There’s just one problem: the woman she’s assigned to work with. She’s cocky, beautiful, and far too familiar.
Can Diane and Jackie overcome the obstacles of their past and find the truth?
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The 1980s, but not as you know them - This is the Dark New Age, a time when belief in paranormal powers was mainstream and parents feared that their children would be kidnapped by Satanic cults
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Interactive mystery - Play minigames to search crime scenes for clues or interrogate suspects for insights, accessible either through mouse or keyboard/controller.
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Lesbian romance - Develop the relationship between two adult female characters
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High-Detail Art - Explore the world and its varied cast in a dark painted style
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Linear Visual Novel - All choices lead inevitably to the one true solution