Unheard
Just completed the game after 8 hours, and I honestly am happy with the price/hours paid ratio. Each of those 8 hours entranced me in a way most games don’t. There’s no mindlessness in this game. It’s pure audio puzzle and is definitely it’s own genre.
Quick pros: Easy to play. Captivating. Not demanding on your computer. Original concept. And probably more I can’t think of.
Quick cons: Sometimes voice acting needs work but it doesn’t hurt the experience much. Micro stutter sometimes in the audio. Dunno what caused it. Wish the end of the audio didn’t force you to restart at the beginning. Would like to rewind like any other time.
– Real player with 17.4 hrs in game
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“We can be the acoustic detectives in this game! ヽ(=´▽'=)ﾉ”
[1] Intro
Unheard. This game is a creative detective adventure produced by NEXT Studios and published by bilibili. Before introducing the game, we need to pay attention to the developers and publishers, because knowing about them will help you enjoy this game even more. NEXT Studios is an indie studio based in China, and all the games they’ve made have received ‘very positive’ ratings from users so far. The publisher bilibili is China’s famous UCC video community. How did this game get overwhelmingly positive reviews? Let’s take a look at it with Nyanco-chan! (ฅ’ω’ฅ)
– Real player with 17.1 hrs in game
Conway: Disappearance at Dahlia View
It’s a fun and interesting detective game.
Pros:
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good voice actors
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interesting rendering style, I love the subtle outline effect.
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compelling and fresh gameplay. Every scene had something new and interesting.
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probably the best lockpick mechanic in a game
Cons:
- I did find myself arguing out loud with the protagonist when he’d make blatantly wrong and biased observations, but after finishing the game I think that was an intentional character flaw to propel the narrative. It’s just frustrating to feel trapped by bad decisions the character is making without my input.
– Real player with 20.0 hrs in game
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The third entry in White Paper’s portfolio brings back wonderful Ether One memories, not only because it references its setting a great deal, but especially because it shares the same approach to building its central character. Conway is the same type of main character you played in Ether One: he’s stubborn and determined and frail, especially frail, so frail that watching him on screen is almost painful: he can’t climb stairs, he blunders about from hotspot to hotspot, bumping into things and knocking stuff over all around him, he himself gets knocked out a few times during the investigation and you almost expect he won’t be up again, but being frail and moving clumsily mean nothing when you’re that stubborn and determined and he’s just as set on solving the case as Thomas Fletcher was on sorting out his mind in Ether One.
– Real player with 17.5 hrs in game
Mutropolis
Mutropolis
An array of interesting characters, some fiendish but entertaining puzzles and a bright and amusing story means Mutropolis should be up the top of your list for fans of the genre.
– Real player with 18.9 hrs in game
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Mutropolis is a lovely point & click adventure that stands out through its top-notch graphics, voice acting and humour. It’s a fantastic love letter to the old-school titles of this genre, while keeping things fresh through a unique, modern and gripping story.
After a cataclysm that happened 3000 years ago, humanity fled to Mars. Now, in year 5000, a team of archeologists and scientists came back to Earth to find the legendary Mutropolis - a lost city believed to be a source of many treasures, similar to El Dorado or what was once believed to be the Atlantis continent. You play as Henry Dijon - the head of expeditions for team Sigma - a nerdy archeologist with a detective nose. When the team’s boss disappears, and when the police abruptly closes the case, Henry and his colleagues take upon themselves to find their missing boss and the lost city. Together with the quirky and charismatic characters that comprise Henry’s ragtag team, you’re in for an adventure in which new meets old, and where ancient Egyptian myths are brought to life. Literally.
– Real player with 17.9 hrs in game
Please close the doors
Very underrated masterpiece
Amazing story
Very well written
Choices matter
Very high replayability
Lots of small glitches, some of them ruin an experience a bit.
Glitches like incorrect character skin for for second, uses skin from another character.
Sometimes one line of text is in russian. Not that it’s not translated, but it’s glitched cause redoing conversations fixes it.
There is one place in game, there if I choose to be in Oleg’s side, black screen happens, the only fix is to talk to any character(but you have to find them while screen is black and most characters won’t talk at a time…)
– Real player with 6.2 hrs in game
As a Muslim it was very disrespectful to stoop down and bring an Arab character as a terrorist, it is quite an outdated and offensive stereotype. I wish so badly I could refund this game with horrible writing, flat characters, unoriginal art and music, and default rpgm system. RPGM is a great program that can be used in many ways to tell a story, but with games like this that makes people look down on the engine. Dont waste your money.
– Real player with 5.0 hrs in game
Classified Stories: The Tome of Myrkah
Classified Stories: The Tome of Myrkah
Nothing really grabbed me about this title. It was just average all the way through and quite boring. It’s certainly overpriced but might be worth a go on sale.
In a Nutshell
Classified Stories is a first-person adventure game with light puzzle and shooter elements.
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
Pretty good and atmospheric 1st person horror action/adventure. A good bit of searching, a bit of puzzle solving, and a proper amount of shooting, not too much to make this game more action than adventure. A couple of serious scares too. The game isn’t very long, but if you really look around everywhere it won’t be over in less than 1h. I paid 6.50 euro, which, for was a decent price for what the game has to offer.
There are a couple of small problems, which are getting ironed out by the devs. As mentioned by another reviewer, the flashlight isn’t working properly and can be a bit frustrating. Also, there’s a game breaking bug, which I reported, and hopefully the devs will fix in a later version. If you’re playing v1.0.3, make sure you don’t jump over the short part of the rock wall in front of the RV. Or, do it for fun, but save first.
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
Fingered
✿ my gameplay experience ✿
✿ first five minutes: was mildly disconcerted at executing people at the fingering of a switch, stubbornly refusing to back down from my strong personal support of the death sentence yet (something like 90% of us singaporeans support it!), questioning the mental states of my witnesses, cursing the deliberately vague artwork, briefly contemplated thronging through the game files to delete the screaming audio files to distance myself on one dimension. even though the visuals and audio are already pretty vanilla in terms of graphic violence, and you know, it’s meant to get you to think. so i soldiered on with the spirit and the glory of arstotzka. slay on!
– Real player with 31.6 hrs in game
The issue with a game like this where it relies on randomized pool of clues to find a suspect is that if no effort has been made by the developers, they can sometimes make it extremely vague or visually overlap crucial clues on top of each other. This has been the biggest issue as the player has to get lucky to get a good set of clues. However, they even added a clue system that it’s only right 60% of the time, making this confusing game even more random.
Players are only given four clues which then sometimes could be wrong (purely by chance with no hints to tell whether they are right or wrong). Two hints can often mean the same thing, and sometimes they are exclusive to the character giving the clue, forcing you to play this repetitive game over and over by trial and error to understand what they mean. On top of that, as clues are extremely vague and mostly unhelpful (e.g. bald guy having hair, people with freaky or ugly features being considered normal, “hip” that could mean hippy/poor or hipster etc.).
– Real player with 25.5 hrs in game
The Flower Collectors
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Is this game a masterpiece? Nope, it is a little detective story about a political (?) murder in Spain after Franco’s death.
A grumpy ex-policeman, bound to a wheelchair after an accident, spends his time rolling around in his little flat (2 rooms, balcony), smoking, watching the neighbours with his binoculars, drawing little pictures, taking pills against his pain… but mostly sleeping and being bored. This flat is his world, and this is where the game takes place. Suddenly a gunshot in the night, and a dead corpse in the middle of the plaza under his flat. A young, terrified girl knocks on the door, breaking into his little world. And so the story begins…
– Real player with 16.8 hrs in game
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Approximate amount of time to 100%: 4h+
Estimated achievement difficulty: 3/10
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1, but you might end up with at least one more
Has it been in a bundle: No
Is there a good guide available: Not yet. I tried to write one, but it isn’t easy for this game. I hope somebody else will be able to make a good guide.
– Real player with 10.0 hrs in game
A Case of Distrust
𝗔 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗼𝗶𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝟮-𝟯 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀.
My favorite two aspects of the game were the art and the story.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝘁, 𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰, 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀' 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗼𝗱𝘀. Never did it feel like it was missing something as it definitely fit the format.
Now, the story took me by surprise. 𝗜 𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗻’𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗯𝘀𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗜’𝗱 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝘂𝗽 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘃𝘆 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝘁 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻; it’s sort of reminiscent of Agatha Christie stories, where you’re presented with a handful of characters connected to the case and you have to use every tiny piece of information you get to come to conclusions.
– Real player with 4.7 hrs in game
Introduction
I like detective stories and video game adaptations of crime novels. It’s no secret that my favorite game of all time is LA Noire and that my nickname is a wordplay on one of Agatha Christie’s most elusive antagonists, U.N. Owen. Unknown until the appropriate moment, as any worthy mystery should be. A Case of Distrust is the Steam debut of Ben “The Wandering Ben” Wander, a gaming industry professional (not quite vetern yet) which left the AAA standard and its various limitations/pressures for the overall freedom offered by the indie scene. A wise choice, no doubt.
– Real player with 4.0 hrs in game
A Detective’s Novel
This game is pretty abysmal and I simply can’t force myself to get through it. First of all, something that you notice almost immediately that is just incredibly irritating for a game centered around it’s story, is that it has a LOT of typos and grammatical errors. Which normally you can overlook, but you really can’t when a game is focused entirely on text and there isn’t anything else too interesting about it to make you overlook it.
As you continue on the personality of the main characters just becomes absolutely unbearable, Knox is a total ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for no reason whatsoever and his partner Clark is just a cuck who takes all the crap Knox gives him with no actual resistance whatsoever.
– Real player with 80.5 hrs in game
Tags: Adventure - VN - Visual Novel
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library
TLDR: Poor writing with typos. Unattractive art. Blurry backgrounds. Recycled assets. Long padded conversations.
Oustanding Issues:
-Blurry background arts of which there are too few
-Barely any interactivity at all with very few occasions to ask questions
-Typos
-Poor writing talent
Review: Long useless banters. Filler conversations. You basically just have to keep track of who sleeps when, get alibis, and cross reference testimony but the VN style has you skip so much dialogue that you are likely to pick a dialogue option without meaning to. The whole mastery key subplot was a waste of time and all the smoke breaks the characters take should had been skipped. By the end I got confused and thought I could just accuse anyone and it’d be right and the game had alternate valid endings. But no this is the type of game where you gotta somehow uncover the real person. The game is very painful so replaying is out of the question.
– Real player with 8.4 hrs in game
Déjà Vu: MacVenture Series
A very limited and simple quasi-real life simulator that has troll gameplay which makes you die unpredictably just because the game wanted you to die because of a particular choice you made, so, while playing this game, make your peace with death and prepare to die, LOL. At least the game has a great sense of witty, sarcastic and dark humour and a sense of showing the rope about life 101 to help players free from their own naivety and ignorance.
It’s very admirable that, as an adventure game, players ain’t tasked with most of the adventure games' usual boring errand-runner tasks that require them to solve a moon logic puzzle. What this game mostly ask from you is finding a key to open particular doors. As simple as it may sounds, the actual complexity of the game is figuring out who you are, what happened to you, where to go and how you can make things right for you.
– Real player with 8.6 hrs in game
Deja Vu was the first of the MacVenture entries that was released in 1985. It places you in the role of Ace Harding, a retired boxer now detective gumshoe set in the 1940s.The only problem is, you’ve woken up in a bathroom stall and worst of all - you don’t remember a single thing of who you are!
This leaves you in the challenging role to solve the problem before you become a vegetable. That’s not the only worry because it just so happens that a band of criminals have framed you for a murder and a kidnapping. This is requiring you, the player, to think out of the box and think like a detective to help Ace.
– Real player with 6.6 hrs in game