Cosmic Top Secret
I love the use of a game to unravel real family (and Cold War) history, and the very literal cut-and-paste use of actual photographs, videos and documents. I sometimes had trouble adjusting the camera viewpoint in the later levels, but that’s not a big issue. Rolling around as a crumpled paper ball was no problem on a PC at least. A slightly surreal, lo-fi gem with a simple, collect-em-all logic.
– Real player with 12.9 hrs in game
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Cosmic top secret is quite a peculiar game. It has a very unique art-style where landscapes and characters are made of carboard, paper and photography cuts. The game is a mix of documentary and collecthaton with some puzzle elements. It tells a very personal story recollected by T, the game dev director and player in the game, whose parents used to work for the Danish Intelligence during the cold war.
The game felt like an homage of T to her aging parents while showing how “growing up in the clandestine climate of the cold war” affected her. This is a Danish game and most of the voiceovers are original audio and video interview recordings, so the game is mostly in Danish with English subtitles.
– Real player with 9.7 hrs in game
DeathTolls Experience
Pretty cool, I’d say. You experience a series of scenes that all are about death or the apocalypse or whatever, maybe it’s more meta than I’m letting on, but actually no, it says it’s about all the people who die in the middle east. It’s fairly on the nose, with lots of people in body bags.
! Yikes. https://youtu.be/VT8KI1U1Ca0
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
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DeathTolls Experience is a free VR experience. It worked on my system, looked ok, played ok, sounded ok. Very creepy on rails journey through maps with body bags everywhere. No narrators or text bothering you. Dark and chilling atmosphere.
Try it for Halloween maybe or if you like creepy stuff.
For more info:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reReeH7CbEY
https://www.viveport.com/apps/c410a756-e6c9-4e45-a087-0b44fcc1244d
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6066724/
https://creators.vice.com/en_uk/article/78e5wq/ali-eslami-vr-mass-death-visualization
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Indie Game: The Movie
Main Feature:
A candid look into indie game development. We follow Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes of Team Meat through uncertain times during the development of Super Meat Boy. From the insane three month crunch to finish their project to Microsoft’s careless handling of their release, it’s a harrowing journey. We also follow Polytron’s Phil Fish and the drama spiral that surrounds him. He struggles to release Fez, his passion project in development for nearly 5 years, despite a bevy of roadblocks. Like him or hate him the film provides an honest look at the personal difficulties and pressures that affected the game’s turbulent development. Fish seems open and vulnerable here, far separated from the man making headlines for inane, egotistical comments. There are also interviews with other indie developers, such as Jonathan Blow (Braid) who provides some unique insight into the indie movement and how developers try to connect meaningfully with their audience.
– Real player with 26.8 hrs in game
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The struggling artist is a trope that we’re all familiar with, but most of us don’t associate it with video game developers. That is pretty understandable because until 2009 or so the only games we saw were big-budget games being put out by large corporations. With the indie game scene exploding in the last few years, it became much more obvious that there were people making games purely out of passion; people who put their financial stability and reputations on the line to create something beautiful. And that’s art.
– Real player with 10.8 hrs in game
Titanfall - The Final Hours
The documentary itself is alright, the interesting part is reading about the crunch hours and trouble development of Titanfall 1 and how Respawn Entertainment had to deal with both the game & Activision lawsuit from unpaid royalties they wanted from MW2 at the same time. Back when MW2 came out, Infinity Ward got OG team/their key members booted by Activision and then those people went out & founded Respawn Entertainment.
But you probably get most of your $1 by using this as lowkey Titanfall 1 shortcut for Steam
– Real player with 85.3 hrs in game
Shame on people who gave this longform app a negative reviews because they did not bother to read at all or they are just
! dimwit, but it would be exciting if Respawn Entertainment releases Titanfall and Titanfall 2 here on Steam, I hope it will happen soon. But first let us play these games on Origin: 𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 │ 𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝟐
– Real player with 47.6 hrs in game
Zero Point
It’s all very interesting and cool and awesome. But not all of it is. Some parts are downright boring. But that’s cool too, because I’m interested. And I like documentries… where people talk and talk and talk …. and then something happens that’s minutely interesting …. and then more talking. Kinda distracts the awesomeness of the visuals. I wish there was a directors cut where they cut out all the voiceovers.
When it comes to VR, I really don’t care about what life would be like 20 years from now… I’d rather immerse myself in the virtual reality of now…. without someone breathing down my neck about 2035 and whether it will fit in with our post-real neo-simplistic social cloud-based pseudo lives that we are already living in.
– Real player with 14.5 hrs in game
Very disapointed in myself for buying this. Even at 5 dollars this was a waste of money. Performance issues galor in this thing. After reading multiple reviews about this not working properly I thought to myself Ill download the demo to see if it ran ok on my setup. To my surprise the demo works flawlessly on my setup. So I bought it. Actual game runs terribly after space scene. Even the same scenes that worked good in the demo ran horrendous in full version. Then it stoped at the run down building scene near the end. I love how they made the demo work great but the full version blows. Zero point did a full bait and switch on me. I don’t understand how prerecorded video scenes can be this hard to do. Wish i could get a refund for this garbage.
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
COVID: The Outbreak
get it in 80% off
one of the best game during Lockdown or Quarintie or stay at home order !
compared to another Honor/ shooting / War fighting games flooding in Ste-am Va-lve playing million per day
this is great education game for upperclass and Private school or mutilanguastic or Frequency traveler to learn how the Commerical tycoon/Politican thinking
however according to mogolia/KAKZ conlony PRC citizen think , the wuhan bio-Weapon dead rate is 5% but if they don’t Work in nightlife, the dead rate is 100%
– Real player with 21.2 hrs in game
So I found this game by a pure accident a couple hours before getting published and rushed to buy it, hoping to find a game that’s complex, detailed, realistic and most importantly, let’s me cope with the zombie apocalypse going currently in the world and the quarantine shitshow.
The game turned out to be exactly what I expected and far more, the amount of data available is truly astonishing and immersive, all the actions you can take, quarantine, public order maintenance, research, border closing, decisions you have to make during various random events that can appear, all this makes for an excellent simulation, and the fact that I’ve received a product that already looks very polished despite probably being made rather quickly is mindblowing. I really hope it’ll be updated accordingly as the situation develops and more knowledge about the virus will be gained.
– Real player with 18.6 hrs in game
The Mind of Marlo
Welcome to The Mind of Marlo. In this narrative-driven, point and click adventure disguised as an hour-long documentary, you will observe Marlo Davenport and you will become Marlo Davenport. Capture his life as he deals with a rare condition called Spontaneous Silly Head Syndrome. A condition that results in his transforming into various creatures uncontrollably. While living a fairly normal life, his condition becomes uncontrollable. After his girlfriend leaves him, Marlo decides to go see Dr. Davenport (The Specialist) to see if he can rid himself of this affliction. Using his recommendations you must help Marlo find a way to get rid of all of his transformations one by one, so he may once again return to the outside world and lead a normal life. The film crew is there to document everything as he tries to reclaim himself and his life in this tale of love, loss, and transformations.
– Real player with 7.6 hrs in game
The Mind of Marlo is a point and click game, delivered in the format of a documentary, where the viewer will witness the struggles of a man named Marlo who must deal with a severely debilitating condition called Spontaneous Silly Head Syndrome. This causes Marlo’s appearance to rapidly change into various animals and elements and has the player attempting to cure Marlo of his ailment. Click here to watch my playthrough of The Mind of Marlo .
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
A Clever Label
A Clever Label is a free VR experience. It worked on my system, looked ok, played ok, sounded ok. VR documentary experience that explores the links between anti-LGBTQI lobbyists, politicians and organisations in Australia.
Try this, If you are interested in LGBTQI rights.
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
An innovative approach to exploring data and media in a self-led documentary format. Check it out if you’re interested in LGBTQI+ rights in Australia, or the impact of lobby groups on Australian politics.
Played on Oculus Quest 2 via airlink and worked well. Engaging, immersive experience.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Imaginaria
Very story driven adventure with some simplified pixelart
Interactive objects (on top part) give you more details about the environment/storyline
Lots of areas to check & explore!
Funny little details & objects, story as well has it’s funny moments
Can’t really compare it to nowadays or big adventures games for sure it has a really old classic vibe,
which is nice if you are into that kind of games!
– Real player with 5.8 hrs in game
Imaginaria is a short game where you explore an antarctic science station. It combines walking simulator and point & click elements, but the game side of it is light as you only have a handful of choices to make. It’s more of a fun, interesting exploration of the dev’s experience.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
That Dragon, Cancer
Cancer. Tragedy.
Two words that have ended as synonymous far more often than anyone cares to remember. Cancer and other terminal illnesses are something that almost all of us have been touched by in some way. Whether it be from a person very close to us, ourselves, or just someone that has influenced us in some way. If it hasn’t, odds are it will at some point in your life. These diseases invariably impact us in a negative and tragic way. We have experienced loss due to them and watched others suffer unimaginable pain trying to survive and fight to stay alive.
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game
The worst tragedy parents can experience
Really heartbreaking story, it’s sad, it’s devastating and it could be hard to play this at times. Some people might not even finish this. But I have a lot to say, not necessary about the game but i’m gonna ramble now. This is not even a proper review, just my thoughts but so is the game, it’s not actually a game, more like an interactive story.
I have this fucking disease myself, I must deal with it, I know how hard it is and how it breaks you in both – physical and mental way. And it hurts not only you but everyone around you who love you and care about you. Of course you question “why me?” or “why them?”, “what they’ve done to deserve that?” Many people turn to god and say he’s in god’s will now. That thought never occurred to me because I consider god a mythical creature as real as fairies or dragons.
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game