Imercyve: Living with Intellectual Disability
It is hard to review a product that cannot really be classified as game but I will try my best.
The idea behind the product is to simulate certain “disabilities”. Each one plays out and ends once a specific time limit has been reached (30 seconds maybe?) There were a total of 4 “experiences” making this one of the shortest games/programs/experiences I own. I ran the program twice and clocked in at 0.3 hours.
The good
- A couple of the experiences are done very well (Tablet phone call and the brochure).
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
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This is a seven minute experience that seems more like an advertisement for Mercy Connect than an attempt to actually educate anyone about intellectual disabilities. You’re literally given a pamphlet for their organization as one of the last events. I wouldn’t mind that at all if there weren’t already an entry fee or if I felt like that did a good job of educating me about the subject, but as it is it seems tacky. Each scenario was good and I would love for other VR games/experiences to play with sensory changes the way Imercyve starts to but never fully embraces.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Colosseum VR
Colosseum VR is not a game, despite being erroneously published on Steam in the games section instead of the software section. This is a common mistake made by confused software developers who don’t know the difference between a game and software. For developers who are new to software and don’t know the difference, games have gameplay, software does not.
Colosseum VR does not have gameplay, it’s a VR tour of the Colosseum in Rome, all you do is look at 3D models. There are no gameplay loops or any substantial interactivity. Because this is not a game, I cannot recommend it as a game to gamers.
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
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This is more of a guided lecture than an interactive experience, but it’s still done well enough that it’s more interesting to sit through this than a boring lecture from a teacher in school. It would have been much better if they could have added some more interactivity to it though.
I would definitely keep the lecture part of this, but I’d include a free roaming mode where you could walk through the whole area and investigate things on your own. Maybe include a second lecture where you’re going through the life of a gladiator showing how he might be trained, where he would await the signal to emerge on stage, and maybe even a simple minigame style combat to keep it interesting.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Secrets Of Soil
This almost gets a thumbs-up. However, I have to give it a thumbs-down due to the absurdly sanctimonious narrative.
This is amazing for 80% of the game. It’s like an interactive simulation that a prominent Natural History Museum might have on display. Go into this as sober or as high as you like, and take flight through psychedelic soil, while learning the science behind how it produces almost all of the food we eat. Amazing. It almost pains me to not be able to recommend it.
Why can’t I? The end of the game has such a ridiculously pessimistic view of things like global warming, and plowing the f♥♥♥ing soil, that you’d think the world was guaranteed to end before 2022. Then they throw in ridiculous “don’t get me wrong” moments, such as: “don’t get me wrong, chemicals used to grow crops in infertile areas did save tens of millions of human lives, and entire races of people would have otherwise collectively died slow and painful deaths by mass starvation, BUT!!! Chemicals are still pure evil, because…”
– Real player with 17.1 hrs in game
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If you want a good alternative to LSD, this is for you :D
But in all seriousness, this game is a really fun way to look at and educate about soil, and the effects agriculture has on it. Very well explained and definitely recommended for everyone who wants to learn more about ways to save our planet.
Nice work.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Singularity
I certainly liked this experience. It’s a walking simulator thing in the night in a cool particle foreset with pensive ambient music. The music builds up and I like it. I like the particle trees too and all that made out of dots. I just don’t understand the point of it, maybe I should have been thinking more about all the objects I found in the woods.
! Something about AI or the future, hell I don’t know. https://youtu.be/yToVvvWXRBc
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Singularity is a free VR experience about Virtual Reality Art piece, exploring the Law of accelerating returns and the development of A.I. It worked on my HTC Vive, looked ok, played ok, sounded ok. You walk down a path and collect data object as you find them. Teleport is the VR movement mode and you use gaze to collect the objects. Take around 15 minutes to finish.
Try this short walking experience through the data forest.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Plumber 3
It’s bad
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Practically the same as Plumber 2 , with the same bugs.
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
SEN: Seven Eight Nine
another would-be-great game ruined by thinking players have all the time (and willingness) in the world to replay half the puzzles to get back to the point where they stopped (or had to stop) last time. if your trailer says 100+ puzzles, let me select them individually, not just 21 packs of 6 or so that have to be done in one go. or at the very least save my progress on the current level so I can continue there next time and/or try another unlocked level in the meantime. the game wouldn’t be any easier, only less tedious and frustrating.
– Real player with 6.9 hrs in game
This is a different type of puzzle game where you have to intuitively learn the rules through playing. I’ve not played anything like this before, but it is kind of a mix of sudoku and path games. Very intriguing and it can get quite difficult. I spent almost 2 hours trying to find the solution to the last puzzle (which I did -YAY!) and just a few seconds on some of the earlier puzzles. The concept seems simple at first, but it gets more complex as you move to higher levels. I couldn’t really describe the rules to you, but I know what they are intuitively, LOL.
– Real player with 6.3 hrs in game
Guazu: The Rescue
very fun game
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
Criativo, gráficos bem desenhados, trilha na medida certa !
Jogo CHICSHOW !!
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
The Penguin IQ Test
A roundabout 5-6 hour indie puzzle game at the moment. You need to figure out where to place your arrows to change the path of the penguin.
There are ~ 65 levels right now with some being explanatory when a new mechanic is introduced.
Maybe there should be in a few levels a limit of arrows to make it more difficult. I personally would prefer some kind of incentive to optimize your solutions - right now it doesn’t matter how fast/good your solution is as long as it solves the puzzle.
Now with added workshop items there is more content and you could create your own levels or play for example my created levels ;)
– Real player with 40.0 hrs in game
This is a brilliant and fun game. I have not quite finished it yet as of the time of this review but I’m pretty close so I’d say this game should take about 3 hours to complete in its current state. That gives £3.10/hour, which is reasonably good value. The best part is, however, that the game is not finished. I can definitively see the story stretching on much further than it does right now, which will be good. The art style is very simple and pixelated but I personally like this. The puzzles are mostly fun using some interesting game mechanics. However, a few of the forest levels seem a little odd and after a while the mechanics get a little boring. Therefore, I feel that introducing some new arrow types, perhaps playing with the speed or having a temporary arrow that can be used twice, would be nice. I’d also like to see some further use of the bridge.
– Real player with 11.0 hrs in game
Japanese Romaji Adventure
Learning can be boring and tedious but not if it is served as game
– Real player with 26.6 hrs in game
Playing status: 0/1 achievement, finished the game
Grindy Achievement(s): No.
Optional Achievement(s): Yes (1 achievement).
Difficult Achievement(s): No (I don’t know how to get the achievement).
Guide: Link
Intro
Japanese Romaji Adventure is an educational game that is teaching you romaji, the Japanese language that is written in alphabet. Set in the 1800s, you are to travel between regions in Japan, trying to explore what the country has to offer. Note that my knowledge of Japanese only comes from watching animes, so this review will be based on that.
– Real player with 15.8 hrs in game
Math Hero - Minimalist Puzzle
Saving the world through the power of math!
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game
Simple puzzle game, sure, but it was fun and I did enjoy my playthrough. 50 levels is a tad bit short and I did accidentally restart a couple times, but overall not bad for a quick puzzle fix.
– Real player with 3.2 hrs in game