Dear Mom

Dear Mom

A short and very sweet journey through a daughter’s message to her Mom. This is a walking simulator with a heart and for anyone who has loved and lost their mother, it will strike a deep emotional chord.

Dear Mom takes less than an hour to explore. You wander freely through the environment, clicking objects as you find parts of a letter (audio snippets), memories of Mom, and floating hearts. The Mom memories made me smile, as so many were things that I heard growing up. The game has no save and ends when you reach a final point.

Real player with 2.5 hrs in game


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The Game, that touched me most this Year. A Game that definetly needs more attention.

Rereviewed for the Autumn Sales Quests.

Also hoping for making more Readers interested in it.

Thanks for reading again.

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Do you know the Situation?

Sometimes there are Moments where you can’t find words, or just don’t know how to start, don’t know to find the right Words.

That is one Moment for me.

I finished DEAR MOM, Minutes ago and im very thoughtfull.

It feels … somehow …a little bit if this Game showed me a glance ….. into my Mirror.

Real player with 1.5 hrs in game

Dear Mom on Steam

ASMR Journey - Animated Jigsaw Puzzle

ASMR Journey - Animated Jigsaw Puzzle

I don’t usually write reviews for games, but there’s so little written about this one that I feel it’s my duty.

TL;DR: The game has issues, but it’s totally worth the very small price.

Let’s start with the good:

I’ve played loads of puzzle games, and this one is particularly beautiful.

Parts of the pictures move, even when the puzzles are in pieces. It really adds something to a jigsaw puzzle game that takes it up a notch. For example, on the train puzzle, there is a foggy window where you can see the blurry landscape pass by.

Real player with 6.1 hrs in game


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ASMR Journey is a very well-crafted and inspiring puzzle game, it is calm, immersive, has a good soundtrack and the graphics have a unique and discrepant trace of everything I have seen, it is calm in the exact and interesting point with the hostory that holds you as you play, I found it completely relaxing and well-crafted.

The only negative point found was the lack of more puzzles to complete, as I would like to play more and more, but in any case it already yields a calm and comforting experience.

Real player with 3.8 hrs in game

ASMR Journey - Animated Jigsaw Puzzle on Steam

Jungle House

Jungle House

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1366840/Moon_Farming/

Become one-man architect for building amazing houses in jungle wilderness with primitive tools. Explore and make houses from secret underground ones with pools to houses on high trees. Can you build house in jungle wilderness almost with your hands? Yes, you can!

You simple primitive tools around you and craft your own ones. Create your own set of tools to use and conquer the wilds with them. Upgrade your techniques and use advanced materials to create more durable and larger buildings.

Create different type of houses like secret underground house with pool from complete scratch

Or go to highest trees with your advanced skills and build house there with awesome zipline

Don’t forget to check your construction quality of your house at the end. Check and see how good you made this house or what is needed to fix in it.

Can you build house with your hands? Yes, you can!


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Jungle House on Steam

Know by heart

Know by heart

“Know by heart…” is a game about accepting loss. The plot, the music, the intuitive gameplay and atmospheric mini-games work together to weave an illusion of briefly returning to one’s childhood and inevitably growing up, the feeling of time slipping through our fingers.

Players will be immersed into the quiet life of a provincial Russian town, where traces and echoes of the Soviet era can still be seen and heard.

Misha, the protagonist, is stuck in his monotonous, dead-end job, until one day the routine is shattered as his school crush returns to town. For the first time in years Misha regains hope of escaping the ennui of his daily life. A brief but tumultuous episode of the town’s life is interwoven with the story of a gang of childhood friends coming back together. It’s up to them to journey down memory lanes and rekindle their friendship, but their memories of the past and the very bonds between them become threatened…

Features

  • ~5 hours of sentimental adventure

  • The atmosphere of a post-Soviet provincial town at the turn of the century

  • An emotional plot with non-linear elements and several endings

  • Game mechanics representing thoughts and memories of the protagonist

  • A collection of evocative mini-games

  • Piano soundtrack composed in modern neoclassical style

Know by heart on Steam

Once Upon a Sea

Once Upon a Sea

Once Upon a Sea is a poetic, interactive XR documentary telling the tragic tale of the legendary Dead Sea. Through a physical exploration of the sea’s forbidden, moonlike landscapes, to intimate encounters with local characters, the user gets a rare glimpse into one of the world’s most dangerous, soon to be extinct, wonders. Centuries of human intervention and political neglect have turned the Dead Sea into a precarious place. Its water levels have dropped dramatically, leaving behind sinkholes and collapsing beaches. The experience offers a deep insight into the complexity and very human impact of this ecological and geopolitical crisis. Once Upon a Sea is our call to action.

Once Upon a Sea on Steam

Our America

Our America

Our america allows the audience to experience life as a Black person. This VR experience follows a father and his son on the way to school. The audience experiences the branching narrative from the fathers point of view while they make decisions and interact with the story. In the VR headset they will battle overt and subtle racism as the story culminates at a climax where they must make the correct decisions to get to school on time.

Our America on Steam

Warp Frontier

Warp Frontier

I do not think the puzzles are good, but overall I find this game compelling, both in the story and for the meta-puzzle of ‘what do I have to do differently to get the other achievement’ element. One playthrough takes very roughly seven hours. I was in the beginning of my second playthrough when I started this review. I think it would need at least three playthroughs to get all the achievements. For full disclosure, I’m an immigrant to Australia. If you don’t like our sarcasm, you may not like the presentation and characters.

Real player with 19.0 hrs in game

edit: more save slots available + skippable travel animations.

warp frontier stars space cop and former drummer vince ‘tin man’ cassini, who kicked some ass back in the day when he wasn’t on the turps or gigging with his band, but still has some juice left in him (the non-alcoholic variety). on his way home for a birthday celebration, his ship gets shot down. after some first aid to the ship he finds the attackers, killed by nothing somehow, then runs into a girl who leads him to something he’s been trying to find for a long time.

Real player with 9.8 hrs in game

Warp Frontier on Steam

夕鬼 零 Yuoni: Rises

夕鬼 零 Yuoni: Rises

This game is a visual novel with style, the game is creepy in it’s self, but it also leaves you wanting more of that creepiness it provides with it’s story and environment it uses both very well, and the ending will shock you pleasantly.

Real player with 10.8 hrs in game

You can view my review & gameplay here: https://youtu.be/2Ku32qGEv-w

Experienced on the Oculus Rift with Touch Controllers

This is a visual novel VR that is mostly novel. In other words, you’ll be mostly reading text from a sketchbook (3D model). The text is easy to read. Most of the book has been translated well into English. However, I would estimate maybe 5 percent of the story was lost in translation or you need to know more about Japanese culture to understand exactly what was intended.

Real player with 3.1 hrs in game

夕鬼 零 Yuoni: Rises on Steam

Faded Grey

Faded Grey

Firstly, I didn’t realize this was a short promo game (that’s on me, of course, since I usually don’t read the game info before playing games). However, it still was a decent enough promo game. It definitely made me want to know more of the story. The story itself in this promo game was very brief (which is expected). The graphics are decent enough, I suppose. I did expect horror based from the user tags (which are always a hit or miss), but there isn’t any real horror, just a bit of suspense and dark themes (or a hint of a dark theme that involves possible

! incest/pedophilia, rather). So, definitely hope the next game lives up to the hype this game created.

Real player with 1.3 hrs in game

This was a rather short game with beautiful graphics (hello? that flooring?). I didn’t understand any of it when I began. I purposely played this game without even looking at the description because I wanted to see how I’d feel while playing it. I felt extremely weirded out by all the bunnies, and skeptical of the casserole. All in all, it was short and interesting despite it’s simple controls and minimal dialogue. It seriously left me craving more of this story. I feel like the more I learned, the more I needed to know.

Real player with 0.7 hrs in game

Faded Grey on Steam

Svoboda 1945: Liberation

Svoboda 1945: Liberation

Svoboda 1945: Liberation was created by Charles Games in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. It blends fiction and historical accuracy and uses a diverse range of gameplay and storytelling techniques to recount experiences in Svoboda, a village near the Czech-German border during and after WWII.

The game includes historical documents, photographs, video footage and an encyclopedia that ground the stories in reality making the often harrowing accounts all the more emotive. In addition to the various real elements and factual information, the game also uses a mix of fictional aspects such as FMV video clips and conversations, explorable scenes, animated comic strips and mini-games to deliver the narratives.

Real player with 5.0 hrs in game

Svoboda 1945: Liberation is the newest game to come from Czech developers, Charles Games. Following the critical success of Attentat 1942, the developers continue to convey history in innovative and engaging methods. Integrating FMV interviews, minigames, comic-style scenes and an abundance of factual documents to read, the game was fascinating from start to finish.

Pros

  • Varied gameplay and minigames throughout.

  • Immense collection of factual documents to read (optional).

Real player with 3.8 hrs in game

Svoboda 1945: Liberation on Steam