Agence
Experienced on Windows Mixed Reality
You can view my review & gameplay here: https://youtu.be/9QuLYMyxLgM
The Steam store page description really got me hyped for this game. I was expecting that game, unfortunately, what I got was rather disappointing. It’s not a bad game, it just wasn’t really interesting for me either.
I did 4-5 playthroughs and I want to say the average was 5 minutes long. Each time I did get different results, but none of them were all that captivating. You can move around the AI creatures, you can rotate the sky around to get a better view, or you can plant plants that will change the rotation of the planet. You’ll get different results.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Read More: Best Experimental Interactive Fiction Games.
I wasted 45 minutes looking for intelligence.
Didn’t find any, artificial or otherwise.
5 actors that do nothing but bully each other. Constantly. Trained or not. In the real world, you can watch mono-cellular organisms with more sophisticated behaviours under a microscope.
Storytelling is miserably ineffectual. In this movie with minimal external input, the camera regularly takes control to focus on… well, nothing but stupid cartoonish punches, really. And the actors have less evocative power than wooden door knobs.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Compost
A fun little game that is a mix of tower defense and critter simulation.
There are many various critters in the game with each type having their own behavior and priorities,
some being peaceful, some preying on other types of critters, some plants having different ways to spread, some critters eating specific plants and so on, which makes for a surprising amount of artificial intelligence in the game.
You don’t control anything directly but instead are given power to generate a breeze that gently pushes stuff around.
– Real player with 2.6 hrs in game
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This is a great game! A retro style with a current social feel! Some things I like about it:
1. It feel like playing one of my arcade machines
2. Who doesnt want their garden to thrive?
3. The game is explained just enough that makes you think about what you need to do in order for your garden to stay healthy
4. While there are not tons of critters/plants/baddies to understand its great fun learning how they all interact and what they do
I really do enjoy playing this game and look forward to the next round of mouse clicking madness! (thank goodness for pause!)
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Cyborg Earthworm
Cyborg Earthworm is a “Snake” automation game. The worm follows the rules of the famous Snake game, and you can program it. Develop a strategy and let the worm follow it without your involvement.
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Solve and optimize 20+ areas, each of which contains a virtually unlimited number of procedurally generated levels.
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Watch the worm dominate the levels automatically without having to pilot it.
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Reach the maximum possible length, filling all free space.
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Use a variety of tools like paint spray for leaving marks in the soil and internal worm memory for tracking things.
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Acolyte: Prologue
My play through of the prologue here (once it uploads) if you get stuck and need help: https://youtu.be/9GET1gsMWZ0
I had so much fun with the prologue I’m super stoked to see what comes next also the link for the transcendent edition brought up a 404 error on itch.io. Check this game out for sure also it’s very easy to get stuck on a tangent if you make a mistake figuring out part of the puzzle. I had to close and reopen the game to get back to what I needed, luckily it saves your progress. I love games that make you think outside the box and use outside resources. I had two things that might have been glitches? I rated a haiku and the task didn’t complete I got information for a evidence database but I couldn’t find the evidence database I had two messages I couldn’t find in my message log and all messages were shown as read but regardless I still made it to the end of the prologue so nbd
– Real player with 8.7 hrs in game
so.. this sucks. don’t get me wrong, i LOVE this game, i just found it yesterday and I loved it. I beat the prologue, then went and bought the transcendent version to continue the story. (weirdly enough the transcendent edition has more actual bugs and not fictional bugs than the steam version, including spelling errors, but c’est la vie)
i’ve reached the part now where i had to fill my contacts list, and figure out the passwords to unlock the cosmetics. there are 0 hints for either. for the latter, the hints that ARE given, are extremely vague and i am unable to find any references for them that correlate to the actual game, and it’s extremely frustrating. what does “dog” mean in this context? the cosmetic was related to hair so i put poodle, nope. i also put cat, thinking back to the personality test, also nope. what does QR @ 0:40s mean? and the postal code? where would i even begin to find that? i understand this game is new, so there’s not a lot of info out there, but i’m stuck. (yes, i’ve looked through the discussions and reviews here for any hints, i’ve looked at the itch.io forums for this game, i’ve looked at twitter, ive looked at youtube, i’ve looked at reddit. i’ve even looked at your patreon to see if there was anything there.) i’m unable to progress because i have no idea what to ask, what the passwords might be for the cosmetics, or how to progress the storyline.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Cinema Simulator
This game gives you exactly what you would expect, which is perfect
the movies dont lose much quality when on the big screen, and overall, the game does its job well.
there are a few things i think could benefit the game, such as more options for height, clothing and food/drink
other than those few minor thoughts, i recommend this for sure
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
I love the concept so much I don’t regret buying but this desperately needs VR support and maybe a mini movie arcade to increase immersion.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
SIMULACRA 2
Ease into your chair and prepare yourself for this continuation of the SIMULACRA universe. In this iteration, you will have new advanced tools and a mosaic of widely branching narratives spread across 2 characters that are continually altered by your choices. You will have the choice of playing as a junior detective or a reporter who is recruited by a special department at police headquarters. With only one piece of evidence, you must find the truth of how a young woman & interweb influencer ends up dead on a case that is already closed. Lives and livelihoods are on the line, there is no room for mistakes.
– Real player with 11.0 hrs in game
Let me be clear, I really liked the first game. I think it did most things right and while I wasn’t a fan of the jumpscares and it definitely looked like an indie game production wise.
This game is a perfect example of how sometimes, less is more.
Let me start with my biggest pet peeve of this game, and that’s the extreme slowness of it all. The entire plot is not that long, I actually think it might be around the same length as the first game, but it is padded out by how extremely slow it all is. Be it conversations or the extreme amount of stuff you need to click through and scan gets annoying on the second playthrough, if not first.
– Real player with 10.5 hrs in game
Starship Commander: Arcade
I can’t recommend this to anyone other than those that want to support VR development.
Sorry, but I was thoroughly unimpressed with every single aspect of this project. I’m not sure I would have even been impressed 3 years ago. It’s just not a good game. Period. The graphics are uninspired. In a world with Alexa and Siri, the voice recognition and responses are pathetically limited. In a world with Half Life: Alyx, this hardly even qualifies as a VR tech demo… even for a mobile VR platform, let alone the Vive Index I played on.
– Real player with 20.5 hrs in game
Experienced on the Oculus Rift
You can view my (edited) gameplay here: https://youtu.be/FoH5CmxQVvo
This is an approximately 13 minute cinematic experience, which has varying scenes depending on your voiced answers. This is like a 360 stereoscopic video, choose your own adventure type experience, which is like the stuff on Amaze VR. You don’t use motion controllers at all. It can be fun to try to find new scenes based on your novel responses. Unfortunately, even though the reviewer VR Focus said the AI was good, the AI responses really aren’t good and have severe limitations … but they can be funny (I wouldn’t trust VR Focus who seems more concerned about clicks than accuracy in his reports).
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
Tales From Yeoldeburg
This game is good, I like it even though I don’t like horror games this one is good.
Dont be fooled by the graphics though
Edit: I just finished this game and all i can say was WHAT THE HELL WAS THIS.
This game is like hot steaming garbage, No it cant even be compared to garbage
First of all, all the jumpscares were lazy and not even scary.
Second of all, the gameplay sucks, most of it is just walking around.
And lastly, Where was the story, it was like it was trying to make one but patheticly failed
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
First of all, I would like to thank the developer and the other players to answer me stupid questions about my course.
There was a part of the game that you would need to find something in an inclined view with very crude mosaic. My eyes ached after several minutes, so I have to quit the game (with Alt+F4, since there’s no in-game menu or exit function provided) and for this reason may not try it anymore.
The story so far is quite jumpy, which remains me of Thirty Flights of Loving.
I also encountered some game-breaking bugs, like dropping from the edge of the map and stuck in the volcano, in which case you have to shut down the game and restart it from the last checkpoint.
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Strange Nightmares
Using a Fnaf inspired time system, this game is all about surviving the night… You wake up to a mysterious voice in the darkness, and enter a world of unknowns, a room full of darkness and doorways that lead to familiar, yet twisted and foreign places. Each with their own horrors that again, feel familiar to you. Armed only with your mind, a flashlight, and a mysterious voice in your head, you must survive the nights and search for a way to escape these nightmares… That is, if nightmares are really all they are.
Dark Dealings
So i stumbled upon this game whilst browsing through the store and what a find it turned out to be!!! A nice little game with elements of Dopewars, the original gta and even sensible soccer especially when using the top down camera! Even feels and looks a bit like the original south park in 3rd person! Proper little diamond in the rough and i look forward to spending more time on the game and for future developments!!!
– Real player with 7.2 hrs in game
To be up front I received the game from the developer for free.
I played the game for about an hour and the bare bones for an open world RPG has been laid out. Everything else still needs to be fleshed out. I think the developer would really benefit from making a free demo available so they could get a lot of feed back. I think this would be beneficial because the developer seems interested in the game being a success.
Keep in mind this game is in early alpha testing. The complete game could be great but in its currents state I don’t think it’s worth buying. I’m going to write out a review below but you can see my gameplay on my YouTube channel, linked below:
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game