Dear Future
I forced myself to finish it so you don’t have to.
TL:DR 8 hours of boring walking to uncover a lame story, and a non working multiplayer.
A walking simulator made for some college student art project, what could go wrong???
But the innovative sounding multiplayer component, plus the fact that it’s free, sucked me in. And the game, although minimalist, initially manages to feel well-designed and polished…
But notice how none of the reviewers seem to have played this for more than 30 minutes?
– Real player with 7.8 hrs in game
Photos of future ruins
Dear Future (Dear Future Production Committee, 2021) is an asynchronous massively-multiplayer photography game about exploring an abandoned city. I have been trying to write about it for several weeks and have found myself incapable of doing with any organization or distance. What follow, instead, are orchestrated recollections and half-formed conclusions of my time with the game. A half-step towards the understanding I’m searching for. A version with photos is available here .
– Real player with 1.8 hrs in game
Siren Head: Awakening
So, here’s the thing. I actually really enjoyed the game. It has Slenderman vibes where it’s a small type map and you gotta get the object while you’re being hunted and it seems to get more aggressive. I could just be bad at this game, so take what I say as simply from my experience alone, but after figuring out everything I needed to accomplish, it became nearly impossible to achieve. Where, I would hide in a structure, but Siren Head would get me anyways, or I would see him go one way, and start walking and he would appear right next to me after just seeing him, even with my flashlight off and such; so as of now, I never finished. This was on normal mode. So, my biggest thing is that there should at least be a way to get away from Siren Head once he is alerted because if you are no where near a structure, you’re gonna get got and that’s the end of it. I tried a few techniques like tapping the sprint button, however, nothing worked. Over all it’s a good game, or rather it has all the potentials, but in many ways even when I was doing all the right things I was set up to fail.
– Real player with 5.8 hrs in game
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I certainly appreciate the fact that the developer responded to so many negative reviews about this game saying “Sirenhead teleports in front of the player” or “Sirenhead camps the car”, or something else similar and went out of their way to patch the game accordingly. That isn’t a trait many people possess. Therefore, I have decided to give this game another chance. A few things I have noticed are that, while Sirenhead still teleports in front of me, he doesn’t do it as often as before the patch. Sirenhead also doesn’t camp the player anymore and according to one of my Steam friends, he turns invisible every now and again, so I can’t predict when he’ll appear as easily. Finally, there are also more possible spawn locations for each of the items you must find in the game. This is quite an improvement since the patch, but personally, I think this is a bit better than okay for a free game. It doesn’t bring many new gimmicks to the table and feels like a carbon copy of Slenderman at times, but it isn’t a buggy, painful mess to play through either. My opinion mostly stems from the fact that horror games aren’t really my favorite genre, however I understand that that’s not the developer’s fault, therefore my positive review still stands. Overall, if you’re a horror fanatic looking to add a game to your collection, but also are on a budget or completely broke, this is one game I can recommend.
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
Eyes of the Night
Eyes of the night is a very fun game yet is still very simple to learn and play. After downloading the game I very quickly found myself enthralled in the games ominous and captivating environment and couldn’t help but play “just one more game” trying to evade the wolves and beat my score from the previous round. The game seems to be well made and I can’t wait to see what the future updates will bring to the experience. Overall, the game is very fun and if you have five dollars laying around I highly recommend you give this game a shot.
– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
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Atmospheric and Entertaining
I haven’t spent too much time playing it yet, but Eyes of the Night is a very entertaining game. The gameplay is simple, yet good, and the world design and music creates an atmospheric experience. I think that it’s worth noting that the music reminded me a lot of that of the Amnesia series, which I adore. Overall, I recommend checking this out! It’s fun, inexpensive and a good way to support indie developers making unique games.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Misery Street
I’m still not very far into the game, but it’s pretty good.
It runs insanely poorly for how graphically simple it is. I have no idea how a game this simple can run that bad unless it’s doing crypto mining or something.
The PLC-as-currency thing is a little bit “Hey guys, can you tell that I played Lisa?” The EP Snails (is that what they are?) are at least slightly altered while clearly being an Earthbound reference.
The “maybe I should get a job” dialogue with the Hobo Grey kind of irks me. Even if it wasn’t a cliche joke that makes no sense in the setting (he’s in a tiny farming village plagued with both a serial killer and a continuous undead infestation in the fields), it would still be a crass misrepresentation of homelessness fit for the scribblings of an elementary schooler.
– Real player with 19.1 hrs in game
SUNLESS SEA
Wanted to pop a review out for this game, albeit brief.
The Sunless Sea is a top-down view game, where you make a captain and take a ship out to zee to explore the unknown, make adventures, probably die, and then make a new captain who might inherit a few of the things your last one had. For me, this was one of the first top-down games I’d played before, and its exploration focus was very different from my prior experiences of turn-based strategy games, or first/3rd person adventure/shooters and the Teltale games. These were my impressions coming from that background.
– Real player with 347.6 hrs in game
Is there a sea more sunless? This game is marketed as an immersive, story-driven, almost roguelike, nautically themed romp through alternate history London, circa 1890s. The people at Failbetter Games have created something both motivating and meaningful in their games surrounding Fallen London, utilizing hundreds of storylets that drive the player toward various choices and options.
At first playthrough, especially if you didn’t play the precursor game Fallen London, you will find yourself immersed in a world that follows many of the rules and expectations of our own, but with many questions and concepts left unanswered. I went in without having played Fallen London (though I did go back and play it once I was hooked on Sunless Sea) and my mind immediately was grabbed by the implications of what was going on in the game world around me. I loved the content and the lore that the world seemed to be steeped in, and loved it even more for the fact that it didn’t give up its secrets without its due. This game is primarily an exploration game with the pretense of combat and economics, though those are not the primary focus. That said, I very much enjoy the combat and trading aspect, but it does come easier as you get more established. It is the process of becoming established that I think turns so many initial players away.
– Real player with 276.5 hrs in game
The Cursed Forest
I originally played this game when it was released and posted my thoughts in a review at Just Adventure. It is still accessible even though the site is dormant. At the time, I gave The Cursed Forest high marks.
I just finished replaying the game and my intention was to run through and pick up the achievements I had missed. Instead, I became totally absorbed and played a ‘new game’ all the way through.
The game begins with you receiving a phone call in the middle of the night and rushing off in your car. You are in a hurry and end up crashing in a mysterious forest. Your task is to find your way out. The Cursed Forest has been created in great detail with cabins, swamps, cliffs, lakes, campfires, caves, etc. There is a lot to explore and you quickly find that no people remain in the forest (only their possessions and homes are evident). The story of what happened to them is discovered in dozens of notes that you find along your journey.
– Real player with 15.5 hrs in game
This game has a lot of problems; it is mainly an exploration game, but areas are big and secrets are sparse. Achievements are fine, I didn’t use a walkthrough and found all of them but two on my first playthrough (and the other two I didn’t find accidentally, I almost did). However, if you like exploring, like me, there isn’t enough in this game to keep you invested with exploration, and you’ll end up getting bored. In addition, there is a bug that makes some notes not appear where they should (I’m not even sure why, seems to be a random thing), and you can lose a lot of time searching for them, not realizing it was a bug (if you miss one note on Section 1 and one on Section 4, try restarting the section; also, the last section says there are 9 Sarah letters, but there are only 7, according to developers).
– Real player with 14.2 hrs in game
DUMB: Treasure
Nice excursion.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Very nice horror atmosphere
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Obsolete
~FUN INTENSIFIES~
An enjoyable game, I really appreciate my run! Considering it’s the developer’s first game, I must say I’m really impressed. You can feel it was made with a lot of passion and a lot of reflexion to make it nice. There are a lot of secrets so don’t rush it and take your time to discover everything!
The world is truly immersive, I was really touched by the story and I liked discovering it all along the levels. The MC is incredibly LOVELY (he’s so cuuuute when he walks!! Even when he dies. Which sadly happens often with my pitiful skills).
– Real player with 4.9 hrs in game
Simple but enjoyable atmospheric platformer. Well constructed and fun to play through - can be completed quick if you’re good, but the puzzles are fun enough to keep you engaged.
– Real player with 4.6 hrs in game
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– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
You find yourself inside of a red grape, and must tear your way out with a samurai sword.
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– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
The Door in the Basement
The door in the basement was a very good game in my opinion. It was scary and the story kept me wanting more. There are jump scares. I was submerged in a world of pure terror, the idea alone was incredibly uneasy. This game has the old school pixelated style look and I though that was a great touch. This game is short but because of my heart condition I had to take breaks and it took me a lot longer to finish. Overall this game was pretty fun to play and I highly recommend it. BEWARE OF THE CLITCH MAN!
– Real player with 6.9 hrs in game
Gonna be honest; game is fantastic.
So I’ve recently been binging on horror games. A LOT of horror games. I’ve come across some decent ones and some really bad ones. In my opinion; The Door In The Basement is one of the better ones. It’s not all about jumpscares. Instead it’s about setting up atmosphere, making you feel comfortable just to take it all away from you. There’s some light puzzle elements and a few enemies that’re fairly silly in their AI but I still found the game to be incredibly enjoyable. Especially with the PSX-style art-style the game has going on.
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game