10mg: Sealed Estate
So many nice little details packed together into this micro game, that conveys an excellent and cohesive experience.
– Real player with 4.9 hrs in game
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Very weird, creepy, and disturbing. As soon as I got used to what was going on, something new appeared to feel uneasy. Simple yet effective.
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Arcanbreak
It is a point and click adventure the characters can be moved with ‘w-a-s-d’ and then there is mouse to point and click. The experience could have been better if there was an option to press a key when the character is near the object to know about the object.
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game
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It’s a strange feeling, being first to review a Steam title.
Arcanbreak is a fantastical thriller and adventure game about abuse of power. It’s a short adventure that’ll take about 1-2 hours of your time to fully complete.
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The atmosphere is dreary. The dark lighting and ominous music provokes the sense that something dark is brewing in town, and that’s one motivator to keep on the case.
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The character designs are nice enough. There’s a Kingdom Hearts meets Bloodborne aesthetic here, which I’m all for.
! Comrade Alexandria is a hardened fighter. Little movements, like the way characters will bob their heads around every here and then as a lookout, are nice touches. The banter takes a dark, but quirky approach, and it’s nice to read. Arun and Quila make neat protagonists.
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
VideoHole: Episode I
It’s a fun lil romp with cute characters to talk to, although it’s kinda buggy at the end of the game (Just talk to the ‘Constable’ and book it where you need to go… trust me on this, you don’t want to be frozen). The story was so interesting, I was determined to see the ending, so going through all the bugs end-game was so worth it; unless they weren’t bugs… and actually…–nevermind, spoilerz!~ Also, a strange thing to note, but it recognizes the gamepad for most of the game, ‘cept the ..last telephone that require you hitting the ‘E’ key, though it’s only a minor thing.
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
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great stuff, deep stuff, beautiful stuff.
Aesthetics, transitions and presentation are on-point, with a fantastic script as well.
Video hole starts off very quirky and light-weight, before sneakily turning into a poignant, melancholic piece of art (as all great art does). The ending is a punch in the gut, the characters remind me of my own friends (if they didn’t all end up crazy :P ), and you can see the developer baring their soul through this.
I was very moved, without really expecting it.
Strongly recommended.
– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
Search for the Titanic
The search for the Titanic, the greatest ship to ever fall to the grip of the elements, captivated the world for decades while its wreckage lay undisturbed at the bottom of the sea. As an inexperienced oceanographer, you must build your skills, reputation, crew, and resources along your journey to mount an expedition to find the lost Titanic.
This meticulous simulation by Capstone Software was reviewed for authenticity by the staff of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the American organization that first discovered and photographed the Titanic wreck. Experience the challenges, dangers and excitement of scientific underwater exploration!
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Navigate to over 75 underwater wrecks and 47 ports of call using more than 100 navigational maps and charts.
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Use sophisticated sonar, magnetometers, underwater cameras, and mini-subs in your exploration of the ocean floor.
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Battle the elements as you contend with realistic weather patterns and currents.
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Find the Titanic and be rewarded with digitized photographs of the actual wreckage as it lays on the ocean floor today.
Strange Horticulture
Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your growing collection to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.
Welcome to Undermere, a quaint town surrounded by hag-infested forests and rugged mountains. You are the Horticulturist, owner of local plant store Strange Horticulture. As a cast of colorful customers come by your shop, you are quickly thrust into an occult mystery stretching back hundreds of years.
Explore the lands beyond your store to find new plants, but be careful! The dark woods and lakes are not always friendly to a simple herbalist. You might discover powers beyond your wildest dreams - or lose your mind completely. Use context clues to determine which places to visit, and which to avoid!
Using your trusty encyclopedia and clues found on your explorations, you learn more about the strange plants you come across. By identifying each plant, you will be able to use their effects to influence the story – from hypnotic hallucinogens to powerful poisons.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574580/Strange_Horticulture
The Holy City
This is an amazing tool for anyone curious to learn more about Jerusalem and the many religions that coexist in this fantastic place. Very well executed. I have to say it’s very unusual for me to review projects. This because very few actually wow me to the point of actually wanting to share it with others…. This is an amazing experience that allows you to feel like you can touch the Holy Sepulcher and place a note on the Western Wall. Just fantastic. I know this is a virtual visit- but the fact the places were scanned from real life really makes me appreciate the accuracy and be able to enjoy looking at each location at my own pace. Throughout this journey I really enjoyed seeing the beautiful realistic-looking recreation of many Jerusalem temples that allowed me to freely look around and spend a lot of time inspecting painting and inscriptions on the walls. When it switched from the interactive gamefied version to the 360 video version was totally amazing to recognize the precise location where the camera was placed and enjoy seeing it filled with real people. I hope to see more soon.
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
Enlightening , A fantastic birds eye view into the holy land …
get to solve puzzles and find out about the history
Beautiful vr experience
Link to my video here ..
INSIDE VR …https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiuzWmOYpMg
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
The Storm
i have played horror games in the past… this game is really good i played over one hour so far! love to see part two of the game…. now story telling is bloody great! for someone trying out this game its easy follow the green lights! also some places are dark but trust me you will go tho them easy! for £3 this game is what you need to play. please try it out! you wont be disappointed!
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
Vasilis
I anticipated a nightmare with Vasilis, and a nightmare I got. What it intends to do with the harrowing nature of its story and visual aesthetic is instead hampered by the struggles it inflicts upon itself with its narrative implementation, flimsy coding, and fetch-happy objectives. Whatever potential the game has as an immersive piece of storytelling is undermined by the overactive desire to shoot for the stars early and quickly, chaining the gameplay aspects from far behind. Before the game can become what it hopes to be, serious re-evaluation is necessary to even qualify as “being.”
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
i very enjoyed the drawings and claustrophobic feel of the town however i got lost in the plot especially, on later sections of the game. My supportive nature for indie developers is not allowing for thumbs down though.
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
Area 86
An excellent and innovative game.
You can smash glass in this game- what else can you ask from the developer? The controls are a bit hard to get used to, but with some practices you’ll get it.
Bugs do exist, but the devs listen to bug reports on Discord and do make attempts to fix them.
– Real player with 23.6 hrs in game
This stupid clumsy robot won’t let me sleep… the game is so addictive :-)
The robot controls kind of sluggish and shattered objects on the ground make things more wonky. But this was done in a way that makes the game challenging and not frustrating … ok, I was lying, it is frustrating at times … in a good way.
The graphics are crisp and charming and I love the music, although there seems to be only one song. The developer is doing a great job at fixing bugs too :-)
– Real player with 6.2 hrs in game
Desolate Roads
I really wish Steam had a mixed button for reviews. This game has a really nice environment (although specific locations are really poorly done…) The monster mechanic is alright. Scares and story are really bad though. Puzzles are also quite lackluster.
Overall I can’t really recommend this one unless it goes free to play someday. Sorry Dev.
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
Very neat small experience in the same vein of other short horror games like Paratopic, Anatomy or Marginalia.
What makes Desolate Roads interesting and sets it apart from those titles is that it is less a walking simulator and more a super condensed version of a traditional survival horror game. You have a space to explore with different locations, light backtracking, inventory management, puzzles and also a persistent enemy force that you have to deal with.
It is a very short and focused experience but very effective and a worthy entry to that category of cool short horror games.
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game