Night Trap - 25th Anniversary Edition
Where do I even begin with the remastered edition of one of my all-time favorite games? Playing this took me back to the mid 90s… back to the days of Mortal Kombat and video game magazines. I was somewhat surprised to realize I still know by heart way more of the dialogue than I should. I kinda wished I still had my old notebook from 1994 that had all of the trap times written down, painstakingly collected from hours upon hours of gameplay. They’re widely available on the internet now, but it’s really not the same, now is it?
– Real player with 23.9 hrs in game
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Still too buggy. I had previously recommended this game after being able to finally playthrough it after it launched with a game breaking which caused the game to not be completable. It also had many other bugs. The updates have fixed quite a bit but I now have a bug where I can’t get a perfect game and unlock Scene of the Crime. At 6:30 the possible counter increments by two even though no trapable augs appear. There is a red light which indicates when a trapping opportunity is missed. That light never turns on indicating that I missed any augs. I haven’t tried to play to the end but I’m guessing that I’ll be at least two short even if I capture all augs. I know some people have 100% the game but I think that was prior to the 2nd update. In addition there are still audio issues, cams not updating, and crashes.
– Real player with 19.3 hrs in game
Return to Zork
Really glad to see Steam bring this old classic back, this was one of my first video games and it’s still a good one. Very long and full of difficult puzzles, I must have spent over 200 dollars on the Infocom hint line trying to get through it. These days there is much free help of course on the Internet, and if you enjoy a challenging point and click game with good voice acting and some tongue in cheek humor this game is a great value. Highly recommended.
– Real player with 15.2 hrs in game
Thank God that not all video games are like Return to Zork. I’ve said this before, I love puzzles games, but I don’t like games where there isn’t near enough information to deduce a theory let alone a solution to a puzzle. Return to Zork is chocked full of these types of “middle finger to the players” puzzles and to make matters worse, there is a glitch right at the end of the game that makes it impossible to finish unless you know a way around it.
Pros:
Many hours of game play (Mostly because the answers are impossible to find)
– Real player with 14.9 hrs in game
Tex Murphy: Overseer
First thing first: You need the K-Lite codec and FFDSHOW to be able to play this without issues. That being said, Tex Murphy: Overseer is the 5th Tex Murphy game and probably one of the best FMV games ever released, featuring actual gameplay with lots and lots of dialogues.
Overseer is basically a remake of Mean Streets without the ridiculous flight simulator and it ends with a cliffhanger which was resolved 15 years later with Tesla Effect.
A sci-fi noir adventure of old at its best.
– Real player with 37.2 hrs in game
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I think i reached my limit in this game. I keep getting error messages as i am at Gideons house using the poles to try and get across the pressure sensitive floor. As a kid i played this game and would get stuck all the time because we didnt have a strategy guide online to follow like i do now. Makes it a lot easier but it is also a clear MUST if your going to play this game. Anyone thats says its cheating and they never used it is a liar OR they spent YEARS trying to beat this game. If they can fix the game i will finish it. As of now i am S.O.L. !
– Real player with 34.4 hrs in game
Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive
Tex Murphy is one of those things you either had to grow up with or which you’ll probably never get.
That being said, it remains one of the least worst FMV series in existence. Some would even go as far as to call all of them a masterpiece. Personally, I won’t but there’s definitely historical merit to them and the story is indeed actually quite cool.
The acting is not as cringeworthy as the old C&C in between mission movies and has its moments, but all things considered this age pretty terrible.
– Real player with 126.2 hrs in game
Truely awesome game. Had this back in the day but forgot how good it really was. The story line is great and the puzzles are devious but not un-doable with a little logic. All in all, it took me 38 hours to complete. ( although that includes time spent going off to make a cup of tea while I thought about where to go next) . Some of you may find that the initial scenes, discussions and traveling a little tedious at first but the game does become more exciting as it goes on.
The Tex Murphey games are the leaders in this genre. IMO.
– Real player with 71.4 hrs in game
Harvester
At first glance, this game looks awful. It’s easy to dismiss it as just another zany product of the failed FMV phase of video games, especially with the game proudly and shamelessly wearing its exploitation label like a medal. “The goriest game of all time!” It says, sometimes coupled with screenshots that appear to show more gore-for-the-sake-of-gore. This is just the most obvious basis one can use to write Harvester off, but if you’re willing to venture beyond that, you’ll find many more.
It’s pretty meta, because Harvester throws the player off constantly. This in itself is one of the entire points of the game. The bizarre characters, the seemingly unclear satire on violence in video games, it’s all there for a reason, and it took me several playthroughs to get the full meaning. The first time through it’s just plain-old bizarre and enjoyable, though I recalled being intensely disappointed by the final act, especially the endings. Up to that point I had loved it in a purely “interactive B-movie” sense, but the game decided to throw even that away at its conclusion. Bundled with the atrocious combat system, it seemed like a wasted opportunity.
– Real player with 65.5 hrs in game
Before I start this review please be aware that this game features cannibalism, suicide, senicide, pedophilia, child abuse, molestation & all sorts of other fucked up subjects so if your sensitive, squeamish or a curious minor please keep your eyes/fingers off this game. (I might SPOIL some parts of the game or more so don’t read if you hate spoilers)
The best way I can describe Harvester in my opinion is the perfect serial killer simulator because of the bizarre atmosphere of the town of Harvest, the unsettling NPCs of this small town like Mr. Pottsham (obsessed with meat) who is a molester & a pervert who likes watching Stephanie 24/7 (I don’t blame him Stephanie has nice cur…… errr let’s continue) or Steve’s “mother” who is an extreme BDSM enthusiast (That bitch has all sorts of other issues which I won’t mention) & don’t forget the stages of a serial killer which you can read here http://www.criminalmindsfanwiki.com/page/Psychological+Phases if you wish.
– Real player with 26.0 hrs in game
STAR WARS™: Rebel Assault I + II
Star Wars: Rebel Assault I + II
System and Setup:
Windows 10 64bit
Intel Core i9 10900K
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
- “Enable Steam Overlay” had to be disabled. Otherwise, the game wouldn’t acknowledge my gamepads. Confirmed to work for the DualShock4 and XBox One Controller.
(Right click the game in your library, select “Properties”, uncheck the box beside “Enable Steam Overlay”.)
- “dosbox_rebel.conf” was opened with Notepad and the sensitivity line was modified from “sensitivity=100” to “sensitivity=60” This should make Rebel Assault I easier to control with a mouse, but YMMV.
– Real player with 9.9 hrs in game
STAR WARS™: Rebel Assault I:
The game puts you in the shoes of Rookie One, a new soldier that is learning the basics of fighting for the resistance.
After some basic training (Flying, Shooting), the game puts you straight into the Battle of Hoth & the Battle of Yavin, where you are eventually tasked with destroying the first Death Star.
Most levels are about 2 to 5 minutes long, but the difficulty of the game definitely makes most stages longer than that.
The game does not feature checkpoints after you finish a level, rather the game gives you codes (checkpoints) that you receive every 3 to 4 levels, and these can be entered on the menu screen.
– Real player with 7.7 hrs in game
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight® Mystery
A game I revisited from my childhood. A FMV classic from the 90s.
It’s an incredible piece of work. Completely engrossing and uncompromising. (It didn’t actually take 152 hours, I left it on the launch screen - but expect a good 25-30 hours if you don’t use a walkthrough)
You play just over half the game as the title character, Gabriel Knight. Knight is a reluctant shadow hunter following the events of the first game, Sins of the Fathers. Living in his ancestral town in Germany, he is asked to investigate the killings of a young girl near Munich. The town folk are convinced it was a werewolf.
– Real player with 152.5 hrs in game
GK2 is the ‘Star Wars:Empire Strikes Back’ of the series, a really strong follow up to a fantastic first game, that may actually be even better than the original.
I’m on my 4th or 5th playthrough of this game since it came out many years ago, and it has singularly spawned my interest in topics such as Bavarian/German history, Werewolves and Wagner. It’s a ‘pilgrimage’ type game, which has me coming back and that in itself tells you a lot of about the quality of this game if i’m willing to do it over and over again.
– Real player with 29.1 hrs in game
Police Quest: SWAT
It’s hard to recommend this game unless you are a fan of crappy fmv game. I can recommend this game only if u want to make funof it and laughing out loud with ‘bad behaviour " sequences especially those involving an elder suspect you can kill as much as you want. Have fun!
– Real player with 17.3 hrs in game
Tags: Adventure - FMV - Photo/Film
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library
TLDR: Obscure progression, walkthrough mandatory dated dosbox FMV police academy choose your own adventure hard game over with broken savegames system.
While the footage and setting is interesting, they should have adopted more of a freeform tycoon style exploration based formula rather than take the worst of the point&click adventure genre.
Kind of reminded me of America’s Army game, where it has this weird edutainment propaganda flavor to it.
– Real player with 10.5 hrs in game
Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum
The second game of the Tex Muphy series did less genre crossover and had a great strength with its LucasArts-era classic adventure design. Graphically it’s a solid retro adventure FMV mix, the only downside being missing hotspots: even when hovering the mouse over interactible objects there is no cursor feedback whatsoever which made and still makes the game terribly hasslesome on a first playthrough due to easily missing out on interacting with key items on the quite blurry screen. A walkthrough or a frustration tolerance made out of steel might be required for new players. Truth be told, the entire gamedesign is extremely oldschool due to the inherent actual age of the game and it might prove too much of a bother altogether to newer gamers.
– Real player with 78.7 hrs in game
Loveable nostalgic experience! Game runs on DOSBOX and is like 27MB in size. Classic point-and-click adventure set in a dystopian post-WW3 era. You play as Tex Murphy, private detective. It absolutely feels like a mixture between Blade Runner and Total Recall and I love it! It borrowed heavily from these two movies but offers enough unique content to stand on it’s own.
Martian Memorandum features a very simple interface with big buttons on the bottom of the screen. Just click on either “LOOK”, “OPEN”, “USE” etc. and then on the object to interact. Unique for it’s time is the usage of some FMV sequences starring real actors. Dialogue sequences play a big role in this game. Chosing the wrong dialogue option leads to uncooperative behaviour. There are also a few “action sequences” like using a hoverboard to pass through a security area with pressure plates and lasers or traversing a ventilation shaft in full 3D!
– Real player with 16.1 hrs in game
The 11th Hour
TLDR; Do you enjoy being berated constantly, especially in situations where your abuser is withholding information and context from you? Yeah, me neither.
First, I want to make it clear, this game is definitely playable on modern hardware, with a few caveats:
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Run in Windows XP SP3 Compatibility Mode
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Intro credits and room transitions will be sped up
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Random crashes. Save after every single event.
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Type PP then right-click to skip unwanted cut-scenes
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No volume control, in game music drastically overpowers the voice acting
– Real player with 34.1 hrs in game
This game is usually written off as the retarded cousin of The 7th Guest, but personally I would argue it’s an underrated gem. Particularly considering the development hell it went through, it stands as a worthy enough sequel to T7G, and deserves some credit for pushing the technological and creative boundaries of what the first game achieved.
The gameplay is a little unusual and it may not be an ideal game for every type of player. The format is similar to other first person adventure games of the era like Myst, with the object being to travel from room to room in an abandoned mansion solving puzzles. Like its predecessor, the puzzles are self contained, and apart from accessing the puzzles there is little interaction between the player and the environment. However, unlike T7G, this game has an additional treasure hunt angle that forms a larger objective. The player is given a riddle that hints at a particular object in the house, and the player needs to find the object that is the answer to the riddle.
– Real player with 25.6 hrs in game