Howdy, Jacob!
This was a visual trip, it’s kinda like Where’s Waldo but with psychedelics. It has a very interesting approach to storytelling which I like and the music is fun and upbeat. It gave me some nostalgic vibes. I was reminded of the video overlays in one of the Police Quest games for the storytelling and the levels have a sort of wondrous mystique to them that you don’t experience much in games these days. There’s a totally dark vibe to the story without being too scary.
If I had to list one criticism it would be that I struggled to find the exit button during a level, but it all worked out of course. Overall it was worth the $10 for sure.
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
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Disclosure: I was on the video capture and performance team for the game, but did not have anything to do with gameplay, art, or design.
Howdy, Jacob! shines brightest in its rich world and great writing. The characters are interesting and diverse, and curious players are always rewarded with a little bit of content wherever they look. It is a world that feels much, much bigger than the game, and fascinating!
The other high point is the art! The images are very vivid and unique, and the style sticks with you!
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
Voyeur
I enjoy quirky, original games… and I especially love FMV. Voyeur scratches the itch for both. Recommended.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
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i like the concept but how can u change the resoulution to be less choppy??
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Legendary Tales: Stolen Life
Nice graphics and story line.
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
Foi uma delícia como sempre. História fantástica, puzzles interessantes, dá vontade de jogar uma continuação.
– Real player with 5.2 hrs in game
Lost Lands: Redemption
Five-BN puts out the best HOG adventure games, IMO. Their world-building is unparalleled. They actually craft story and mythology for their world. Lost Lands is my favorite series of theirs, but Darkness and Flame series and The Legacy are good also and have all the same mechanics. Five-BN raises the bar for the HOG genre and challenges the assumption that HOG games are “fluff” time wasters for bored middle aged women.
This game in the series stands out as having some very challenging puzzles! That being said, I only had to skip one. There is one puzzle I spent about 30 minutes on, and had to come back to it the next day to actually complete it! I think it took about an hour total!
– Real player with 18.2 hrs in game
This is the 7th game in the Lost Lands series. It’s more fun to play them in order because certain characters appear across all the games, BUT you can play them out of order and still enjoy it. This is not my favorite entry in this series, but it is a decent entry nontheless. Really the only downside is the Jimmy character being pretty whiny at the beginning, but he comes around.
I heartily recommend Hidden Object games made by this developer, Five-BN, because of the cost. I’ve played this game for 11 hours and I still haven’t beaten the extra puzzles that come as a bonus feature. Five-BN games are always under $8. Artifex Mundi, however, sells their newest games for $15 and I often beat them in 3 hours. Five-BN is definitely superior in terms of “getting your money’s worth.”
– Real player with 15.0 hrs in game
Recontact London: Cyber Puzzle
The Technology points are out of proportion, to win each puzzle. It costs to do Satellite, you need at least extend view (5 pts) and 360 degree view (15 pts)…. to solve each sat tracker puzzle. The win technology points are most of the time 0 (zero) gain it rewards box, before pressing Start. It takes a long time to gain points in decipher at 1 point every 9 minutes. This makes it unplayable, til you get enought to buy – Extended/360 views. Have played 31 hours so far, and I’m Not Impressed with game as it now stands —- Sorry Devs, back to drawing board at this point.
– Real player with 31.8 hrs in game
I really, really wanted to like this game. I love FMVs, I love investigation type stuff, this is right up my alley. The early parts of the game looked great.
But then you get to a point where you realize that (at least in its current state) the game is just a big mess.
Progression seems to be based on an attribute called “sense” that you increase by correctly playing minigames. You have to find specific people in video footage, like Where’s Waldo but with moving video. You have to track things moving across the city. You have to uncover a pattern hidden in static. You can control a drone looking for things in homes or buildings. But where the trouble comes in is that by messing up in the games, you can lose sense instead of gaining it.
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
The Last Dream: Developer’s Edition
Has a few major bugs and poor English translation
This is a FROG (Fragmented Object Game) with a simple story: you play a man who has lost his wife in a car accident and must find your way to her, in a series of dreams or whatever. The game is high on the adventure component: you search for objects, sometimes combine them, then use them on other objects in the scene to overcome obstacles. The rest of the game comprises puzzle minigames and looking for fragment object pieces in scenes, which are combined to form an object which you then can then use.
– Real player with 13.6 hrs in game
The Last Dream: Developer’s Edition is a relaxing point and click adventure that follows closely all the characteristics of a HOG game; however it excels through several original elements that make it distinguish itself from the other games of this genre.
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The first original element of the game is the protagonist - which in this case is not a woman, but a young man, Ben. After a tragic accident, the spirit of Ben’s wife starts materializing in his dreams, appearing to call him and asking him to follow her. Therefore, Ben sets himself on the adventure to find the source of this mysterious call. The story develops itself around the Dream world that alternates with scenes from the Real world. And this is where the originality of the game kicks in - instead of having digitally designed cut scenes, the Real world is depicted through live action cut-scenes, with people playing the characters of Ben and his wife Elizabeth. The contrast between this beautifully painted Dream world and the acting snippets from the Real world adds even more immersion of the story, which is already emotionally packed. The main motif seems to be the classical “save the loved one” theme, although in this particular case, the story has much more depth, culminating with a plot twist and an intense ending. To me, finding out midway through the game that the actors that gave life to these characters are actually two of the game’s developers (which got married afterwards) made me feel even closer to this game and enhanced the experience of playing it even more.
– Real player with 7.2 hrs in game
The Bunker
Decent story marred by ultra-linear gameplay and lack of basic features
“The Bunker” is a fairly decent post-apocalyptic thriller movie - turned into a deplorably poor game that repeats all the mistakes of the “interactive movies” of the 90s, a time when these products were expected to sell on the basis of their full-motion video alone, and gameplay was an afterthought.
The premise is fairly interesting. After a nuclear strike hit Great Britain, people try to survive in bunkers, and you are the youngest resident in one of these, having been born just when the attack happened. The game starts with all other residents already dead and you being the last survivor, clinging to your daily routine because you don’t know anything else. When a system failure requires you to break out of that routine and enter long abandoned parts of the facility, disturbing memories of your past resurface.
– Real player with 6.3 hrs in game
TLDR
This is an introspective story on a well-explored topic: the Lone Survivor in a dystopic world. It’s done pretty well too, and has a good soundtrack for the presentation, but it’s not a game as the gamer community would define. The Bunker is an interactive story, where choices matter and actions have consequences.
DEETS
First, a few notes about the interactive aspects.
1.) Most of the choices you make will be in regards to finding cookies, as opposed to survival. It’s easy to miss the few minor collectables in the game if you’re not looking for them, and it’s not always intuitive to look where they may appear. Darkened corners, minor minutia of background details, and simple but unannounced puzzles are all a factor in various scenes.
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game
Hyper Treasure - Macaronic Labyrinth
Treasure hunters, Noracam and Macarsha were returning from an exploration of a ruin. Suddenly, a mysterious hole appeared in the air, and they’ve been sucked in !!
Beyond that, they arrived at a mysterious world …… Can Noracam and Macarsha meet again, and go home save and sound?
This is a Point & Click “mystery game”
Only the mouse is needed
When you click on something on the screen, something will happen
Repeat the clicks and find the hidden items and your friend
All actions have an animation. When something is happening, just watch silently
Sometimes there are things that will hurt you. Pay attention to the remaining life
Keep making the best decisions and escape from this weird world
Lost Angel
the plot is a bit far-fetched and the acting isn’t perfect (especially when they fall down), but overall an entertaining game with many branches and choices that change the course of events
– Real player with 3.8 hrs in game
I love FMV games, I almost bought and played every full-motion video game on steam. To my disappointment, Lost Angel didn’t meet my expectation, especially with the topic of the game itself. When you read the game information about the main character, a youtube influencer getting involved in a dangerous conspiracy, you’d think it will be an exciting story, but once they mentioned the Covid-19 virus, it all went down and started to become a cheap story- not that it wasn’t from the beginning due to the mediocre acting.
– Real player with 3.7 hrs in game
Zombie Dinos from Planet Zeltoid
It’s cheaper than smoking crack!
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game