Bloody Service
First of all i want to thank CASE for giving me a free key for their game.
Bloody Service is a visual novel inspired by horror movies. But it’s a bit different, because not only different choices mean different endings, but also different inventory management can give unexpected reactions and dialogues, giving the sensation of living the experience deeply. The main character is a guy working for a catering service and now he’s been called for a job in the exclusive Hilltop Tennis Club, where nothing is like it seems, and where there’s the shadow of two twin conjoined brothers, Arthur and Cole. The game is short but it’s all very well condensed and there are a bunch of gory and violent scenes which are pretty shocking.
– Real player with 5.6 hrs in game
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Bloody Service (BS) is CASE’s first of hopefully many 80s throwback horror projects. The Argentina-based studio has been in the biz for ages but as it turns out, has been holding out on us! BIG TIME!! What lulled me into the bloodlust was firstly its brand; a slasher-FMV-VN title and right then and there, I knew I had to join in on the fun!! Ironically, I’ve never played any games with full on senseless, evading a killer type (guess the closest is Until Dawn) but I watched like hundreds of those, so it’s long overdue :P
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
Motesolo : No Girlfriend Since Birth
Very funny game. Lovable characters. Had a watch party with friends and it was a blast! Still hoping for better Suna ending tho.
– Real player with 17.4 hrs in game
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Motesolo was a lot of good clean fun. I cared about the characters, laughed out loud, and genuinely enjoyed sitting down to a playthrough. The interface is slick and design decisions support the style of game well. Game feels very professional, easy to get into, and rewards paying attention in a way that doesn’t feel difficult.
My only complaint was that the english translation had a number of typos that could be easily addressed by an editor. It wasn’t enough to interfere with my understanding but seems like good low-hanging fruit to fix in a future update.
– Real player with 15.6 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
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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
The Parrot That Summons Demons
Once the pet of an evil worshiper… Now adopted by an unlucky family!
The Parrot That Summons Demons is a family tragedy/horror FMV game featuring a surprisingly deep, dark and unsettling story by the creators of Bloody Service .
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Cinematic Experience: Horror Visual Novel with full FMV support.
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Multiple playable characters: Play the game from the perspective of any of the four members of the family.
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Multiple Endings: Unlock every possible ending to understand more about your new pet and… Well, demons.
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Innovative Inventory System: Slots used to keep items may have an impact on narrative outcomes.
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What would Freud say?: Alexander McCauley is modeled after the father of three members of our studio (yeah, we’re six people and three of them are brothers!)
The game is currently in development and this demo features two small chapters from Samantha’s timeline. Full game is going to feature multiple chapters for every member of the McCauley family.
Stories Untold
Minimalist Horror at it’s best
tl;dr
Stories Untold is a short and somewhat taxing game that combines different horror settings and it’s 80s aesthetic to become something greater than the sum of its parts, in more ways than one.
Main Review
Stories Untold is a ‘mostly’ text based made by No Code, an indie game studio based in Glasgow. I thought of grabbing the game during it’s free giveaway on the Epic Games store (the giveaway is still on as of this writing). However, last week I found this game among the backlog in my steam library. I bought this game for a very low price a few months ago and forgot about it. I finally got around to playing the game over the past couple of days and have completed the game. I am also not the least bit disappointed that I had to pay to buy a game that is being given away for free.
– Real player with 6.6 hrs in game
Overall Score: 8.0 / 10
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| Quality | 8/10 | Solid, budget indie game
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| Performance | 8/10 | _Performs smoothly overall, but deficiently
executed / optimized, rare 3D sequences_ |
| Utility | 7/10 | _No bugs or crashes; has Steam cloud save;
no way to save and quit during an episode_ |
| Controls | 9/10 | Clever usage of outdated retro controls; |
– Real player with 5.3 hrs in game
The Sych story
This game is fucking incredible.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins
I hate to say it but this game is incredibly boring! I’m mystified how it has such a positive rating. I was really looking forward to it, but it’s a series of slow placed chats between clicking around the phone and being spoon fed with a yellow button that lights up every time you need to click on the page to send it to the person chatting with you. There’s no real investigation or putting clues together, but tedious clicking, interspersed with a bland, overly dragged out story line.
If you think you’re going to be getting video chats or other real time interactions with the Doctor or the angels, or fast paced exciting events, this is not the game for you. (The trailer for this game is extremely misleading to the point of false advertising. You don’t go anywhere that I’ve seen. Instead the game uses the back to front method of tell don’t show by getting others to do interesting things and telling you in a couple of lines what the found.) Instead think of waiting for the next bubble of text to come up (it’s on time delay to simulate someone typing which is seriously annoying) from some random you don’t know, and then picking from 1 to 4 pre-written answers to “text back”. Yep, that’s it. Read, wait, click. Rinse and repeat for the rest of the game. There’s occasionally a voice message to break this up, but some, particularly Mr Flint’s, are painfully over acted and not particularly interesting either.
– Real player with 12.0 hrs in game
–-{Gameplay}—
✔Replayability tO THE EXTREME!
☐ Hours upon hours of fun!
☐ Good stuff!
☐ Good at parts.
☐ Nothing to remember.
☐ Ping Pong is better.
—{Graphics}—
☐ A reflection of reality!
✔Gorgeous!
☐ Great!
☐ Better than Minecraft.
☐ It barely passes the test.
☐ PS1 graphics are better.
—{Audio}—
☐Better then actual music!
✔ Pretty great!
☐ Better then most games!
☐ About average.
☐ Nothing special.
☐ As bad as nails against a chalk board.
—{Soundtrack}—
☐ Buy the soundtrack. Just buy it!
– Real player with 5.9 hrs in game
Project DeepWeb
bit of a brain teaser and im stuck, but im sufficiently intrigued to try and figure it out
update: i finished the game, would definitely recommend
– Real player with 18.1 hrs in game
Very good game, full of difficult puzzles.
– Real player with 9.3 hrs in game