MetaWare High School (Demo)

MetaWare High School (Demo)

I found this game through a video of Alpha Beta Gamer and decided to watch it out of pure boredom. I stopped at about 15 minutes in because I was enjoying the dialogue and jokes so much I decided to experience the game myself without any spoilers.

All the characters have great designs and are very likable,

! even some of Nari’s lines made me smile and relieved me of some of the tension built up from the unknown.

The game has 10 different endings, and the true ending for getting the other endings. They’re not too hard to get and if you get stuck there’s a great guide which tells what you need to select.

! The dancing ending is the best one though.

Real player with 10.8 hrs in game


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‘We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world’' - Gautama Buddha

What a deep quote huh? Definitely not the kind of words you’d expect to use for an opening to a review for a ‘demo’ but then again MetaWare High School (Demo) is not your typical demo. It begins innocently as a multi-character VN each with their own unique personalities to provide the Reader with some depth and variety during the first of many playthroughs. It then gradually morphs into a mesh of dark humour, philosophical ramblings & sardonic irony truly hooking the Reader into this multiple choice branching of five High School females who curiously try to interact with the Reader after discovering his/her presence.

Real player with 7.1 hrs in game

MetaWare High School (Demo) on Steam

Just Ski+

Just Ski+

I love the premises of this Unity game - you can choose in fact between better graphics or better performance, instead of the usual stupid “ultra”, “poor”, “medium” and such qualities.

This is a small physics indie game, small even because it’s short, and minimalistic for sure - the whole game has in fact just two colors.

The white of the snow will be the main color of the whole game, since you’re playing as a skier, while the rest of the minimalistic world will be colored of black, red, orange, blue and so on.

Real player with 19.1 hrs in game


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Just Ski is fun physics game but it lacks a lot of basic features that you would expect from this genre. As of right now, there is only one map that you have to beat with no save points. It probably takes around 10 minutes, not that you could do on a first try. As you can see I have been trying to beat it for over 5 hours. In other words, you will replay the first section a lot (like 50 times at least). Somehow I am not bored of it just yet. Something about the relaxing music and the atmosphere makes the deaths less stressful.

Real player with 8.5 hrs in game

Just Ski+ on Steam

Free Agency

Free Agency

Free Agency is the life simulation where the agents gradually become self-aware and try to find meaning in their lives. Meanwhile, you have to keep them too busy to think about it.

Bring about their social and financial failure as you micromanage their careers, hobbies, friendships, and romances; all while you find your way around the simulation’s powerful user interface. It’s like The Sims meets The Truman Show.

The world of Free Agency is a computer program. It is inhabited by autonomous intelligent agents: subjects of study in a life simulation. Each agent has a room. Each room has objects. Each object has actions. Each action has consequences.

Approachable & short comedic simulation with point & click and management gameplay.

FEATURES:

  • Fix the 4th wall.

  • Upgrade the simulation itself.

  • Level up in piano, cooking, writing, photography, sleeping, and more.

  • Have them call each other on the phone.

  • Have an existential crisis or two.

  • Pet the cat and dog.


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Free Agency on Steam

That Flipping Mountain

That Flipping Mountain

Tl;dr: It’s a masterpiece. If you consider yourself a gamer you’ve got to play this.

That Flipping Mountain is inspired by Getting Over It but it’s not a Getting Over It clone. By gameplay and even more by style it’s much closer to Jeff Weber’s previous game Just Ski and definitely a worthy successor. As such it even starts after the same hut where Just Ski has ended. On from the first tree to over devil’s chimney and the ice cliff to the radio tower it features various elements of Getting Over It in its own style, just enough to recognize and appreciate these elements that have been perfectly adapted for the setting and gameplay of That Flipping Mountain.

Real player with 31.7 hrs in game

This is - by far - the best rage game I’ve ever played. The secret to its success? It has perfect controls - unlike most rage games, which find their difficulty by making their games hard to play, That Flipping Mountain gives players a character that controls perfectly - at any point they can predict the exact location to which they’ll make him jump - the only thing they have to worry about is making sure that their character sticks the landing. This isn’t easy by any means - it took me nearly 20 hours to beat the game - but the difficulty is entirely fair, and there are no unexpected surprises - as long as the player can master flipping, they will eventually beat the game!

Real player with 15.8 hrs in game

That Flipping Mountain on Steam

Aenaon

Aenaon

Very nice game, a bit small but this is not a problem since lots of updates are coming. I do recommend it, it is great for VR and very well made. Looking forward for more.

Real player with 0.3 hrs in game

Aenaon on Steam

Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy

Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy

your first run will be the most painful experience of your life.

your second run will be much faster but still filled with heart break

by your 10th run, you make very few mistakes, you finish runs in one day and then you notice it. the pot is turning gold.

Real player with 46.8 hrs in game

good game, has a lot of philosophical thoughts and beliefs which may get frustrating after a while.

50 wins, 50 times getting over it, fastest time being 4 mins 26 seconds and was a great journey

9/10 game tbh

Real player with 32.9 hrs in game

Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy on Steam

Spoon Simulator 2020

Spoon Simulator 2020

Spoon Simulator 2020

Feel yourself a spoon. The first ever spoon simulator, an ability to feel yourself a beautiful top quality spoon.

Be a spoon. Become a spoon. Embrace the spoon.

Spoon for life. Spoon for president! Are you a spoon? No? Then buy this game to become one!

Features:

-First and third person view. See the world through eyes of a spoon

-AAA 3D graphics

-Unique idea & gameplay

-Feel yourself a spoon

Spoon Simulator 2020 on Steam

Four Last Things

Four Last Things

OVERALL: 9/10

This is a gem ! I don’t how steam did it but it finally succeeded in recommending me a true unique niche game that actually had me interested straight away. If you have a soft spot for the renaissance period this game is an experience to witness! A wonderful little world based off of many real paintings (from Bosh, Bruegel to quote a few) mixed and mashed together in an incredible way ! It’s gorgeous and the music is also top notch suiting every scene. The game is a clever no nonsense point click with a great sense of humor and self awareness. It even remembers me the tone of the monty python’s Holy grail. It sadly is way too short but as an indy project which was made by 1 man only I think, I strongly recommend you support this game if it intrigues you in anyway. And hopefully another project of this kind will emerge.

Real player with 5.5 hrs in game

Who knew committing the seven deadly sins could be so fun!

Four Last Things is a comedic point’n’click adventure game entirely composed of renaissance paintings. In Four Last Things, you play as a man who must do all seven deadly sins over again so that he can confess and be forgiven by a specific parish. It’s an inter-church bureaucracy thing, you understand. The humour here is very similar to Monty Python, and I’d consider this a must have for Monty Python fans.

Positive:

Real player with 5.2 hrs in game

Four Last Things on Steam

The Thought Police Hotline: Episode 1

The Thought Police Hotline: Episode 1

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The Thought Police Hotline: Episode 1

Developer: Voonle

Publisher: Voonle

Pros:

1. The story does keep its merits as sci-fi with interesting inclusions such as the government taking over privacy and tracking emotions, calls, and other activities. I could see the inspirations if this was inspired by Minority Report or the anime series PSYCHO-PASS, or just the outlook on real life itself.

Real player with 1.0 hrs in game

The Thought Police Hotline: Episode 1 on Steam

Dialogue Box: The Road Less Traveled

Dialogue Box: The Road Less Traveled

The choices are simple, picking is hard.

In “Dialogue Box: The road less traveled”, you will navigate a whimsical landscape while failing to keep your sanity.

The controls are extremely unintuitive and the humor is cheesy to a fault.

I am a great salesman.

  • Original physics-based challenges

  • Dynamic story that adapts to your actions and choices

  • Secrets with extra challenges for the completionists at heart

  • Minimalistic yet charming visual style

  • Way too many endings

  • Puns

I hope you won’t hate me by the time you get to the other side.

Have fun! TomerSSH.

Trailer song:

Canon in D Major by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Dialogue Box: The Road Less Traveled on Steam