恶灵退散 Go Back to Hell
the art style is cool and the sound track slaps but this is just an eye spy game for anyone thats confused by the description like i was, theres no instructions or dialog your just looking for the weird things in each image with no other context. so ya if plot is what your looking for and not just an ideal thing this isnt it but its nice none the less 3
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game
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The House in Fata Morgana
Full review (including score):
Written review below!
The rundown:
Pros:
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Unique art style
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Great use of atmosphere
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Excellent storyline
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God-tier soundtrack
Cons:
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Rough first few chapters
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Lossy soundtrack compression
The House in Fata Morgana proved to be quite the journey for me. It took me nearly three months of on-and-off playing to finally clear, but in the end, it was totally worth it. Not only does the game provide an excellent story with a great sense of atmosphere, but it also does so with a unique art style and a soundtrack that quickly became one of my favorites.
– Real player with 65.6 hrs in game
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Introduction
The House in Fata Morgana was an incredible surprise for me, as visuals novel are not something I would actively seek to play. However, this game is the one that might change my mind, and I definitely want to play more similar games like that in the future. The game’s story is amazingly written and has several interesting characters and thrilling plots, accompanied by an astonishing soundtrack and a beautiful art style.
Story
At the start, you wake up at a mysterious mansion with no memory of yourself whatsoever. However, you are not alone here. A woman, who calls herself The Maid, claims you should know each other, as you have been here before. In pursuit of regaining your memory, you follow The Maid through the mansion, where you witness multiple tragedies that happened to its previous residents throughout the years. What secrets do their stories hide? Why are you connected to this place? That is something you need to discover by yourself.
– Real player with 44.4 hrs in game
Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest
Visual novel in the World of Darkness setting with a focus on the werewolves. Good art and music with often well written and good mechanic concepts, while also rushed in every sense when it comes to learning about other characters and the setting and is over so quickly that like a lot of games that try to use stats or health they end up being pointless.
The five personality assessment options just end with the highest pushing you into a style for the last 1/3 of the game, werewolf form changes is a great idea barely used, and glory/honor/wisdom that takes over for your personality type after you become a werewolf are entirely pointless. It’s all a good system to have for a game about learning that you are a werewolf, finding a tribe, looking at situations differently based on the personality you built and characters responding differently based on what they think of you, and using your abilities in a visual novel form but you never really get to enjoy any of it. Your amount of current rage can change how your character responds to situations and willpower can be used often but I haven’t seen health be as useless in a game since Disco Elysium, it is rarely required and even if used it is easy to get back before it is needed again. You spend so little time with most characters and depending on your route some of the likes and dislikes really just won’t matter at all and the way in which your actions can completely change police and journalists views is particularly ridiculous. With all the minor changes that can happen there is the usual few events or dialogue lines that don’t really make sense and some being quite impossible when it seemed to imply a dead guy showed up. It’s kind of strange in some series of events that it still seems to consider the main human guy to be a friend of yours.
– Real player with 23.1 hrs in game
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Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Heart of the Forest is a creepy and dark visual-novel adventure with choice-based consequences that allow for multiple branching paths and outcomes. The story is quite well written and the flow works pretty well. The many situations that develop differently based on the player’s actions and also accrued statistics will give this game the replay value that it needs despite having a relatively short story that will vary on your reading speed and choices. My first run through took around 3 hours, and I imagine that replaying some sections I might be speeding through some sections trying to see all of the possible paths and endings. I have yet to do that kind of exploration to know just how dramatic the outcomes will be of course.
– Real player with 9.1 hrs in game
The House in Fata Morgana: A Requiem for Innocence
I just finished REQUIEM, it’s 3:35 am, and I’m feeling very emotional right now. Take what I’m saying with a grain of salt because I’m high off the story as I write this. Who knows how I’ll feel once it has sinked in proper.
That being said, I think REQUIEM is an excellent followup to the original. I also feel like it IS required of the original.
I didn’t think so initially, the first half of the main episode had me kind of dumbfounded, and it felt weird, dull, and slightly repetitive.
So, why the change of heart?
– Real player with 33.6 hrs in game
The House in Fata Morgana: A Requiem for Innocence is a prequel to The House in Fata Morgana though it definitely should be played after the main game.
I’ve finished The House in Fata Morgana quite recently. And frankly speaking, I was a bit reluctant to start the prequel immediately. I dislike any spoilers, so I thought it was not going to be that exciting reading a novel knowing the main events and the outcome. I WAS SO WRONG! If you’ve read the main game and hesitate if you should play Requiem or not, just don’t! It’s totally worth it.
– Real player with 30.0 hrs in game
Sur
It has so far been a fun and challenging 2D pixel art survival horror game. Would recommend.
– Real player with 1.8 hrs in game
ZLO
Go in search of the ultimate evil!
Cast out evil spirits with the word of God and the cross.
Prepare for the horror that lurks in this forest and uncover the mystery of the priest protagonist.
Psychological horror inspired by the Silent Hill series and movies like The Exorcist, The Blair Witch Project and many others.
Zlo is a story-driven horror adventure game.
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Collect notes;
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Exorcise evil spirits;
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Explore atmospheric locations;
Lightmare Castle
I played this game a day or two after its release. There were a few game breaking bugs I noticed (as mentioned in previous reviews). I went to get the bow (huntsman quest) then couldn’t use the bow, or find my way back to the huntsman to begin my pelt quest.
I have since played this game again, about 2 weeks later and the changes made in that time are noticeable: huntsman is visible on map now, castle with bow is not dark and gloomy (it is quite nice with good lighting I might add) and the bow works (mostly). I am not a game developer, I understand there is work to be put into a game and I was able to notice the change. There are still bugs to be found. I noticed some of the wolves would seem to reanimate, with my arrows still in them, very interesting to see. I grew more limbs when I would load up a game from within the game. There were a few others I noticed as well.
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game
Honestly this game has a bit of potential but there are soooooooo many things that should have been fixed before you even thought about releasing it. I dont want to call the game a scam because it shows that there was some effort put into it but 5$ is too much for this game. Its like buying a cup of coffee but just getting the cup with no coffee in it and also the cup has a hole in the bottom…also the cup is half made…and the other half is made out of shit.
When firing arrows you dont aim correctly you pull the arrow back to your eye which is a really weird perspective and when firing your arrows you can shoot your own bow with your arrow
– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game
Shining Hotel: Lost in Nowhere
Since I’ve opted to thumb this game up, I should start this review with a highly emphatic disclaimer, namely:
DO NOT BUY THIS GAME AT FULL PRICE, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. I bought it in a pack with another game for a smidgen under ten dollars, and it was still FAR TOO MUCH. This game is very, VERY short (twenty minutes, tops), and worth maybe two bucks at best. That said: I’ve never thumbed a game down purely on the basis of its price, and I’m not about to start here. You have, however, been warned. On with the review, then…
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
nice experience, good story.. but very bad gameplay!
what is horror to these developers? seriously, is this even scary?
it’s more than a walking simulator!
I’m ok with the game length that everybody’s complaining about, but it’s not horror at all
it doesn’t worth this amount of money..
I’m sorry, but this is the truth
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
The Lost Souls
I don’t know where this bloody influx of FPS Creator titles has come from and, frankly, it doesn’t matter so long as we can assemble a team to burn it to the ground but, in the meantime, I sure hope you like your stages like an eight year old girl likes her bowling lanes: separated by GIANT CRASH BARRIERS.
Without fail, every area transition (of which there are only a merciful four) sent me hurtling back to the desktop with the gratingly familiar “FPSC has stopped working” taunt that is becoming far more familiar in my gaming pursuits than is acceptable. Occasionally you get a “root system error” when you try to save as well which I guess is the closest thing this abomination is going to get to variety.
– Real player with 5.3 hrs in game
2/10
… I have NO idea how, but this game managed to be worse than its predecessor. Which is quite surprising, given how the predecessor is by far not a good game.
The Lost Souls is the sequel to White Mirror. Supposedly, this time you’re playing with a different character, since the one from the first game seemingly managed to escape. Once again, the one good thing about the game is that it looks good. Everything else is just as bad: barely any challenge, barely any story, barely any sense, barely… Anything.
– Real player with 5.3 hrs in game
A Chair in a Room : Greenwater
My oh my. This is what I am looking for. I am a big fan of the scare, creep, unsettling type of games. When I got the Vive I would thing to myself, “This would be a great platform for survival horror, overall story telling with a fear filled bend to it.”
This has arrived. This is the first to come along for me and with this quality title so soon in the lifecycle of VR I CANNOT WAIT to see what is in store for the future.
The sound, environments, story, and perfect placement of things that simply either creep you out, unsettle you, or straight up make you scream is superb. It does not beat you over the head with constant thing jumping in your face or anything like that. The creators of this game know the value of subtle well placed situations to make you tense and crazed.
– Real player with 20.9 hrs in game
Here it is (if you want it), one of the best games on the Vive to date. It’s roomscale perfection, and one of the fisrt/best titles that ‘scales’ to your playspace. If yours is too small, you are allowed teleportation, but I did not try that, and if you have no room, get a bigger apartment. It’s truly, certifiably, immersively scary. All the environments look great, it renders well. Of all the VR horror games, it surly is the most frightening, and suspenseful, and I am an advanced level 10 journeyman in Virtual Reality, so I should know. I will never forget the sound it makes after a jumpscare scene…
– Real player with 19.2 hrs in game