Azkend 2: The World Beneath
It’s not bad; there are many different power-ups that create some variety and strategy in the typical Match 3 game-play loop, so it’s not an awful chore to play.
Ultimately however, RNG plays far too much of a role in success or failure, and while the main game is eventually beatable (after many tries) the coin challenges eventually become all but impossible. If you’re trying for 100% achievement completion, good luck, because as far as I can tell that’s the only way to attain several of them.
– Real player with 15.1 hrs in game
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Azkend 2 is a causal match 3 -game. The artwork is top notch and the music is alright.
There is a clumsy attempt at a plot, but in the end this whole “spirit of adventure” thing is just a theme that works well with beautiful images. You don’t get an “engaging storyline”. The woman person just ends up shipwrecked and goes to places that don’t make any sense. And the voice acting is kind of annoying.
The story mode constists of 68 levels. There are some nice special pieces and whatnot, but nothing spectacular. Nothing I wouldn’t have seen before. The gameplay gets a little repetitve at the end and sadly the levels are all quite easy. There’s also a time challenge mode, but after I was done with the storymode I thought there wasn’t much replay value.
– Real player with 12.6 hrs in game
Painting Werther
The Sorrows of Young Werther, was written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1774.
Loved by artists and emperors, it shows the inner struggle of a deeply romantic man.
Or at least that’s what I used to think…
Come with us on this interactive visual novel to see another version of this legendary story.
Was young Werther really a romantic? Or was he just a man with a death wish?
How deeply did he really love his friend Wilhelm? Maybe his letters hide some clues…
Did he even loved Charlotte? Or did he just love the idea of an unrequited love?
For all these questions and more, Mad Cream Games presents you and overloading artistic experience, full of brush strokes and ink spots, where Chopin played the sax and Mozart the guitar, where love turns into hate, and pity into madness:
With this game we want to celebrate the mastery and abilities from the painters and musicians that came before us, presenting their work in a new original and respectful way.
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Hagia Sophia VR Experience
This is basically one single level room. It’s a very nicely done single level room with some neat audio attached to the objects in it but within minutes I’d come to the conclusion that I wasn’t keeping this ‘game’. There just isn’t enough to it to keep me interested for even the two hours after which Steam won’t refund my purchase. I intend to go through it a bit more and then delete it. I’d rather have the $5 back than keep it.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
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Unfortunately, this is a half-assed “experience” that is limited only to a part of the ground floor of Hagia Sophia. You do not get access to the top floors or to certain parts of the ground floor. Additionally, it is chock full of translated verses of the Quran instead of providing historical information on this magnificent masterpiece of a building. Perhaps the developers are attempting to promote the Islamic religion, as I really cannot find a convincing explanation as to why verses of the Quran have been placed throughout the building instead of something more relevant to the experience. Additionally, it can only be experienced as an overlay of steamVR, otherwise it won’t work. There is no option to adjust the video settings in spite of this experience being clearly non-optimised for PC as evidenced by the horrible amount of tearing I experienced in spite of running it on RTX 2080 ti. and a 9900k processor I do not recommend bothering with this experience.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Howling Village: Echoes
（中文评测在下面！）
Howling Village: Echoes (Inunakimura: Zankyou) is the official game to the 2020 J-horror film Howling Village (Inunakimura), which is directed by Shimizu Takashi and features Miyoshi Ayaka. The game was originally released in mobile platform in 2020, and now it is ported onto NS and PC. (The porting is bad though, the game even tells you to TAP the screen rather than CLICK.)
It’s basically a point&click puzzle game with a linear story-telling. The game features 6 main characters, each one has its own route, and each route has its True Ending. The True Ending to a route is always blocked at first, you should play other routes to unlock it (like 428: Shibuya Scramble in a much simpler way). The game makes you feel like you have many choices and options, but in fact you don’t. In order to clear the game you must play each route and each chapter in a certain order to unlock the True Ending. Like I said, it’s pretty linear. As for the “more than 50 endings” they claim in the store page, well, it does have that many endings, but most of them are just meaningless Bad Ends. The game only has ONE TRUE ENDING, and you can’t ever miss it.
– Real player with 10.2 hrs in game
The Dream is Coming…
“The Dream is Coming…” is a vibrant walking simulator that has you explore an empty Schoolyard and its various building as you find notes, diary entries and clues to follow.
The notes contain little bits of lore surrounding your character and his group of friends. Your character will also have memories revealed when he enters rooms or comes close to certain objects. A text to speech voice will read a sentence or 2 about some mundane thing he remembers about Chemistry class or the first time he met a friend. I honestly didn’t mind the text to speech voice, it’s actually not a bad sounding text to speech program. The main issue is the translation, it’s not translated the greatest. It’s hard to understand the relationship between certain characters when all you have to go on is little bits of choppy lore translated poorly. You are able to get a grasp of the overall story but the little details get lost and with a game like this, that is kind of important. A game like this is nothing but story and visuals (which isn’t a bad thing) but you’re really only left with the visuals as a completed piece. The bits of story you can gather tell a simple tale of a group friends and their after school club. The various memories of simple times and the struggles some face, it fits the atmosphere well.
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
I was intrigued by the description as I wanted to know how in depth this indie game would go into the lives, thoughts and struggles of students. But I was left most disappointed.
Pros:
→ The music is beautiful.
→ Half of the graphics were unexpectedly brilliant for an indie game; the sky, the breezy grass, the pavement and some items indoors, especially the signs and writing.
→ The afternoon setting sun set the tone perfectly.
→ Songbird ambience in the schoolyard was very relaxing.
Cons:
→ ‘Interesting stories’ in the description is misleading.
! For example; at one point we pass a bicycle in the schoolyard and the ‘story’ is legit: “My father’s bike. After he drank, he stopped using it.” And that’s all we get. It’s more like random facts being spewed out that has no meaning to the story at all (?).
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
The Terrible Persistence of Memory
As always, PixelsandPins delivers a visual novel with great storytelling. A thought provoking and well written tale- The Terrible Persistence of Memory is a great short game to sink your teeth into if you’re looking to finish a game in a single (or maybe two) sittings. It’ll have you thinking about the choices you make (they actually do matter), and who you choose to spend your time with. Would recommend checking this game out, one of my favorites for sure!
(PS: Don’t mind my short play time, I already played it once before!)
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
First Time in Paris
A new Hidden Object adventure begins! Kate Robinson is an amateur travel blogger who’s taking on her first big job—and it’s in Paris! Join her and her daughter Nicole as they save the Hotel Hospitalité, all while making new friends and new memories in the City of Love!
Explore lavishly illustrated and animated locations and help Kate save the Hotel Hospitalité!
Discover the magic of Paris through over 30 different minigames!
MazM: The Phantom of the Opera
I have amended my review from a bad to a good rating - not because the problem of the achievements being saved in game (and not resetting back to 0 when I exited and entered game again ) was fixed. It wasn’t. But I managed to keep my computer on all day and ffwded all conversations in only the episodes where achievements were needed - so as to get all footnotes, character interactions, etc required to gain all achievements - thankfully the game did not crash this time. And i did get the 2 special pics for getting all achievements done (Hallelujah! lol)
– Real player with 40.8 hrs in game
I’ve always been a HUGE phantom of the Opera Fan. Having read the book, watched the movie and seen the musical. I was happy to play this game.
It’s far more faithful to the book adaptation than the movie version, which I liked.
– Real player with 36.5 hrs in game
Snail Story: Love Edition
Snail Story: Love Edition is a dating sim that is choice-driven and with multiple good and bad endings.
There will be a mystery element involved, which shadows a predominantly romantic storyline.
2+ romantic interests: There are currently 2 main romantic love interest, but if the timeline allows, we are considering adding more.
Point and Fork System: Points will be given to choices, while some choices have more weight and will lead to completely different routes.
8-12 hours of gameplay
The Ghosts of Hackney Mills
It’s a very short horror mystery game that seems to be the first part of a serie. There’s nothing dangerous or deadly happening to the player’s character (an electrician?) but the place is spooky. You need to explore a ghost town to find three generators and then a way out. During the exploration you can experience the recent past by finding various notes and letters left behind and by listening to conversations through crystals (turn off the BGM before activating a crystal so you can hear them and then turn it back on again to get the spooky vibes). Examining items like furnitures, doors and random objects (including holes in the road) gets you some comments from the character that adds to the story.
– Real player with 5.8 hrs in game
What should I start with? I am still grieving as the ending credits are rolling. The music accompanying it makes my grief even more punctuated. I’ve learned that the decisions we don’t care much about do affect the lives of other people.
Todd Collins is your character. You have to inspect the electrical power of an university you have checked in the past. The university is abandoned and, of course, you didn’t seem to care at first of its past secrets. Until one time when you think you see a deer and swerve your car in a tree. You’re fine, but the car isn’t. You call your boss on your radio and you both decide that you should inspect the transformer power-plants and meet with your boss in the northern part of the campus.
– Real player with 5.0 hrs in game