Child of Lothian
The beautiful culture and atmosphere of 18th century Edinburgh disappearing beneath the shadows of witch hunters looming in the streets. Hushed whispers appearing in every corner and suspicious gazes of townspeople falling upon their neighbours as friends become enemies. What is your role to play as a child, in the 18th-century witch trials?
AGAINST ALL ODDS
The world around you feels intimidatingly large and crowded. It sometimes just feels like all the odds and people are against you. Yet you learned to survive the harsh conditions of the streets of Edinburgh. Hide and disguise yourself to escape the witch hunters and steal items from others to survive.
CHOOSE YOUR PATH
Choose to engage in dialogue to find the information you need to complete quests or decide to pickpocket, eavesdrop and steal to reach your goals. The choice is all yours.
YOUR SHELTER IS YOUR SAFE SPACE
The only home you’ve got where you can take a breather and feel comfortable, sleep to venture in the dark of the night or at day- and plan out your next moves for the dangers you’ll encounter once on the streets of witch-hunter invaded streets of Edinburgh.
Stealth Mechanics
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Pickpocketing
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Stealing
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Hiding
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Disguising yourself
Traversal
- Free roam
AI Behaviour
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Advanced stealth guards AI
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Reputation system for NPC’s: Communciation between NPC’s on player behaviour
Camera
- Cinematic camera during dialogues
Narrative
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Dialogue
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Environmental storytelling
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Immersive UI
Systems
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Quest system
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Inventory system
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Day / night system
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Destroy The Shogun
Had fun with this. Took me about 2 hours to beat. Easier/more forgiving than a lot of retro-style platformers, which was a plus to me. Some very fun music, and a grappling hook that felt good to use. Would have liked if it was a little bit longer, but still felt satisfying enough as-is.
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
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I will change this review if need be but so far, you can’t seem to save and the game will crash to windows.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
ARIDA 2: Rise of the Brave
Overcome the challenges of the drought to survive this nineteenth-century Brazilian backlands walking trip.
Cícera continues her journey in this single-player that combines elements of survival and adventure. Gather resources, build utensils, learn tools, and interact with other backlands travelers. Be strong. Have faith and wisdom to explore the aridest regions and discover clues that point the way to a very special settlement.
FEATURES
Ready for the night
The day and night cycle adds greater provisioning needs. When the sunlight is gone, new threats will emerge. And new guides too!
Accompanied on the journey
A lonely trip in the backlands can be very dangerous. Stay tuned for the challenges you meet, maybe you can find someone (or something) who will serve as a companion.
Equipped for adventure
The challenges of the backlands require equipment. Use the machete and hoe for vital actions such as getting water, cutting paths or cutting a cornstalk. But don’t forget to have a handful of stones as blind equipment is of no use!
Recipes to practice
Living in the backlands requires a science of its own. The fauna and flora are unique, so try to learn the recipes available for crafting with the typical items of the region.
Interact to survive
Hunger and thirst can be quite cruel in the backlands in times of drought. Interact with the other characters you met to solve quests and learn new strategies for getting water and food.
Explore to know
Explore the arid regions to learn more about the backlands and find the resources you need to stay upright. A full inventory is always a good thing!
Stories to learn
The backlands is a special place, with unique stories that would only happen there. Venture to find the lost objects and find out more about the backlands legends.
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Sinbad
Sinbad is a charming 3D sandbox platfomer inspired by A Thousand and One Arabian Nights and games such as Super Mario and A Hat in Time.
It follows a young Sinbad who stumbles upon a Magic Lamp and gets sucked in and trapped inside! Finding this secret magical land in turmoil Sinbad must help a Genie usurped from his throne to overpower the evil Jinn to restore order in the Lamp in order to escape as well!
During this adventure, Sinbad discovers a magic carpet that becomes his companion. This wonderful and magical carpet allows him to hover and interact with various objects around the world. As the player, you must collect Magic Lanterns to disperse the evil curse that the Jinn has placed upon the land.
You explore many different locations and environments around the mystical island inside the Magic Lamp, each area with a different story to tell.
Collect all Magic Lanterns in order to defeat the Jinn and return to the real world!
Highly Likely
This is one of the most tedious, poorly crafted, boring, pointless games I’ve ever played.
The art is phenomenal. The developers' interactions with folks on the internet is disappointing. It’s buggy and slow and repetitive.
There are no puzzles, there’s barely a story, there is no skill involved, it’s poorly translated, it’s a little sexist, and the characters' motivations are all over the map. There’s literally a segment in this game where you need to cross a river, so you hold the joystick to the left for over a minute while he slowly turns a crank. This happens multiple times. The most engaging moment of the whole thing is a long and laborious multi-part fetch quest.
– Real player with 4.6 hrs in game
Highly Likely is a short and light-hearted point-and-click game that is set in a rural Ukraine and follows a man named Mikola as he tries to get himself out of an enormous debt that he owes to the bank. He finds himself a new business opportunity, one that is risky and could land him in trouble with the law, but he knows that he’s got no other choice. This is the basic story premise that is very relatable and could happen to just about anyone.
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
RoHoEn Rumble
Awesome funny concept. Love the boss man, but needs more Koi fish! Good work!!
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Short but sweet!
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Wonhon: A Vengeful Spirit
After playing the demo I waited for this for so long…. and the full game surpasses my expectations. More enemy types and mechanisms and more brain racking to finish a mission. Also if you played the demo, the full game lets you CARRY OVER YOUR SAVE FILE. Awesome.
So what’s this game? Well in addition to the descriptions above I must say, the AIs can be pretty aggressive… not knowing the map fully on first tries, you are prone to die a lot. (remember: your hon gauge fills up when newly possessing someone and use a bit of that to dash through walls at the end of the gauge to get away) The game does let you play with fewer enemies if you die too many times or are having trouble but no real manual difficulty setting which I like. It’s immersive. You can’t choose the difficulty in life. It was nightmare mode for the Koreans in 1920 every day.
– Real player with 20.6 hrs in game
I was captivated by the E3 presentation so much that I had to play. I love horror, especially eastern stuff like Fatal Frame, so I might be a bit biased.
It’s a fun game, but quite repetitive. There are a lot of bumps that I’ll explain, but nothing to serious to stop you from playing. It’s significantly easier than it looks, even offering to replay missions with fewer enemies when you die often, and never (visibly) penalizing you for it.
Much of the game consists of three different types of missions; slaying, in which you’ll kill everyone in sight, fetch quests, where you’ll sneak around to get something for some spirits eternal rest, and the unfortunate bulk of them, will be rescue missions (escorts). The Ai can only really get stuck in the same places you would, which you will likely memorize and avoid, which is bearable, it’s okay as they follow you quite closely at an inconsistent speed. Most of Challenge mode consists of escorts, which is off putting, but the main game is enjoyable enough for 4-5 hours, especially in terms of rich atmosphere, and locations through different seasons, the best part.
– Real player with 13.8 hrs in game
Wulverblade
Extensive knowledge of Shetland folklore isn’t exactly a topic on my resume, so I had no idea what a Wulver was. Apparently, it’s some kind of humanoid wolf creature. But unlike a werewolf, the night sky doesn’t need to be lit by a full moon for a Wulver to scare the living daylights out of you. Combining Scottish mythology and Roman history, Wulverblade tells the story of a Caledonian tribe trying to stop the invasion of their land by the Roman Empire’s Ninth Legion about two millennia ago.
– Real player with 27.1 hrs in game
Good Looking History
Limbs fly and blood pools across the floor as I hack my way around 120AD Roman occupied Britain. I smash an archers head into the floor repeatedly until he is decapitated and then turn, lobbing it as a missile into an oncoming centurion, knocking him to the ground.
Wulverblade is a side scrolling brawler where non stop button mashing action blends with historical interest, set to the backdrop of a colourful, cartoonish style. The graphics appeal to me aesthetically with detail and layered environments. I loved the animated backgrounds which added immersion, such as a flight of deer running behind you in the forest, crows watching you from the foreground or a distant battle taking place. The animations are smooth and fast with satisfying combos, a rage bar for ultimate annihilation and the ability to call upon your wolves once per level to savage the enemy. I recommend you save it for when you’re being overwhelmed, as this game really does love to throw numbers against you.
– Real player with 16.2 hrs in game
Adam’s Venture Chronicles
(Got this game courtesy of the user Dom. Thanks, man!)
“My name’s Adam Venture. Danger trembles when it hears MY name! I am…” random interuption
What do you get when you throw Indiana Jones, the Bible, and some puzzles into a boiling pot? Well, you get Adam’s Venture Chronicles, a 3-episode puzzle adventure and platformer hybird that focuses on Christian (or Catholic…both are the same to me) mythology involving primarily the Old Testament of the Bible, namely the Garden of Eden and Solomon…who I don’t really remember all that well (being a former Catholic).
– Real player with 9.8 hrs in game
As has been noted by everyone else, the three Adam Venture games which was at one time sold individually have been grouped together to produce one long game named Adam Venture Chronicles (2015) created by a Dutch company which can be found here http://vertigo-games.com/company/
It claims to be an online adventure similar to Allan Quatermaine and Indiana Jones and it does have that type of feel about it all. It was also created to be suitable for Christians and young children as it contains little to no violence or bloodshed in the entire adventure series. However let’s still look at each individually.
– Real player with 9.0 hrs in game
Sumer
January 2019:
Love this game, but wish development would go a bit faster…
Edit December 2020:
Seems like they gave up on this game, no news in 18 months, shame :(
Not worth the €15 but still a fun game
– Real player with 33.9 hrs in game
I backed this game on Kickstarter and had access to the games beta before its full release and Inhave to say, this game is really fun. It’s a fantastic virtual board game of sorts that requires a lot of strategy and is incredibly competitive. There are multiple ways to play the game and earn victory points, allowing you to play the game how you want. The AI for this game are well programmed and are an adequate challenge if you’re playing by yourself or you can play this with friends and compete against each other. Overall it’s a very fun board game/party game and I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone.
– Real player with 33.7 hrs in game