Brukel
I completed the game and earned all achievements in the game, also created an achievement guide. I believe, that I experienced all the content and so I can share my experiences about this game.
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
Read More: Best Historical First-Person Games.
This is an Exploration/indie/Visual Novel/Oral History game about a teenager growing up in Belgium during WWII.
This is a personal story. The devs grandmother is who is telling it and voices herself. You see the farm she was raised on.
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Story
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Graphics
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Unique Puzzles via your phone and keywords
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Voiced by the woman who lived through it
After finishing this I had to sit and just think about it for a while; it is a powerful story.
How many family histories are left behind that future generations will never know?
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
Kabukicho Story
It’s okay. A melancolic little story told using the RPG medium. There are a a couple game sequences. The whole thing is short, maybe a couple hours at most.
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– Real player with 6.3 hrs in game
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Great game. The atmosphere is really soothing and the story is awesome.
I am just gonna point out a few things here. This game is somewhat held in the 12th century irl. Although this is a fantasy game, modern language is not really that suitable. But overall, great game. I recommend playing it.
– Real player with 1.8 hrs in game
Blackhaven
its ok.
I’m not saying its unplayable!
The story isn’t bad, and i did enjoy it a few times, but its mostly just walk around, press this, read that, listen to this audio. you don’t actually get to make decisions or explore properly, visually its nice, but there is so little of actual interest to look at, the house itself was disapointingly small, with only two chairs, a small table, a bed, a weird thing on a wall, and a few stone pillars. it doesn’t feel like a proper museum or historical exhibit.
– Real player with 5.4 hrs in game
Read More: Best Historical First-Person Games.
I really liked this game. For me it was pretty much Job Simulator because:
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I work in history, preservation & archives (the game even mentioned one of my old jobs, Library of Congress)
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I’m Black
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I live in Maryland, visited Virginia lots (obv. not now, not trying to die of modern plague)
Hence why this game was basically Job Simulator for me. From the decor to the scanner/computer set-up to the gift shop to the micro-aggressive White employees (I couldn’t help but to go, “wow, did they just pull these emails direct from the jobs I have been on?") to the douchebaggery of the estate when there are Black American patrons trying to simply trace their family trees, not write exposes, because the estate goes “Oh noes! Our reputation!” - everything is pretty dead on accurate for me. It’s also wild hearing places in Maryland & Virginia and going, “I know where that is and, wow, these documents look just like the ones I scan and transcribe daily.”
– Real player with 5.3 hrs in game
Magdalena
I’m not really sure why this game has so many positive reviews…
If you want to make a short artsy game with some sort of story, fine.
BUT…
-The game no longer starts correctly, and I can no longer play it. It boots, asks “Rus or Eng?” when I click Eng the screen goes black. I can hear music, but the screen remains black. I have tried revalidating the files and uninstalling it multiple times, but the problem persists.
-The one time I was able to play, it stuttered like mad, even with no antialiasing, lowest graphics settings, etc, even though I have a GTX 960, a newer Intel Core I-5 and 8 GB of ram
– Real player with 4.4 hrs in game
Magdalena is a horror game, where you relive your deepest and darkest memories.
Story:
You play as George, he is going through his old home and is reliving his old memories by exploring the house. The more you explore the house the more backstory you get and sinister truth is revealed to you.
Now I took the story description from the store page, but if this description wasn’t there, it would be impossible to actually follow the story ( mostly because of a few factors, but we will get to those later). The story itself is not that interesting and a few notes pretty much giveway the plot twist ending, which is incredibly predictable.
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
Cassius
Cassius is a first-person story-driven puzzle game exploring the mysteries of Blackhaven Hall, a sprawling historically accurate colonial estate evacuated at the height of the American Revolution. Journey back to the 1781 and decode the dark secrets lurking behind America’s founding.
A Secret Mission and A Hidden Mystery
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Explore a massive historically accurate 18th century estate including an opulent mansion, manicured garden, and the sprawling surrounding farms.
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Solve puzzles involving period correct scientific instruments, furnishing, art, sculpture, tools, toys, and rare books.
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Uncover the most closely held secrets of Blackhaven Hall, and confront the lives touched by a tragic history.
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Take part in a forbidden conspiracy that will decide your fate.
About Cassius
Cassius is a continuation of the story from Historiated’s first title, Blackhaven It was developed in cooperation with a diverse set of scholars and experts.
Lying Souls™
Lying Souls™ is an atmospheric, mysterious single player story horror game. You’ll dive into a story in which nothing is as it seems. Find out the reasons behind what happened to your family back then. Your decisions will guide the course of the story.
THE INCIDENT
It was a while ago when all this happened. With time, the incident has calmed down. You don’t know anything anymore and step by step you find out the truth and why it all happened.
YOUR DECISIONS
You are still on a dangerous path of darkness. Are you someone who runs away from problems or faces them? It is entirely your decision. Until today you have not received any answers. Now you are going to search for them yourself. Whether you succeed or not depends entirely on you.
LYING SOULS
In Lying Souls™ you’ll enter a story in which you’ll have to solve, in first person, the mysterious circumstances of a long-past incident in your family. You’ll experience different parts of the story and you’ll have to sort everything out. The gameplay is linear, but the story is not.
MAIN FEATURES
*** Interactive Story / Own Decisions:** You will obviously have to make a decision at some moments that will change the later course of the story for you. Smaller, not so obvious decisions & actions are also part of this. Whether you will find out everything with your decisions is questionable.
*** Notes / Recordings:** You will come across a number of audio recordings and various writings and notes. They will help you put the story together. Not everything may always be clearly told / revealed and you will have to find your own explanation.
*** Random Events:** You will experience random events from time to time. These are not random “paranormal” events to create a mood, but are always part of the current story and gameplay when they happen.
Plague Doctor: Contagion 430 BCE–2020 AD
Plague Doctor Contagion, was a short and sweet retelling of different pandemics through time. I greatly enjoyed the music in the game, the graphics are nothing special but still stylized in a unique way I wont forget soon, and the game play could do with more interactivity (examples could be, puzzles, finding objects to help people, or having your decisions affect your outcomes in a more prominent sense.).
For $3 this game is not bad, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the descriptions of the diseases and what they were doing to people, and I liked seeing history played out in front of me like they did.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
You can pet the dog
10/10 Game Of The Year
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Walden, a game
If you couldn’t tell by my playtime (24 hours at the time of this review), I love this game. It’s going multiple playthroughs, for one, to get all of the achievements, so, for a “completionist” like me, I appreciate that each playthrough brought a bit of a different experience. There are occasionally some issues with the graphics where layering is a little weird, or you’ll walk into something and Thoreau (your character) jumps 30 feet into the air (when he isn’t supposed to), but these were minor and didn’t impact my enjoyment of the game. This is more than a walking simulator. It’s really more of an RPG, where you’re immersing yourself in the life of Henry David Thoreau.
– Real player with 24.0 hrs in game
Walden, a game isn’t an action heavy game, neither a hardcore survival game.
If you like to wander around in a game, examine nature objects, animals or just chill out while fishing, all these in the form of a first-person RPG game while also solving some quests then you will probably enjoy Walden.
The survival elements of the game aren’t serious. You can’t die. No matter if you don’t have food at all during the winter, you will still survive. Fulfilling your needs influence only your tiredness. If your needs fulfilled then you can run longer and you get tired slower. That’s it.
– Real player with 22.6 hrs in game
VERGE:Lost chapter
2/10
Being a fan of horror games and someone who likes to support small developers - and also keeping in mind this game was made with GameGuru -, I really wanted to come here and recommend this game.
Unfortunately, I can’t.
The rain sound effect right at the beginning loops in such a way that you can tell when it loops, as there’s a fraction of a second where the sound pauses. The loading screens take WAY too long to load and it completely breaks the game’s immersion.
But the game’s biggest flaw is that it just… Lacks content. It’s incredibly short and it really has nothing to it. No compelling story, no challenge level, no puzzles, nothing. You really just find keys to doors, avoid some few and incredibly easy to avoid hazards and that’s it. Also, your actions don’t affect the ending, because you literally get to a part where it says “choose your end”.
– Real player with 12.2 hrs in game
Tags: 1PHWS - FIrst Person Horror Walking Simulator
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library
TLDR: Gameguru. Short. Dead end narrative. Potential asset flip. Strongly recommended to avoid.
Review: WAY TOO LONG loading screens even on OP machine. Then game loads slow moving star wars text, this is no quality writing let me tell you. Basically just saying I used to be insane, I feel better, I got lost in the countryside. LOADING SCREEN. You are dumped on a fenced dirt road and go down the road. RUN RUN RUN RUN - RUN RUN - Game floats some text about things being SCARY or MADNESS. It makes no sense. So in your mind you replace those words with BORING: e.g. PROJECT 12 IS A GOVERNMENT PROGRAM THAT INJECTED PEOPLE TO INDUCE MADNESS = INJECT PEOPLE TO INDUCE BORING. Game makes a lot more sense after you do that. Anyways you open DOOR TO BUILDING = LOADING SCREEN. You go DOWN A SINGLE CORRIDOR = LOADING SCREEN. GO AROUND A DARK CORNER USE FLASHLIGHT OPEN DOOR = LOADING SCREEN.
– Real player with 8.2 hrs in game
A Painter’s Tale: Curon, 1950
Incredibly deep expression of a very sad event in the history of the world. Excellent game and time well spent!
– Real player with 3.6 hrs in game
A gentle and relaxing game that allows the player to immerse themselves within history. I never thought I would feel such nostalgia from a quaint little town, or receive goosebumps upon my finishing of the game. Though the movement was a bit awkward at times, the shading and colours of Curon were stunning, and the soundtrack was beautiful. The story is novel-like, the visuals are picturesque, and you will walk out of this piece of art with a fleeting, but haunting experience of a tale from the past.
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game