ARK -the lost fairytale-
Narrator launches its 2014 exploration game 《ARK - The Lost Fairytale》 on Steam!
Different from other exploration games where you solve puzzles through ‘logical reasoning’, this game focuses on using association and story connection to solve puzzles.
Features:
＋ Puzzles are based mainly on fairytales. Hints are given through reading the many fairytales scattered throughout the game.
＋ Several original fairytales.
＋ Tested by many players, it is considered moderately difficult with mild horror elements; not overly difficult, but not too easy.
＋ Many small and surprising easter-eggs.
＋ Steam achievements and trading cards. (trading cards will be enabled by Steam once enough copies of the game are sold)
－ The True End does not explicitly end the story. The final challenge is to guess what will happen next!
STORY
After a long stay in the hospital, Nui was finally able to return to school.
However, on her way home from school, her beloved rabbit doll Caroline suddenly jumped out of her hands. Chasing after her doll, she wandered into a dark alley leading to a forgotten garden…
Character
Nui
A young, fairytale-loving protagonist. Being hospitalized for a long time made her silent and shy, but she’s very understanding and considerate.
When she returned to school, she didn’t know anyone, so she got in the habit of bringing her black rabbit doll with her wherever she went. The doll’s name is Caroline.
Noozu
A little boy found in the Twilight Garden.
Younger than even Nui, he’s very timid and physically weak. With the help of Nui, he’s able to move forward.
Lin
As Nui walked home from school, this girl appeared across the road.
Lured by her, Nui left the safety of the sidewalk to venture into the long, narrow alley…
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Escape From Violet Institute
I really, really want to like this game. The 2d portion shows a lot of potential, and the shift from perspective inside the game proper is well done and keeps you interested in whats going on.
The game suffers from overly confusing sections during the 3d portion, I in particular had to speak with the dev twice due to getting stuck behind a plant and the game needing to have its collision changed, and another when a scripted event did not properly trigger to kill my character.
Please dev, if you are reading this if you could post a text or video walkthrough or hint guide or some such it would make it much easier, and less likely for someone to get frustrated and quit because they couldnt figure out what to do.
– Real player with 17.1 hrs in game
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Brilliant game! Very engaging with a tense atmosphere.
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
Puzzling Peaks EXE
AppSir has developed a series that has many games under its belt. They have continually proved again and again that there is far more to their games than it seems, by connecting each and every one of them.
The rest of the games on steam have been platformers, this one changes things up by being more of a puzzle game that sort of resembles golf. This change doesn’t some out of nowhere however, the story explains just how and why the change was made. While I do prefer the gameplay of the dere.exe games, this one makes up for the simple gameplay just with the story it tells. As usual this game is incredibly story and lore rich for the series and I love it.
– Real player with 2.4 hrs in game
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well other finish .. I think
– Real player with 2.4 hrs in game
DUNGEON OF NAZARICK
I died 409 times. It took exactly 13085 seconds of my life to complete. That’s one death every 30 seconds or so. You truly understand the pain one feels when fighting a Nazarick guardian after playing this game, and Shalltear’s a bitch.
10/10, let me feel love again.
– Real player with 5.2 hrs in game
ALL HAIL ROACH KING!
ALL HAIL ROACH KING!
ALL HAIL ROACH KING!
ALL HAIL ROACH KING!
ALL HAIL ROACH KING!
ALL HAIL ROACH KING!
ALL HAIL ROACH KING!
ALL HAIL ROACH KING!
10/10 love to see Roach King!
– Real player with 2.7 hrs in game
Sightbringer
Game looks great but causes a memory stack overflow error in Windows 10 Ultimate x64. I know it’s not my gaming rig as have not seen an error like this since early XP. Will definetly try again later, If needed I can send the data to the developers of the crash. Otherwise a cool game, just needs polishing.
– Real player with 4.1 hrs in game
Short fun yet very rewarding platformer. Sightbringer has very nice dark gothic graphics and atmosphere with some odd feeling movement that some don’t seem to care for but imo i like it i can’t really explain why but it just feels right. Though the game is short with one level running at no more then a few min and a challenge level a little harder then the base game it feels more like a prologue to a much bigger game(which i would be up for) yet still worth your time.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Citadale - The Awakened Spirit
Scanlines should be a mandatory feature for all retro-style games. It adds so much to Citadale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU3qTfPmGjU
If you want to see Citadale and its difficulty in action, watch my video. Take old-school Castlevania, add a second item slot, the generosity of checkpoints, and a couple of odd design choices. Stages can be tackled in any order, with the castle acting as a sort of hub. Bosses are painfully difficult.
You have a shield that is sometimes useful. If you pick up a subweapon, I hope you were paying attention because the one you just had is gone. (This is my only serious complaint. I wish you dropped the previous one so you could switch back, especially with the two slots available.) Some enemies bleed poison that will hurt you. Being deliberate and having good timing is the key to everything.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
I wanted to like this game but I couldn’t… Graphics are fine, music is OK, animations are meh, enemy IA non existent and story, I didn’t gave it the chance.
IA is the main reason I’m not recommending this game. Enemies seems to move randomly or using some kind of pathfinding algorithm in order to reach you, which some times is just painful. There’s a boss who will move immediately after being hit, sometimes it will move in your direction… sometimes it wont, aaaand if you enter the room without a subweapon you can throw upwards you might end up dying of boredom waiting for the boss to move down so you can reach it. Also I don’t recomend it because I hate instakill spikes…
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
Cold Call
I never write reviews but with game, I want to talk about this one. The game is short and sweet but still a good one. The price is accetable for this game and it had some good scares. In other words I liked this game and hope this game gets a sequel.
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game
This is a really fun game! I didn’t think I would like this too much, but it kinda surprised me and delivered some solid spoops. The point and click style is different from most games I’ve tried and I liked it a lot. I would love to see achievements for this one day.
One problem: The end of the game is really buggy for me. Hopefully the Devs pop in and have a look. Other than being unable to complete the game due to bugs/AI tuning, I had fun.
! When you have to fight the snowman, you don’t have enough fuel. If you try to go back to the shed to get another can of spray, it won’t let you in. So if you run out of flamethrower fuel, icicles just keep spawning until you die, even if you turned the heater back on in the room.
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
Lasagna Boy
Very unforgiving but fun game.
You have to wonder, what did Jon do to deserve such punishment?
– Real player with 9.2 hrs in game
I can’t do this anymore, I’ve had enough of the goddamn minecarts and the goddamn platforms i have lost all patience I am sorry
– Real player with 7.3 hrs in game
Nice Spice
Nice Spice takes JRPG-like elements (in-depth story segments, towns, equipment, leveling, etc) and combines it with randomized action-platformer battles.
SETTING OVERVIEW
In an enigmatic hellish underworld, different queer furry folk on their own journeys find one another and quickly form friendships and band together. They learn of mysterious arcane spices that when consumed, giant monsters and dungeons are summoned. With different personal goals and needs they decide that working together to collect the spices and conquer the dungeon is the best way to move forward, even if the path is full of dangers and peril. They travel through caves of guts and bones, goo, etc.
The story will feature themes of sexuality, mental health, queer comradery, and finding a sense of place in a hostile world.
CHARACTERS
The game has an ensemble cast of playable characters and NPCs, such as:
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Oregano, the perpetually anxious green canine who must rescue his boyfriend captured by a cultist.
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Yonko Donko, the donkey who taps into her inner butch badass when she learns to channel her punk idol.
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Preston, the nudist burnout shopkeeper who scavenges the ground for items.
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Marble, the otherworldly latex-clad being who is a total sweetie.
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A furry dragon with a thing for being tied up.
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Clyde, mysterious mummy, possibly hibernates in an egg made of bandages.
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Two mysterious canine demons who love prophecies, and have a floating head mascot creature pal.
GAMEPLAY
The fighting revolves around action-platforming and randomization. Once you get into an encounter with an enemy in a dungeon or in a random battle, you must complete a series of random-generated rooms with varying terrain and enemy placements, as well as random powerups when you defeat enemies, etc. You’ll also be focusing on managing XP, equipment, coins, finding shops etc.
Aside from the action segments, the other equally major focus of the game is on the story segments. You’ll spend lots of time getting to know the ensemble cast, spending time with eccentric townsfolk, and progressing a large story. The main story will be linear but you’ll be given freedom to explore and find denizens to hang out with to also further the plot.
In all there are several different views and modes used to traverse the game’s world:
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side-view random-gen action platforming battles
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side-view to explore towns and caves, very chill
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a top-down dungeon-crawling view, very trippy
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a SNES-style psuedo 3D overworld
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and scripted story segments will bring you to new areas too
ACCESSIBILITY
A few accessibility options we’ll include:
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turn off screenshake & tone down flashy effects
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slow down time for all battles, to make the game easier to control
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hide nude illustrations
NoRoY
Experience a different kind of horror, where every mistake has a big price. 2d action platformer with a horror twist, 50 handcrafted levels with lots of surprises, and very challenging.