Where is the meaning?

Where is the meaning?

«Where is the meaning?» is a single JRPG game made by two Russian developers with very special attitude to this genre. The action takes place in unknown universe where the player should make conclusions what is happening around. You are the geometric figure «square» which need to reach the end of this world. But does it exists? You should find it out in this dangerous and strange adventure.

  • Minimalistic and not overextended unique JRPG with smoothly evolving gameplay

  • Emotional voiceover with no language barrier

  • Funny dialogs and non-pretentious characters

  • Well-designed side-quests which you can skip on

  • Every enemy has unique dialog

  • You can beat the game without any battles if you do

  • You will meet tons of references easter eggs on your way

  • Minimal tiring dialogs and battles

  • Complimentary reviews of two friends who played the game


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Where is the meaning? on Steam

Beyond The Darkness

Beyond The Darkness

Have you been able to overcome your fears?

Horror tale with unique mechanics.

Beyond The Darkness is a horror adventure game in which you have to help little girl Millie overcome her nightmares and find her parents.

In this game we have to play as a little girl Millie, who, by a strange coincidence, got into her most vivid memories. The day when they presented their favorite toy, the first trip to school, the meeting of the first friend, and so on …

Each level is a memory darkened by a certain fear, with unique mechanics of interacting with the light that is the salvation in this game.


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Beyond The Darkness on Steam

Chill Corner

Chill Corner

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This is just an idle game for chillout and relaxing.

Features:

  • Beautiful rooms with chilling atmosphere and weather

  • More than 50 lo-fi, acoustic and other genre of music for chilling, relaxing or focusing

  • Customizing your character and pets

  • Taking a rest by do several in game quest

  • Decorating your room

  • Creating and manage your task

  • Creating and customize your favorite playlist


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Chill Corner on Steam

Fire Place

Fire Place

It’s the perfect time for a virtual Fire Place

with days getting shorter and hazy seasons approaching.

The game – or rather simulation – offers a variety of scenes/locations to choose from, generally season unrelated.

You might choose the bonfire at the beach or the mediterranean looking fire-place for some chill summer evenings.

The game offers to many options to manipulate the behaviour of the fire itself and also the rendering/appearance to list them all. You can change brightness and glow but also get detailed control like how fast the heat spreads or the ambient heat which affects the fire.

Real player with 3.7 hrs in game

Less game, more experience. Fire Place works as both a short-session way to chill and a long one if you need a sleeping aid. Once you’ve got a decent fire going it’ll keep itself active for about 20 minutes depending on available fuel, or you can tinker with it every 5 or so minutes to maintain it indefinitely. There are multiple scenes to work with, ranging from a generic campfire to an old Victorian-era fireplace in a vaguely spooky room.

Note here each fireplace layout features different audio, some of which is great and some…well, you’ll wonder why its addition to the game was celebrated lol. There are thankfully sliders for the music as well as everything else including how the fire reacts to materials - modifying some of these though can cause your GPU to break a bit of a sweat so low-spec users should be wary.

Real player with 3.0 hrs in game

Fire Place on Steam

Lost EVE

Lost EVE

Lost EVE is a dark, atmospheric puzzle-platformer, the story of which unfolds in a post-apocalyptic future about 3 thousand years after a nuclear war.

With the departure of the dryad on the Moon, the power of the magical obelisks that supported life dries up and the forest gradually fades.

The forest has changed a lot, now it is ruled by strange semi-biological, semi-mechanical creatures.

A magical and very unfriendly world is waiting for you. The main character becomes involved in a spinning carousel of events, where he remains until the end of the story.

Lost EVE on Steam

Virtual Cottage

Virtual Cottage

This program is not a game, but a timer, that you can use to track concentration sessions. It’s good to use with the Pomodoro technique.

Some things that I suggest as an improvement are:

  • allowing one more sound to be played besides (wind) and (fire), so that you could hear wind + fire + rain OR wind + fire + snow; and

  • make a “mini view” possible, displaying “clock”, “minutes to go”, “sound effects” controls and “music control”, in a smaller window size.

If the creators really want to “gamefy” this app, I suggest offering in a “shop” different objects to decorate the cottage: vases, plants, calendars, pictures, books, cookpots, rugs, lights, mattress and pillows colors, etc. We’ll not buy those items, but rather receive points on sessions completed according to sessions' durations of time. Then, we can you those received points to “buy” those itens in the “shop” and build our own inventory.

Real player with 210.1 hrs in game

Let’s start with the fact that it’s not really a game, it’s fancy timer and as timer it totally could do better.

You set a name, a time and if you want a signal when it’s out and when it is you may set new one. If you ask me I think it would be nice to make kind of “pomodoro mode” and allow to set 2 timers, for work and for break, so when one timer is out you press “next” without spending time on writing. Though one is nice too.

I love there’s set of white noise generators - can pick few at a time and pretend it’s gross weather outside while you sit here warm by fire. Having a plaid irl totally helps with mood. There’s also music option but nothing I personally like or usually listen so 🤷‍♀️

Real player with 184.8 hrs in game

Virtual Cottage on Steam

Maison Rouge

Maison Rouge

History

The Great French Revolution is a bourgeois democratic revolution that took place in 1789-1794. in France. It was the result of a long crisis of the feudal system, which led to a conflict between the third estate and the privileged upper class.

Maison Rouge

This is a story about an ordinary person living during the economic crisis in France. The country is on the verge of revolution. The main character will have to choose which side to take. Lead a rebellion or defend the honor of a king. Whether to betray your friends for a good cause or to put everything on the line is up to you.

This is a visual novel with elements of various mini-games. Throughout the game, you will constantly make choices and learn the lore of the game. When choosing different solutions, you will or will not discover new information, improve or lower your reputation with various social groups or specific characters.

You have to:

  • Make friends and enemies from opposing political factions. Lure them over to your side or get rid of them forever!

  • Enjoy a unique visual style that combines simplicity and beauty!

  • Immerse yourself in the oppressive atmosphere of the French Revolution

Maison Rouge on Steam

Cat’s Menace

Cat’s Menace

This game was a lot of fun to play in front of my stream audience, however playing it by myself without friends would have been a rather miserable experience, I’m afraid. The game has no save or checkpoint system, so when you have a Game Over, you have to start the entire game over from the beginning. The game operates by having you assign a cat to a task and making choices to decide whether the cats succeed or fail in the mission. The choices have no logic behind them, so it’s a coin flip in deciding if you lose the cat you assigned or not. Also, it doesn’t seem to matter which cats you assign to the mission. They’re essentially just very cute life counters.

Real player with 2.1 hrs in game

So, I’m going to be honest and say, I LOVE CATS…

Now, when I then looked at the “Similar to games you’ve played: The Witcher 3 and Portal 2” I was ready for this game to BLOW. MY. MIND.

Spoiler alert: It did not…

The other reviews are spot on:

  • English translation is bad, even to the point where some things doesn’t make sense

  • It’s game over pretty easily and you have no idea what would be the right answer to the events you’re prompted with

  • When you get a game over, you start over from the beginning - so it becomes a pattern of blindly guessing what’s right and having to remember every right answer to get further in the game. Which gets boring and annoying very fast.

Real player with 0.4 hrs in game

Cat's Menace on Steam

Fat Prisoner Simulator 3

Fat Prisoner Simulator 3

Might possibly be the best game on the market currently. The graphics, the gameplay, the absolute talent required to even TOUCH this game is insane.

Real player with 58.3 hrs in game

quite the exceptional game i would recommend this game to others in the future 10/10 from me

Real player with 8.9 hrs in game

Fat Prisoner Simulator 3 on Steam

My Best Nightmare

My Best Nightmare

For a couple bucks, it was a fun game. Cool pixel graphics, surreal environments, creepy aesthetics.

-I feel there was a language barrier involved. I didn’t always understand what was going on.

-Seemed kinda rushed. There is a platforming portion with unique animations for jumping and climbing, but it is over in about 90 seconds. Seems like a waste to end it so soon. In another area, you enter a forest that is beautifully drawn and animated, but you just grab a key and leave immediately.

Overall, a fun, inexpensive experience that scratches the point-and-click itch for an evening.

Real player with 3.2 hrs in game

For only $3 this point&click adventure is surprisingly decent, the narrative is unique, the environment has a lot of detail, and it has about 90 minutes of content, which is more than I expected. I think the story had a good mystery, even if I didn’t fully understand the concept, something about the dreams bridging reality. There are cool psychological effects in terms of narrative and scenery, overall I think the game was somewhat immersive, but it’s not much of a horror experience. I had a few technical problems with the interface, I think the hotspots overall were pretty annoying, I often overlooked areas because the click detection was so narrow, and on top of it, some of the scene transitions were easy to mistake for background. Perhaps you should do some color coding next to the doors and pathways, it would remove a lot of unnecessary frustration. Another thing, if there is an object like a vending machine that is part of the puzzle, the character should comment on it, instead of just having the hotspots, it would highlight the importance of an object. The are several locations in the game where the character has nothing to say on the hotspot that requires an item, and because it’s in pixel art, sometimes you have to use your imagination because again, the character didn’t comment.

Real player with 2.8 hrs in game

My Best Nightmare on Steam