Whispers in the Dark
The author was definitely trying to scare me, well, he did it. The game turned out to be quite original, but with some technical flaws. It’s too dark and a lame flashlight that doesn’t shine a damn thing.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
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I really enjoyed this game. It wasn’t super scary but had a good horror atmosphere throughout it. The story was also pretty good as well. It was still rough in a few spots and I think it could benefit from a note or something at the beginning that lets you know the controls like crouch, interact, and tasks. Overall for the price I would recommend this game. If you want to see some game play you can check out my video below.
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
DARK AROUND YOU
Not a bad game, with nice graphics and pleasant gameplay. Played for a couple of hours and it was worth it.
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
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Dark Around You is yet another 2D retro pixel platformer polluting the Steam marketplace. This one has a telekinesis gimmick where you can drag things around with the mouse pointer to help you do the platforming.
While this was built in Unity, it doesn’t seem like an asset flip as there’s a bespoke story and some pretty uniquely done mechanics and visuals. Kudos to the developer for that.
They chose to use obsolete retro pixel “art” as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It’s unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. Resolution and controls are locked. There’s a really unpleasant screen filter/effect that makes the camera sway as you move around, it made me feel a bit queasy, and I couldn’t see any way to turn that off. These flaws push this game far below minimum acceptable standards for PC.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Concealment
It’s good. :) Watch out for the monster.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
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Short, atmospheric horror experience. Get some creeps for your buck!
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
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.
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.
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
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:
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English translation is bad, even to the point where some things doesn’t make sense
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It’s game over pretty easily and you have no idea what would be the right answer to the events you’re prompted with
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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
Horror Girl Puzzle
It actually seems that among the 100-achievements, profile-limited games that are coming out these months on Steam there are some of them worth the while. I mean, I see every week a ton of “everything + puzzle” game or similar titles and of course most of them are asset flips and little else.
Developer Anatoliy Loginovskikh made a great effort in his drawing style here and he shows us his best horror-themed girls' operas, that of course compose the base of this puzzle game.
We will in fact be asked to solve puzzles through various mechanics, mainly by dragging and rotating the various pieces. And we will compose some really beautiful artworks, all made specifically for this game.
– Real player with 46.5 hrs in game
- ### Morlan’s shorts:
No more and no less weird than the other games from this developer. At first it’s a simple twist-puzzle but later there are..elements added. The nude-tentacle-girl-art is quite well done and I liked it and the little other puzzles are fun. It’s a very very short game though so you may want to pick it up on sale.
Don’t waste more time reading lengthy reviews.. time is of the essence!
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
Wild West Z
Even though this game is released in early access, it is far from complete and not made with common user experiences in mind. Here’s some reasons of why you shouldn’t buy this game at this point:
POOR UI
-There’s no key re-binding. The only mention of controls is through dialogue at the very beginning and the main menu tells you nothing.
-During character dialogue, pressing tab or control allows you to edit their text lines, and you can’t back out of this “debug” mode unless you restart the game save.
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Okay, look at how bad the trailer looks and then understand that the trailer makes this game look about 50 times better than it actually is.
This game and developer should be FINED.. and then have his face SLAPPED HARD… for one reason. He has maximum MOTION BLUR and NO SETTING TO TURN THIS CRAP OFF! WTF?!!? Yes, fine this guy AND slap the hell out of him!
It’s buggy, it’s not fun to play. It’s much more comedy than it is a fun “action shooter”. If you think ridiculous bugs like a bridge breaking apart for no reason and spinning at 3,000 spins per minute in mid air. Ugh. LOL! No, UGH!
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Destiny’s Plan
Destiny’s Plan is a cyberpunk visual with romantic and dramatic undertones. Upon starting the game, I was greeted with a menu entirely in Russian. I understand this is a game created for a Russian audience, but I had to trial and error my way through dialog until I happened upon the elusive language setting. A language dialog on initial startup would be very helpful as this almost kept me from playing the game.
The story begins, and man the english is broken. This seems like it was machine translated, but I do my best to translate sentences into meaningful phrases in my head. Destiny’s Plan deals with some meaningful topics such as mental health, grief and loss. It takes a few twists that I didn’t see coming, and overall I can tell that a lot of thought was put into telling this tale.
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
Very very rough translation for the english reader. Also very depressing. Cant say more without spoilering, but if your looking for a happy ending here, you will not find it.
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game