Meditation VR
I don’t have VR, so I was uncertain if this product would work for me. I tried it and it works fine without VR. The controls are a little different, The black screen with the VR instructions can be passed by pressing Enter on your keyboard. To get the image to be full screen you need to press F11. The ESC key will close the program. Screenshots are the usual F12.
I don’t know what the movement limitations are with VR, but you can move around without any problem when you are not in VR, The sound is also fine.
– Real player with 8.1 hrs in game
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Great Relaxation App
Extremely beautiful environment with lots of little details that ramp up the realism. It’s a simple experience, sitting in a chair on a tropical beach. Nonetheless, it’s very well-done. If you enjoy casual VR experiences, it’s worth the download. The guided meditation at the beginning is pleasant, but it would be nice to have options to turn off voice and music, leaving only the nature sounds (update- I just noticed that the audio options have separate volume controls for voice, music, and sound effects- I may have just missed it before). The developer is very responsive to messages in the discussion forum and put out a patch within a couple days for a crash I was experiencing.
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game
Detective Butler: Maiden Voyage Murder
Nice detective kinetic novel for one or two afternoons I guess (yeah, there are actually no choices at all) and one that is completely FREE at that. It’s full of overused tropes and it doesn’t take itself seriously at times but I certainly wouldn’t call it bad either as it leaves some food for the thought in the end, so it’s probably somewhere in between.
So yeah - it was enjoyable yet also flawed experience for me. Women characters here are mostly likeable and detailed but all man except captain and protagonist father would benefited from more developement. The pacing was actually pretty good but the mystery was maybe way too easy for me as I guessed the culprit and how everything happend right after the murder happened. Which is good and bad at the same time but thankfully the rest of the story was interesting to follow at least. But the main flaws were probably both main characters - detective Butler and main character (Golder’s son) unfortunately.
– Real player with 10.3 hrs in game
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Excellent! A free murder mystery visual novel. It’s apparently the first part of Misadventures of Detective Butler series. Originally released in 2013 and then got onto Steam in 2017 with some edits and improvements. I liked this a lot. Has a lot of personal moments and mystery itself is fairly interesting. Albeit I really would like to force detective to grow some beard first. You don’t get to choose anything in a game, which is shame, as I think they could at least test us with picking a suspect at the end of a game. But hey, at least it gives enough clues to solve it fairly before the murderer is revealed.
– Real player with 7.2 hrs in game
Lapso: NIMBO
Nimbo: “flat circular device that emits some kind of light."
Lapso: NIMBO is the prologue to a beautiful exploration puzzle game that will hopefully be released later this year.
Following the tracks of a hiker who mysteriously disappeared, we explore mysterious caves where we find strange drawings and constructs. We also have to solve a few puzzles to progress but nothing too hard as all the solutions can be found in the environment.
The least we can say is that the game is stunning and meticulous care was taken in its design as in the lights and sounds effects.
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
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Nimbo is the project of two Spanish developers, if I’m not mistaken. For now, it’s a short prologue with a sci-fi mystery narrative. The story takes place in Rockrose about the mystery of some lights that haunt on the place. Our character Kali Müller decides to go to the place to investigate about the nature of the enigmatic lights. He will be surprised to find a cavern with strange objects, out-of-this-world artefacts, and writing that he has never seen before. In the game there are some documents and photographs with an interesting text as clues to unveil the mystery of the appeared lights. Well, —I confess that I really liked the narrative of the game in Spanish. It has been a long time since I read or played anything in Spanish—. Despite being a short game, it offers a promising atmosphere of mystery throughout. That reminds me a bit of game in the part of the caverns: The Forest. The aesthetics of the game play on a harmonious combination of chiaroscuro between the nature of the earth with the technology and alien writing. That can be seen with the waterfall or the caverns and the luminous writing in various parts of the place. The development of the plot appears to be linear, because sometimes it teleports us from one place to another in the shape of the branches of a tree. There will always be a node connection between each branch of our journey. Not only attracts the storytelling and aesthetic aspect of the game. Those logical nodes of the narrative occur in the teleport jump. The effect of that: an almost filmic showing of the game. What unites these jumps or scene changes is the solution of a puzzle within the game. The puzzles are simple, but interesting, with the appearance of interacting with strange technology. All that is in our way will be the clues to solve the mystery locked in Rockrose. That combination of modest phosphorescence, a minimalist-ambient music and the dark colour of earthly nature, the developers offer an interesting and promising game proposition. With simple and affordable game mechanics, as well as a visual design that captures our attention at all times. We hope to know more about this interesting game.
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
Occupy White Walls
I was finally able to play the game again thanks to an update a few months ago. Unfortunately, the update also broke many galleries, by outright removing or otherwise affecting assets placed in galleries, changing lighting, and removing shadows. Most shadows have been restored since then and it wasn’t too much work restoring missing assets in my small galleries, but I don’t have any motivation to build while my galleries look totally different than intended due to lighting changes. Besides looking different, the new lighting just looks bad, missing a lot of prior definition.
– Real player with 292.4 hrs in game
Occupy White Walls is a strangely addicting FREE early access game with a unique concept, a first/third person art gallery management simulator with some very light RPG elements to encourage further progress.
A brief tutorial will help get you situated with the basic mechanics and then you’ll be set to build your own unique space on a blank plot of land. The basic gameplay loop revolves around you opening your gallery for guests, both human and NPC, to bring popularity toward your gallery and with that, more money to spend on art, furnishings, building materials and even expanding your building area. You level up by spending money on art and displaying it in your gallery, and each level gained unlocks access to newer and more complex design choices for your gallery. Each gallery opening lasts 30 minutes in real time, but there is usually a decent amount of activities to keep you busy in the meantime.
– Real player with 147.2 hrs in game
Flow
Experienced on the Oculus Quest 2
So this is yet another meditation app for VR. This one uses short looping stereoscopic 360 videos. Unfortunately, this means there are no interactions and you’re only using your motion controllers to select items from the menu.
This is free at the moment with several meditations to enjoy, from calm to focused to more intense. You can also buy some DLC. However, there’s mention of a registration and subscription plan in the future. I’m not sure this experience is premium enough to warrant that, of course, Flow EHF is free to do whatever they want to monetize their product. I just don’t think it would be successful.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Flow is not a game. It’s a bunch of VR videos and some hippy soundtracks to aid in meditation. There’s no gameplay loops, there’s no gameplay or meaningful interaction.
It’s intended to be a paid/subscription kind of service but seems to have been abandoned prior to that. That doesn’t stop the developers trying to scam the hippies for this non-game, there’s a whopping $20 worth of predatory DLC.
To paraphrase PT Barnam, there’s a hippy born every minute, and two to take ‘em.
Anyway, this is not a game, despite being erroneously published as a game, cannot be recommended as one.
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Britannic
It might need a little bit of tweaking (at the time of this review), but I HIGHLY recommend this game!
The rules -
Ship hits mine, you go to the lifeboats (not too early or too late) and survive!
I’ve already both killed and survived my player time and again (including jumping off the props!) LOL
Enjoy! :)
– Real player with 35.0 hrs in game
While to game is a little buggy at times and there is some minor details missing, I thoroughly enjoyed it. You really do get a real feeling of impending danger and suspense. I hope the developer keeps refining and adding to this game as there isn’t much out there on the “forgotten” Olympic class sister. Recommended…
– Real player with 16.3 hrs in game
Titanic: The Experience
short answer:
limited features, boring
factual answer:
to be honest, i thought it was pretty good at first but seeing how long it takes to get just the bow to sink is ridiculous. literally a city full of bugs.
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rating:
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♡❀ 𝙳𝙸𝙵𝙵𝙸𝙲𝚄𝙻𝚃𝚈 ❀♡
🔲 depends on what you set it to
✅ a turtle could play it
🔲 easy
🔲 normal
🔲 hard
🔲 a challenge to be reckoned
🔲 in the heat of confrontation, treat your opponent with respect
– Real player with 9.9 hrs in game
New Review:- There is no longer any Interior Access- The ship does break in half (you can see where the split will happen if you look closely at the floor board textures on the deck)- You can escape using the lifeboats, but staying on it as it launches takes some work.- After managing to stay on a lifeboat and watching the ship sink. I was dismayed to find that I still died because once the ship had sank, the lifeboat vanished and I dropped into the water.- The lifeboats are kind of to close now though (previous update)Some work has happened but not very much given the time period. Some problems fixed simply by removing them (eg Grand Staircase, which really is a feature that needs to stay in to create some feeling that you are actually on the Titanic). Instead of releasing a second title such as Britannic, maybe focus on working on this instead, polishing it and finishing it right. This could be so much more with some more elbow grease.For $2.00 though, its a negligible cost to satisfy curiosity. The ladders at the back is such an unauthentic bandaid however. Come on do it properly and rework the clipping. These ladders don’t sink with the rest of the ship (and are still blue despite the update)You still can’t move up or down the stairs that are just inside the little rooms, coz the hole in the floor isn’t big enough.Still leaving it as not recommended at this point, not because I’m mean just because I also have the Titanic Honour and Glory demo installed, and that rocks. Will check back in another couple of years and see how this has progressed.Its not a lost cause by any means, but is still some time away from achieving its potential. Possibly a decade. Even Titanic Honour & Glory is not showing any sign of release anytime soon).Will happily change this review when it reaches a point of slickness, with some ambience (eg Band Music), may be even a few people (even if its only some crew). A few bodies in life jackets bobbing up and down in the water etc.Previous Review:Needs a lot of work!
– Real player with 3.6 hrs in game