What We Pretend To Be
Cheap, relaxing and really nice soundtrack.
This is the kind of game you buy if you have some money to spare, and you’re in need of a casual relaxation game. There is no point to the game, and it’s really really short, but honestly, I think it was worth the small fee. I love the graphic style, and the lighting is god-tier, but the texturing is kinda off-putting in some areas, with glitching clouds and the ground clipping with the grass. There’s not much to the story, but that’s not really the appeal of the game, so I wouldn’t leave much criticism there.
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
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Very short game play, not much story. Mindless wheat farming, once the builder dies you can’t make any more improvements to your town.
– Real player with 1.8 hrs in game
To My Best Friend
Just as the description says, this is a short narrative about two friends and their memories together. It is a full-on walking simulator with no stress. Beautiful music! I think the graphics are beautiful, although there are a few floating trees, and basically low-budget looking areas.
All in all, it’s a good, bittersweet short story with colorful and creative areas to walk through. I recommend it.
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
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cute
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Love 💖: Interactive Therapy 💖
Love: Interactive Therapy is a relationship application for married couples looking to stimulate love, affection, romance and intimacy in their relationship. Build a stronger more intimate bond with your partner and improve your relationship and love life. Complete daily challenges, complete simple daily and weekly evaluations and have a great time rating your partner’s progress as they rate and review your own. Simple and fun, both partners have an equal say. *For married couples, engaged or in a healthy long term relationship.
Benefits of Love: Interactive Therapy:
💖 Develop a Fun and More Pleasant Relationship
💖 Gain Deeper Intimacy and Romance
💖 Create Better Understanding & Cooperation
👫 Daily Challenge:
💕During the Daily Challenge you are both given 3 goals to achieve each day. After the end of the day, each partner gives a quick assessment on how well the other partner achieved those goals. You both then review the results and end the day. Merit points are given to your partner based upon how well they achieved those goals. Merit Badges are also earned as you gain Merit Points. Results and progress are carried on to the next day and throughout the week. Each week, you are given 3 new goals to achieve daily for 4 weeks in total. The assessment and review only takes a few minutes each day and is very simple to complete. The development can also continue long after the 4 week goal is achieved. All progress can be saved.
👫 Weekly Assessment:
💕At the end of seven days of your daily challenges, you and your partner will be given a weekly assessment. Each evaluation session is a few minutes. You and your partner each respond to a series of phrases through several response options. You then review each other’s responses and then conclude the session with discussions or silent reflection. Each private session can last 5-15 minutes. The complete couple’s session can last from 30 minutes to an hour. Once the weekly assessment is completed, a new week is started with new Daily Challenges and goals.
👫 Time Involved:
Weekly assessments are simple but can grant amazing insight for both partners to reflect upon. You both can discuss the results or can opt to not discuss the results after they have been reviewed. The option to go over areas of concern is also available. No 3rd party is ever needed.
👫 Merits and Rewards:
💕Merit Badges are earned through progress. Your partner’s assessment of your progress determines the points earned and the badges you receive. You also in turn determine your partner’s progress equally. Your perspective of your partner and your partner’s perspective of you is what matters most here, not the accuracy of the assessment. This is what is reflected over time and inspires motivation on both sides. Accountability is also automatic and helps keep your progress honest and fair without any 3rd party intervention.
👫 Love: Interactive Therapy Features:
💖 Private & confidential. No 3rd party is ever required.
💖 Gain and give merits and badges to your partner with progress.
💖 Gives amazing results in the first session and grants even better results progressively.
💖 Both partner’s input equally matters.
💖 Good for new or experienced married couples.
💖 Can be used to strengthen your relationship or bond.
💖 Can be used to learn more about yourself, your partner and your relationship.
💖 Good as a stand alone product or can be used in addition to counseling or therapy.
💖 No extra fees or hidden costs. The application can be used as often as needed.
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Sentenced VR
I gives it a thumbs up, but im going to be kinda neutral.
The stories trough the game where good and at some points you hesitated if you where doing the right thing or not.
The controllers are kinda clunky, it crashed ones for me, and one time the game frooze durring the beheading and the sword flew out of my hand and hitting one of the guardes.
I can have indulgence with that, as it is a indie game and all, it is not really for the gameplay / action you play this game ether. Maybe it can be pathed to work better, I dont know?
– Real player with 1.8 hrs in game
Sentenced VR is a approx. 1 hour long VR Story experience where you step into the shoes of a public executioner in early times europe.
You get sworn in by the local beadle to do the bidding of the lords of the land just like your father had done.
“The lords prosecute, I execute.”
The game presents you with a variety of different executions of criminals that you’ll have to conduct. It will give you an insight into what was even punishable by death back then and will throw some moral dilemas compared to modern moral standards at you. Will you keep your oath or will you seek your own justice?
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
TeleNovela
A fill-in-the-blanks Visual Novel with 11 achievements. Lots of game abuse potential, don’t waste it.
Great fun playing by yourself, but even better with a group either as helpers or just an audience to your artistic genius. Attempting to play this seriously is prohibited by law. There is a requirement to fit in as many double entendres as possible. Mixing languages and making people use Google Translate earns you double points. There are no points.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
In TeleNovela you get the chance to produce your own TV soap opera. How is that possible? Well this is basically a fill in the blanks story where you can write your own names for the characters and define some other stuff. That is a really well known concept in its own and something most of you at least did when they were young, however I havent seen a single VN in that specific format which made this a nice diversion from the norm. I can only recommend to try to put in as funny options as you can think of cause I really had to laugh at the outcome at one point. Apart from that this is a pretty typical soap opera story you will regularly find on tv. You also get to play detective in the end, at least a little bit :).
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Thing-in-Itself
I was absolutely, completely certain that I had already written a review about this game..
Every review talks about Kant, but I don’t even know who he is, so let’s get to the other aspects.. ahah
The game itself sells at 2,50€, at least in the Euro zone, and actually it’s quite a high price for such a short game. It can be long and a little bit frustrating if you want to achieve every ending and explore every dialogue, but nothing more than two hours overall.. from my achievements' page you can see that it took my around 80-90 minutes to get all the 10 achievements, which aren’t that easy to get actually.. and as before, I was 100% sure that I followed a Steam guide to get the last two achievements but there are no guides as of today O.o Anyways you can figure everything out and look for some threads in the forum or on the Internet :)
– Real player with 6.4 hrs in game
Party for Introverts developed this visual journey (they say before it starts that this is not a game experience but an ‘informative short story’) based upon the German Philosopher Immanuel Kant’s concept known as ‘Thing-in-Itself’.
What is the ‘Thing-in-Itself’? Kant theorised that material objects don’t exist in the way we see them, instead we use our own viewpoint to shape our perspective of the object.
The ‘journey’ starts off sharing this idea during a bedtime chat between Molly & Ted where Molly uses the theory to explain why they disliked the music at a party yet everyone else enjoyed it. What follows afterwards is shown from Ted’s perspectives.
– Real player with 6.2 hrs in game
A Sad Journey
A Sad Journey is a beautiful third-person exploration game about a rabbit looking for his missing parents. As the rabbit finds paws to collect, his memories come back and he grows closer to finding the truth of what happened to his parents. Take control of this rabbit and play across various gorgeous levels full of obstacles, interesting memories, and breathtaking music.
Key Features:
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For fans of experimental story-driven games.
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A short game that lasts around an hour. (not final)
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A personal, intimate story made by a solo developer.
Child of Lothian
The beautiful culture and atmosphere of 18th century Edinburgh disappearing beneath the shadows of witch hunters looming in the streets. Hushed whispers appearing in every corner and suspicious gazes of townspeople falling upon their neighbours as friends become enemies. What is your role to play as a child, in the 18th-century witch trials?
AGAINST ALL ODDS
The world around you feels intimidatingly large and crowded. It sometimes just feels like all the odds and people are against you. Yet you learned to survive the harsh conditions of the streets of Edinburgh. Hide and disguise yourself to escape the witch hunters and steal items from others to survive.
CHOOSE YOUR PATH
Choose to engage in dialogue to find the information you need to complete quests or decide to pickpocket, eavesdrop and steal to reach your goals. The choice is all yours.
YOUR SHELTER IS YOUR SAFE SPACE
The only home you’ve got where you can take a breather and feel comfortable, sleep to venture in the dark of the night or at day- and plan out your next moves for the dangers you’ll encounter once on the streets of witch-hunter invaded streets of Edinburgh.
Stealth Mechanics
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Pickpocketing
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Stealing
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Hiding
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Disguising yourself
Traversal
- Free roam
AI Behaviour
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Advanced stealth guards AI
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Reputation system for NPC’s: Communciation between NPC’s on player behaviour
Camera
- Cinematic camera during dialogues
Narrative
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Dialogue
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Environmental storytelling
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Immersive UI
Systems
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Quest system
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Inventory system
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Day / night system
To Be With You
10/10 would recommend
story was well-written.
Also, this game made me think about my current relation ship.
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game
I don’t say this lightly, but: This is an important game. Sharing their own experiences within a fictional narrative, the developer sheds a light on common abuse dynamics and manipulation tactics and may actually help victims and their friends to recognize abusive behaviour. I especially applaud the decision to include a “Director’s Commentary”, which becomes available after finishing one playthrough and explains the strategies used in the game by an abuser, James, who gaslights, controls, and slowly isolates his partner Alsie from her friends.
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
Lost in Blindness
I don’t see any reasons not to like this game.
– Real player with 8.0 hrs in game
I really enjoyed playing Lost in Blindness, this is a great game:
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The concept is very original: you play as blind character and hence must use your ears instead of your eyes
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Before playing I was a bit afraid the game would be too hard, but it turned out to be very accessible
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No bug encountered during my full playthrough and the voice acting is surprisingly pretty good for an indie game
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I played with earphones without any problem (I did not have a headset)
My final verdict: this is a hidden gem on steam, you should definitely give it a try.
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game