SIMULACRA 2
Ease into your chair and prepare yourself for this continuation of the SIMULACRA universe. In this iteration, you will have new advanced tools and a mosaic of widely branching narratives spread across 2 characters that are continually altered by your choices. You will have the choice of playing as a junior detective or a reporter who is recruited by a special department at police headquarters. With only one piece of evidence, you must find the truth of how a young woman & interweb influencer ends up dead on a case that is already closed. Lives and livelihoods are on the line, there is no room for mistakes.
– Real player with 11.0 hrs in game
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Let me be clear, I really liked the first game. I think it did most things right and while I wasn’t a fan of the jumpscares and it definitely looked like an indie game production wise.
This game is a perfect example of how sometimes, less is more.
Let me start with my biggest pet peeve of this game, and that’s the extreme slowness of it all. The entire plot is not that long, I actually think it might be around the same length as the first game, but it is padded out by how extremely slow it all is. Be it conversations or the extreme amount of stuff you need to click through and scan gets annoying on the second playthrough, if not first.
– Real player with 10.5 hrs in game
Son.Light.Sleepwalker
This game is something else, in a great/scary way. I was surprised to be presented with full voice acting throughout the game. I was expecting it to be another fnaf clone but this is far from anything that fnaf has shown us. I have noticed very few bugs even though it is still in early access, so that is something you should expect.
I will now go through the pros and cons of this game…
PROS
*Full voice acting
*Engaging storyline
*Great jumpscares
*ONLY 2 DOLLARS!!
*Fantastic Lighting
CONS
*The only con for this game would be that you dont own it yet!! ;)
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
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SIMULACRA
When you are a mature person and your childhood and carefree days are already over, you have kinda stressful job, you don’t feel like playing hard games, or games where you have to concentrate a lot. Sometimes, you just want to come over to your place. make yourself a cup of tea and just relax on comfortable chair and just enjoy some kinda easy game. Preferably, with a mouse only controls.
But to be honest, you need to be ready that games will be strange, or better call them weird or maybe even creepy in some kinda way, cause variety of the titles, that can be played with mouse only is pretty limited and you should expect only chinese visual novels, or some nonsense clickers, or easy tower defense games, or some puzzle logic games.
– Real player with 15.9 hrs in game
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After playing Sara is Missing and hearing about Simulacra through that purveyor of all things horror-related, Night Mind, I decided to check it out. I was pleasantly surprised. The story is much more developed compared to SiM, and I enjoyed exploring Anna’s phone. The concept of the game was much more interesting than SiM, though I feel like it could still be better developed and hope the devs continue with this idea. While the text speak used by the main “players” of the game was perfectly realistic, I felt that the primary antagonist of the game
! Simulacra would not have the spelling errors I encountered in that character’s texting. For instance, the character used “lead” instead of “led” and “it’s” when “its” was intended. I know, I know, others might not have noticed or been affected by this, but I felt that the character would not have made those errors.
– Real player with 12.1 hrs in game
The Confession
So I found this game while browsing my reccomended feed and my curiosity was piqued. With the price being cheap enough as it is, and with a bunch of time at my disposal, I couldn’t help but give it a try.
Honestly, it was completely worth it the money for the laughs, the absurdity and the horniness of it. Not knowing anything about the other work of this developer too, message after the end really intrigued me and I feel like i’m about to go down a rabbit hole.
I also genuinely admire the intent behind this game too, since it’s clear that it was just meant to be a silly little distraction, in a time where such a thing is sorely needed.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
So far today I have played The Test, The Test: Hypothesis Rising, and The Confession.
This one certainly brought the chuckles AND the WTF’s. I was cursed with four years of riding a White Rhino’s horn, which is tough, but fair…maybe,.. I honestly don’t know what I did to deserve that but here we are.
Reminds me of Hypothesis Rising in that it had multiple choice, Would You Rather, and Yes or No styles of questions/answers, which I love (although the OG’s simple yes/no format is fine with me, too).
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
The ORBITAL
Orbital - first person sci-fi survival horror. You are one of the last, (or maybe last) crew member. Your mission is to find out what is going on and get out from the spaceship. Will you survive, or not, will depends only on you.
You are an ordinary member of an expedition to explore new worlds. Your responsibilities include maintaining the ship’s subsystems and maintaining the working equipment. After another expedition to the surface of the nearest planet, you began to notice some oddities in the behavior of an electrician. But you blame this on the unexplored effects of exposure and the electromagnetic field of the new world. And one day you wake up as usual. But nothing else is normal on your ship.
Can you be smart and get off the ship that has turned from home to your worst nightmare?
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Features of the game
Several unique types of monsters
You will not feel safe in any corner of the ship. Only by getting used to one situation in the world can you unexpectedly find yourself in another. And what worked before may now be useless. Can you adapt?
The same spaceship - a different place
The location of the items changes and the available rooms change after each failure.
Different scenarios
Explore the ship, collect notes about the last moments of the life of the crew and find a way to get out of there.
Dangers and Opportunities
Using the work tool, discover new places and previously inaccessible areas. You don’t have a chance to confront your enemy directly. But you can distract and run away. If you’re careful
Death is the loss of everything
If you are lost, this is the end. When you die, you will start the game from the beginning. On a different ship, in a different situation. Another person. Good luck.
The Twins
It’s very similar to The Summoning and shares a lot of the same references in the story.
It’s more Lore Based and opens up on the history of The Summoning, and the poems are a nice bonus feature that adds a level of creepiness to the atmosphere.
While it felt very similar, it simultaneously felt very different in its own, positive way.
I enjoyed both of these experiences even though The Summoning scared the daylights out of me at first.
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
I think I enjoyed The Summoning better just because it was the first one, but I think The Twins really added a lot more depth. It was good to get more of the story in a way, rather than just the experience the first game offered. I don’t think these games have to be played in order though. I also played The Summoning with a friend but I played The Twins on my own so maybe it would have been more fun with company. I don’t really believe in supernatural stuff though so I think watching my friend who does added a lot of fun to it. I’ve seen first hand just how scared someone can get if they do all of the rituals rather than just skim over them. I think if you don’t play the game the way it’s meant to be played, then you’re gonna have a bad time. If you follow the instructions, your chances of having a good time increase significantly, again, if you’re into this sort of stuff.
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
Brigand: Oaxaca
Brigand Oaxaca is one of my favorite games of all time. Rough around the edges, buggy, brutal, and incredibly frustrating, it’s a treasure the likes of which you’ll rarely play. It’s creator, Brian Lancaster, is something of a tortured genius who, in between intense ayahuasca trips, and Mcaffee’esque stints in the jungles of Latin America, sought to share this powerful premonition of the plight of humanity in the upcoming apocalypse.
In all seriousness, this game scratches a niche that probably only a certain crowd will enjoy. If you like the original Deus Ex, but want it a little shittier, this is for you. If you like rollenspiele classics like gothic and og fallout, but feel that their unity of design and assets wasn’t tenuous and wild enough, this might be for you. If you like Stalker, but could do without all of those fan patches and bugfixes, then this is absolutely for you.
– Real player with 122.2 hrs in game
I think this is one of the best games I’ve ever played. I found it on the steam store page during the summer sale, and one glance at the preview video cemented it as something I had to buy, dlcs and all. I don’t regret getting it, in fact, I’m still in shock I hadn’t heard of this game sooner. Deus Ex-like gunplay? Open-ended gameplay, with (mostly) complete freedom of choice in how you want to complete the story? Voodoo (!) and cybernetics? A save system that lets you save scum but also gives you the thrill of permadeath by starving you of beds at times?
– Real player with 107.8 hrs in game
Loveland
Detective, we have received reports of kidnapping and cult activity centered around a small trailer park on the outskirts of Loveland, Ohio. The members of this cult are lead by Pastor Abram, a recently denounced minister for the Heartland Church of Christ. Pastor Abram has experienced a sudden change in his demeanor, exhibited by his increasingly radical sermons in which he proclaims that frogs will save God’s children from extinction.
We believe that this may be the actions of an anomalous creature.
Take on the role of an Agency Detective, as you explore a rural trailer park in Loveland, Ohio, and uncover the secrets of a frog-worshipping cult.
Every decision has a consequence. It’s up to you how this story will end.
Loveland is inspired by cult classics such as Deus Ex & the X-Files. By blending immersive simulations with the psychological thrills of beings beyond our understanding, Loveland delivers an engrossing experience that will have you playing through the story multiple times.
Psychological Horror
Dive deep into the depravity of a religious mind, corrupted, as you uncover the horrific fate of the many members of the Loveland Cove Cult.
Non-Linear Gameplay
You are open to investigate the Loveland Cove Trailer Park in whatever way you see fit. Whether you do the bare minimum, or leave no stone unturned, the choice is up to you.
Multiple Endings
Do not expect your actions to go without consequence. There are multiple outcomes to how this story can go.
Immersive Aesthetic
Engulf yourself in the sights and sounds of a warm summer night in rural Ohio as you traverse through the eerily quite trailer park known as Loveland Cove.
Ghostist
I think I’ve racked up enough hours to give this a real review now.
Ghostist; is a pretty casual, but definitely charming; 2d ghost hunting game.
You play alone as you work to identify ghosts across different job sites.
And, as you complete jobs & earn money; you can buy extra items to assist in your investigations.
There’s a good variety in ghosts, & jobsites. And, investigations usually don’t take too long to complete.
So, it’s definitely a game I like to jump into for some quick, play sessions.
– Real player with 14.9 hrs in game
Thanks for so many hours between guessing and goosebumps.
A game for in between, but unfortunately the in between often gets longer than expected… :-D
It is nice to experience how the game and it’s content are growing! Maybe there will be a mobile version for more “in between” on the road?
– Real player with 7.5 hrs in game
Somni
Well We really like those kind of games like phasmo, ghost hunters corp, obsideo etc. This is exactly the same deal. If you Like Ghost Hunting, horror games you Should really try it. You can play it on Desktop but the Vr Experience is really something else… Very nice try, the game has potentials and looks very promising. I really hope some fixes about some bugs will soon be in order and some improvements that will really made this game go to another level. Overall it is a good Ghost Hunting Horror game to play alone or with your friend.
– Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
For now the game is a bit well terrible. It has often errors and a main setting screen is not available. To leave the game you need to go out of your way with ALT + F4 or any of the other hardcoded shutdowns and there is no way to talk with your friends through the game.
However I would still like to reccomend this game because it has a lot of potential. The game has a fasinating way of dealing with evidence and sounds. Also are the ghosts awesomely made and the single map that is available is very interesting. Hugh improvements can be made which will lead to an awesome game. They just released the game a bit early to really grasp its potential that is there
– Real player with 3.8 hrs in game