A Taste of the Past
“How am I supposed to be whole without you?"
Meet Mei, a shy, Chinese-American high school student dealing with the sudden passing of her mother. After losing all of her mother’s recipes, Mei embarks on a train…only to realize her ancestors have boarded as well. She must uncover her mother’s recipe for traditional noodles while learning about self-love, grief, and healing.
Experience a story of growth through reliving precious moments with family and cooking. A Taste of the Past is a relatable and touching journey about holding those you love close.
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Complete cute cooking minigames. Gather ingredients from your ancestors to chop vegetables, fry noodles, and wrap soup dumplings.
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Experience a cozy, heartwarming tale. Write poetry, talk about boy troubles, and re-discover why you started painting.
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Stylized hand-drawn art.
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Original voice acting, writing, art, and music
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Depression The Game
Depression The Game(non-patched edition) is definitely not for the faint-hearted, as the experience includes a TV in a living room that shows some clips of real-life self-harm and suicidal acts(with reference/credits). I love the mini comic animation portraying the main character’s routine though :D.
For who to play:
-Healthcare workers
-Victims of low mood
-Anyone who wants to experience or understand what a depressed low-mood person feels or going through in their mind
playthrough
Player begins the game/experience in the main character’s bedroom, with 2 coloured real images of bloody hands hanging on the wall. /playthrough
– Real player with 5.6 hrs in game
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So this game is a odd case. I refuse to believe that there was any game testers for this game. Before I get into that though, the positives. The textures are mostly alright. The main furniture looks fine for what they are. The audio is alright, besides when you sleep where it gets jumbled. The weird level select or whatever that was is weird. I don’t know if you plan more scenarios in the future or not, but that inclusion in the bad ending is strange. So for the reason I claimed there were no game testers for this game, the negatives of this game make it impossible for the testers to have actually played this game. The spelling errors are all over the place and one particular note where it fails to make a new line when using ‘\n’. Using the wrong form of ‘I’ in every note. Using capitals when they are not supposed to be there, these gems: ‘breave’, ‘coutch’ and the list keeps going. The amount of graphical bugs are hilarious, but I will usually let it go especially since it is your first game and the game was at 90 cents when I bought it. The graphical bugs though were hilarious. The UV job on the heaters were terribly done, because they are hilarious to look at. The gaps in the floor and the wall in the kitchen. The shoes clipping in the shelf. The doors are poorly placed within the door frames, you open some and they slide back into there already broken positions. Also, the paper clipping half way through the shelf and the one stuck behind the aquarium. The bubble column coming out of the fish food was funny as hell. In conclusion, this game was funny to run through finding all the bugs and graphical issues without even trying. This game is a 3/10 in all seriousness. You tried, this was definitely not one of the worst ones for a first timer. But, you got a lot to learn in terms of game design and programming. I will tell you this though, going through and finding these issues made me laugh so much that I couldn’t breave anymore, it almost made me warnt to give this a 4/10 instead of a 3/10, but I went with a 3/10.
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
Furries & Scalies: Super Scary Halloween Spooky Times Part II
It is Halloween once more, and seasonal stores have begun popping up all over!
Manage your team, make sure Halloween is the best it can be for every customer (except the mean ones), and generally spread holiday fear and excitement! Besides the usual crop of employees, there are a few new ones, with new and interesting stories to tell!
Hoping to make this year the best yet, utilize new training techniques to help your fellow employees navigate through many different retail-related hurdles and help many different customers of varying annoyance level. Pick and choose what promotions to deploy, who to do what, and generally do whatever it takes to try to turn a profit.
Wait, do I hear….. jingle bells? Is that…. a seasonal Christmas store on the second level of the mall? What are the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future doing here? This is all wrong! It’s not even September yet!
This, of course, means war.
Features
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Manage your team
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Manage your store while also either sabotaging or helping the Christmas store
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Uncover a plot to destroy the holidays as you know it! A capitalist plot!
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The Great Plague Exodus
Had the opportunity to play this game on stream. For an early beta, I think it’s absolutely wonderful! It gives off Oregon Trails and text-based adventure vibes, which I absolutely love. The fact that it’s historical fiction is a bonus, too! The only thing I would like to mention is that sometimes the options during random events show as blank text boxes, and the drop-down menu for the entertainment doesn’t always show the options. These are all easy fixes, and didn’t really affect the game play for me as I find random/blind choices to add to the experience (just a personal opinion, I know you need to make educated decisions in a game like this).
– Real player with 1.8 hrs in game
Great initial concept game, a little buggy but can get a few enjoyable plays, difficulty is reasonably easy but with no way of changing this.
Good game that could be made into something really special, so much potential for more content, more freedom of movement (currently you travel the country on a linear track). kudos to the sound and artwork design, very nicely done.
The game is a touch buggy, but these are not game ending in most cases.
Look forwards to seeing how this game develops
– Real player with 1.8 hrs in game
Horror Stories: PLEASE COMPLY
Loved the game. Found it by chance and had it on my wish list. It’s decent for the price if the game hasn’t been spoiled for you already. I love the sense of dread and the ending. I mean I don’t love it I hate it but still!
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
Short and sweet little horror experience. enjoyed the experience. Looking forward to the next Horror Story :)
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Silk Roads: Caravan Kings
Here’s the deal, even if this game is not the most polished thing I have ever played, it shows potential. I mean the developer shows potential. It’s kind of like Oregon Trail, if you’ve ever played that. The thing that impressed me the most about this game however is the developer(s). They are willing to listen to a LOT of feedback. It’s very encouraging to have a developer who does this, especially in this day and age. While its not a huge grand strategy game like Hearts of Iron or an amazing role-playing game like Crusader Kings, it definitely deserves a place.
– Real player with 6.6 hrs in game
In any game there comes that particular crossroad point of is there enough to keep me interested or do i go back to the old faithful ones. Four hours of game time in i think i have hit that crossroads. I am now wondering if there is more to it or have i had my fill. I had this game on my wishlist, and part of my decision to purchase was based on its pricing.
I like the map set up, and the game icons are simple and to the point - which is a good thing. I concur about other reviewers statements about character development - the cat, the lute and the fishing rod. However, once the initial surprise of receipt is over, the actions around them seem disconnected and grindy. To be fair, the not wanting to disappoint my customers aspect of my gaming personality means I have not ventured too far to the East, as I want to meet my contract obligations.
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game
BURN
BURN is a pop star tragedy told over 16 endings that on replaying with different choices you can unlock the full story and endings. BURN follows Nina BURN, a Finnish pop star over 3 Acts from her DEBUT at 16, ESTABLISHMENT at 24 and CLIMAX at 27 via shuffled moments from her life which give insight into Nina on every replay. BURN’s story is adapted every play where your dialogue choices change Nina’s style, her dialogue, the musical score and results in a GOOD, BAD or UGLY ending from 16 potential outcomes.
BURN is a story game everyone can finish at least once and is Convict Games’ most interactive story to date. WISHLIST BURN NOW.
CONVICT GAMES
Convict Games has been “breaking free since 2017” with its small but passionate remote team of highly-experienced developers willing to risk everything to create games like STONE and now BURN. With team members based everywhere from Australia to Finland, Convict Games boasts a global presence that it applies to its projects. Convict Games, the team boasts over 10 years of combined experience in the gaming and entertainment industries, with contributions to popular games such as Returnal, Noita, Carrion, Control, TormentorxPunisher, Quantum Break, Broforce, Nuclear Throne and films including Gravity, World War Z, Sucker Punch and Prometheus.
Inexplicable Geeks: Dawn of Just Us
A hilarious romp though a con filled with wacky heroes with wacky powers. Fantastic writing and amazing art. I had a blast chatting with each and every character. Definitely worth a few more playthoughs to get the full back story of this crazy cast.
– Real player with 3.8 hrs in game
An alright visual novel
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Sprite Sequence Chapter 2
The second Chapter of the Sprite Sequence saga. Haven’t played Chapter 1 yet? It’s FREE on Steam! Head over to its page to start the adventure.
Thrown into a new, unknown world, our protagonist will have to learn to fend for himself and survive in the wild before he can be freed from his ordeal.
Key features :
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Story oriented
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Exploration with light puzzle and combat sections
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One part features a small farm simulation!
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Hand-drawn and animated
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Around 30 to 40 minutes long
STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator
A simulator of a businessman on the Japanese stock market in the 80s and 90s. Chill, catch a retro vibe, and watch your profits grow in the text-based game STONKS-9800.
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Buy stocks, get dividends, monitor the stock price;
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Your actions affect the market;
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Keep an eye on your health and do not overwork, lest you end up in the hospital;
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Take care of a lot of problems;
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Buy your own real estate and cars, increasing your level of comfort;
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Manage the company, having a controlling interest;
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The opportunity to earn not only the legal way;
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Mini-games: pachinko and betting on horse races;
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Many other features and unexpected situations await you in STONKS-9800.
Free background music from MusMus https://musmus.main.jp/