The Devil’s Luck
In what could have been another relaxing evening, Wesley faces a strange crisis that changes him forever. Experience horror like never before, in this nerve-wracking story, filled with unexpected turns.
Key features:
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Can be finished in one sitting of about 30 minutes.
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Contains jumpscares.
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Relaxing atmosphere.
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Decent graphics.
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Horror mechanics.
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Interesting puzzles.
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Uncover mysteries.
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The Signifier Director’s Cut
I was in love with this game at the start, but it went downhill for me as I played. I’m just BARELY not recommending it, but if you find yourself intrigued by the premise and gameplay, it might still be worth playing.
In The Signifier, you play as Frederick Russell, a scientist who is using AI technology to recreate memories (objective and subjective) from people’s minds, as well as dreams they’ve had. You’re tasked with helping to solve a murder (or was it a suicide?) by researching the victim’s last memories.
– Real player with 9.7 hrs in game
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Full review (including score): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5IkAlvGVw4
Summarized review below!
The rundown:
Pros:
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First half of the story
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Really cool visual direction
Cons:
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Latter half of the story
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Game-breaking bugs.
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Numerous technical issues
We get quite a few of these psychological thriller walking sims each year. A lot of them bank on their visuals while slacking on the story. Rarely though, do we get a game like The Signifier, which seems to have both of those aspects on lock. At least, that was my initial impression.
– Real player with 9.6 hrs in game
S.I.N. Unit: Ghost Investigation & Removal
The developer has worked fast into fixing the bugs I’ve reported. It is a great game with a lot of potential.
– Real player with 72.3 hrs in game
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Super scary :S
It’s definitely better played with friends. I like it because it’s faster than other ghost hunting games (phasmo, etc). The ghost moves rooms very often but its not hard to find again. There are many unique features that makes it shine by itself.
8/10 Recommended.
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
EXP: War Trauma
Attention: This game has high psychological terror and scares, not recommended for people with heart conditions. By playing, you accept the above term and are on your own.
With extremely immersive first-person gameplay, EXP is a short experience, but extremely detailed and terrifying, an intense psychological horror.
Gameplay
You are completely helpless, your only weapon is your intelligence and extinct. Explore a mysterious and strange apartment, solve riddles, and most important of all, when the countdown starts, be quick.
Narrative
EXP: War Trauma has a fictional story, inspired by some historical facts from World War II.
You are Krieger, a traumatized WW2 soldier, as you progress through the experience, you will discover more about his history, his traumas, and what happened to him.
EXP Meaning
“EXP” stands for “Experience” which marks the beginning of a series of short games, with different themes, with the first being “War Trauma”.
It’s time for you to… Experience: War Trauma
Being a new style of game, which brings a short but detailed and atmospheric experience, to bring the greatest possible immersion, which would not be possible to be created by Indies Developers, if it were on a larger scale.
Insaniam
Story
You play as investigative journalist “Mr. Johnson” after receiving several tips of a government cover up at a recently abandoned psychiatric hospital. All reports suggest illegal experiments taking place on the patients of the facility- and supposedly a government cover up. Detective Johnson decided to go through with this one off-books and after just a few days of preparation he sets out to explore the abandoned facility in the middle of the night, to recover patient records.
2AM: You arrive at the scene, it is a gloomy and silent night. Rain is pouring, wind flows through the air as an unsetteling feeling kicks in. Something isn’t right here, but there is only one way to figure out what it is…
Gameplay
Insaniam is a first person survival horror game, your objective is to retrieve at least five patient records for the abandoned facility.
You’ll be forced to scavenge for batteries to keep your camcorder charged, utilize the night vision mode to explore the dark, use sanity pills or stay in the light to keep sane, avoid hallucinations, while something is lurking in the darkness and so much more.
Gameplay is based around a speed run mechanic where you’ll play for shortest time to escape or longest time survived. Randomized game mechanics keep this experience fresh and increases re-playablity.
The game is not story focused but there is underlying lore that is optional to explore through text, visuals or audio.
Afraid of the Night
Nothing… Soon
Unsafe
The environment and textures are beautiful and the game loads quickly. However as expected of an early access game, all the animations and entity interactions aren’t there yet and there are quite a few bugs to be found: Getting stuck on staircases which crashes the game, doors not opening, the main monster leaving you in an area that if you revive you are stuck in map geometry.. the list goes on.
So while it has entirely been worth the early access payment, I can’t really play more than a couple sessions without getting a little frustrated at situations where the players did nothing wrong but the game is lost. I also feel that on “easy” the game is very difficult even if played almost perfectly. The AI “guards” the final(?) timed objective fiercely and unfairly.
– Real player with 4.0 hrs in game
Love the atmosphere, the style/graphics and the gameplay is fun, very challenging .
I hope they keep working on this game and add more stuff
No matchmaking, Server list where you can jump into people’s lobby
2 type of enemies, smaller ones can be killed the big one can not be killed, You run you hide and avoid it, if it catches you it will kill you instantly.
Use the power pods to lose aggro from the big enemy.
You get objectives you must clear on the map.
to advance further into the map
Find key cards, energy cells, hack computers to gain security codes.
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
P.I.D.
Completely without memories, you wake up in a mansion. Your objective is to discover everything that happened, and the meaning of the various clues that you will find along the way. Connect the dots, and fulfill the objectives before time runs out. Use your mind as if your life depends on it, because it does.
P.I.D. is a game with a theme focused on suspense and puzzles, in which there will be 5 days of gameplay.
Items
You will need to find several of the items scattered around the house in order to continue your exploration, and connect the dots to understand what happened to you.
Puzzles
Some of the items are protected by puzzles, solve them to be able to advance the story.
Goals
Meet all daily goals to be able to sleep and move on to the next day.
Time
The day will start with a maximum playing time. Complete all puzzles and objectives before time runs out, and if you can’t, it will come.
phoToq
Hope photojournalist well-paid for this…
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
Playthrough here: https://youtu.be/U6UmcL5aFnM
So I beat the game I’m not sure if the ending is supposed to be just a black screen, but that was kind of lame. The first blood achievement doesn’t seem to work nor does the beat the game achievement. I did get a cool “Kind” of ending when she killed me with 5 photos overall I think if everything worked better it’d be a really good game, but with how it is now it was still fun and it scared the heck out of me before I realized escaping her is a bit easy. Waiting for certain things to spawn and running to them in time can be a bit arduous though. Games a wee bit too long and RNG with the spawnings to keep beating the game only for it to glitch in the end with the black screen if that’s not supposed to happen. I had fun though so I’ll recommend.
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Welcome To Lakewood
I broke your games boundaries simply by walking up the hill behind the bar. Perhaps put a fence there or rock to prevent people from doing so. Other than that I like this. It does scratch the detective itch.
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
Worth 99 cents if you can handle walking at a snail’s pace and some janky mechanics. The jump scares that I’ve encountered so far have been hit or miss because sometimes they’ll happen behind a wall or not in the way that I’m facing. I’m currently stuck because either one of the mechanics is broken (I need to push a box out of the way but when I interact with it as prompted, nothing happens.) or perhaps I need to unlock something before I can make this piece of progress - I’m not sure because the map is incredibly vague and there’s no compass of any kind. The fact that you walk SO slow made me give up, hopefully just for now. The story seems good so far but the mechanics make it a bit unplayable. I do want to pick it up again but it’s almost a chore to navigate around this game. I’ll still recommend it though cause for all I know these issues could only be on my end and it’s 99 cents.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game