Fey: Distant Daydream
“Please, come and tell me it’s good enough!"
These are the words written in the peculiar letter calling you, a solitary appraiser, to an abandoned estate far outside the nearest town.
When you make your way there, you suddenly awaken within the mansion, locked in a dusty bedroom. In some ways the place seems ordinary and yet you sense a distinct fragrance of something magical all around you.
Exploring the house, reading its books and appraising knickknacks will let you grow closer with the characters you will meet or hear of. Then, as you take a trip down memory lane and unbox stowed-away memories, you’ll slowly encroach on the answer to the original question.
Just what are you really supposed to be appraising here?
Fey: Distant Daydream is a mystery game centred around exploring a hand-crafted retro 3D environment. Solve puzzles through careful observation and use of objects in the environment as well as Effects, magical items that you carry throughout the game with a plethora of different effects.
Some puzzles will require you to combine information from the environment in escape-room inspired sequences. Others will have you read cookbooks to bring back a taste only faintly remembered, some will have you search through books for clues and yet others will require you to carefully consider the objects at your disposal.
Progress through the mansion and find out the truth of why you were asked to come to this place. Find and use unique effects such as a pocket watch that will let you glimpse into the past of a location. If you want to take it slowly, feel free to read one of the books or snap a photo with your eternal companion - an old camera.
Will you find what was lost within the depths of time and recover it? Or will you perhaps find true meaning in what is here?
Features
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3-5 hours of gameplay made with pure love
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Hand-crafted late 90s style retro 3D graphics
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A slowly unfolding tale of the past and a world wherein memories can be more than mere remembrances
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Around 10 different Effects to use across the game
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Elaborate puzzles to solve over the course of the game, all unique from another
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A sense of humor
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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
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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
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
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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
Aberration Analyst
You are an analyst in a very secretive, underground organization. Scour tabloid headlines, police reports and other sources in order to locate supernatural threats to the safety and sanity of your fellow citizens.
Players have various tools at their disposal in order to achieve their goal.
Tabloids are a great place to start looking for information about monster sightings and attacks. Unfortunately, the tabloids also have two major weaknesses. First, they are almost totally unreliable, and should not be trusted by themselves. Second, their availability is limited, only ten headlines are released per day. Still, they make a good place to start identifying possible monster activity.
More reliable than tabloids, reports come in two varieties, Police and Coroner. Reports are available for each city, but will cost money to access. They provide factual information, but will not mention monsters or anything that might threaten the reporter’s credibility.
Selecting your team is an important step in the process of monster research. Make sure you try to identify the type of monster you are going after, otherwise your team may not be properly prepared.
Lore is collected as a player progresses through the game. Each attempt to take down a monster will result in small, but helpful hints that will make it easier to identify possible monster activity.
Ghost Hunters Corp
This Game is a Gem. It sets itself apart from phasmo in many ways. It’a way more interactive than phasmo.
I love that we can buy/bring as many items as we want. We are not limited in this game.
You can pick up items around the map and throw them about and make the ghosts mad. Or even take some of the cursed map assets back to base for more money. The Ghost can follow you back to the Van, and even break the door off. House doors also get yeeted.
– Real player with 99.5 hrs in game
EN
I’m used to give a chance to early access games, even if it means I could encounter bugs, crashes and lags (I’ve been playing ARK survival since the start in june 2015 !) But Ghost Hunters Corp is not an alpha game, it’s very well made and simply needs a few more contents to be released.
Don’t trust those raging players that yell it’s a copy of Phasmo. I also play Phasmo and it’s absolutly not the same game. Of course, the idea is the same, but the gameplay is slightly different: in GHC, you need to find which entity you seek before exorcism it. And AI’s behavior and reaction are different. The fear it gives you is also not the same. I like jumping on one and the other as if I did different missions, as being another kind of hunter 😊 It’s a real pleasure, except when I go to bed after that!
– Real player with 19.8 hrs in game
The Hauntings
The Hauntings is a 1-4 player online co-op investigation and exorcism game. Using a wide range of paranormal investigation equipment your group must try and successfully discover the source of the haunting and proceed to remove the threat from the area!
Player Possession: Yup you read that right, you will be able to lose complete control of you character as the ghost uses your body to terrorize your companions.
Player Classes: Play as one of 5 unique playable character classes that have their own special abilities that will either help you discover the entity or play as one of 2 additional classes if you are feeling like the game is getting a bit too easy for you.
Player Progression System: Unlock new and better equipment as you level from 1-100 and once you hit max…do it all over again with the prestige system.
Voice Recognition: Not only will you be able to talk to the ghosts through some of the specialized equipment you can also trigger several random ghost events if you are not careful.
Ghost Exorcism: You don’t just stop at figuring out what the ghost type is, you get the joy of coming back to remove said ghost from the world….just make sure you fully identified the entity during the investigation or you might be in for a bad time.
Co-op Multiplayer: This game supports 1-4 player co-op that connects via Steam. So play with your friends or hop in a random server and meet some new investigators!
At Dead Of Night
Maya is forced to spend a night at the Sea View Hotel after her friends migrated there because of the weather forecast. However, she’s awaken by a scream. Investigating, she find Jimmy Hall, the owner, assaulting a guest. Locked outside her room, she manages to get to the reception to find a master key. Her attention is caught by voices coming from a spirit box : the ghosts haunting the hotel implore her to get out and tell the world what Jimmy did… Maya is determined to escape and free her friends but not before finding the truth… while avoiding Jimmy who is conscious about her roaming around.
– Real player with 36.8 hrs in game
Pros and cons are down below) Don’t forget to drop a like if it was useful! Check out one chapter of the game here (I took the developers request and didn’t include the ending in the video to avoid any major spoilers, and likes and subs are highly appreciated and encourages, of course :3):
Advantages:
1. The game looks incredible (I mean, obviously as it is a part-game, part-movie thingy). Still, there are so many nice scripted scenes of enemy jumping from behind the corners and noticing you. Even looking in the spy glass, one can note lots of different animations for the same action of enemy walking by the door. The attention to details is very appealing.
– Real player with 28.4 hrs in game
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
HellSign
If you’re new to this title, know that HellSign was supposed to the genuine, one-of-a-kind ghost detective/shooter game. But it was recently spoiled and abandoned by its creators, so… maybe you don’t want to taste it now.
The devs gave up their project. It is not labeled ‘Early Access’ now, but it is not the game we were promised. Not even a half of it. The story isn’t going anywhere after the ‘first act’, there are no more promises of different towns, different locations, and something else to fill the blanks.
– Real player with 50.3 hrs in game
This downvote is for the devs, not for the game.
Let me explain.
The game itself is very intresting, and (mostly) well-made. I had fun playing it. Searching for clues, hunting cryptids, preparing for the big ghost battles - awesome. There are a lot of cool elements like sudden shadow plane shift, extremely intricated cryptonomicon with awesome illustrations, poltergeist phenomenons like sudden flying chairs, ringing clocks, TVs, glitching equipment etc. The game even has very cool-drawn comics (max payne style) as a story turning points, though they are very few, just 3 if i remember right.
– Real player with 31.9 hrs in game
They Are Here: Alien Abduction Horror
Unexplained phenomena occurred at Grayswood Farm. On the night of August 7th, the Sherman family witnessed bright lights in the sky that moved at a breakneck speed over the cornfield. The lights moved in a random direction and at different speeds, after a while they vanished. This strange behaviour in the sky was observed at night, at the same time, for 5 days.
According to the owner of the farm, all the animals went crazy, the dog became aggressive, tried to attack him and bit him. Children complained that someone was walking under their windows. Farmer Peter Sherman himself, in the field, saw a strange figure that did not look like a man.
What is it? Deliberate deception? Drawing attention to oneself? Or a sensation about an alien invasion? Journalist Taylor Fox travels to Grayswood Farm to make a photo report for a local newspaper.
• Explore. Light the path with a torch. Look into dark barns and cruise the night fields.
• Take pictures. Photograph the evidence of alien presence and paranormal activity.
• Study. Find the records of the Sherman family and learn the horrifying truth.
