Bakery
Bakery is a cute management simulation with a cute if not a little unrefined art style that I really want to love, but there’s several things that get in the way of me being able to recommend this game to other people. I don’t want to seem like I’m trying to pick this game apart but I want to give my honest feedback on what I think could be improved, should the developer decide to continue developing on this game.
In the state it’s currently in I cannot recommend this game to English Speaking players. The English translation is very difficult, if impossible, to understand at times. That being said, from what I can piece together, the story is very engaging and I find myself wish I spoke the original language this game was written in so that I could actually understand it better. The translation also leads to some confusion as to what exactly recipes are supposed to be and even some confusion on what the employees are (I believe the Accountant could possibly be considered a Cashier in English for example)
– Real player with 297.5 hrs in game
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I played this game when it just came out, which is 17 yrs ago. It was the first game i own ever. I had so much memories about this game that I cant even put in words how I feel when I found out it’s on steam. Nothing has changed about this game which some people may not like since simulation games have evolved so much, but for players like me it is just perfect how imperfect it is 3 It’s a vintage worth colleting if you are like me.
– Real player with 23.6 hrs in game
Campfire Tales
*Note that this is a review for version 1.0.2
Playing status: 3x playthroughs, bad endings
Intro
Campfire Tales is a GB Studio game about three people that tell their stories on a camping trip. Three stories will be told by each person to make your camping trip worthwhile.
Pros:
- Different endings on each story
Cons:
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Clues for getting a good ending are too hard to find
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Game over by choosing certain options in dialogues
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Your save will be wiped right before you finished the game
– Real player with 2.4 hrs in game
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Adventures of Human Being
You are hurt and running away from armed men who are hell bent on ending you. You escape just in time to a completely new place. Tired and helpless, you wander around. Until you meet a feline stranger who takes care of you as you heal.
You Only Know One Thing, Kill the King.
Developing friendship, you find out that the king resides in City 4. Solving a roster of interesting puzzles, with new mechanics introduced in every new city, ride on this adventure.
Features:
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A simple cohesive story keeping the puzzles tied up together.
Each city tells its own tales, introducing new characters with interesting backstories.
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Minimal choice structures with crucial consequences.
It is a game with essentially a linear story structure. But on few occasions, a companion character asks you to make a choice, which will later prove to be important.
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Roster of engaging puzzles using the mechanics in new and unexpected ways.
Each city introduces a new puzzle mechanic. And every puzzle builds itself on top of the previous ones, increasing the challenge and also keeping it fresh.
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1-bit Pixel Art.
Which means, to use a set of only two colours throughout the game, including the UI, menus and the cutscenes.
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Necore Tower - Redux Edition
What an awesome experience! Very cool retro game. Very well designed and very well written. The sounds are awesome.
Very, very well executed!
Well done.
– Real player with 3.7 hrs in game
This is a very cool game by a very passionate and talented developer.
Great art and atmosphere with a deep story.
The way Necore is setup and designed, climbing up through the towers levels, keeps you playing more and more to see what’s next and revel the story as your progress.
I highly recommend you play it!
– Real player with 2.0 hrs in game
Nemezis: Mysterious Journey III
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A very difficult game to evaluate, especially considering the peculiarities of the whole puzzle genre, once exalted by the legendary game Myst. It should be said right away that the game was beaten on hardcore difficulty mode (without prompts and with complicated puzzles), so it is quite possible that some things that I strongly disliked on normal difficulty are perceived quite adequately. As the successor to the popular Schizm series, the game quite rightly knows what it will be played for. Puzzles. A large number of puzzles. And this is in abundance here, we will return to their detailed analysis a little later, for now, let’s just say that almost everyone will have to make a huge amount of effort to solve, sometimes justified, but sometimes not so much.
– Real player with 14.4 hrs in game
Foreword:
While I didn’t recommend it at first I now completed a playthrough on “hard” difficulty. There were a few puzzles actually made me think for more than an hour. Pressing buttons at random isn’t my playstyle so I think first and bring my thoughts to paper. Once written down I try to translate my notes into actions.
Succeeding that way is the best achievement for me and is what I want when i play. I really like the design choice as it reminds me of some puzzle games I’ve already played.
– Real player with 14.1 hrs in game
Insomnious
The Story
You just brought a brand new AI assistant designed specifically to help with insomnia, now it’s time to try to sleep. . . But something isn’t quite right about tonight. Maybe getting to sleep is the least of your problems now.
SleepCo’s brand new Sleeping Assitance Machine is making headlines as it sells out globally only weeks after being released. Alongside their specially crafted medicine to help with insomnia, SleepCo seems to be ready to put the whole world to bed. After setting up your SAM beside your bed, taking your medicine and getting into your pyjamas, SAM wakes up to help guide you into sleep. But tonight something is different. You don’t feel as tired as you usually do after taking your medicine. You hear noises all around you. SAM says to ignore it, but should you? Maybe a good night’s rest will sort all of this and you won’t have to worry about it in the morning. If you make it to the morning that is.
Manifestations of your worst nightmares, creatures of pure horror trap you in your small bedroom, there is no escape, even closing your eyes you see the hands of the beast coming for you. What will you do? Will you ever get to sleep? Maybe it’s just all in your head and you should just ignore it like SAM keeps telling you to.
The Gameplay
Insomnious is a survival horror game inspired by Five Nights at Freddy’s, however with the added feature of being able to move around the room and get close and personal with the monsters to push them away.
You are trapped in your room for the night, run around the room and hold back the night terrors while trying to get enough rest to fall asleep. These night terrors could come from everywhere, the window, the closest, the painting and even your bedroom door. But just confronting your fears by getting close enough to push them back will keep you safe for the night.
Each night the monsters get more and more aggressive, on top of this the amount of time you have to sleep for increases each night. You have to manage defending yourself against the monsters of the night and getting sleep by making yourself vulnerable and resting in your bed.
The main story mode will take you through 3 nights of progressively more and more difficult scenarios as you listen to your SAM try to get you to sleep.
The challenge mode introduces a collection of 3 unique challenges to try to beat, it’s similar to story mode just without any additional lore.
Finally the custom mode allows you to set your own challenges to try to survive. In custom mode you have the ability to change each monster’s difficulty (or even disable each monster), change the amount of time you need to sleep before surviving the night and even change the amount time it takes for the nightmare to kill you.
The Lost Legends of Redwall™: Escape the Gloomer
This game is fun and imaginative. I love how it perfectly fits into one of the Redwall books. I was even having flashbacks to the daydream like state of reading the book when it reached those parts. Even though, I had read it so long ago.
However, you will likely get stuck in at least 2 particular parts of the story and need to look on forums for help. Also, about half of the achievements are near impossible to achieve without the inside knowledge of the game developers or years of text adventuring experience.
– Real player with 17.4 hrs in game
Another fantastic installment in the Lost Legends of Redwall series. If you ever read the Redwall books, you will love the way this game captures the very essence of Redwall’s atmosphere. The story is great, and the way it weaves in and out of the story in Mossflower, interacting with main characters without changing the storyline is nothing short of genius.
The puzzles are hard enough to make you think, but easy enough that you won’t give up. I was really disappointed when I finished the game because I wanted the experience to last forever.
– Real player with 8.9 hrs in game
Narita Boy
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Review by Gaming Masterpieces - The greatest games of all time on Steam.
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Is this game a masterpiece? Yes. And quite a strange one.
You play a young boy in the 80s, who is sucked into his computer after playing a simple action game for the whole day. You have been summoned by the priests of the Digital Kingdom, a kingdom in the digital realm inhabited by thousands of programs and threatened by HIM. It is a world with quite a few similarities to the world of Disney’s Tron. HIM is an evil program, who sends his minions to enslave the whole Digital Kingdom. Noone is able to fight the minions of HIM, only you, Narita Boy, the wielder of the Techno-Sword, can kill them.
– Real player with 18.2 hrs in game
My playtime: 12.7h (based on Steam, 100% achievement, 2x playthrough)
Grindy Achievement(s): No.
Optional Achievement(s): Yes (8 missable achievements).
Difficult Achievement(s): No.
Intro
Narita Boy tries to emulate the look of retro games while combining modern elements at the same time. It is a platformer game that will make you think as if you are playing a retro game while not playing it, with combat and puzzle as its focus.
Pros:
- Bosses with different attack patterns
– Real player with 12.8 hrs in game
Pnevmo-Capsula: Domiki
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– Real player with 8.4 hrs in game
A very picturesque and detailed world, amazing work was done! Steam punk atmosphere in some kind of alternative Soviet reality. Totally recommend it!
– Real player with 2.6 hrs in game
Scaredom
Incarnate a small, yet terrifying nightmare creature and use the night’s powers to fight your lifelong enemies : the Dreams.
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Simple accessible controls : jump, dash and slash your way through the Dream Army
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A very fast-paced gameplay complemented with environmental mechanics, making Scaredom the perfect mix between action and precision
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Use your Nightmare powers : fly with wings of fire, make your enemies explode with your terrifying grenade, and so much more !
Scaredom’s world counts on you to end the eternal night war between Nightmares and Dreams.
The colourful realms of Scaredom are filled with treasures, secrets and supernatural characters. Traverse them all and uncover ancient mysteries that will change the nightmare world forever.
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Live an extraordinary adventure and meet mysterious friends and foes throughout your journey in Scaredom’s mystical universe.
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Explore huge, fantastic open-worlds filled with quests and secrets awaiting to be discovered.
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Unlock brutal bonus levels, for the bravest of nightmares
Dreams and nightmares are fighting an all-out war and seeking to eradicate each other. However, the dreams are gaining ground and are getting closer and closer to invading the nightmare dimension.
To obliterate them is up to you.
