Fool’s Paradise
Fool’s Paradise is a beautiful indie game. I liked everything about it: atmosphere, music, puzzles. I recommend buy this game. 10/10
– Real player with 6.5 hrs in game
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This game…. in simple words.. painful. Unfortunately i thought it would be a fun indie game to checkout but after playing it for about an hour and getting nowhere I am calling this a bust. The camera and motion controls are lacking. Interacting with objects is awful. Its makes noises like you have done something but nothing occurs. There is no clear direction and although in most games that take that approach this is a subtle suggestion on flow to the story where as this game has not flow at all. Honestly its like painful. I don’t want to crush developers but in this case it needs some TLC. Def not trying again.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Deep Lake: Prologue
nice opening music. nice graphics. Story is okay- from what I can make of it. Bad translation in parts which made it hard to follow. For example the mc stepped in a ‘paddle’ twice and got his feet wet smh. I hope the later installments fix this. Might be pretty good if they do. I’ll give the benefit of the doubt and thumb this one up, but if there’s no improvement, I’ll have to change my recommendation.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
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This is the first ‘visual novel’ I have experienced. It isn’t a game; you don’t make any choices. So, having gotten over that expectation, I will proceed.
Obviously a novel needs an interesting story, and this is interesting. I imagine it is better in Russian, but since I don’t understand a single character of Cyrillic, I had to make do with the English version. It needs some work. I was able to get the gist of what they were saying most of the time, but an important part of a novel, to me, is how the story is told. So in order to make this a successful English visual novel, they’re going to need to find a fluent Russian/English translator. Google Translate just doesn’t do it. You can’t use the word ‘defile’ when you mean ‘define.’ Two totally different meanings.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Fractal Space
What are you really trying to escape?
PRE-ALPHA AVAILABLE
Enjoyed our free Demo of the first Chapter? Play the Pre-Alpha now up to Chapter 4!
KEY FEATURES
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Control your Jetpack to fly freely around space!
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Shoot your Taser-Gun to power-up devices remotely
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Solve amazing puzzles involving Zero-Gravity rooms
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Use Hyper-Speed to bend time around you and survive impossible traps
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Find Upgrade Terminals to acquire new Abilities
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Find lost Recordings to understand what lead you here and learn about yourself
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New Game+ to keep Upgrades, access secret rooms and passages!
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Enable Speedrun Mode to skip cutscenes and accelerate parts of gameplay
TASER-GUN | Your Best Friend
Shoot your Taser-Gun to power-up electric devices remotely. When you’re alone in the universe, this weapon is your best friend. Keep an eye out for Taser Batteries to make sure you don’t run out!
JETPACK | Enjoy Flying
Defy laws of physics by firing up your Jetpack to fly freely through space and avoid deadly traps. You cannot risk falling into the void; use it wisely and make sure you have enough fuel to make your jump!
CONTROL TIME | Hyper-Speed
Use your Hyper-Speed ability to slow down time around you, allowing you to focus and survive traps that would be deadly at regular speed! Beware - Hyper-Speed consumes health, so don’t overdo it!
ZERO-GRAVITY | Sensational
Discover a new way of thinking first-person puzzles and survive rooms in Zero-Gravity! Stay sharp and aware of your surroundings - it’s easy to get lost when you’re floating in space.
UPGRADES | Evolve
Explore the station to find Upgrade Terminals and acquire new Abilities! Upgrades are persistent for a New Game+ when the game is completed. You’ll enjoy a faster second run!
PUZZLES | Think
During your journey in this dangerous space station, dexterity is not your only challenge: activate switches, complete mini-games, use cubes to reach higher grounds, go through teleporters, orient light mirrors, search for clues and much more!
EXPLORE | Space
Explore and pick up hidden recordings throughout the station - they will help you solve puzzles, recall what happened to you and find answers about your past, present and future. Remember to acquire Health Packs and Taser Batteries to help you get through this adventure.
REPLAY VALUE | Find Secrets
Many rooms can be completed in multiple ways. Others can be skipped using secret passageways. Once you have completed the main story-line, continue your adventure in New Game+ to discover previously inaccessible Bonus Rooms, secret passages and obtain all bonus Upgrades and Recordings!
OPTIMIZED | Potato-Friendly
The game features high-end graphics with realistic dynamic lighting and shadows, Ambient Occlusion, Tonemapping, HDR Support, Screen-Space Reflections, Motion Blur, Bloom and Anti-Aliasing.
However, if you are playing with a laptop or an old Potato PC, you are welcome too! By disabling most of these resource-intensive effects, you’ll be able to enjoy playable framerates, even on Integrated Graphics Cards!
COMPETE | Achievements & Leaderboards
Show everyone what a puzzle mastermind you are by unlocking more than 70 Achievements, sharing your speedrun scores with your friends and the entire world!
SPEEDRUN | Optimize Gameplay
Enjoy a speedrunner-friendly experience by enabling Speedrun Mode, allowing you to optimize your timings and compete with your friends via Leaderboards! Speedrun Mode shows you additional timers, speeds-up elevators and allows you to completely disable all cut-scenes of the game.
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Roboggled
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– Real player with 2.4 hrs in game
Pretty decent puzzle game. Mechanics are very simple; just move a robot with the arrow keys, and help it push a crate to the opening in the floor. Took me about an hour-and-a-half to get through all 60 levels. The great part is, there’s still playability afterwards, being able to make your own puzzles and uploading for the world to share! It could benefit from having a simple tutorial, as well as the ability to change the background color, but still pretty good nonetheless.
Native Linux support!
– Real player with 1.8 hrs in game
Untangle
Menu for sound, video and keybindings
Explore places while u gather information & items and try stay alive as the creepy story unravels more & more
The eerie surroundings mixed with frightening music & sound effects add to the ambience
with quite great jumpscares at times
Experienced some occasional bugs (nothing major though), luckily there’s a save/load option
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– Real player with 4.6 hrs in game
This game gave me goosebumps and a lot of jump scares! The story itself is like how stories from Asian movies are done. If you are a Filipino, hope you wouldn’t mind watching my play through for this game. https://youtu.be/AbrKHi3sw4Y
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
OVIVO
Quite an unusual game, fantastic visual design! It feels like half a post modern art installation and half a puzzle-platformer.
Although the core gameplay mechanic is very simple(you switch between two colors) they’ve managed to build surprisingly rich set of different gameplay elements with it.
Art design is definitely something. The amount of hidden references and allusions is just mind blowing and I definitely haven’t spotted all of them.
Special praise for the soundtrack, it goes perfectly with both the general feel of the game and specifics of each level.
– Real player with 30.2 hrs in game
My goodness this game is simply stunning. The visual style speaks for itself; if you’re interested in this almost sort of Native American or tribal white-on-black starkness, you know this game is for you already and you should play it. The mechanics feel just like they should and there’s only one annoying bit where left and right get reversed (I raged a little bit). The music is great but they are fixed songs on loops, not responsive to your actions or the progression of the level as in 140 for example. Still, excellent compositions that fit the game’s mood perfectly.
– Real player with 5.6 hrs in game