Wild Season
Played the game enough to get to the end of the first episode, the devs have their priorities way out of order, coupled with the fact that they clearly bit off more than they could chew, and you have Wild Season. The game we’ve all been waiting for. I found myself waking up, watering plants, then going to sleep until the next day, rinse and repeat. There’s really nothing else to it than that, sure you can go mining (the levels on the mine repeat themselves occasionally, including all the crap you left on the floor) but you cant use the ores to make anything like in HM games, you just sell them for next to nothing, better off spending money farming. Animals are broken, you can buy a chicken, and yes it will eventually lay eggs after it’s happy, but you can’t incubate the eggs, they disappear the next day, so if you want multiple chickens you have to keep buying more, which is against the point to begin with, you would never see your money back from that.
– Real player with 37.0 hrs in game
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| Disclaimer: A key was provided for me to beta test the game and write an honest review |
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I would like to apologize for my previous review, to those who aren’t satisfied with it and to those who doesn’t agree to what I wrote. After spending more time with this game, and figuring out a few stuffs, including how the save system works I’ve decided to revise my review, and hopefully this will correct my previous mistakes.
- Plot – The story starts slow, it does take time before you see how it unfolds. The first part is quite too long for an introduction, you’ll be reading many dialogue lines before you could get your hands on the game and start playing. You can see notification on the right that you have completed a quest, but there is no actual UI that shows what your quest was or what your current one is. But there is a journal that shows your progress instead. So far as I’ve noticed, there is an event or happening at least once each day. So other than taking care of your farm, you’ll have something to look forward to the next day.
– Real player with 6.2 hrs in game
Friend ReQuest - A Playable Teaser
Most of the game is pretty boring, so as to show how dull this person’s life really is. However, that doesn’t exactly make it enjoyable to play, and there’s barely any story for the first half of the game. Then, for the second half, there’s more story, but less to do in general.
I also have a habit of pressing esc to check my stats/ pause the game, and that exits this game. There is no save function, so I had to restart. They do tell you that there is no save function at the beginning of the game though.
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game
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I’m sooooo excited for Amity Chain and this really sold it! Amity feels so real and all her conversations are so fleshed out I’m really looking forward to seeing more from her and other characters. Really neat spritework that I’m also excited to see more of!
Tip: stick around at the “end” of the game when the screen goes white!
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Camp Canyonwood
Welcome to historic Camp Canyonwood! You’re the new Head Counselor, tasked with breathing new life into these old campgrounds. The Campers are here, and they’re hungry for some summer fun. Their amusement, education and most importantly safety lies in your hands. Good luck, and watch for the things that go bump in the night.
Build Your Dream Camp
Gather materials and funds to improve your camp each summer, and design it as you see fit.
Guide Your Troop
Lead troops of campers each summer in pursuit of Merit Badges. The more they learn, the more you earn.
Beware of Dangers
Camping isn’t always easy. Protect your campers from dangers both natural and supernatural.
Live the Camp Life
Hike, fish, bug catch and more in a scenic Utah-inspired wilderness.
Camper Personalities
No two campers are the same. Each have their own unique personalities and quirks. Learn their needs to better reach them!
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Escape Within
A first person puzzle game about regaining your memory and having to solve riddles, puzzles and find hidden items to be able to progress further in the game. This is a unique gaming genre that focuses on solving puzzles. It tests the player’s problem-solving skills that include pattern recognition, word completion, sequence solving, and logic.
The story
In Escape Within you find yourself lured to a remote island, where you must draw upon all your puzzle-solving ability to navigate a series of trials. unlock your deepest memory and you just might find out why you are on the island.
New York Rat Simulator
There was something surprisingly pleasing about running a rat the size of a Great Dane around ‘NYC’ like a plague-laden Shadowfax . So that’s nice.
I’d give it a negative review for sheer lack of content, but the developers are on the up-and-up about where the game is at this point. Interested to see how it pans out.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
The city is infested. Infested by humans!
They are almost everywhere! You are the chosen one to stop them in the name of the great Rat King! Hurry before it is too late!
Collect the pizza slices before they rot and harm weaker animals. Scare the humans away or kill them! If you don´t succeed they will spread over the hole planet and destroy everything! How dare they?!
Hurry!
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Winter Dream
Winter vacation has come for Caron Duff and he’s looking forward to his time out of school. However, his vacation won’t be spent at home and he’ll be moving in with his uncle who owns a restaurant. Upon arriving in town, he finds the scenery to be way more familiar than it should be. When he gets to his uncle’s restaurant, he meets Velda Penn, a very rude girl that works for Daniel. Caron gets some time to look around town and that’s when he runs into Gwen Coy, a somewhat shy girl with a bit of a playful side and Rose Sherburn, who cares way more about others than herself.
WOODS Part I
Everything happened so fast… And even if people could have seen it coming, what could they have actually done? David was one of the ‘lucky’ ones. Far from the chaos, yet he felt the impact all the same. Now, trying to understand everything that happened, he found himself returning to a place that called to him.
A place that offered the best possible chance for his survival… The Woods.
In spite of everything, David is determined to survive.
So with his trusty ax he spends his days chopping and preparing wood -
Keeping the fire stocked to stay warm and fend off from the creatures of the night -
And to help clear his mind and relax, even play his guitar -
However, don’t get too comfortable. When Winter ends he will find himself having to fend for himself all the more with fishing, trapping, and hunting.
But in the end, will this be enough?
Welcome to the Woods. In the first Part of Woods you have the seemingly easy task of simply keeping a fire going, and protecting yourself from the cold in winter. Chop wood, feed the fire, and survive. A simple task at first, but once Winter wanes, the challenge is increased as David will have to learn to fish, make traps to catch small animals, and eventually learn to hunt to survive. Along the way, learn about Davids story from his past and why he must survive.
In the Woods there are no heroes. Just you, the elements, and the will to survive.
Don’t Kill the King!
Someone tried to kill the king, but fortunately they failed! However, the would-be assassin will return to try again, and it’s your job to catch them.
As a medieval gate guard:
- Interrogate visitors and try to uncover any lies or inconsistencies in their stories.
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Search any visitors that seem suspicious. After all, they could be smuggling contraband or worse…
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If any hidden item is found, choose to confiscate it as illegal contraband, or discreetly take it for yourself.
- After deeming visitors as innocent or guilty, choose to allow them into the city, deny them entry, or even throw them in the dungeon.
Do all the above while:
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Trying to maintain the happiness of the visitors.
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Earning gold to pay your bills.
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Gaining reputation amongst the city guards in order to climb your way up to top.
Sometimes being a gate guard can be exhausting work, and quite frankly low-paying work at that. So a little bit of dishonest work to make some quick coin here and there wouldn’t hurt, right?
- Gamble and play some relaxing Contraband Bingo with the contraband you confiscated from the visitors (or bought from the black market).
- Invest in contraband stocks at the black market and check everyday to see if your stocks are climbing or dipping.
Features:
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Each visitor will have their own set of occupations and personality types that will be randomly chosen each day which will affect their dialogue and how they interact with you. For example, one visitor may be an honest blacksmith one day and the next day you see them they might be a lying carpenter.
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Special items can be bought at the black market which affect the number of visitors who are carrying items, decrease the likelihood of guilty visitors appearing, double the amount of reputation earned from your work, and more!
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Achievements to be unlocked through special interactions and your hard work!
The Good Life
Just to play through and do the main quest… eh it’s alright. Quirky but it’s fine, just play it then go do another game and forget it ever existed.
To get invested in and mess around? Hell no lol.
From release this was a janky mess of game-breakers and softlocks. The biggest of which was at least patched out (storage).
The content of the game is entirely just “go get this” with everything a convoluted web of ingredients upon ingredients of which everything is a rare drop except meat. Little to no emphasis nor encouragement when it comes being a photographer. Even with thousands of followers, keeping up with the trends on Flamingo barely gives you a few hundred a week so it’s not worth the effort when you could be running around hitting rocks or getting your daily time trial allowance.
– Real player with 170.3 hrs in game
Kickstarter backer here, so my review shows as a CD Key review, and will not count towards the overall review score.
That out of the way…
recommending with some serious caveats.
It’s a SWERY game, but not a ‘typical" SWERY game.
Weird, messy, a bit sloppy, a more Eastern POV and stereotype of life in the UK and the West.
Kb/m controls are quite clunky. Controller is better, if the game and Steam recognize your controller (PS4/PS5 recommended- the game seems to reuse towork properly with my XBox One controller).
– Real player with 141.0 hrs in game
Dreamt
Welcome to Dreamt!
In this VR puzzle game you will be exploring a mysterious but nostalgic feeling house that has a lot of strange quirks about it.
Feel free to do whatever you wish!
Find hidden minigames and puzzles around the house in order to unlock more and eventually beat the game!
While the puzzles are important in the gameplay of Dreamt, the most fun can be had just exploring the environment, picking up interesting objects, and SMASHING THEM!
We encourage it!