The Bunker
Decent story marred by ultra-linear gameplay and lack of basic features
“The Bunker” is a fairly decent post-apocalyptic thriller movie - turned into a deplorably poor game that repeats all the mistakes of the “interactive movies” of the 90s, a time when these products were expected to sell on the basis of their full-motion video alone, and gameplay was an afterthought.
The premise is fairly interesting. After a nuclear strike hit Great Britain, people try to survive in bunkers, and you are the youngest resident in one of these, having been born just when the attack happened. The game starts with all other residents already dead and you being the last survivor, clinging to your daily routine because you don’t know anything else. When a system failure requires you to break out of that routine and enter long abandoned parts of the facility, disturbing memories of your past resurface.
– Real player with 6.3 hrs in game
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TLDR
This is an introspective story on a well-explored topic: the Lone Survivor in a dystopic world. It’s done pretty well too, and has a good soundtrack for the presentation, but it’s not a game as the gamer community would define. The Bunker is an interactive story, where choices matter and actions have consequences.
DEETS
First, a few notes about the interactive aspects.
1.) Most of the choices you make will be in regards to finding cookies, as opposed to survival. It’s easy to miss the few minor collectables in the game if you’re not looking for them, and it’s not always intuitive to look where they may appear. Darkened corners, minor minutia of background details, and simple but unannounced puzzles are all a factor in various scenes.
– Real player with 5.5 hrs in game
The Complex
The Complex is by developer’s Wales Interactive, Good Gate Media, Little Jade Productions and filmed in the UK. Also featuring guest acting performance by Twitch streamer and former Xbox UK presenter, Leah Viathan.
This is a story rich adventure FMV game where choices matter. Most playthroughs for each game are roughly about an hour long with one much shorter. Be forewarned: U do have to make quick, tough decisions/judgement calls that matter and alter the progression of the game depending on your choices. The Pause Choices (timer) can be turned off in the Streaming Options. This was mainly for Streamers with audience participation during live streams. I left my timers on.
– Real player with 13.1 hrs in game
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SUMMARY
London is under siege. A major bio-weapon attack casts a heavy shadow. Two experts in the Nanocell Technology find themselves trapped into a laboratory where assassins have just infiltrated and with time and air running out. Their only option is to take some hard decisions. But soon, those decisions will come back to haunt them. An interactive sci-fi thriller movie where you must ponder each and every decisions. A nice piece to kill some time, it is worth buying if on sale (half the price-tag would be decent).
– Real player with 7.7 hrs in game
Movie Actor Trivia
**How well do you know your favorite Movie Actors?
Test Your Movie Knowledge in Movie Actor Trivia!**
Movie Trivia has never been so much fun. Choose from the most popular movie actors and actresses in Hollywood, including Bill Murray, Brad Pitt, Denzel Washington, Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Steve Martin, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and Will Smith. Challenge yourself or have a movie trivia night with friends and family in Party Mode! If that’s not enough, give the wheel challenge a spin!
Movie Actor Trivia includes 9 of Your Favorite Hollywood Movie Actors and Actresses:
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Bill Murray
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Brad Pitt
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Denzel Washington
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Julia Roberts
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Sandra Bullock
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Steve Martin
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Tom Cruise
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Tom Hanks
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Will Smith
FEATURES
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Includes 9 of your Favorite Movie Actors and Actresses.
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High Quality Graphics.
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Party Mode (2-4 players locally).
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Family Friendly.
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Fun for all ages.
So what are you waiting for? Download it now and start playing Movie Actor Trivia!
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Contradiction - Spot The Liar!
This is a FMV detective & mystery game developed by Baggy Cat, created thanks to a kickstarter campaign. Since I love detective games and tv-shows I decided to give this one a go. This is a lovecrafted masterpiece, great from start to finish. I’m gonna try to explain why.
You play as detective Jenks, investigating a girls suicide in an english village. Mysteries surrounding the suicide quickly leads to a murder investigation. Jenks only have a day to solve the mystery. He quickly finds out about a private school for adults called Atlas that uses some questionable methods, and you learn more and more as you go. Every chapter is an hour in the game, but every chapter took me more then an hour each. It’s a pretty tricky game, but you can use clues if you get stuck.
– Real player with 15.2 hrs in game
TL;DR: It’s a very fun and interesting game,
! with a very, very, VERY bad (and extremely) unsatisfying ending
I’m probably very late to the “reviewing contradiction” party (what a weird party), the game being almost 6 years old now and having been talked about in the ExtraCredits YouTube channel (the reason why I bought it in the first place!), but I’m gonna have a go at it anyways.
Contradiction is an FMV game where you must investigate in one night a supposed suicide in a small village. The investigation is done almost entirely by talking to people (i.e. watching small bits of questioning), though some evidence is found by walking and snooping around (in fact, I’m no lawyer or law-enforcement officer, but I feel like a quite a few of the evidence found wouldn’t be admissible in court!) But the main aspect of the game is asking people about things, which can directly lead you to new evidence, but will always lead to a set of statements from each person. This is where the main mechanic of the game comes in: you can select two statements (they must be from the same person though, hold this for later) that contradict each other and if they do, indeed, you get a new line of questioning where detective Jenks brings up the contradiction to the person in question, usually leading to new evidence. When you reach key milestones in the investigation, the time moves forward, and some new witness can become available (or unavailable), and going certain places can unlock certain events that can give you new evidence to ask around about.
– Real player with 13.7 hrs in game
Systematic Insanity
This is not a game.
If you cannot speed read do NOT buy this!!!!
This is a basic “modern media” project that would be regularly seen in the late 1980’s to the early 2000’s as a “media arts” project requirement in North American universities.
That being said it is visually well done.
however:
a) all interaction is disabled entirely except during “dating game” style dialogues.
this is a major issue since the speed of the dialogues is far to high so even a person like me that can absorb the entire LOTR + The Hobbit in under 25 hours of reading still misses nearly 1/4 of the dialogue
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Vegas Tales
The owner of the fabulous Bellflower Casino Hotel in Las Vegas is terminally ill. Having devoted his life to running his hotel, he never made time for family or friends. With no obvious heir, he’s hired you to help him choose the right person to inherit the Bellflower. He narrowed his list of candidates down to a small group of people who have strong personal connections to the hotel, but whom he knows little else about. They’ve agreed to be interviewed by you under the pretense that you’re writing a book about the Bellflower Hotel. None of them know what’s truly at stake. It’s up to you to get to know these people and determine which of them is most worthy of inheriting the Bellflower. This will be no easy task, as the group contains some unique and memorable characters who will make your decision quite difficult. Be careful though, as there may be more to some than meets the eye.
Rainy Season
This Game is Truly something, as someone who really Loves Japan and Anime and just the general Culture of the Country and recently have found out how beautiful it looks in the Rain i was quick to buy this and for only 2 Pounds it is a Must try in my opinion, you can pick how long the day lasts ranging from 20 mins to 1 Hour and there is different Day Dreams you can expierence. This Game is also amazing for wallpapers or Photos as it has amazing scenery, even in the small Map. I really Reccomend you give this a Try if you like Anime or Just Japan in General and it is really Cheap. There are a few Bugs here and there and i do think that the Avatar can be a bit glitchey Sometimes and it keeps opening Steam VR so i am not sure if there is a VR version which i am going to Try now as of the Time of this Review but Overall i really do reccomend this Game.
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
For 4 dollars I can’t really argue. It’s got a nice atmosphere, art, and music while you get to explore around a Japanese house during the rain. Not too much else to say than that. It’s cute, but it’s only about an hour long of an experience. The game does have a lot of detail in that one house, with various events, lots of objects to pick up and doors/drawers to open.
It does have issues, though. There’s a general sense of jank here. Items can often refuse to want to be picked up or moved around, if you look downward you can see the weirdness of your player model, crouching/sitting is especially jank looking, the text sometimes scrolls twice despite you only pressing the button once, the cutscenes are a bit unpolished in places, etc. That said, I did spend a good bit of time attempting to get out of bounds just to explore, which I was successful in doing. That part was definitely fun and made me appreciate the game’s development.
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
Halloween Stories: Horror Movie Collector’s Edition
I was going to click No however, this would be a good game for a preteen or teen. It is not scary and a bit juvenile.
– Real player with 6.1 hrs in game
This is the first Halloween Stories game that I have played and is overwhelmingly the absolute best ever hidden object game that I have ever played. It is the complete deal. Story line keeps you interested in the game play and the bonus chapter picks up where the main game leaves off. The interaction with characters is one that I myself have never encountered. I extremely enjoyed the added “liveliness” of some of the animations, (streets apart from anything I have seen) congrats to the entire team that are responsible for them :-) I have no problem at all recommending this game to anyone, in fact I would encourage you to buy this game. My many thanks to the entire team for an absolutely fantastic, unforgettable and pleasurable game. Thanx
– Real player with 5.9 hrs in game