Broken Sword 4 - the Angel of Death
When I saw that this game received mixed reviews, I still kept my hopes high. After all, Broken Sword 3 got mixed reviews, and I enjoyed it, despite being trampled by boxes ;). Then I played it. I will say this: I’m glad I played it. I’m a Broken Sword fan; therefore, I must play the whole series. If you are a Broken Sword fan, you probably should play it. It doesn’t get everything wrong, it just doesn’t get enough right. I feel that Broken Sword 3 was much stronger in terms of story and graphics. Anyhow, lets get to the positives of this game before I load you with the negatives.
– Real player with 30.7 hrs in game
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Broken Sword 4
Sadly this really is one just for fans of the series… and even then this game will test a lot of them too.
I’ve played a lot of this game due to PC issues… mostly being that I like to reinstall my O.S. every few months to keep my PC clean and fast as possible. Sadly this means that I’ve had to restart games that don’t have cloud save features (This and Assassins Creed 4 Black Flag being two off the top of my head.) Simply put I’ve seen enough of this game up to the Turkish palace bit to last me a lifetime. Anyway that might explain why I logged up so many hours on this game.
– Real player with 24.9 hrs in game
Broken Sword 3 - the Sleeping Dragon
Despite the fact that I liked this game, I can’t recommend this game to everyone (again, a ‘Maybe’ or ‘Mixed’ option would be more fitting). The biggest and most noticeable problem is that the game’s controls are not what you think; the point-and-click interface of the previous games is replaced with a weird adventure-game Sims hybrid control scheme, which is something I’ve never seen before. WARNING!!!: I do NOT recommend using the keyboard for this game. Otherwise you’re gonna have a TERRIBLE time and you’ll experience some of the worst controls in gaming history. And this is coming from a person who loves the controls of Fixed-Camera Resident Evil and Tomb Raider 1-6.
– Real player with 12.9 hrs in game
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Broken Sword 3 is host to some big problems that unfortunately overshadows a lot of the good aspects of the game.
Just like the previous Broken Sword games, the story is decent though not special. The dialogue and voice acting is definitely one of the strongest aspects of the series, and BS 3 has that too. Most of the puzzles range from okay to pretty interesting.
However, the controls are an unholy collection of awful and rubbish. They suck, they suck in every way possible. Combine the bad controls with the terrible camera and you got a special kind of awful. The camera uses weird angels and it switches them constantly. CONSTANTLY. It jumps back and forth, sometimes as much as five times in a few “meters” of road. It’s enough to make you seasick… and it causes you to run the wrong way since what was one direction a second ago is suddenly the opposite direction or sideways. It also prevents you from seeing the things you wish to see.
– Real player with 12.2 hrs in game
Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6hkJGDzOUA
First Impressions
Having recently played and reviewed the first game, which really disappointed me, I’m not at all looking forward to Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard (FD2). Considering how well received the first game was, I don’t see the developers changing up what they did the first time, as there’s no reason to fix something that’s not broken. Knowing I’d knock it out quickly enough, I decided to play it sooner than later to find out whether I was right or wrong. To spare any potential mystery, I wasn’t off the mark in my prediction.
– Real player with 2.7 hrs in game
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Frog Detective is back! A delightful sequel to the original game
Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard picks up right after the events of the original game, The Haunted Island: A Frog Detective Game. In a lot of ways, the games are very similar, both are a short and easy point & click adventure game, where you play as the titular Frog Detective, who need to gather clues and figure out who the culprit is within the case. This time, you are aimed to solve a new mystery. You need to figure out who wrecked the parade the townsfolk of Warlock Woods were preparing to surprise their new neighbor, an invisible wizard?!
– Real player with 2.6 hrs in game
Welcome To… Chichester 3 : Plenty Of Time To Live
A little numb about how it all ends…
– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
Through Abandoned: The Forest
The long awaited sequel to “Abandoned” The Underground City" has arrived on STEAM…and it’s ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC ! ! ! This will keep you glued to your computer for a very long time…you’ve been warned…
This second installment of the “Through Abandoned” series is even more impressive than the first: The navigation of the environment is simple enough for a “newbie” to instantly pick up the computer’s mouse and instinctively know how to navigate and explore the multitude of environments in The Forest. The INVENTORY system and its operation in particular, is VERY ORIGINAL, and was just an all-around GREAT idea to put in a game like this! Like the first chapter of this series, the ambient is quite gripping, making it very easy for the Player to become totally immersed in The Forest…
– Real player with 20.3 hrs in game
I remember playing the first game on Kongregate long ago. And I remember how much of a shitstorm it created due to the accusations of plagiarizing Mat Skutnik, so much so that said author had to comment on it’s page giving it a recomendation.
I also remember it’s less than stellar sequels, with puzzles, which cemented the MatSkut analogy due to the first one being blatantly inspired by “the loop”. I also remember that I commented on said sequel trying to explain why it was so poorly recieved (“the loop” came in 3rd, making people realize it was not what the series was going to be about, whereas chambers came in second, and the loop’s puzzles were more organic and intuitive, whereas chambers were a bit too blatantly just gotten straight out of a puzzle book and specially the chess one simply didn’t make sense in context.)
– Real player with 5.9 hrs in game
Game Tycoon 2
- First of all, this is not a Game Dev Tycoon! These two games may share similar topic, but the concepts are different. *
I’m recommending this game, because I enjoyed both first and second game in series, and there are only few games of this genre available. Sure, it has it’s pros and cons, but I think that true fans will find a way to enjoy it.
The game it self may be clunky, with not so sharp graphics, but underneath it is a true tycoon game. Tutorials may be better, but at the end it is us who needs to discover the whole game (yes, game developers wanted to be mysterious).
– Real player with 28.2 hrs in game
Not a bad game, but, frankly, it fails to reach the “standard” quality of the genre,
If you want to check, I own the majority of the “game development” games on Steam (and also some “small” non-Steam productions).
I have put this game at the end of the list and I’m really sorry to say this.
The main problems are:
- there is a good tutorial, but this doesn’t help to understand how a game… sell! There is a strange feedback system that helps very little (there is a quality rating and a “professional” rating: this could work, but, at the end, only makes you create the best games on the market and see them selling very little…)
– Real player with 13.2 hrs in game
Small Town Terrors: Livingston
I know zombies have been done and overdone… and then some. But I still love me a good zombie story. When I saw zombies combined with the hidden object genre, I had to play this now now now. For a game where you don’t have to worry about running or fighting, (you can just point at the zombies and laugh incessantly), there’s still a nicely tense mood. Here’s the lowdown.
You begin your story in the hospital. Waking from a coma and finding the place deserted. (cough cough Walking Dead cough cough). Your goal is to find your husband and daughter… and also uncover the deep dark secrets of an evil corporation. Mwahahaha. You do that by reading newspaper clippings and other notes lying around which unfold an interesting (albeit not very original) story. I actually enjoyed playing this quite a bit.
– Real player with 6.3 hrs in game
A small town with a super secret government facility conducting top secrect unregulated experiments (the kind if they told you about they would have to kill you) – What could possibly go wrong? Try containment breach - several in fact.
Second game is a present 3 game series. (1st: Small Town Terrors: Pilgrim’s Hook and 3rd: Small Town Terrors: Galdor’s Bluff)
Storyline - On the way to Livingston (home maybe) the Saunders family is in a car crash while trying to avoid a person in the middle of the road. Rebecca is a coma, while husband Stan and daughter Emily wait for her to get better. Two weeks later, Rebecca awakens alone in the deserted hospital, weak and confused by present events. She sets off to find Stan and Emily, to discover Livingston is abandoned, a disaster zone, and has “zombies”? Or at least contaminated humans. Find family and leave town as quick as possible is the objective. In the process, discover what happened in Livingston.
– Real player with 5.4 hrs in game
Penny Arcade’s On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3
This quickly became one of my favorite RPG’s as well as my personal favorite game in the PAA series, and with good reason. There’s quite a lot I’d like to say, so let’s get to it.
The game takes place 2 weeks after the events of Episode 2, but what’s neat is that you don’t need to have played it to understand the story going into Episode 3, as they immediately give you a summary of prior events upon talking to one of the statues in the Detective Agency. That alone makes Episode 3 easy to pick up and play, and the gameplay will keep you around for the long haul.
– Real player with 105.9 hrs in game
This game was an enjoyable throwback to 16bit turn based RPGs, but with a twist. They improved the combat system by adding some complexity without making it overly complicated. Since the core of all these turned based RPGs is mostly how well and fulfilling the combat is, the majority of this review will go over that section in detail to give you a greater understanding of how the game plays. I broke down the review in bold sections so you can read what is most important or what is most interesting to you in order of importance.
– Real player with 16.2 hrs in game
Little Big Adventure 2
Little Big Adventure 2 is definitely among my favourite games. I’d say it’s not for everyone, but if you like scripted adventure games, LBA 2 will be a game for you. What’s unique about this game is its style and atmosphere. The game was released in 1997, so the graphics are not the best by today’s standards. But that also means that the developers couldn’t simply make a “good looking” game and sell it like hot cakes because it has a strong brand name and a fancy trailer. The game really is good, it makes you want to discover more and more of its story. At some point in the game the story becomes predictable, but it’s still very good. I’ve played the game in all three language versions (German, English, French), and the dialogues in the German version are definitely the worst, but the German voice actors are the best. If you know French, play the game in French, it will be much easier to understand the NPCs' hints.
– Real player with 26.8 hrs in game
One of my favorite games to date. I played this back when it came in a CD and it suggested you to instell DirectX 3.a (!)
With a great comic approach, but with well done puzzles and a (although crazy) interesting story, this game has a bit of everything: Action, Puzzles, Comedy, Exploration and it has its somewhat open world parts!
tl;dr if you enjoy old style adventure games with lots of things to do and discover, you won’t regret this. It never gets old.
This game had a combination of 3d envirorment (normally outdoor) with 2d envirorment (indoor isometric) and it is really really old, so don’t expect great graphics.
– Real player with 23.0 hrs in game
Beyond a Steel Sky
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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? Well, the original Beneath A Steel Sky from 1994 is considered to be one of the best classic point and click adventures ever made by many of its fans. A dystopian story of an outsider abducted into a city state who in the end overthrows the evil mastermind running the city. I loved the beginning of the game, but was a bit disappointed by the ridicoulously incompetent security forces of the city, who were unable to stop me from moving around the city and finally destrying the ruling AI, although the ending somehow hinted at why they may have been so misguided in a city ruled by technology. Anyway, this is the sequel to that game, made 25 years later. The technology used by the game has changed completely, from the classic 2D view to a (third person) 3D game. Well, most adventures that switched from 2D to 3D were (more or less) failures, like Simon 3D, Gabriel Knight 3, King’s Quest 8, Broken Sword 4, or Syberia 3… will this game be a worthy sequel?
– Real player with 31.6 hrs in game
Beyond a Steel Sky is the sequel to the 26 year old point ‘n click adventure, Beneath a Steel Sky. I play through the original about once every year or two, it’s one of my favorite point and click adventures, going back to when it was originally released in the mid 90s. If you haven’t played the original you will certainly miss quite a bit of what makes the sequel enjoyable, so do yourself a favor and play the first one. It’s free and its a blast.
Alright, enough about the original. First, I’ll go over the stuff I don’t like about Beyond a Steel Sky.
– Real player with 23.7 hrs in game