Play With Me: Escape room
Robert Hawk and his wife Sara are driving home from their celebration out on the town for his birthday when suddenly their car is thrown off the road crashing into an embankment. Robert wakes up handcuffed to a chair with a splitting headache in a dimly lit room, and Sara is nowhere to be seen. Surveying the area as best you can from your position, you will need to find a way to unlock the handcuffs by seeking out items that may be helpful or give you clues. Soon you will discover you are being held by a serial killer about whom you have been writing articles. Yours is not the only life in danger; logical thinking and the ability to think outside the box will be required if you are to save all the lives at stake.
– Real player with 11.3 hrs in game
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Hey man, why don’t we just play some board games.
With a new Saw movie being released for the first time in seven years, you gotta get some life threatening puzzle solving somewhere. The official Saw games do not do it justice but what about Saw inspired games?
We come into the picture right as our protagonist, Robert Hawk, get kidnapped and put into a dark room. Still fresh from his car accident, or perhaps it was planned all along, this investigative journalist now has to go through puzzles made by the very man he was chasing, Illusion. Robert must be close to identifying Illusion if he was put in one of his puzzles to die, rather than a criminal that evaded being jailed. If Illusion made one mistake, it would be putting a journalist specifically trying to find out who they are, right in the same building.
– Real player with 10.0 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
Escape The Ordinary: Tales of Romina Manor
it was a great game. i like rpgmaker games so i enjoyed a lot.
Can be finished in one hour. Maybe 2 if u are an idiot cuz i am.
- i like the little detais in the game. They made me smile.
but there are something to fix:
1- u can get into house by window without needing a key.
2- stucks when you go back your home then the other pleace
3- stucks when you go to bathroom for the second time
4- Song stucks in your mind when you see “Mirror mirror on the wall”
There was a lot of item that we can collect but some of them (a lot of them) was not usefull. I guess they are for confuse the player. Not sure…
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
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Cool Mystery game wrapped in an easy to play RPG format. Love exploring the map and seeing Easter eggs and fun comments left by the developer. This game also stood out in that not everything you pick up is useful. This is much more like the real world experience. Wish there is slightly more hint later on in the game, but overall a fun game.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
Finders, Keepers
Finders, Keepers
A hike above ancient woodland on summer solstice; the longest day of the year. Two friends explore an enigmatic forest, talking of life and love. Mysterious landmarks dwell in the primal wood, echoes of beauty and pain that scar the land, and await those who seek the truth.
Finders, Keepers tells a tale through unconventional means; tips left by users of the fyndr/keepr dating app hint at a tragic tale, strange profiles lead to hidden clues, landmarks hold a mysterious history. A dreamlike atmosphere permeates through joyful interactions; blowing dandelions, skimming stones, rustling wind chimes, while the narrative evokes a range of emotions, from humorous dating profiles, to unsettling discoveries.
An Atmospheric Mystery
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A magical realist narrative told through unconventional means.
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Experimental gameplay using a dating app interface.
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Playful interactions use simple swiping mechanics in creative ways.
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Fluid, evolving musical score moves seamlessly with the story.
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Mouse and controller support with innovative thumb interface.
Hazel Sky
Hazel Sky is a heartfelt adventure about a young engineer facing his destiny and his desires.
Sent to an island far from home in the flying city of Gideon, Shane must pass the trials and return as an Engineer or face banishment. Connected via radio, Shane and fellow trainee engineer, Erin strike up an illicit friendship. A friendship that will change the way Shane sees the world.
The Trials are the ultimate test that every Engineer must take before taking the honored role. For Shane, the trials are his destiny, but destiny and desire rarely align and, in a world, divided between honored engineers and reviled artists, Shane finds himself torn. The trials, events in Gideon, and an unlikely romance tell the bittersweet story of love, ambition, and a society on the brink of something new.
Game Features
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Repair and build an assortment of incredibly flying machines
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Jump, climb, swing, and slide your through the trials
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Discover the fates of those who faced the trials before you. And those who failed.
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Take to the skies in ramshackle flying machines
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Find peace and tranquility in the gorgeous world
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Explore and find hidden truths and fascinating insights into the people of Gideon
One Night On The Road
It’s quite bad. There is also a bug which prevents me from finishing the game. (And getting the only achievement.) Stay away.
Btw. I refunded it.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Holy fuck this game is cursed please don’t play it
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Power Of Language
Power Of Language is a suspense text game mainly featuring dialogues. The game is about a case caused by a certain mental illness in the future, and you’d act as a hypnotist to talk to prisoners for investigations that eventually lead to the truth. Besides, you need to be careful of every tiny clue contained in memory scenes. The plot lasts for 40 to 60 minutes.
. A dialogue-based game.
. It’s about a case caused by a certain mental illness.
. You’d investigate an unbelievable case to figure out the truth through dialogues and memory scenes.
Runaway, A Road Adventure
“Runaway” is one of those games people love to argue about. It’s featured in multitude of “favorite” and “best adventure” lists with many players considering it one of the best; yet there are always complaints from the other side of the fence – about puzzles, characters, story… Such division in opinions isn’t undeserved, as the game has some kinks and won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but it has undeniably become a famous title in adventure gaming.
One thing almost no one disagrees on when it comes to “Runaway: Road Adventure” is how gorgeous it is. A mix of 3D and 2D characters and environments creates vivid, rich visuals with some epic backgrounds you’d want to pause and take in for a minute before moving on (some 3D cutscenes, on the other hand, can be eyebrow-raising). The looks of the game became so popular that referring to something being “in a style of Runaway” is, in a way, synonymous with cartoon-styled, intensely colored, and detailed graphics - a large part of an overall attraction for this adventure.
– Real player with 25.8 hrs in game
Runaway: A Road Adventure is a point-and-click (P&C) adventure game which, by design, it is no more than your typical P&C game from the ‘90s.
The story centres around Brian Basco, an initially shy and nerdy Physics graduate from New York whose life totally changes the moment he almost runs over an admittedly hot chick, Gina Timmins, with his car. Could this be faith? Taking her quickly to the hospital, Brian soon finds out that the mafia gang is after her as a result of possessing an enigmatic crucifix given by her father which she pledged to protect. From here on out, it is knowable what is about to happen and is already hinted in the title itself: become runaways chased by the mafia whilst trying to decipher the mystery behind the crucifix.
– Real player with 13.0 hrs in game
Shade
You’ve just been murdered, and now you have to find out why. You are now a shade, a newly-formed ghost caught between the worlds of the living and the dead. To dig up the truth, you must enter into the minds of your closest friends and family to pry out their darkest secrets. But this new world is a dangerous one, crawling with bizarre creatures and threats. And what you do with the truths you uncover may set you free, or seal your fate forever.
Key Features:
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Play through an engaging stealth system where you use light, sound, and your wits to outsmart enemies.
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Channel unique powers to manipulate the environment and turn the odds in your favor.
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Unlock game-changing traits to play the game your own way.
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Dig through a twisting story to uncover the truth about your identity, and the hidden secrets of those you thought you knew best.
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Sink into an imaginative world filled with lush, hand-drawn art and an original soundtrack.
The Hex
I wholeheartedly recommend this, as I did with Pony Island. It’s a fascinating story with twists and loads of hidden secrets to track down. If you aren’t good at examining the meta layers, there’s plenty of people on the Steam forum who’ve done the legwork so you can see it for yourselves.
It’s hard to talk about the content without getting into spoilers, and since so much of this game relies on those, I think I’ll just say this: Not everything, or everyone, is what you see at first glance. A number of things within the game/story can be open to interpretation.
– Real player with 31.5 hrs in game
This piece of gaming art, a museum piece, that will take you about 6 hours to finish and that looks like it was made by a child manages to pack a lot of fun, a ton of creativity, extraordinary ideas, thoughtful writing, creepy moments and spectacular jabs at the gaming industry and gaming culture as a whole that the entire 3A “gaming industry” couldn’t produce if they hired all the world’s monkeys and resurrected Shakespeare to write them something.
I can’t write a lot in this review because the less you know, the better. The story is very layered through it’s 6 protagonists, residents of the Six Pint Inn, you get to play as, all the genre mashing it does, playing with different game ideas and ridiculing or celebrating gaming tropes in all of them and all the meta, social, gaming culture and industry commentaries it liberally sprinkles through its running time. It’s just entrancing and it’s extremely satisfying getting to the end of The Hex. I really, really can’t write more than this because it would do the game and you, if you decide to play it, a disservice.
– Real player with 12.8 hrs in game