Saṃsāra

Saṃsāra

Overview

SAMSARA® is a next-gen action-adventure RPG that fuses elements of Buddhism with souls-like gameplay — challenging players to meditate on their philosophy, life and death to help them find meaning through discourse, conflict and exploration.

Description:

Saṃsāra is a souls-like that challenges players to meditate on overcoming loss, failure and death through a core mechanic of reincarnation as 9 different avatars. The game is a 3D, third-person, action role-playing game (RPG) in the vein of the ‘Soulsborne’ (FromSoftware, 2009-2019) genre/series, taking cues from the older, shorter but still epic action-adventure game, Shadow of the Colossus (Team Ico, 2006-2018).

In Buddhism, Saṃsāra is the cycle of death and rebirth to which all life is bound. The players goal is to find a way to escape this cyclic existence, to escape Samsara. They will achieve this through discourse, conflict and exploration within the beautiful, deadly and dynamic Desire Realm (Kāmadhātu).

Gameplay Pillars

Core gameplay pillars include:

  • Conflict - physical, ranged and magical combat encounters with NPC’s who become enemies depending on which avatar form the player assumes.

  • Discourse - impactful, choice-based narratives delivered by cryptic, resolute and wandering NPC’s who are partially based on historical characters and represent Buddhist, Stoic and Daoist worldviews.

  • Exploration - uncovering ancient secrets and witnessing spectacular vistas, the player will traverse the Desire Realm: from the isolated circular edge of the Cakravāḍa mountains that encompass the world; across the Four Great Continents of scorching sand, glistening ice, dense tropics and serene lakes, to their penultimate destination; ascending the sacred five-peaked heights of Mt. Meru to reach the Gods domain, or descending beneath to the fiery, dark, gold-laden root of the world where demons reign.


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Saṃsāra on Steam

Aenaon

Aenaon

Very nice game, a bit small but this is not a problem since lots of updates are coming. I do recommend it, it is great for VR and very well made. Looking forward for more.

Real player with 0.3 hrs in game


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Aenaon on Steam

Gretchen: Queen of Crows

Gretchen: Queen of Crows

Rise from the Ashes

Gretchen: Queen of Crows is a dark fairy-tale-like action adventure game that follows a little girl named Gretchen, and her friend Baldrek the crow, as they try to survive in a world corrupted with demonic magic.

After a vicious attack on her home that disrupted her once quiet life, Gretchen must find out why she is being ruthlessly hunted by the demon Paimon and his legion of demonic creatures. Join Gretchen and Baldrek as they seek answers in a dangerous and unforgiving fantasy world. Will Paimon find the two of them, or will they find him first?

Features

  • Explore a beautifully twisted hand-drawn fantasy world.

  • Jump, dash, and glide your way through organic environments using Baldrek’s polymorphic abilities.

  • Use Gretchen’s gift of fire to deliver deadly attacks.

  • Battle a cast of disturbing creatures inspired by dark folklore, all with their own set of damaging attack sets.

  • Collect ancient grimoires to unlock new and dynamic abilities.


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Gretchen: Queen of Crows on Steam

ASPEN: Uncanny Home

ASPEN: Uncanny Home

love the game the atmosphere was awsome little hard to tell most times what you need to do but it was a fun experence and i loved it so much hope yall will make more games like this in the future :)

Real player with 3.1 hrs in game

Aspen: Uncanny Home has a beautifully rendered environment for the player to walk around in. There environment feels oppressive and claustrophobic as you wander between locations in the house wondering where a sound came from or how a doll got into a certain position.

For a psychological horror game, this is a great environment, but what this game has in environment, it lacks in player accessibility. The game doesn’t give the player direction and leads to aimless wandering in circles around the environment tying to figure out what changed each time and using the left mouse button to zoom in on specific items that change the environment to access the next area.

Real player with 2.4 hrs in game

ASPEN: Uncanny Home on Steam

Story

Story

Really interesting project, even if you just walk for the most of the time, the number of endings is quite impressing, but i can’t find out how i should get this many endings. It’s kinda weird the interaction with the objects, you can just watch them so it’s hard to tell if something changes when you “use” them. I’m waiting the update that should be released in these days.

Real player with 0.8 hrs in game

Good visuals if you remove the gray filters that make it hard to make out objects, more obstacles in the infinitely long pathways and also the controls are very bad also cinematic mode is weird also the skeleton looks funny running and also the enemies die in 1 hit and also the skeleton bowl doesnt accept my ball so i have to rule the tomb until judgement day

Real player with 0.5 hrs in game

Story on Steam

ChronoTecture: The Eprologue

ChronoTecture: The Eprologue

ChronoTecture Game Studio presents an indie video game created by an architectural designer.

After losing his cat Mobiius to lifelong illness, a father sees him again in a brief Dream. The father then designs and builds a device called The DreamCatcher, which allows him to induce a Lucid Dream at will. When the father finally sees Mobiius again in the Dream World, the DreamCatcher glitches and the father experiences sleep paralysis, trapping him in the Dream World against his will. The only way forward for the father is as a guide for Mobiius as he goes through his Final Dream.

ChronoTecture: The Eprologue on Steam

Midsummer Night

Midsummer Night

Adventure through a strange dream-like world was trees have eyes and are watching… as you search for your missing sister Alionushka – but spooky things get in your way to give you goosebumps OH-NO

https://youtu.be/j7VL3Obvtso

Real player with 7.8 hrs in game

A nice and atmospheric game. The graphics and sounds are well done and really help you to immerse yourself into the games world. While the game is short, it does have a branching storyline, where different decisions take you down different paths, giving it replayability.

Real player with 3.5 hrs in game

Midsummer Night on Steam

Secret of Sardinia

Secret of Sardinia

Secret of Sardinia is an open-world adventure game full of mystery and mythology. Swim, translate, explore, and discover!

Ancient Mythology

Locate magical bottles that contain the voices of departed souls. Collect stone fragments to rebuild the Tablets of Ages – ancient writings which tell the forgotten lore of Sardinia. Examine the Tablets’ cryptic markings and identify hieroglyphics to translate its legends.

Fish-Fantasy

Control Sam the Sardine using a carefully-crafted swimming mechanic that lets you move with 360 degrees of freedom. Test your skills with trials scattered throughout the ocean to attain union with the sea herself and unlock new abilities. Master these techniques to avoid the gaze of the unliving, lest you decay.

Open Seas

The Sacred Basin. The Giants’ Grave. The Cursed Cavern. The Undercurrent.

Swim through four connected realms to find the answers you seek – and then travel beyond. Unlock entrances to hidden caverns revealed by the Tablets of Ages.

Features

  • Fluid and customizable swim controls

  • Four haunting realms to explore

  • Hand-drawn, fully translatable hieroglyphic language

  • Hundreds of collectible bottles and fragments

  • Original mythology communicated through immersive voice acting

  • Beautiful, original soundtrack

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Secret of Sardinia on Steam

The Epic of Inanna

The Epic of Inanna

Captivating stories of voice and very nice graphic.

Real player with 7.5 hrs in game

https://youtu.be/BR4i_1AzbYY

So you’ve read the description and now you’re down here in the comments trying to figure out what’s it all about. Click the video above to see some of the gameplay, mechanic and hear my thoughts on the game.

The Epic of Inanna is a visual novel with the occasional FMV thrown in. The voice acting is probably the best part of the game. The graphics, images and music are all pretty much average for what you’d expect for a visual novel.

Note This is like watching a movie. There are no choices to make, no multiple endings to find and probably no replayablity.

Real player with 0.5 hrs in game

The Epic of Inanna on Steam

Aesop’s Fables - A New Approach

Aesop’s Fables - A New Approach

Aesop is a famous storyteller from Ancient Greece. The best fables of him are reinterpreted and modernized for a visual novel experience. All of these short stories are purely family-friendly and full with life lessons.

  • 70 Different Fables

  • Peaceful Music

  • Family-Friendly

It will be like a fairy tale full of smart animals.

Aesop’s Fables - A New Approach on Steam