Slumber Clause
Slumber Clause is a roleplaying, point-and-click throwback to the classic text adventures of the 80s and 90s with modern choice mechanics and a character-driven story about nightmares, death, and ephemera—all in glorious 4:3.
Play as a recently-widowed paramedic mom battling a mean case of sleep paralysis. When you’re not trying to hold your waking life together, you’re navigating surreal dreams of unspeakable beauty and endless possibilities that always seem to end in tragedy. All the while, a hooded figure stalks you. Collect clues to discover who they are and what they want.
Slumber Clause will be released episodically using Steam’s Early Access system, with pricing for the entire game increasing when each new episode is added.
KEY FEATURES
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Customize your mom with a text-based character creator.
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Swap between modern and classic user interfaces.
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Make choices that change the outcome of a novel-length story.
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Choose wisely or it may be game over.
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Take a closer look at the world with investigate and conversation mechanics.
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Markov Alg
Very cool puzzler and an amazing value. As previous reviewers said, it is somewhat reminiscent of Rogue Bit, but I found the format of individual self-contained puzzles, to be much more enjoyable. It is a game that requires logic and planning.
The puzzles start off easy taking less than a minute to solve, to some very interesting head-scratchers that take maybe 30 minutes. So it’s nice when you don’t have a lot of time for a long gaming session; you can get into the game complete a few levels (or in case of the later levels, just one), then quit with a sense of accomplishment and also not having to remember too much from one gaming session to the next.
– Real player with 11.4 hrs in game
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Very fun game! Some levels are absolute stumpers until you realize that one specific little thing…
– Real player with 6.6 hrs in game
Adventureland XL
I played the original Adventureland alongs with many other Scott Adams’s Interactive Fiction games back in the late 70s and loved them. As soon as I heard I could play Adventureland again with my kids and grandkids I purchased it right away on Steam. It brought back so many good memories for me and the new version is even better now using the Conversational parsing engine!
– Real player with 13.7 hrs in game
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Revival of the classic, plus much much more :). Great game for both seasoned and new adventurers alike :)
– Real player with 8.4 hrs in game
Text Twisted Pro
GOOD JOB
– Real player with 357.4 hrs in game
This game has no instructions. When one plays the words do not go into the word list. There is no indication if one has already tried a word.
– Real player with 5.6 hrs in game
Incremental Adventures
Don’t be fooled by the negative reviews from people who played it for 10 minutes. This game has far more content and depth than they’ve unlocked in that short timeframe.
I’ve been playing it since it launched on Kongregate a year ago, and it’s been one of the best idle/incremental games I’ve played in a long time.
It’s also a game you won’t easily reach the end of content in, with an active dev that actually cares about his game.
As for the DLC things that people complain about: it’s a free-to-play game, and those are clearly just more of a donation option than anything else. You don’t need them to progress in the game, and you don’t lose out on any experiences by not buying them.
– Real player with 588.0 hrs in game
This is another one of the few decent idle/incremental games on Steam. I have two big criticisms though.
The gameplay does a one 180. It looks like a party RPG kind of idle where you allocate stat points and fight tooth and nail for progression through stages. It’s like that for like an hour or two. And then the character/class/gear system becomes sort of irrelevant for advancement. At this point advancement largely depends on what you have your prestige settings and general options at. Don’t get me wrong, it still an engaging game, but in a completely different way.
– Real player with 528.2 hrs in game
DnD Adventure: Wizard’s Choice
You play a wizard in this interactive novel set in a medieval fantasy world. Stay alive, manage your spell power, find treasure, and smite evil. Wizard’s Choice is a series of RPG interactive novels that will engross you in a story while allowing you to make the decisions that will determine your fate.
The game includes the complete story of Wizard’s Choice in 6 chapters. No additional purchase.
***** Features *****
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Zero learning curve. Read the story and make decisions.
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Manage your health, mana, gold, and morale.
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Outcomes are determined by decisions you make.
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Score and rank at the end.
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Comfort options: font, font size, screen luminosity.
A game by Delight Games & Cold Coffee Studio
Written by Sam Landstrom.
The Crimson Diamond
The Crimson Diamond is an EGA text parser mystery adventure game where you play as amateur geologist and reluctant detective Nancy Maple. Nancy is born and raised in Toronto, Canada, where she works as a clerk for the Royal Canadian Museum. She dreams of attending university to study geology and mineralogy, and she’s prepared to venture into the unknown to achieve her goals!
Follow Nancy as she travels north to the ghost town of Crimson, Ontario to investigate the discovery of a massive diamond in the area. Eavesdrop on conversations to learn more about the eccentric cast of characters who find themselves gathered at Crimson Lodge. Explore the lodge and its environs to evaluate the diamond claim, and maybe solve a mystery or two along the way! The Crimson Diamond is a cozy mystery that encourages reading and engaging in the story over devious arcade challenges.
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Explore Crimson Lodge and the surrounding wilderness
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Listen and talk to a cast of characters with different personalities and motivations.
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Uncover secrets, discover hidden areas, solve mysteries!
Mini Words: Top Games
I just can’t leave a positive review.
The feeling is that 90% of the questions are about Mario! Give me a break. A TON of other classic games were just left out to make way for the same game over and over and over again, the same problem applies to the MIni Words: Top Movies, other game from the same developers that has the same movies appearing over and over again, it’s just annoying has hell.
My downvote isn’t just because of this, although a tiny game there are still mispelling errors and the puzzle itself has terrible controls - making a path it’s a real pain! Nothing like LYNE, LYNE is so much better in every way.
– Real player with 7.1 hrs in game
Stars received: 3.3/10 _ Note: v.5 [0.0 to 1] = personal impressions
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Game description key-points: unite letters into a word matching question answers
– Real player with 6.0 hrs in game
The Hunter’s Journals - Tattered Sails
The interactive mechanics are not like other interactive fiction I’ve played. It is much more like a table top game. Combat is actually handled in rounds with randomly generated dice rolls. You can speed this up to just show the final result but it’s still a table top way of handling things and I didn’t like it.
In table top games you can build your character to weight the dice rolls through backgrounds, stats, gear, race, etc. This game’s character creation was so minimal that I felt that the outcome of combat was very random. This was a huge interruption to the story because poor results weren’t injuries or delays. Poor results (at least early on for me) meant death.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
I Will Be There
DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES?
You want to reach her. All you have is an RV. Hundreds of miles ahead in a post-apocalyptic, zombie-infested world. Take care of yourself and the vehicle, face random encounters and uncover the truth.
Features:
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Story-rich gameplay: Feel the loneliness and longing for the loved one
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Old-school adventure graphics: Immersive nostalgia with pixelated, 16-color objects and backgrounds
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Fully operational vehicle: An RV in where you can eat, rest and get ready
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Random encounters: Make each journey a unique experience
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Day/Night cycle: Travel & explore in daylight and spend the night in safety
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RPG elements: Invest skill points to improve your character
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Official soundtrack