Please Wake Up
This game is AMAZING! It’ll have most at the edge of their seat, heart racing and very concentrated. A must grab for any psychological horror. There is text in between levels to move the story along, but it does have a blur effect that can be a bit straining on the eyes, BUT, it can be turned off!!! NO WORRIES ON THAT!
Let’s break it down
The game follows a young boy in a coma trying to wake up while reconstructing different scenarios. I won’t spoil much, but different events and weave the narrative along nicely as things get more intense. A very well crafted narrative! I like it a lot, it’s simple and has a bit of spice in there to have an awesome story. I will say though (KINDA Spoiler I guess) the ending is JUST a little empty and I would’ve liked to see more.
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
This game will scare the **** out of you, but at least you will remember some really profound questions and interesting facts about memory reliability that constitutes reality vs. illusion distinction.
– Real player with 1.8 hrs in game
Imaginaria
Very story driven adventure with some simplified pixelart
Interactive objects (on top part) give you more details about the environment/storyline
Lots of areas to check & explore!
Funny little details & objects, story as well has it’s funny moments
Can’t really compare it to nowadays or big adventures games for sure it has a really old classic vibe,
which is nice if you are into that kind of games!
– Real player with 5.8 hrs in game
Read More: Best Philosophical Story Rich Games.
Imaginaria is a short game where you explore an antarctic science station. It combines walking simulator and point & click elements, but the game side of it is light as you only have a handful of choices to make. It’s more of a fun, interesting exploration of the dev’s experience.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
Koshka
A young lady named Koshka is traveling by train.
Like many people her age, she is not entirely happy with her life. She thinks the destination will be better.
This is a game about combining colors, creating a complex color from a set of simple ones.
This is a game about getting simple colors from things and bodies. The rabbit is only white on the outside, but it has a lot of red inside — the idea is clear.
Other passengers don’t always approve of the young Koshka’s methods. They bother her with dialogues, filled with references to French theory, psychoanalysis, and other things that do not help our heroine’s issue: if the rabbit keeps so much red in itself, how else can we get this magnificent paint? Apparently, there is only one solution.
Read More: Best Philosophical Puzzle Games.
Symploke: Legend of Gustavo Bueno (Chapter 2)
This is what is apparently an old point and click adventure game ripping off the old Sierra games from the early 1990s, only this was released in 2017.
Regardless, the game is unplayable, you are prompted to enter a password (some kind of copy protection?) which cannot be bypassed and prevents access to the game itself. Resolution is fixed (despite a launcher that pretends to provide you with the option to change it) and the game is unstable, it crashed hard and I had to switch users to regain a working desktop session and terminate the crashed game.
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
It’s fine
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
Symploke: Legend of Gustavo Bueno (Chapter 3)
Symploke: Legend of Gustavo Bueno is a point and click adventure with the scent of legendary classics such as The Secret of Monkey Island or The Day of the Tentacle. The game is completely designed in MS Paint and it is divided in different chapters. This is Chapter 3.
Did You Finish Chapter 2?
To play Chapter 3 you must introduce the password given when you got through Chapter 2. If you haven’t, please download Chapter 2 and come back once you have completed it.
The Search
I’m glad I didn’t let the mixed reviews deter me from this peaceful and very atmospheric little adventure.
Absolutely beautiful scenery. Lovely soundtrack. Interesting gameplay, minimal and easy so as to not distract from the experience. Lots of (maybe a little bit too many) bits on Jung’s psychology and creative processes. For those who are any creatively inclined, feeling stuck in their lives or the like, this could double as a virtual holiday in a quiet mediterranean town with a gamified mini self-help book. One of the negative reviews says “the story reads like you’re trapped in your freshman dorm room with a very high fine arts major who is trying to impart to you All The Wisdom Of The Universe” - I don’t entirely disagree, but I guess I have a bit of a thing for high fine arts majors :D And I have to say that where I’m currently at, quite a lot of the messages actually spoke to me.
– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game
This is a rudimentary walking simulator of someone’s Psych 101 thesis paper.
While the graphics and music are beautiful, reminiscent of games like Ether One, and while Cissy Jones does an amazing job with the voice acting, there just isn’t enough substance to make it worth the playtime.
The infrequent puzzles, if you can really call them puzzles, are simple item use interactions telegraphed by literal writing on the wall. Even the item locations are handed to you on a cheat sheet posted near the start of each main area.
– Real player with 1.8 hrs in game
ZLO
Go in search of the ultimate evil!
Cast out evil spirits with the word of God and the cross.
Prepare for the horror that lurks in this forest and uncover the mystery of the priest protagonist.
Psychological horror inspired by the Silent Hill series and movies like The Exorcist, The Blair Witch Project and many others.
Zlo is a story-driven horror adventure game.
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Collect notes;
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Exorcise evil spirits;
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Explore atmospheric locations;
Room of Pandora
amazing puzzle game!
– Real player with 8.9 hrs in game
Nice game that would even be more nice though if the devs would react to help-questions in the discussions…
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
DIVINATION
This game disturbs me a little bit and I love it for that. I guess I should call it a visual novel because the only real thing you do is decide how to arrange the runes your patrons select, but even that little act can be a quite an experience depending on how into it you can get. What could this rune mean, what order do they actually go in, can I actually reverse the fortune by moving this one?
It’s very short (like 20 minutes tops) to go through a single time and the English text could use a bit touching up in a few spots, but for the cost of a soda or candy bar I’d definitely recommend it to anyone who enjoys the genre.
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
This is a very short game with only 4 characters but each divination change the outcome whoch makes the story very interesting. After the first round, you can use the flowchart to pick the options you decide and see the result, I do encourage you to not necessarily focus on the 100% chaos but to try to see how each result has an impact with the ending.
The 100% Chaos ending is really interesting, it reminded me a LOT of Chobits (not the animated version) as the plots turns a lot around the fact the robots don’t have the choice to live or to die.
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
Havsala: Into the Soul Palace
Havsala : Into the Soul Palace is an investigative puzzle game with a rich storytelling in which you try to pinpoint times and places where the Soul Palace visitors live using diaries, books, paintings and many other clues.
Can you uncover the stories in this hand drawn 2D point & click mystery puzzle game?
Havsala includes;
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Beautiful hand drawn artwork
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Diverse characters with their own stories
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Many historical references and stories
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Mind blowing, original puzzles