Blind Souls
I like this game and the atmosphere in it.
This is what you need after a hard day’s work!
She soothes and the whole game process is like a meditation.
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- Graphics. Traced details of delights me, it is so magical and beautiful, as if you are really on nature. Grass, water, trees, stunning views that one after another can be put on the desktop.* Music. It relaxing, but at the same time keeps you awake. The sounds of nature are really real and not sharp.* Gameplay. Very pleased that the game will not hurry you and you can enjoy as much as you want the surrounding nature. There is a fairly simple gameplay and maybe not everyone will appreciate it. However, drawing pictures while listening to the story and exploring the surroundings is very interesting and relaxing.
– Real player with 2.6 hrs in game
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Player Bases.
☐ Kids.
☑ Everyone.
☐ Mature.
☐ Casual Players.
☐ Pro players.
Graphics.
☐ Potato.
☐ Really Bad.
☐ Bad.
☐ OK.
☐ Good.
☑ Beautiful.
☐ Masterpiece.
Price.
☐ Full Price.
☐ Wait For Sale.
☑ Refund It If You Can.
☐ Don’t Buy It.
☐ Free.
Requirements.
☐ Minimum.
☐ Medium.
☑ Fast.
☐ High End.
☐ Super Computer.
Difficulty.
☑ Easy.
☐ Medium.
☐ Hard.
☐ Very Hard.
☐ Death March.
☐ Dark Souls.
Game length.
☑ Really Short. ( 0 - 2 hours)
☐ Short. ( 2 - 8 hours)
☐ Medium. ( 8 - 16 hours)
☐ Long. ( 16+ hours)
– Real player with 1.6 hrs in game
Chill Panda
Baby Pandas grow up fast! Chill Panda is excited to go out into the world but feels worried about exploring alone!
Chill Panda heads to the beautiful island of Chill Ville near the sea where it’s said that a very calm and wise panda lives.
Discover the secrets of the island. Help Chill Panda manage fear and worry. So that nothing can stop Panda from having fun!
Features:
■ Fill Chill Panda’s Well of Wellbeing by drinking water and chewing bamboo
■ Meet the villagers and help them out by farming and clearing the land
■ Use your senses to catch fireflies
■ Create colourful pictures and to decorate Chill Panda’s home
■ Earn coins by completing tasks to buy furniture and equipment for Panda’s home and garden
■ Release energy at the beach by surfing the waves or banging on the drums
So, here’s the important bit… Chill Panda isn’t a medical device but the techniques we use in the game draw on a broad spectrum of scientific studies and evidence. There are plenty of games on the market that address the issue of anxiety in adults but very few designed to help children under eight recognise and manage feelings of anxiety.
We’ve spent the last year in a global pandemic, which is scary for children. However, we knew, before Covid 19, that children were experiencing more anxiety at a younger age. There’s a lot of well publicised research exploring why children are more anxious and areas of children’s mental health to be aware of. Mental health charity Place2Be says two thirds of 10/11 year olds worry all the time. It’s shocking but there’s plenty for them to worry about in the modern world.
By working closely with Dr Caroline Belcher, CGA’s identified four pillars of relaxation. These pillars help refocus anxious children and are incorporated into activities in our game - giving children skills for life.
Read More: Best Relaxing Family Friendly Games.
Hike
Hike is from MorningShift studios a single Indie Dev. This is his second game, the previous one being ‘Work Trip’. Like before his target audience is mainly those who are interested in easy achievement farming or an easy difficulty walking simulator.
Unfortunately, there seems to be a ring of indie Devs that are all too willing to give a thumbs up regardless of the product produced, doing each other a favour. On top of this there are dozens of curators who simply copy and paste misleading reviews simply in the effort to get more free games. I mean seriously … You compare this to ‘Fire Watch’? ‘Dear Esther?’ are you serious? Your curator privilege should be revoked and given to a gerbil.
– Real player with 4.7 hrs in game
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I’m giving this a Thumbs Up to support the developers and because I see what they were trying to do here, but my true feelings about this one are Mixed. Hike is a short interactive experience where the point is to go camping in the woods, explore the place, and relax. I hesitate to call it a game because there’s almost no game-like objectives here. Sure there’s some jumping and seeking and exploring, but those aren’t the point of Hike: the sole purpose of this is to be a walking sim in the woods, to get a little lost, to look around. That’s it. There’s no real replayability once you’ve experienced it once, except maybe to get all of the achievements because one’s sorta easy to miss. The visuals and music are both quite pretty, but it’s obvious that this was more supposed to be a general demo of what Morning Shift Studios can do with the Unity engine. In fact, you’ll probably know based on my description if Hike is for you or not.
– Real player with 2.4 hrs in game
Wind Of Life
The game is about the wind and its freedom. Make your way to a colorful and meditative journey. Go all the path escaping the dangers of an abandoned planet and controlling the wind power.
Recently there have been a lot of people and all of them have adapted to the stressful nature of the planet. However, something has happened. Now you can’t see anybody around there. You have to deal with the wind strength which will mislead you. Hide or escape, jump or fly, solve puzzles and try to go to the end. Explore different areas and make sure whether you’re alone on this planet or not.
Aquarelle
Really unpleasant gaming experience. Incorrect/buggy settings, and even when these were finally fixed by lots of fiddling baout, the game is still virtually unplayable due to the unskippable tutorial, which is just awful. Definitely do not recommend. Dreadful.
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
7 out of 10 user reviews.. purchased reviews mind you.. gave this game a positive review.
- sniff * * sniff *
..Something smells really fishy and really foul here.
This game is mediocre at best, but with all the bugs and broken controls, I’d give this game a 3 out 10 .. IF it was $5 USD.
…It’s NOT $5 or under however, and instead this developer has priced this POS at a ridiculous $60 USD price tag!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVzrH8gM1xU&t=936s
Hey dev.. you could price this game at “$69 million USD”, but that wouldn’t make it a better game or worth more. - JS.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Omno
I am legally required to mention the game Journey in any review of Omno. So here it is: Journey. The creative collapsed civilisation. The novel flowing ways of getting around. The faultless graphics. The breathtaking bugless scenery, the bizarre life-forms. Omno is not as good as Journey, of course, but nothing is.
You figure out things about the collapsed civilisation. You solve puzzles and complete sequences of jumps. The puzzles aren’t very difficult, and I never shouted “Well, how was I meant to guess that ?!” at the screen. The jumps are mostly a case of figuring out what keys to press and when. None of them require pixel-perfect positioning. You can’t die. If you manage to get into an unsafe position you are just warped back to the most recent savepoint, with progress intact.
– Real player with 21.1 hrs in game
Omno
A relaxing and a reflective journey through a lost civilization. An interesting array of creatures, the sumptuous soundtrack, and the colorful aesthetics make the trip worth the effort.
Omno is a single player, third person, exploration and puzzle adventure.
As a staff bearer it is your duty to discover and retrace your ancestors’ footsteps. Travel through an ancient world filled with creatures who respond to your command and release a life force you can harness and power. Collect enough resources to carry on your journey, along the way learning more about the past and the lost civilization which lays broken before you.
– Real player with 9.2 hrs in game
Tree Trunk Brook
Soothing, relaxing, heartwarming, you name it!
Tree Trunk Brook is increasingly meaningful and relevant to our real life in a sense that it touches on hardships we are going through due to COVID-19. The game also captures and accurately depicts the mood of both yearnings for intimacy and loneliness that many people feel today.
The dialogues are rich and fun to read. Characters and their short utterances are cute. Game mechanics are all about simple yet solid point-and-click interactions and it is a great game design a free casual game can offer.
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
I love this game. The art is made with pictures taken in nature and edited to make the environment background. The game can finish very fast so you’ll have to play more than one time to received all the achievements and complete the objectives. The music is relaxing and I will love to play again if there’s an update with more trails and NPC’s request. This game is calm and help to reduce anxiety during this difficult period. Collecting the cans and bottles left us with a feeling of accomplishment.
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
AER Memories of Old
TLDR; Initially fun experience, gets stale. 5.65/10
First. You have to either already enjoy these kind of obscure, indirectly enjoyed games by default, or go in with the proper expectations. I have to mentally adjust myself to enjoy this sort of experience personally. All in all, It was a pleasant experience.
Visuals- The Visuals are supposed to look artistic. The models and environment have this purposely edge shaped looked to them. I think it looks good. They accomplish what they set out to do. The cloud effects and the sky look and feel great, the transformation mechanic is smooth looking and satisfying, I can’t really find a flaw visually, as I wont rate this category with expectations of being something its not. Overall I really like the visuals of this game. If I had to nitpick Id say the memory models look like creepy mannequins, and I feel there could have been a slight variety. 9.4/10
– Real player with 17.5 hrs in game
Introduction
What happens if you mix peaceful exploration like in ABZÛ with a large pixel, minimalist style? You get AER Memories of Old. The Steam debut for developer, Forgotten Key and an enjoyable experience for gamers of all ages. Daedalic Entertainment is the game’s publisher and they confirm that aerial-based adventures are their hallmark, so to speak. Part of the Deponia series or not, AER represents an adventure, first and foremost.
Story
While it’s never fleshed out as much as I would have preferred, AER Memories of Old has a unique story of its own and since it’s a narrative-driven experience, the game trades replay value for a compelling albeit somewhat restricted tale. Why do I consider it so? Well for one, the female protagonist is not properly introduced nor does she have a lot of NPCs to interact with. Auk is a shapeshifter, the last of her kind and she must undertake a pilgrimage that will culminate in the banishing of an evil entitiy that has lingered for far too long within the fractured fantasy realm known as the Land of Gods. The Void, as its name may suggest, seeks to destroy everything in its path. It was defeated once, but apparently it is in resurgence thus sparking the selfless quest on which Auk has embarked.
– Real player with 7.0 hrs in game
Beautycopter
Another short charmer from the Deity Driving dev; the same good vibe of aesthetic absurdity in the environments and comedic sincerity from the characters, now with a mix of 3D environments and… whatever you call first-person 2D exploration.
When people say “I want shorter games with worse graphics”, this is what I’m hoping for more of (although let’s say “simpler graphics”, for anyone who conflates ‘graphics’ with ‘visuals’.)
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
The game is good especially the music and the text to speech voice acting add to the atmosphere. The story is quite obscure, you explore the world with your Beautycopter, do some missions, and help some guests. The aesthetics add to the weirdness with the use of fake 3d.
The game is short and simple, you cannot save progress so you need to play the game in one go. There are a lot of funny achievements. This is definitely in the veins of Deity Driving in terms of style.
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
BoF1LL: A Withering World
The Game
Bo and F1LL journey around their lands, restoring the once beautiful landscapes to their former glory. Storms started appearing shortly after F1LL’s arrival, shrouding their isle in darkness. Using Bo and F1LL’s unique abilities, you will be able to explore different parts of the Isle, discover hidden mysteries, solve puzzles, and ward off evil storms.
Check out our Kickstarter!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bof1ll/bof1ll-a-fun-lighthearted-couch-co-op-experience
Gameplay
A key part of the game is understanding each character’s strengths and weaknesses. These characters can’t do everything on their own! For instance, Bo can’t directly fight the storms off, but she can shield F1LL against the storms until F1LL can fight it.
Bo and F1LL have to gather enough Essence and Fragments to help repair the Isle’s Landmark. The central Landmark is critical to the health of Idylla, and in its shattered state, Bo’s home is susceptible to harsh weather, driving all of her siblings to hide in various spots around the Isle.
Features
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Couch Co-op (can be played solo too!)
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Unique gameplay abilities and interactions for each character
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Explore a beautifully hand-crafted world and be rewarded with collectibles
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Solve each area’s secret!
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Fight back the storms destroying the land
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Restore the landscape back to its beautiful state!
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Unravel the mystery of what’s happening to the Isle
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See your interactions with the world unfold in real-time