Dark Blood Chronicles
Full disclosure: I purchased the original version of the game late 2013 and received a key for the Steam port as an early buyer.
You are Samantha (aka Sam), a lonely girl who recently lost her mother and lives with her father. They’re both trying to recover from this tragic event, but it has taken a toll on their relationship.
One not so ordinary day, Sam wakes up from a terrible nightmare and gets ready to go to school. She gets on the bus and arrives at the school building. But, something is off.
– Real player with 42.8 hrs in game
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Darkblood Chronicles is an intelligent and often thought-provoking RPG with a decent cast, a good story, and an interesting setting. It reminds me in a positive way of 80s Dark Fantasies like Labyrinth and The NeverEnding Story, and it adeptly serves as an enjoyable homage to many RPGs of earlier gaming eras, without seeming derivative, which is a difficult line to walk. If you like some substance to your games and prefer that they offer food for thought, then Darkblood Chronicles is a solid purchase.
– Real player with 35.8 hrs in game
Mercury Abbey
【1】Retro pixel style with impressive lighting and shading
The game uses pixel sprites, with characters drawn in a classic American comicbook style. Fossil halls, greenhouses, hedge mazes, botanical gardens, underground cave systems…scenes appear one after another, presenting a visual feast. Unique lighting and shading technology creates an engaging atmosphere and a wonderfully immersive experience.
【2】 Classic cultural elements meet a unique worldview
The game embraces the spirit of early suspense novels, interspersing classic cultural elements throughout the story. Adopting an overhead world view, the world is composed of anthropomorphic animal (furry) characters; the social structures, folklore, and ethnic relations of this world are all waiting to be discovered by players!
【3】Engaging story
Strange things seem to happening one after another at the mysterious mountain sanitarium, and the curse of the alchemist family is spreading. Legends, midnight societies and ghostly patrons are just a few of the curiosities to be investigated, but maybe the mystery runs deeper than once thought. Gather clues and delve into the mystery to discover exactly where this story will go…
【4】 Lots of items and achievements to collect
Discover a large number of collectable elements along the way, including character information, folklore, objects, copied notes, photos, and even intercepted gossip. The game also features a variety of achievements, with certain choices and actions unlocking them. Fortune favors the bold.
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The Mermaid of Zennor
The Mermaid of Zennor is a really harsh story – focusing on an autistic protagonist that deals with cold, unempathetic parents, bullying and an unhealthy obsession with her step-brother. All that drives her, on one side, to close herself to the outside world, and on the other, to violently lash out when she can no longer bottle her feelings inside. It’s not completely devoid of humour, as Lilac’s contradictory and spiteful thoughts can be amusing in a dark kind of way, but the core narrative is just as painful as that introduction sounded and the bad ending left me pretty much gasping for breath for a good few minutes. It’s not an experience for those faint of heart or for moments when you don’t feel like going through some deeply depressing storytelling.
– Real player with 28.5 hrs in game
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A wonderfully written and well-paced story that I enjoyed the whole way through. “Enjoyed” is probably not the right word. It was a frightening and sort of awful reading experience in the sense that the protagonist’s point of view is written well enough to evoke bleakness and obsession and rage. The descent into the events of the end of the game was wholly expected, in a good way–I was tensed for it the whole way through.
It’s primo Ebi. I adored the story. The music, while I didn’t really register it at first, slowly crept over me, and by the end I appreciated it a great deal.
– Real player with 6.5 hrs in game
The Railway
A road on the train is a road to yourself.
A sound of wheels, a smell of railroads, a meaningless chatter of travelers…this meditative road mood helps to rethink life, and to arrive at the station another person.
…There is a story that happened with a young girl in this tiny visual novel. Obsessed with vengeance, she goes to her father to punish him for betrayal. And she can’t imagine how this train car, this road, and these travelers will change her life.
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The story is plot-oriented.
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The reading time is 20 minutes.
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Genre — drama, the road movie.
Disturbing Forest: Demon’s Path
Decent free little adventure rpg-lite.
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
The game looks really interesting and I definitely see myself diving deep into it’s story. Can’t wait for the full thing to be out!
Here’s a link to the review I did on my YouTube channel, if anybody’s interested - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgJtR7K03JE
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
Moncage
Great visual puzzles.
And not only visual.
Admirably crafted, Moncage really makes you think inside the box, and is challenging enough that I had to take a couple of breaks to figure out solutions.
Some reviewers might confuse you by claiming, in the same sentence, that the game is too short and that they used the hint system.
Unsurprisingly, if you solve all puzzles by yourself, i.e., if you play the game, the playing time doubles.
The only missing feature is a post-game chapter selector.
It would let us hunt for our missed secrets without the need to replay the entire game.
– Real player with 10.0 hrs in game
Masterfully crafted puzzle game that takes place on five sides of a cube as you piece together the story through interconnecting scenes. Moncage is a relaxing perspective-based puzzle game with pleasant visuals, touching story told without words, and relaxing soundtrack. There is an alternate ending that requires players to find all hidden photos and replay the story a second time while keeping an eye out for ways “to think outside the cube”. About 2 to 5 hours to complete depending on how often you use the hint system or unlocking achievements. A must try for puzzle enthusiast [10/10]
– Real player with 5.7 hrs in game
The Rewinder
I really wanted to like this game, and I finished it, but in the end I can’t recommend it. The settings are very pretty, and the writing is detailed and well fleshed out. The overall story started out interesting but by the end I can honestly say I have no idea what happened or how it all fits together.
The main negative for me though is that the gameplay is mostly not interesting. It is disjointed and the puzzles come in several varieties that feel like they belong to different games. The most fun parts of the game are when you travel into other people’s memories and alter them to change history. Unfortunately that’s just a small part of the overall game. The rest are mostly tedious classic puzzles like magic squares, count on an abacus, etc. There are one or two fetch quests that are amusing, but they don’t fit into the rest of the story very well. There are some “action” sequences that are just annoying.
– Real player with 15.4 hrs in game
The Rewinder is a short, low-stress puzzle game. Almost all of the puzzles are very intuitive and the pacing of the story is incredible. I finished my first playthrough in about 5 hrs and spent the rest of my playtime collecting all of the flowers and finding the secrets in the game, which should be a lot quicker for people playing in English once guides are available (There are guides available in Chinese).
There are a couple of bugs and translation issues that are normal for any video game at release, and is probably already being addressed as I write this. But aside from that, I feel that the introduction of the story really led me to expect a lot more out of this game. The way the story is framed at the beginning left me feeling like the second level was going to be drastically different than the first, or at least, the second level wasn’t going to be in the same village as the first. Once I got used to it, I think the game benefited from staying in the same two villages for most of the plot and returning back to the same places after you have altered the timeline.
– Real player with 12.5 hrs in game
映夢 Dream
A good point and click puzzle game withsome pretty tough puzzles. A few I still don’t get and had to brute force.
– Real player with 18.3 hrs in game
Fun and intriguing!
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Dangerous Chris
It’s a game and it’s dangerous
– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game
chris is the most dangerous man i have ever seen
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
13 WOOD ST
13 WOOD ST is a story-based horror game with both psychological and jumpscare elements.
Features
After the death of your parents, you return to their house. Can you unveil the mysterious story of 13 WOOD ST? Every item you collect will tell a part of the story …
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Walk through the house!
13 rooms await you …
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Use a torch!
The darkness awaits you, too …
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Search for keys!
Some doors will be locked …
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Listen to records!
You can use the gramophone in the hallway …
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Collect various items!
Some will be useful, some will be useless and some will tell a part of the story …
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Unveil the mysterious story of 13 WOOD ST!
You should pay attention to every detail …