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This is a fantastic sci-fi horror game by Bloober Team. It features Rutger Hauer starring our protagonist and takes a lot of inspiration from Blade Runner and other cyberpunk-themed media.
It has a very classic, moody cyberpunk atmosphere and themes, set in a dystopian world of the future. While the game only takes place in one location, it really nails the way it handles the lore. It is very interesting to explore to say the least.
Exploration is pretty much everything this game has to offer. It features some very, very light stealth elements where you have to avoid monsters, but the AI is so forgiving it's almost laughable. Thankfully, there's even less enemy encounters than in Soma.
The redux version looks gorgeous. I never got to play the original, but bought the Redux version for a cheaper price since I had the original anyway.
I know that Bloober Team are kind of horror guys, but I found the way they tried to shove jumpscares everywhere somewhat unfitting. It never ruined the experience, just wasn’t that scary and looked weird. There are times when it feels they tried way too hard.
As far as achievements go, the collectables one is pretty much impossible without a guide, since almost half of the things you’re supposed to collect are easily missable. Looking around every nook and cranny in every single area would totally ruin the game flow for everyone, so I did a second playthrough to collect all that stuff. Even then, it was kind of a pain in the ass.
Overall, a great game.
This is a fun point’n’click puzzle game that relies heavily on meta narrative. It’s very lighthearted and fun, the solutions are pretty clever and mostly not very hard. The voice acting can be a bit cheesy, but still good.
Overall, fun.
This is a pretty simple and short puzzle game that’s being a step away from your usual hentai puzzle schlock. The differences are that it’s not actually 18+ (regrettably) even if it’s Adults Only on Steam, and that the gameplay is kinda brainless, but not that brainless. You have to push the correct buttons/adjust sliders to edit the photos of a girl. Some of these tasks can be pretty “difficult” - I always struggled with lighting/negative effects. Besides that, there are levels where the UI was bugged - the button you’re supposed to press to check if the photo meets the requirements is pushed by buttons and sliders somewhere out of your reach, and you can’t even click it. Thankfully, there’s an option to skip levels for earned money - and that’s the only way you can beat these levels.
Overall, it’s a bit buggy and simplistic, but the art is pretty good. Afaik, there were many artists involved, so the artstyle can vary.
It’s a joke game that got released on Steam some time before the actual game got released. It’s very simplistic and short, there’s not much going on. It’s kinda hard for me to get the highscore achievements, so no +1 completed game for me here.
Besides that, I’ve beaten first Black Souls game with endings b and c. Since I haven’t got the endings a and d, I can’t count it as completed, but I had a damn good 10 hours at it.
100 Completed Games Marathon progress: 3/100
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