Worthy sale price?

[Livia]

Play throughs on youtube look to be about 5 hours, which I would not say is worth $25, but I'm curious if you get more game play from it if you are playing for the first time. Thoughts?

[kamikazi21358]

It was closer to 10 hours for me, and I didn’t get all the achievements and stuff. I also found it really fun and unique, so I think that adds value to the experience. I can also foresee it being replayable, something you can come back to every few years to replay the story, so I think it is worth it personally, even though I am also usually the type of person that prefers to consider the price to amount of playtime a game will give ratio and stuff before buying a game and other objects.

If it is a concern, you can always wait until a sale, and get it below 20, like I did. I prefer not to get stuff full price, this game doesn’t go on mega discounts I don’t think but you can get a lower price if you wait for it to go on sale. Then I completely recommend it.

[meester24]

i personally really enjoyed it and my first play through was over ten hours. i also got it when it went on sale so i thought it was worth it. i love a good storyline with a hint of mystery so that made it really enjoyable. if you like puzzles and taking time to get all the achievements instead of just running through it quickly, then i think it's definitely worth it :)

[Livia]

I love to take my time in a game. Is there combat? I didn't want to watch too many videos and get spoiled.

[meester24]

not so much combat. more like evading death lol. there are some parts that are definitely more focused on protecting yourself against an enemy but for sure not a focus throughout the game

[Livia]

Originally posted by meester24:

not so much combat. more like evading death lol. there are some parts that are definitely more focused on protecting yourself against an enemy but for sure not a focus throughout the game

Oh good! I didn't want combat. So it's a puzzle/sneak game then? Places to explore?

[kamikazi21358]

Originally posted by Livia:

Originally posted by meester24:

not so much combat. more like evading death lol. there are some parts that are definitely more focused on protecting yourself against an enemy but for sure not a focus throughout the game

Oh good! I didn't want combat. So it's a puzzle/sneak game then? Places to explore?

In my personal opinion, it’s honestly one of those games that’s best to just jump in without knowing anything about it. When I played it, I literally knew absolutely nothing about it other than it has kitty and it takes place in the future. I knew nothing about the mechanics, if there was combat or puzzles or what, nothing about the story, anything else other than what the product store page had.

I can’t obviously tell you how to experience it for yourself as everyone is different and such, but my personal recommendation is ‘yes, get the game’, if not now then on sale, and don’t learn any more about it if possible because in my personal experience, genuinely knowing so little of what the game would offer made the game so much more interesting and fun to me, experiencing the new mechanics and the story blindly for the first time.




IF YOU MUST KNOW MORE, AND WANT TO IGNORE MY ARVICE ABOVE ABOUT NOT TRYING TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE GAME,
you just do want to know more about the game before purchasing, then to answer your questions,
> It is a puzzle game, you have to explore and find stuff with sometimes even relatively minimal instruction on just hinting what you need to do next to progress.
> It’s not really a sneak game though, apart from two or three sections later in the game I will not elaborate on. More than half the game, in the parts that have enemies, it’s more of an avoid and bait game to bypass the enemies.
> There is ‘exploration’, which is needed to progress and solve stuff and find the hidden side stuff. It isn’t however an open world game, but outside of the first areas, there is plenty of ‘space’ to get to where you need to go.
> About combat, there is no combat throughout most of the game that involves what you would expect ‘combat’ to be in a cat game — there is no clawing enemies or stuff like that you would expect combat to be like for a cat. There IS however mid-way through the game a ‘combat-ish’ section, but even then it’s short and most of the time I don’t think you’re even required to do it, it just makes it easier to progress. I will try to not spoil it more than that, but just in case you absolutely need more info, (semi-spoiler-y) it’s a point-and-click system where you point the camera at what you want to kill and you have a limited amount of time to kill the hoards of enemies before the weapon you use has to cool down. It makes sense in the story but might sound weird without context. But in a way it’s technically combat so it has to be included, ‘cause you are technically killing enemies and they’re trying to kill you. But this is a short section of the game and it isn’t that stressful if you take it slow. Honestly it was kind of fun.
But yeah it’s a platforming puzzle kitty game, really fun and the story was pretty good, especially for me that went in knowing absolutely nothing pretty much.

[Livia]

Thank you for that information. I ask because I suck at combat games, so I wouldn't buy it if that was a large factor. I do like to have some idea what I am buying.

Frustrating it's the cheapest I've seen it, but only up until the winter fest sale. Watch me buy it and then it goes to 50% off. 🤣

[kamikazi21358]

Originally posted by Livia:

Thank you for that information. I ask because I suck at combat games, so I wouldn't buy it if that was a large factor. I do like to have some idea what I am buying.

Frustrating it's the cheapest I've seen it, but only up until the winter fest sale. Watch me buy it and then it goes to 50% off. 🤣

I didn’t realize it was on sale rn, yeah it’s about the price I got it. Idk where you’re at but for me (US) it’s ~17 USD on sale (40% off). 40% to 50% off won’t make that much of a difference I don’t think, if it’s the same for you.

[Livia]

While true, I was more just saying, with my luck, it will be cheaper if I buy it, or not on sale if I don't.

[Typha]

Originally posted by Livia:

Play throughs on youtube look to be about 5 hours, which I would not say is worth $25, but I'm curious if you get more game play from it if you are playing for the first time. Thoughts?

It's a good game, I'm happy having bought it at full price.

[The Debauchery]

Originally posted by Livia:

Thank you for that information. I ask because I suck at combat games, so I wouldn't buy it if that was a large factor. I do like to have some idea what I am buying.

I suck at a lot of combat games too... but trainers and CE exist to mitigate that problem. PC gamers have the option of using brains to outwit tests of skill or endurance. Games are only as difficult as you let them be.
This game, however, is genuinely easy and doesn't involve any actual combat more complicated than shining a purple light on things for an area or two.

[Livia]

Originally posted by The Debauchery:

This game, however, is genuinely easy and doesn't involve any actual combat more complicated than shining a purple light on things for an area or two.

Thanks for this. Good to know.

[The Grin]

Originally posted by Livia:

Play throughs on youtube look to be about 5 hours, which I would not say is worth $25, but I'm curious if you get more game play from it if you are playing for the first time. Thoughts?

Always remember that playthrough are most of the time linear and don't take the time to show exploration.
Ex: 8H shown on youtube..while It took me 15 hours.
It's relative but if you don't engulf into the games atmosphere and speed run the game that's what you'll get :s

[Livia]

Oh, I assumed this, yes, but didn't know what the difference would be.

Thanks everyone for your answers. I appreciate it.

[Livia]

Thanks again everyone. I did buy it - but I got motion sick. D'oh!!! That's an instant return. Oh well.