Suggestion: Add an ingame notebook for notes

[Shuro]

Just the title, i guess.

[Randy Marsh]

I use the notes tab in the steam overlay, works pretty good

[MaSeKind]

It's called a pen and paper, or steam notes

[Mitsukai]

Shft+Tab to enable Steam overlay, then click the Notes button on the bar.

[DJswirlyAlien]

While the suggestions are a good work around, I agree an in game journal would be a nice QoL improvement.

[snotty128]

Ive got so many notes that an in game journal would be impractical specially all the drawings

[Shuro]

Originally posted by Randy Marsh:

I use the notes tab in the steam overlay, works pretty good

I appreciate the suggestion, i forgot that it exists. I use it now, together with my screenshot folder, and it is quite helpful.

[Zephyrw]

i'm like 10 pages deap with many drawing, a in game journal is not a good idea

[Lowlife555]

Steam notes work great, at least the screenshot feature.

Anyone know how to make tables in steam notes?

[MaSeKind]

Having now played for over 40 hours, I do agree that the game should at least collect all the documents and pictures for you. Actually tracking clues and information would spoil the puzzle aspect of it, but at least have everything you find in one place. That's what we're doing with screenshots so it can just as well be added into the game

[功夫kappa]

Even Myst had a screenshot function with an in game note book.

At what point did gamers forget that the only reason old games didn't have QOL is because most of the tech hadn't been invented yet?

all this no true scotsman fallacy penis measuring over a puzzle game that amounts to a Bradley Bros board game makes a lot of you look fanatical.

There is no reason for a video game in today's age to exclude features that make the game accessible to others.

Your "why don't you just" nonsense assumes that every gamer is an able bodied individual. You neglect people with disabilities, you neglect anyone who isn't ... well ... you.

And you are, quite honestly, despicable.

[regularJim]

Also all the found notes in specific rooms should just be part of the room information after you discover the room.

[Lantantan]

Maybe being able to add notes to your room encyclopedia? One note for each room?

[Albatross]

And it also would be great to make photos in it. Saw this in some puzzle games. Photos + notes would be very helpful

[Mobile Suit God Damn]

The player character making copies of any notes or drawing down anything he sees in the game and keeping them would be agains the rules. Anything like that would just not be there the next day.

[Shadowgirl00]

While I understand why something like that would be wanted, I also understand why unlike other games like this, it doesn't have a journal feature and that has to do with the flow of information to the player.

The problem of a journal that can collect hints and puzzles as you find them is that, that itself is a hint. Sometimes we may bypass something and not consider whether or not that information is important. If an in-game journal did that for us, it's telling us that information is important, which changes the difficulty of the game to being a bit easier, which the devs might not want.

Conversely, an in-game journal might also make the game more difficult, because there are certain things that you can write down in a physical journal, that would be too much information to throw at the player in a in-game journal.

Like there's certain pieces of information around the manor that is supposed to make you question the mechanics of how the manor works, but there's no real good way to put that into an in-game journal without it feeling overwhelming too much.

So I don't think this is something that will happen because it'll change the nature of the game.