Please visit the dev's page here and download the free game "Gravity Bone". http://blendogames.com/
You have time. The game is 15 minutes from start to finish.

If you like Gravity Bone, you will like Thirty Flights of Loving.
If you do not like Gravity Bone, you will not like Thirty Flights of Loving.

It's not really a game. It's an experience. If you expect a game, something that has mechanics, goals ect. it's not for you. If you're ok with experiencing a story via barely interactive way... you will like it.

I liked it.

Unlike many "cinematic" games that are obsessed with copying film, I think Thirty Flights pulls off a movie-like pace and editing style better than any other game I've seen. And I think that's what this game was: an experiment in using the schizophrenic yet calculated timeline and editing of a Tarantino film (for example) and making it work within a video game boundary. It sounds pretentious, but at the end of the day, it's an interesting look at how we can tell stories in video games and that's most definitely a positive (and sorely needed) effort in our medium.

It does what it does with panache and flair and at 75% it's easily worth it to experience if you like to experience different possibilties within the interactive entretainment realm. If not, stay away. It's short and not really replayable.

Thirty Flights of Loving is an indie art game which I found short, obtuse and largely uninteresting.

Speaking as someone who loved Dear Esther, and even Thirty Flights' developer's previous game ('Gravity Bone', which is included here as a free extra), I found myself thoroughly bewildered by Thirty Flights of Loving.

I was bewildered by the sloppy non-linear storytelling. The game hops, skips, and leaps, with all the grace of a big rig in a tutu. I've played through the whole game and read several summaries to make sure I wasn't missing anything, but even once I made sense of the story being told (a by-the-books tale of a criminal caper gone wrong), it didn't connect with me at all.

I was bewildered by the lack of flow within the gameplay. For such a short game, I was astonished to find myself stuck on at least two occasions. Normally I'd be the last person to call for such handholding tactics as blatant signposting or railroading of the player, but in this case the current state is completely at odds with the intended purpose. The developer obviously wants to tell a story, but I found it a trial just to get to the next part. This is not to mention the pointless interactions in the game which sometimes seem to serve no purpose whatsoever.

I was bewildered by the end. It came out of nowhere, and left me with the strongest feeling of 'is that it?' I think I've ever encountered with a game. I spent more time in the options menu than I did with the game itself. I wouldn't mind if it was some kind of masterpiece of storytelling, but it just wasn't.

Most of all, I was and am bewildered by the praise this game has garnered. 88% (at the time of writing) on Metacritic. Critical acclaim. Fans on the forums defending it to the hilt. I saw similar reactions to Dear Esther (which, as I said earlier, I felt deserved every bit of its praise), but I genuinely cannot understand it in this case.

Maybe I'm missing something huge here, but Thirty Flights of Loving was not an enjoyable, enlightening, or otherwise entertaining experience for me. I respect any developer who attempts to tell stories through games, but this feels like one of the more unfinished, unfocused efforts that I have played. Not recommended.

you cant understand the voice acting in this game because everyone has a square head. really makes you think

A 15 minute experience that feels cooler than most full games. A weird and short story about family, heist and criminals. You can collect weapons and ammo, but you never shoot anything, which kind of sucks, but oh well.

Before you read the rest of the reviews, remember this: Steam's primary userbase is Gamers, and Gamers can be really, really stupid. If you're at all into narratives; an English major, a screenwriter, an aspiring game dev; check this out. Filmic language brought into the interactive, a full decade before AAA studios like Remedy started to do the same. Could you get the same basic experience from watching a playthrough on YouTube? Sure, but you could also get the same basic experience of a novel by reading its Wikipedia page.

I don't understand this game.

I don't understand why all the people have blocks for heads; I don't understand why they all go "murmer, murmer, murmer" as if they're underwater when they talk; I don't understand whether you are actually just teleporting all over the place or if that's meant to represent a passage of time or even if it's just the fact of it being a "broken game"; I don't understand why it's so short and so pixel-y and still five dollars RRP in the Steam Store even though it's been out since 2012; I don't understand why it has the rather heavy rep that it has.

Maybe this is because I am, strictly speaking, more a member of the "Simpsons" generation, rather than the "Family Guy" generation; which is to say, post-modernism before it got out of control. Maybe I is just a stoopid.

I don't understand it, which isn't to say that I didn't like it. I just didn't 100% "get it". And I think I liked "Gravity Bone", the bonus game included with it, more than the main game itself. Which I still don't understand. Do you understand what I'm saying? I really, honestly DID NOT UNDERSTAND IT.

But I still kinda liked it.

Quentin Tarantino, you're a very talented man, but you have soooooo much to answer for.

Recommended, but only to the curious, and probably only when on sale.

Verdict: 7.5/10.

I'm sorry, but I don't get this game nor do I understand why so many people rave about it. Although the art direction is certainly unique, it's meant to be more of a fast-paced walking simulator than anything else. Supposedly there is something meta or symbolic about the game and its method of storytelling, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what it is. And the story is so intentionally vague that it's difficult to get anything out of it.

I really did try to get something out of it. I love games that try to do something different and try to approach story-telling from different perspectives. Games like "Dear Esther", "Journey", "Going Home" and so forth were some of the most amazing experiences I've played because of their unique way of getting the story across. But I got nothing out of this game. Nothing.