For $2.00 I figured 'What the hell' let's see what this game is. I went into the game with no reviews, no context, nothing. The developer did an excellent job creating an extremely creepy and sketchy atmosphere. Aside from this i'm not sure of the game's intent. I never found a way out of the room or found any reason for complete access to the internet through the game.
I ended feeling lost and confused. If there was more content to this game, I think it has the potential to be something very interesting and unique.

Currently, this video game is only available in Russian, sadly. If this game had an English translation, I'd be giving this far more praise than I already am giving it. This video game cost me far less than a dollar (I believe I got it for, like, sixty cents or less), so I didn't expect much. What I found was a very pleasant surprise and a gem, albeit it not one you can play for hours.

In "Owl Simulator", players take control of a modestly dressed, tall, Otaku Russian man who wears a cut paper bag over his head. The objects of the game are simple: find your hard drive and plug it into the computer in order to access its fully functioning Internet browser. Your second objective is to leave the bedroom while remaining a freeman. You'll have to play the game to find out what I mean by this. (Hint: there's something in the bedroom you are not supposed to do, or else you get a Game Over and some unfortunate visitors.)

What made me decide to reccomend this was the sheer level of detail the developer(s) placed in the game to REALLY bring home that "creepy Russian pauper on a bootlegged Windows XP" feel.

I first knew I wasn't dealing with some half-baked, bug-filled, sixty-cent "shovel ware" when I opened up the game and saw the room. The camera (my first-person point of view) was rocking back and forth slowly, and things were blurry when my character turned to the side or changed direction. It dawned me that my character was slightly inebriated, and that he was thus a bit unstable after having got up from a long, vodka-induced sleep. Even the lights were affected, it was almost like you could feel the headache the poor Russian you're playing as was getting from looking at it!

Walking around the room, I was suddenly greeted by a clinking of glass bottles at my character's feet. I realized that the game was made so that the vodka and beer bottles would actually react to my character stumbling around and would play sounds when they collided, just like they do in real life! That may not sound like much, but to me, that shows that the developers seriously put effort into this game.

Everything in your character's bedroom is fully detailed. If you zoom in closely, you can see Cyrillic grafitti on some furniture and even pick out individual splots and stains on the walls, ceilings, and floors. Even all of the lights can be turned off, and your door can be locked or unlocked! The bed looks lived in, the anime content looks fittingly weird, and the entire experience lends to exactly what the game says it is about. You really do feel immersed in the sketchy, slum-like bedroom of an impoverished, grisly Russian ghetto.

Eventually, after wandering around enough, I started to hear sounds coming from outside and in other rooms. They would get louder and quieter depending on where I walked, and would even observe a Doppler Effect if the sound was outside and moving. How many developers would think to put that kind of audial realism into a simple game like this?

I will say that you get your money's worth, because "Owl Simulator" does not yet have much to do outside of stumble around the bedroom and connect to the in-game, full Internet browser. However, I believe this game was money well spent and I certainly do not regret my purchase. I enthusiastically await both an English translation and more content. I'd love to explore my character's flat!


PROS:
1. Stunning attention to detail. Your character is having a hangover, and this is directly reflected in-game as you walk and turn your head. Vodka and beer bottles clink along the floor if you run into them and will make sounds if they hit each other.
2. Fully functioning Internet browser. If you are connected to the Internet, you can visit your favorite website- ANY website -and even log in and interact with it as you would in real life! If the screen you saw was full-sized and you could see more of the desktop while you browsed, the potential for screenshots and roleplay would be enormous. Ironically, "Owl Simulator's" Internet browser loads faster than my actual Internet browser in real life.
3. You can find a small stash of Four Ch4n screenshots (all in Cyrillic) that I presume would be hilarious if you speak Russian.
4. The game reacts to your RL time of day (in Russian time) and displays a temperature range appropriate for the given month you are in. (For example, my temperature was negative three degrees Celcius- or twenty-six degrees Farenheit in superior, moon-landing measurements -and the sky bore a wintery mix.)
5. To my knowledge, there is only one bug (see below). While it is often difficult to keep your inebriated character standing still long enough to interact with an object, this is a feature of the game designed to immerse players in a drunken Russian pauper's leisure time. All of the controls do what they say they do and the game delivers PRECISELY what it offers.

CONS:
1. The game's interface and lauguage are only available in Russian. While that makes sense in-game, I'd still like to see what button is the exit button and what all the choices in the Options menu do. I hope the developers will consider an English translation in the future.
2. To my knowledge, you cannot actually open the bedroom door or draw the curtains overlooking the street. I may be wrong, but I haven't been able to figure it out this far. This means that you won't be playing this game, in one sitting, for more than a few minutes.
3. The special hard drive you need to find is extremely difficult to plug in. I've tried highlighting and using the computer, but I've only seen the thing be placed on the tower once.

On a reccomendation scale of "NYET" to "DA", I rate this game a solid "DA" and hope for further content and support for non-Russian localization in the future.

I would encourage all of my tovarisches to experience "Owl Simulator" for a few minutes and take in the creepy, sketchy apartment as I did.

1/1 bedroom needs a picture of an owl (IGN)

Well umm, it exists as a game on steam.... had to google translate everything... it called me a racial slur... good time for the $0.60 i got it for. and i dont think it would be better in english, its definitely got its own charm

only in russian language, and you cant really do much.
after finding and plugging in the harddrive, bad people come and youre game over.
thats pretty much everything.
lacks of content.

rebiat, spasibo vam za igru) ochen krutaya grafika)))
igrayu v "your life" na telefone. skazhite, a budut li esche kakiye nibud' dobavki kak v "your life"? zakaz edi, rabota cherez comp, pokupat' vsiakuyu figniu iz interneta?
mozhet esche dobavite suda viraschivaniye gomuncula???
nidavno kupila "bitardia", ele razobralas, no igra prosto ogon'!

Very basic game. You can walk around in a bedroom, open and close various cupboards and turn some lightswitches. The biggest feature right now is an ingame webbrowser.

Graphics are nice and it does what it says on the tin. No English language so navigating the menus is obviously a bit of a pain. The door to the hallway displays a text in Russian which I can only assume talks about a future update? Or maybe it's a joke about not going outside because it's a neet simulator.

I got it for 40 cents on sale but probably should've kept my money. If there are future updates that actually add some gameplay and English localization it might be worth it. Still, I can't give it a negative review.

Game of the year potential right here.
Can't wait for future updates!

9/10 for lack of owl's.

Not bad for start.
Wait updates!

Russian anitsocial weeb room simulator -1/10 hide in library and forget i own

Good ♥♥♥♥ on that hard drive :deery2: