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I guess this can be described as a Zelda BOTW-lite game. I originally loved it, as the open world was beautiful and appealing, and then I started to get bugs here and there, and the economy balancing was annoying -- thank God there's a trainer around here to get all factions to like you, but nothing to help with the poor inventory size, only gets increased towards the end of the game when crafting is no longer an issue anyway. Overall, I felt like the heart of the game got lost in the way.

The two redeeming qualities? An excellent soundtrack, and the fact that your save data is stored in a JSON file, which makes it easier to fix breaking bugs. (Yes, I had to do that, shared my method in the Steam discussion boards.)
I wouldn't give a negative review (because in my heart it deserves a thumbs up) if I knew the team was around to fix bugs. They aren't, and anyone who's not versed into light data hacking may end up getting locked out of finishing the game, so consider this as a friendly warning.

The problem with this game is that the first boss is unbeatable. It's called 'FixMyGame'. It requires you to go through community discussions and googling for reasons why a 2016 game would run at 10 fps on a GTX 3070, and 30 fps at 800x600 on lowest quality.

In the end I beat him (solution was to go to the Nvidia control panel, 3D settings, select the game, and set Vertical sync settings to 'Fast', if it can help), but I had a really bad feeling about this, especially since the fix works whether or not I enable Vsync ingame.

Then again, they're also mocking you with a Run command that doesn't work. So I had to install a mod to make it work. And then it broke the triggering of an event, I think. At this point I was wondering why I bought this non-interactive bugridden game, when I could just be watching it unfold on a speedrun or longplay on Youtube.

Yes, really: why?

Terrible game, especially from an intellectual standpoint, whose only redeeming quality is that it'll only take a half hour to complete...

It looks like a hobby project made to learn programming, and should have been free in the first place. The level design makes no sense, the humor is not for me (I struggled to smile more than *once* in the entire playthough), it's buggy (no ending video, only audio, you have to go view the accompanying video in the program folder), and the developer moved on to become a cryptoboy, the guy of people I don't hold particularly close to my heart, to say the least.

But the worst offender here is that, being a French dev, he probably thought it'd be funny to show in the middle of a corridor a 98-second extract of "La Classe Américaine", a hilarious movie from the future director of The Artist that's basically our answer to Steve Martin's "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid". I'm pretty sure neither the producer nor the director agreed to let him use such a long portion of the movie, so it's definitely copyright infringement. I don't even know how this "game" managed to stay on Steam for the last 6 years without anyone noticing. Perhaps because no one bothered to finish it?

"Game make me fill lik I'm smahd. I lik bein smahd."

Took me a couple years to finally make the switch to Windows 10 and be allowed to play this... Wait it doesn't look any different from the original? Okay, right. Lazy programming, lazy story, don't believe them when they say it doesn't spoil the main game, it does. Also didn't enjoy having to do several things over and over again until I finished the game. And I didn't get the ending. And the game crashed right as it was about to tell me the secret of Monkey Island.

Okay, guys, I know it's free, but the only way I'm giving you a positive review is if you're working on an actual new Monkey Island game!
Now that's more like it! Love you Ron.

Pretty short game (2 hours and a half while still clicking on every possible action for fun zingers), but alas it was meant to be a full game and will probably remain a prologue forever. At least it's very cheap, and WELL worth its price. There's also no cliffhanger or anything that could frustrate you at the end.
If you liked Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island back in the day, it's set in the same universe, and made by great people who worked on the Monkey Island series (thinking of Bill Tiller and Dave Grossman here, among others). The animation is very dated, and the models are cut but rough, but what matters here is the dialogue. And it's pretty hilarious.
It's a perfect way to waste a couple hours while waiting for Return to Monkey Island to be released.

This is one of those games I will rate as 'recommended' for what it was aiming to do, and 'not recommended' for the actual execution. You shouldn't buy it at full price.

Being an indie game I'm going to be lenient, but I think it had a rather oversized dev team considering the end result. Maybe most of them were hobbyists?

I love non-violent games, serene post-apocalyptic settings (I've been planning in my head my next game for the last few years and it shares just that, although I probably will never get to do it), the soundtrack is quite beautiful, the main character model is good (her outfit reminded me a bit of Nadia, for anime fans), but the rest is so basic... I would often drop to 30 fps on my RTX 3070 card, I didn't know an Unreal Engine game could be that badly optimized. I don't know who I should blame it on. Epic or the devs?

Anyway... At least, the game doesn't overstay its welcome. I finished the storyline in less than 2 hours and a half, taking my time (getting all collectibles in my way), then used a guide to get the rest. In the end, it really looks like a game that was way more ambitious from the start, but they ran out of funds or something. Submerged 2 is probably the actual game they wanted to make, but I'm going to wait until it's bundled, because... do I need to explain?

PS: I rate this review 'recommended' for what it was aiming to do, and 'not recommended' for what I actually ended up posting. Apologies to anyone who did read it.

I've played plenty, and I can say it's the best Picross game aside from Picross Touch (which is in a category of its own.)
I wish I'd made this game, instead of just playing it.
Needs a grid editor, though. For infinite replayability.
Hmm... I'll build a similar game, with a grid editor. Done deal. Now stop procrastinating. Okay, one more game...

A really nice game for fans of A Short Hike.
It doesn't feel original coming after it, though. It clearly states it's inspired by it, but it doesn't really add much to it. The first minutes were *really* hard for me, I was this close to getting a refund -- no background music generally (and when there's some, it's not too thrilling), no teleportation (although you can unlock a --very slow-- balloon to move around the island in the endgame), and the character moved at a snail's pace. You really should save your SPs to unlock the athletic skill after two level-ups. It makes the game playable and enjoyable, as opposed to annoying. One other issue I have is that it really seems like a prototype for a management game, but there's absolutely no point in doing more than the bare minimum asked to progress through the game. I'm sure you can ignore all camps, and happily go through all camps until you finish the game after a couple hours.
Also, but I can only speak for the French version, it's full of typos and spelling mistakes. It hurts.
Fabien, if you're reading this, please let me fix your text files...

This game would usually get an 8 or 9/10 from me, but the aforementioned issues keep it away from greatness, for now. But at least it doesn't overstay its welcome. 7/10

I played the sequel to this a few months ago, and gave it a negative review because of its ridiculous story which completely detracted from the rest of the game.

I just discovered and finished the original, which actually has no story at all. Nothing. Just a bunch of backgrounds that you gradually fill with objects at your own leisure. The game doesn't even try. What it does try, though, is to make the layouts as interesting as possible. And this time I had a feeling that the game had a relatively proper difficulty curve, _and_ that it also had an algorithm to ensure games are winnable. Unfortunately, there seems to be a bug in it, in that many of the complex layouts aren't winnable per se, so maybe it's a half-arsed solution they implemented, but it's good enough for me, as long as the card order isn't totally random.

One of my favorites, surprisingly.
Also, I only cut off the music after about 7 or 8 hours in. Which is usually a good sign.