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The Church in the Darkness is now available DRM-free. Get it 20% off until August 9th, 3pm UTC.

The year is 1977. Your nephew Alex has joined a religious cult and moved with them to the South American jungle. It's up to you to sneak into the commune, find out what's really going on, and decide if you need to get Alex out.
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rjbuffchix: Totally agreed...I love when games are open and allow that kind of player freedom. From my experience, it seems that only a fraction of players will utilize those options...however, that fraction of players LOVES having the options. I know myself I go out of my way to recommend games that have that sort of freedom.
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GameRager: Yup.....some would want such banned sadly, however, if the offensive games thread is any indication.

(Not to go offtopic but some there seem to thin being bad in a game will teach others how to be bad or encourage people to do so more often.)
Yeah, the same tired arguments have been used in the past against books, comic books, and cinema too. I don't believe in "needs of the many" and collective punishment, which is what that boils down to. You know how I often talk about how there is a whole alternate history of "what would it be like if PC gaming never went mainstream and never devolved into the Steam monopoly" (Answer: Better in every meaningful sense). The same is true of media; there could've been such a rich history without stuff like the Comics Code Authority and the Hayes code dragging things down (and don't think that these codes haven't subconciously, if not overtly, influenced current media and people's view of what is acceptable vs unacceptable. It is a pretty sad indictment when people are even finding DC superhero comic book movies to be too much to handle). Frankly, I don't care if other people can't handle X game/book/comic/film. To paraphrase Mark Twain, don't tell me I can't have steak just because a baby can't chew it.

It seems like The Church in the Darkness pushes the envelope in some ways at least, so I am grateful for that and eager to know more about it!
Waiting for since reviews but so far none of the people rating it actually own it. :P
Post edited August 02, 2019 by tinyE
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GameRager: Yup.....some would want such banned sadly, however, if the offensive games thread is any indication.

(Not to go offtopic but some there seem to thin being bad in a game will teach others how to be bad or encourage people to do so more often.)
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rjbuffchix: Yeah, the same tired arguments have been used in the past against books, comic books, and cinema too. I don't believe in "needs of the many" and collective punishment, which is what that boils down to. You know how I often talk about how there is a whole alternate history of "what would it be like if PC gaming never went mainstream and never devolved into the Steam monopoly" (Answer: Better in every meaningful sense). The same is true of media; there could've been such a rich history without stuff like the Comics Code Authority and the Hayes code dragging things down (and don't think that these codes haven't subconciously, if not overtly, influenced current media and people's view of what is acceptable vs unacceptable. It is a pretty sad indictment when people are even finding DC superhero comic book movies to be too much to handle). Frankly, I don't care if other people can't handle X game/book/comic/film. To paraphrase Mark Twain, don't tell me I can't have steak just because a baby can't chew it.

It seems like The Church in the Darkness pushes the envelope in some ways at least, so I am grateful for that and eager to know more about it!
The steam stuff seems a bit iffy, but I do think without the various media "codes" we'd likely have vastly different media than we do now and some things wouldn't be seen as unacceptable by some.

Heck, I LOVE the game harvester and that game pushes so many boundaries you lose track of them after a few hours.



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tinyE: Waiting for sine reviews but so far none of the people rating it actually own it. :P
Sine?

Sincere?

I would buy it and test it myself but I am on a budget and most games I buy have to be very cheap. :(
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sine = some, because 'i' is near 'o' and 'n' is near 'm' on a standard UK/US keyboard.

Slip of the fingers, by the look of things. Or maybe intense shaking ?...
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Trooper1270: sine = some, because 'i' is near 'o' and 'n' is near 'm' on a standard UK/US keyboard.

Slip of the fingers, by the look of things. Or maybe intense shaking ?...
I was going to make a sine/cosine maths joke but he corrected it....oh well. :\
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Ugh, dat propaganda.

It's quite ugly too.

Simplist is nice, but this isn't well made.

Pass.
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Zoidberg: Ugh, dat propaganda.

It's quite ugly too.

Simplist is nice, but this isn't well made.

Pass.
Every new release I await your nitpicking it apart with baited breath...truly amazing...four stars.

*claps*
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pmcollectorboy: Mmm... close enough to dance on tender sensibilities without being explicitly offensive.
I've never understood why old people get bent out of shape over Jonestown; those asshole hippies killed a sitting Congressman and thus had it coming. Sure, a few public executions might have been more appropriate but the problem took care of itself so all is good, yeah?
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pmcollectorboy: Mmm... close enough to dance on tender sensibilities without being explicitly offensive.
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NovusBogus: I've never understood why old people get bent out of shape over Jonestown; those asshole hippies killed a sitting Congressman and thus had it coming. Sure, a few public executions might have been more appropriate but the problem took care of itself so all is good, yeah?
A deluded psychotic and a handful of his bodyguards killed a congressman.
The majority of the 900 had nothing to do with it and knew nothing about it. They were prisoners there; sold a bill of goods only to find out too late there was no paradise and no escape. The congressman was killed because a number of these people told him they were prisoners. They wanted out.

Forensics, as well as eye witness testimony from some of the survivors, proved that the majority of the dead did not voluntarily "drink the Kool-Aid" but were forced to at gunpoint and, in some cases, held down and injected with the poison via a hypodermic needle.

You can maybe blame them for gullibility in that they followed him down there, but that's it.
Post edited August 02, 2019 by tinyE
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Forensics proved that the majority of the dead did not voluntarily "drink the Kool-Aid" but were forced to at gunpoint and, in some cases, held down and injected with the poison via a hypodermic needle.

You can maybe blame them for gullibility in that they followed him down there, but that's it.
I get being able to tell if one has such injected into them, but how can foreniscs prove one had or did not have a gun pointed at them while drinking something?

(I agree what was done to them was sh*t, though)

Also why didn't any of them try over powering the guards and getting their guns? They outnumbered the ones with guns so why not try it and maybe chance at survival?
Ok, it's someone behind The Suffering series design, that means good game.
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Zoidberg: Ugh, dat propaganda.

It's quite ugly too.

Simplist is nice, but this isn't well made.

Pass.
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GameRager: Every new release I await your nitpicking it apart with baited breath...truly amazing...four stars.

*claps*
Funny of you to only remember my negative interventions and not the positive ones where I defend a release.
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pmcollectorboy: Mmm... close enough to dance on tender sensibilities without being explicitly offensive.
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GameRager: Plus the event this is somewhat based on was long enough ago that it won't cause as much backlash from some.
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Zoidberg: Ugh, dat propaganda.

It's quite ugly too.

Simplist is nice, but this isn't well made.

Pass.
Could someone be so friendly to explain this to me? I know the Jonestown story. But I cannot understand where sensibilities and backlash could come from?

And what propaganda? For what? Is this pro-sects, because it doesn't look like it. Or is it bad when it's against sects? I'm so confused
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Zoidberg: Ugh, dat propaganda.

It's quite ugly too.

Simplist is nice, but this isn't well made.

Pass.
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Ashnak: Could someone be so friendly to explain this to me? I know the Jonestown story. But I cannot understand where sensibilities and backlash could come from?

And what propaganda? For what? Is this pro-sects, because it doesn't look like it. Or is it bad when it's against sects? I'm so confused
Jab at socialism. Feels pro capitalism murica fuk yea to me.

I'm fed up of this, so pass.

As for the game itself, reviews aren't really positive either so...
save game?