Posted on: October 13, 2024

Hawke_404

Games: 387 Reviews: 46

Work of Art, Full of Technical Flaws

1000xResist (“One Thousand Times Resist”) is a mix of a walking simulator and a kinetic visual novel. There are one puzzle (unless one counts the “interact with everything” objective as a puzzle), one timed action sequence, and one choice that matters, with the previous 10 hours being the context to make it. The story takes place in a post-apocalyptic sci-fi setting, where humanity died from the extraterrestrial invasion and a plague, with only one human and her clones remaining. The human, Iris, the All-Mother, is worshipped by her clones as a goddess. The protagonist, the Watcher, is a clone whose duty is to observe the All-Mother’s memories. The story is focused on the topics of revolution (the Hong Kong Umbrella Revolution, in particular) and generational trauma. The game is as artistic as it can get. The visual and the sound design are reasonably simple and expressive. All dialogues are voiced and there are very few facial animations. In terms of gameplay, the only possible challenge is to navigate the labyrinthine locations to interact with the next objective, but the exploration never feels rewarding. Only the main hub has a map, which becomes unavailable at some point. Occasionally, the story presentation becomes less straightforward and more abstract and invocative, but just walking forward solves it. The choices in the dialogues throughout the game affect nothing and it was frustrating to see the protagonist do or say unwise things automatically. For the technical part, the controls are not rebindable, though they are not uncomfortable. The visual settings are lacking, so I was stuck with the post-effects and the game was trying to heat up my GPU a few times. There are 10 save slots, with one of them being the auto-save, and it is possible to replay the unlocked chapters. Overall, I think that games like 1000xResist should be celebrated, but the technical and gameplay flaws make it less appealing, thus, I would recommend it with at least 50% discount.

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Posted on: June 4, 2024

koepkeca

Verified owner

Games: 15 Reviews: 1

Beautiful and well crafted / a bit short

I found the story to be quite engaging and the art, music and sound design top notch. Was a bit shocked that I completed the game so quickly but that being said the story flowed nicely but I found the lack of control customization slightly challenging at first but quickly got used to them after the first hour.

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Posted on: March 30, 2025

Biduga

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Games: 265 Reviews: 14

Very authoral and artistic Walking Sim

For me this is one more of these indies that super commits to their view and tries to convey the story in a very specific and unique way. Is necessary to explicit that this is a walking sim that reward you when you curiously explore its world - not necessarily with gameplay rewards or nothing gamefied, but regarding its world, its narrative, its reflections. Surprising in many ways, my favorite feeling with this experience its the frequent change of 'type of narrative', or when they use a miscellaneous of tools to enhance a specific feeling, message or point of view. I personally don't think is for everyone out there, because is a narrative game about a character called Watcher - so you will be walking a lot and trying to understand a lot in your own. The character is NOT passive, can talk with everyone and do things - I just want to be clear that is a walking simulator that the situations, enviroment, ambience, how the characters behave; all of this IS the story. To not spoil anything I will only spoke this: if you like narrative, to be pensive about issues, to reflect about what you perceiving, and to explore A LOT in the levels. This game is for you to enjoy, to allow yourself to the experience. In a final comment, this game for me had a vibe of Kentucky Route Zero regarging ambience and presentation, and surprisingly the eeriness of solitude presented on Signalis (but not its horror nor dread).

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Posted on: July 26, 2025

glalejos

Verified owner

Games: 210 Reviews: 5

Hekki grace

An interactive movie I would say. Settled on a fictional, near human extinction background where the player struggles to make sense of what they are seeing. Information is presented purposely fragmented in space and time, leaving lots of options to imagination and producing a catching “I need to know more” feeling that binds one finding to the next. On the technical side, the graphics are stylized and clean –perhaps they feel a little bit simple at times– which, combined with a great voice acting, make for a powerful communication channel in the most dramatic moments. Game play is simple, but navigating the world seems a little bit heavy sometimes. I played this title in Linux through Wine without any issue that I could notice. I would totally recommend this title, in particular if you are looking for a fresh story.

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Edited on: November 12, 2025

Posted on: November 12, 2025

Misantrosias

Verified owner

Games: 272 Reviews: 2

Art belongs in museums, not just here

This is not a game, it is a marvelous piece of art because it showed me how to create my own religion. I cloned my dad, my mom, my brother and all my generational traumas, now i just wait for aliens to extinct 99% of mankind and rise The ALL-Misantropy! my own religion in the remainng world... Friends? Family? Books? Critical thinking? Free will? You dont need any of those obsolete things my brother and sister! The All-Misantropy is all you need, it knows the better for you and me! Hekki Misantropy! Pd: You are a snowflake/illiterate if you think this hates white people/endorses hate towars them.

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