In this grim return to the STASIS universe, expectant protagonist, Hadley, wakes up in a facility. Where is she? Why is she there? And, why do they want her baby?
Help panicked and anxious Hadley find her feet and brave stomach-churning situations to break free, by solving puzzles in this FREE ho...
In this grim return to the STASIS universe, expectant protagonist, Hadley, wakes up in a facility. Where is she? Why is she there? And, why do they want her baby?
Help panicked and anxious Hadley find her feet and brave stomach-churning situations to break free, by solving puzzles in this FREE horror adventure game.
CAYNE is a free, point-and-click, isometric adventure game with a modern edge.
A gritty experience awaits. STASIS was only the beginning of a much larger story.
Point-and-click adventure game with a modern edge
Beautifully rendered HD isometric backgrounds
Fully 3D animated characters
Quality animated FMV
Voice acted by professional actors
Open translation system
Computer systems that interact with the game world
Intuitive puzzles to test your deductive skills
A modern re-telling of the classic adventure game genre
It’s free so I recommend playing it if you enjoyed Stasis or usually like point-and-click adventure games. Having said that, I thought that Cayne was a bit of a downgrade compared to Stasis in almost every aspect except graphics quality. The world feels a bit more cartoony, the characters are charicatures most of the time and there are more moonlight logic puzzles with annoying backtracking. Still, an enjoyable experience but I'm not sure I'd given Stasis a chance if I had played Cayne first.
A free release that serves as prequel or sequel to Stasis, I mean, Samantha is a big part of Stasis and here she is, so is a prequel, but the ending implies it is a sequel, so I don't really know.
It plays just as any point and click adventure game, art and atmosphere are still great, can't say I found any trippy weird object placement like in Stasis. The mixing of the audio for conversations is better, and hey, now we got settings inside the game, that's an improvement.
Gameplay is more involved, this time the PDAs you find add not only flavour, but contain clues to solve the puzzles, no moon logic either, although crafting a lever from a metallic tube and a blade is kind of a stretch, also, there are a couple of texts I found had no function even tho they looked like they were important at first glance, one was binary code and the other some sort of incomplete cypher.
Story is still the usual megacorp human experimentation shennanigans, and you can see the plot twist coming from a mile away. Interesting how all the NPCs depicted fall in a range from assholes to psychos, unlike Stasis, where a few felt like regular people. But this is not a long game and all these characters have deep knowledge of the "research" so is understandable they all are depicted this way.
In the end, this is a great PaC, short, but free, so there are no excuses not to play it, I'd recommend playing Stasis first for story context, but is not necessary.
I've played Cayne directly after finishing Stasis and I had high hopes that I would find out a little more about what happened (since the devs - elsewhere online - teasered that this might be the case) and could enjoy the atmosphere similar to Stasis, which had been so intriguingly crafted by the devs.
But, oh boy, that was quite the bummer.
Tone and atmosphere are nowhere near what Stasis embodied. The gore and horror depicted has no visible or audible impact on the protagonist, who never fails to make a snarky remark or to throw in a dark joke to what otherwise would have had the potential to be a moment of true horror.
While in Stasis the dialogue absolutely conveyed feelings of fear, panic, melancholy or sadness, in Cayne, everything is over the top - and can't really be taken seriouosly.
All characters the protagonist meets (or reads from in the PDAs that are scattered throughout the levels) are bland, psychpathic caricatures and just laughably evil and thereby absolute not believable in any way.
The plot also ends on a very low note, which to me seemed like a cheap thrill - and was even more dissatisfying, than the original Stasis ending.
The puzzles are in part frustratingly illogical and I rarely could solve them without a lot of trial and error - which I eventually skipped by resorting to a walkthrough to at least experience the whole plot without the hassle.
To me, Cayne was an absolute disappointment compared to Stasis, which in every category beats Cayne by a significant margin.
Wouldn't the credits list the same people, I would never have guessed that the devs of Stasis created this game.
If you like Stasis, I can't recommend Cayne, if cheap horror flicks and slasher movies are your thing, though, you may give it a try.
ENGLISH BELLOW:
Cayne é um excelente point-and-click de aventura com uma atmosfera de terror, bem leve mesmo.
Os gráficos são realmente bons e a mecânica do jogo é simples mas não tão fácil de se aprender. Tem certa mecanicas que não são explicadas e você tem que ficar quebrando a cabeça para descobrir. O jogo não tem tutorial.
Confesso que pedi ao deus Google pra solução de 2 puzzles e conseguir terminar o jogo, mas o pessoal no forum diz que é possível conseguir tudo na raça mesmo. O último puzzle eu até agora, eu não soube decifla-lo.
Esse jogo ta FREE, logo vá sem medo!!! E depois dele, se curtir esse, pega o STASIS que é um "pre-quel" (mais ou menos...mas é do mesmo uniserso e tudo se liga) e é MUITO MELHOR e com puzzles mais intuítivos.
ENGLISH VERSION:
Cayne is an excellent adventure point-and-click with the horror atmosphere, very light indeed.
The graphics are really good and the mechanics are simple but not so easy to learn. Are certain mechanics that are not explained and you have to keep up to find out. No tutorial here!
I confess I google the solution of 2 puzzles to beat the game, but some people on the forum say that it is possible to finish the game without it. The last puzzle I was not capable to decipher it so far and still.
This game is FREE!!! So, go on and with no fear!!! After you finish it and, if you liked it, go and get the STASIS. It is a "prequel" (sort of...on the same universe) but MUCH BETTER and with puzzles more intuitive. YOU GONNA LOVE IT
The game is starting off big, with an interesting tale. And it itself is really linear, despite randomly generated passwords. Too easy or too ridicoulous puzzles. Somehow it was more iritating than relaxing experience. And when I knew how to get rid of the enemy, the game did not allow me to do so, because the trigger was scripted.
See? This review was short, started off big and ended up being a complete chaos... Just like this game. :) End in the end, you know not much, just like in the ending of this game. :)
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