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Posted on: July 24, 2022
cocacolacowboi
Verified ownerGames: 342 Reviews: 1
A Surprise
It's not often I get to play a game I've rarely heard of (and even less thought I would enjoy) but this was a 5 out of 5 stars experience. I can strongly recommend it to people that enjoy detective work and psychological horror.
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Posted on: November 2, 2024
d3f4c3r
Verified ownerGames: 463 Reviews: 6
Short but hell of fun
the atmosphere is incredible. Rarely a horror game catches me like this one
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Posted on: July 7, 2025
shylock.596
Verified ownerGames: 755 Reviews: 103
Tech Warts and SoSo VA But Good & Creepy
SIMULACRA is by far one of the creepier games I have played. This is due in large part to the fantastic sound effects. Little noises happen at times that really threw me off such as the sound of breathing and especially what sounded like tapping on glass. I literally stopped playing and went to look around outside to see if someone had been tapping on my basement window one time. The music is also pretty good but I felt it could be a bit repetitive. The puzzles were also for the most part very good. From the text puzzles to rebuild distorted messages to how you had to go find info on various apps to figure out phone numbers and one where you had to find a website page link, I enjoyed them overall and applaud how different they were. I didn’t really enjoy the puzzle where you have to rebuild images as I found it tedious but I did get better at it by the end. I also didn’t like how the laptop mission was timed. That being said one thing I will praise is that even if you fail a mission it just seemed to branch the story in a slightly different direction so it wasn’t required to pass all missions or puzzles. The voice acting was a mixed bag. The voice actor for Cassie, Ashley, and Anna were all good but the police detective, Greg, and Taylor were all a bit over the top and didn’t feel as normal or real people. The detective especially. Also the part where the badge says “special police” was hilarious and in real life would make me think the cop had gotten his gear from a toy store. The videos themselves were well done. I played SIMULACRA on Linux using Wine. There was no options at all. It did respect my refresh rate despite no v-sync option. The game uses an auto save system with only one save slot so it constantly overwrites. I did have a couple issues such as a couple times I opened the game it wouldn’t go full screen as well as using Alt-Tab crashed the game once. Neither issue happened more than a couple times so it’s tough to point the finger to the issue.
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Posted on: May 17, 2020
wagnershinn
Verified ownerGames: 1126 Reviews: 11
Very immersive horror game
Awesome horror game! It has an awesome premise and everything you need to do to advance in the story is embedded in the phone interface and apps, making it incredibly immersive. It took me around 5 hours to complete my first run and I loved it! There are multiple endings, which increases the replayability value. My only complain is related to playing the game on a PC. On a phone, it's probably more intuitive to use the interface, but having a larger screen may be also something interesting.
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Posted on: April 27, 2019
scaponyx
Verified ownerGames: 24 Reviews: 1
makes you think life and society
Only 3rd through the game I thought to myself it is the best one I played in a long time. The experience is soo intensive and makes you think about your life and real society issues. And it was fun and weird reflection of my own choices. I really recommend. Just one hint if you dont like to be scared...dont play at night. I played it in one sitting. Text games FTW (yes, it is basically text game as in 80s)
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