Posted on: May 2, 2017

rag_33

Игр: 1150 Отзывов: 1

Some good ideas but too short

The good: - especially in episode 1 there are some good ideas in the game and it felt like a real horror adventure Neither good or bad: - big parts of the game are text adventure based, it works well with the atmosphere in the game The bad: - total playtime less than 3 hours, the story is rather thin - in episode 3 you operate a device with a digital display. The display is showing you the digital numbers you are setting. But you have to additionally switch it on to get it operating. The display is already on ... - in episode 3 you have to listen to a morse code and decipher it. For me this was a pain. The gap between the short tones is too short (at least for me). - in episode 3 you have to read some texts and always zoom and focus around. This is annoying and makes no fun. I would have given the game three stars if episode 3 would have been better.

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Posted on: September 4, 2022

CabaretFoile

Владелец игры

Игр: 143 Отзывов: 2

It Is Certainly A Game.

First of all, I would start by saying that three stars isn't a 'bad' score nor do I mean it as one. This game is certainly a game. It has gameplay, a story, themes and I believe anyone who picks this up that is vaguely interested in horror or thrillers will have some fun with it (I certainly loved seeing old school text adventures being rep'd in the modern day) and it has value in being what it is, a short, concise playthrough that tells a story and ensures you have some fun doing so. As some good points, I personally love how gameplay is switched up and changed between episodes, I think graphically the game is impressive in its own unique way, perhaps an odd compliment but the keyboard sounds in game were oddly fitting and pleasant and that attention to detail is admirable and, to reiterate, I like that this game is what it is, not aiming to be a world renowned tour de force spoken of in artistic myth, it is a short game that tells its story without trying to mess the player around. I also appreciate how the game handles horror, there are no spoopy, blood drenched jumpscares here, nor tortured allusions to insanity straight out of a high school drama club's interpretation of the DSM-5 like some other games I could mention. It has atmosphere and oddities and it does it well. However this does come with the caveat that you need to go into this game expecting to play it, enjoy it and not pick it up again which, again, isn't necessarily a bad thing, more just an expectation to be aware of and managed. You will have *some* fun with this game (how much really depends on your appreciation of puzzles and what this game is trying to accomplish) and for the price? It's worth checking out if this game is your kind of thing. Though as a final note, do be aware of some scenes with heavy amounts of flashing lights.

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Posted on: April 24, 2019

aesee

Владелец игры

Игр: 377 Отзывов: 2

Вторично, особенно для инди

Из-за того, что вся первая глава (самая короткая из всех) состоит из текстового квеста, создается ощущение, что вся Stories Untold - текстовый квест, но это не так. Большая часть игры состоит в повторении одних и тех же действий по мануалу: герою сообщают некоторые данные (цифры, слово и т.д.), после чего нужно посмотреть в специальный документ, сопоставить одни данные с другими и настроить аппаратуру соответствующим образом. Почти всю игру вертишь ручки туда-сюда, вбиваешь практически незначимые тексты в поля, нажимаешь кнопки. И финал открывает, что все это было для простой и вторичной истории, которые встречаются в каждой второй инди. И текстовые вставки - самое большое разочарование. Парсер очень примитивный, в любой старой игре был продвинутый парсер, до сих пор удивляющий тем, сколько вариантов взаимодействия заложили разработчики. Здесь же порой самые очевидные команды не работают. И поэтому текстовый квест превращается в занимательную игру "угадай, что же от тебя тут хотели разработчики". Не знаю, осознанно это или нет, но существует игра Sanitarium, которая дарит абсолютно такой же опыт, как Stories Untold, но при этом дает гораздо больше челленджа, ощущений и истории. Две звезды в моем понимании - "it was ok". Игра не мусор, но при этом она просто съела мое время, и я ничего не получил взамен.

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Posted on: November 16, 2021

Seb-gog

Владелец игры

Игр: 197 Отзывов: 82

They lost me in chapter 3...

Gets very tedious in chapter 3. Loads of instructions/codes/frequencies etc that you need to look up in an old microfilm-viewer manual, which is very tedious. Back and forth, reading out numbers from tables, decoding, scrolling to find the right page, decoding morse alphabet, tuning in the correct frequencies on a radio and so on and so on. And it never seems to end either, so I decided to give up there - wasn't very interested in the story anyway. Chapter 1 and 2 were ok though and a bit cool...chapter 3 though is like some bad math homework...

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Posted on: August 14, 2025

DMCenturion

Владелец игры

Игр: 63 Отзывов: 3

Amazing experience, bad ending

This is a spoiler-free review ---------- The game conists of 4 parts and took me 2.5 hours to experience. Overall a superbly-crafted game with extreme potential, but the ending marred the experience to the point of retroactively ruining the whole game. Acts 1/2 got me hooked, and act 3 was the same until the very end, where there are hints that things are not as they seem. The last act was unexpected and its goal was to connect the loose strands from the previous acts. Sadly, the overall narrative in which they are connected effectively put a steel wall between my perspective and the characters. I ended up acting out what the character did, while not being able to change anything. I'm sorry to say this, but the narrative felt forced, and forcing such a perspective shift on the player caused the previous experiences tyo be tainted. I suggest buying it on a sale, and playing acts 1-3 (avoid act 4).

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