Be careful. This demo will grab you immediately! I bought the game the next day. Very clever and enjoyable (see for yourself for free.) It gets more and more difficult as you play on! Love it!
Or not. I like this one better than the other Rusty Lakes. Finished it faster, anyway. Same atmosphere as the others, strangely humorous dark netherworldly puzzling stuff with lurid music. Can be maddingly frustrating when you can't figure out what to do next - and also when the answer was right there all along! In this one you are, or are not, a psychotic (or not) guy (who looks a lot like Jason Ralph of The Magicians), who appears to be institutionalized and alone most of the time. (Prophetic and familiar much?) Except for the demons and flashbacks. Sounds a little depressing but like other Rusty Lake games it just keeps getting deeper until yer hooked. Great entertainment for four bucks. Go on and get it.
This was a surprise! Not sure what to call it - an interactive animated sci-fi movie? It seemed a little confused and even clumsy at first but it grew on me. The storyline is adult: takes place in a future Berlin where scientists have developed a VR world and (bit of a spoiler) are transferring the consciousness of real-world folks into VR-world folks. The sets are very stylized and the characters a little hard to manipulate at first, but the plot thickened until I was totally hooked. I think this one will please you if you like the style and take the time to explore the two universes ("real" and VR) presented here. Voice acting is very good and the ending satisfying. I squeezed many hours of gameplay out of State of Mind and came to appreciate the depth of planning that went into it. Excellent for quarantine!
Is this a good game? Who knows? Maybe it doesn't run in 64-bit Win either (see Mac disclaimer above)? Got it here on GOG for $.99 cents but I wouldn't give a plug nickel for it and it isn't worth my time asking for a refund. You get what you pay for. PS: My machine is a Lenovo Legion Y740–15, Win 10, 64G RAM
Well-planned, detailed VR-like experience. True, there is no overall plotline to write home about, but you pick up bits and pieces as you perform your mission to a recently abandoned space station. Very modern, sort of a first-person space opera (is there such a thing?) Could have been longer, but GOG had it on sale (so who's complaining?) Female 1st person lead - I sometimes think this affects male reviewers - and there are times on the station where you will have to figure out how to move around without gravity. 5 stars for overall production.
I loved it. Want more!
And it's a nice new Lenovo Legion gamer. Unintelligible failure. I got both this and another Pathological title at the same time, I think, free from GOG. I say "I think" because it didn't appear to be two different games when I downloaded it. Not sure why, but something is very wrong with the install. It was awful and I just gave up.
Unbearably cute and well-drawn. I'd say it might be too unsophisticated for most modern 10-year olds, but a good starter adventures for the littles . Got it here very cheap on sale, so no complains from me. 3 +1/2.
The little movie ran fine (albeit low resolution) and then the game crashed while apparently trying to change Win/my monitor's resolution (from 1920x1080 to 800x600, maybe?) - I dunno. I had to evoke Task Manager to exit the game. Might look fine on a legacy system. Got it free from GOG, so no win no loss.
Twin Peaks fans should like this one. Simple 2D animation, nothing that fancy, but excellent artwork. Clever puzzles mixed with spooky backstory. At the current offering price here on GOG, I couldn't resist buying all three Rusty Lake puzzlers at once and I recommend you do the same. They do not appear to interact, but if you get stuck in one you can give it a rest and go to one of the others and they are all closely related, plot-wise. I'll be looking forward to more Rusty Lake product in the future.
