10 Dead Doves

好吧，前后断续三个多月共耗时8.5h通关好结局后，我还是只能大方承认没看懂剧情在说啥。这游戏真不是一般人能碰的（非褒义），点开前完全想不到居然是一部电波文艺作，The Medium之后又一款罕见的监视器视角心理恐怖。 不是一般的慢热。本来灵媒的弱势就在于游戏性偏弱，所以只能靠精美的画面和婉转动人的剧情来弥补。本作相较起来则变本加厉，弱势保持之同时一点优势不占。游戏性上，操作有不适感，撞模型会自动急停卡模、跑步有体力限制降速、转向缓慢不便等。玩法只是很一般的寻物解谜，且指引不明下经常卡关。其次，迎合复古化的低清建模贴图不可能提供亮眼的画面。在关键的剧情上，本作采用极其凌乱、碎片化、谜语人的叙事，流程包含大量毫无意义又慢条斯理的交互选项，纵使玩家有心去调查物件弥补剧情空缺也显得“巧妇难为无米之炊”，也是不怪我怎么能拖拉这么久了。 但为什么本作又如此迷人呢？因为它把一种怪诞的、戏谑的、梦幻的、隐喻的、潜意识的、无厘头的、不可捉摸的、神秘主义的风格，玩到了几近偏执的境界，玩到了一个史无前例的高度。高超熟稔的运镜技巧、镜头语言+将除主角之外的角色全部特异化、怪物化+文本如Disco Elysium那般完全不讲人话的逼格感+后期现实与幻觉彻底交融不清的超现实手法，一股脑地全倾泄出来，其观感就和你慕名去补了一部大卫林奇的实验电影差不多——不明觉厉，完全无力去做阅读理解，但只能折服于它的天马行空。另外，本作黑色幽默之运用手到擒来，损友的插科打诨和主角的不断出糗又把这种高逼格给消解掉了，最终呈现出来的反而是一种并没那么生人勿近的亲民状态，很奇妙。 前面虽然自嘲不懂剧情，洛式恐怖和超自然元素虽不好考究有理解门槛，但本作的故事大纲依然是中年男子无法忘怀雄心壮志而逃避家庭责任的二三事，主题依然是亲情和解与死亡。其中不乏一些令人感怀的金句表达。比如，爱的对立面不是恨，而是恐惧。再比如，把男主的存在状态比作书页中的人物——尽可在平面内自由蠕动，却不能望向书外的读者。最终铺垫了全篇的谜底落在一句恶毒的狂言上，如此伤人却如此寻常，寻常的就像男主时刻表露出的偏执、狂妄、迷失、畏惧等情绪，是我们每一个玩家都能共情到在自己身上发现影子的，这结局很有今敏大师《妄想代理人》那个味了。 一次绝对谈不上好玩，甚至有点折磨，回想起来又弥足珍贵的独特体验。用如此简陋的技术力创造出如此高制作高审美高度风格化的作品，堪称一项奇观。

One of, if not, THE best games I've played as of late. The plot, the characters, the style, even the music is all really good. I love how this game looks, the facial animations look a little "odd" at first but I feel like it's perfect for a game like this and I wouldn't have it any other way. The voice acting I thought was top notch, you really feel Mark when he's angry and when he's losing his marbles. He is truly the most pathetic man on earth, just as described. My favorite kinda guy. The dynamic between Mark and Sean grew on me. They're fun characters, more so, fun to watch suffer. They bicker and they banter and you'll wonder if they're even friends. But just like everything in this game, their friendship is a trainwreck and it works for them. There are a lot of beautiful shots in this game. The surreal environments can be so beautiful in a very abstract kind of way. The character designs for some characters are simple but still very interesting. And most of all I enjoyed the writing. It's a very well written game with quirky dialogue. It can be really funny when it wants to be, really vague when it needs to be, and very emotional as well. I mean... They have a drink brand called Aloca-Coc, and Jag-offs beef jerky, man. I love to jag-off and have Aloca-Coc! Sometimes I like just chilling in the main menu for a bit to enjoy the music. It's a vibe! All in all, this game is fantastic and you'd be a fool not to give it a try. It's a treat. It can be intense at times, but as intense as it can be, I wouldn't say it's really that scary. Your enemies in this game are The mascot for Peperami, The Animal, basically. But somehow this game mixes goofy scary really well. Highly recommended if you love abstract psychological horror with a good story, interesting visuals, great music, campy humor, tank-controls for that classic feel, and you love your MC going THROUGH IT. Mark Stetson, you are the car crash I can't look away from. Happy spiraling.

An adventure game that fails in the execution of its horror elements due to consistent tone problems, unlikeable characters, and a poor, also somewhat unclear, telling of its story. Play as Mark - the MC - with his buddy Sean, hiking the Appalachia Trail in search of a local legend called the Ant Farm, a place that can make your wish come true should you reach its center. Collect puzzle items, keys, and numerous forms of lore items as you make your way through the game; some lore items give Mark visions that you can watch, but are often unclear in their message or meaning. Creatures from another plane of existence will pursue the two hikers through the woods, as well as the Ant Farm itself, with only one instance of these creatures feeling like any kind of actual threat. Much of the horror and seriousness being attempted by 10 Dead Doves is completely thrown out the window by poorly attempted moments of comedy, creating a consistent tone problem from beginning to end. In terms of the story, it ends up being a somewhat vague and muddled affair, making elements of it unclear in its telling. Mark has been a pretty huge ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ his whole life, alienating his wife (who may or may not be dead) and daughter in the process. Apparently Mark is also terminally ill with only three or four months left to live, but the game never elaborates on what sort of illness Mark might have. Mark's behaviour makes him pretty unlikeable as a character, feeling no amount of sympathy or any real empathy towards his plight, the game just doubling down on him being absolutely awful the more it goes on. As events unfold, it is revealed that the Ant Farm is a facility which has discovered a place, and beings, from what seems to be another dimension of existence that is influencing our own. Beings from this plane of existence are working on something called the Magnum Opus, which, with the aid of mortals from our own realm, can be used to grant the wish of a singular being; in this case being Mark's desire to see his own daughter again before he dies. To discuss the ending a wee bit, you are given two choices at the end of the game, pretty much letting you choose how it ends; going down [spoiler]and letting Mark see his daughter hanging from a tree in a more Faustian way of granting his wish[/spoiler] or climbing a ladder, [spoiler]where Mark will cut out his tongue, removing his ability to speak harm to those around him, letting him escape from the Ant Farm to make contact with his daughter again in the real world.[/spoiler] I would say there was maybe a good four hours so or left in 10 Dead Doves, and I was absolutely checked out, ready and actively willing for it to end. Audio is something I wanted to bring up as a major point, as whoever did the mixing on audio levels did a terribly poor job. Volume for character voices is all over the place, sometimes being extremely quiet, other times screaming like crazy, then being somewhere in between; I eventually gave up mucking about with my speaker volume constantly, just reading the subtitles for about half the game. Puzzles are pretty standard adventure fair, being rather simple in their execution. There are a series of light panel puzzles that are short and sweet, but there are multiple path-based puzzles that reset you to the beginning of a zone if you don't choose the right path that I quickly became tired of. There are bits of litter you can collect throughout the game, not seeming to have any real purpose or reward other than being able to collect it. I really enjoyed the demo for 10 Dead Doves when I played it back in the day, but after experiencing the full product, I absolutely wish I had refunded it - it didn't do it for me at all, being something I actively disliked after a few hours of play. This is a game I would firmly recommend passing on. [quote]Follow [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45701624-CthulhusMonocle-That-Next-Fest-Guy/]CthulhusMonocle - That Next Fest Guy[/url] for more game and Steam Next Fest demo reviews.[/quote]

I liked it. I really liked it. I've been having a tendency to sour games for myself, drift into a disappointed reluctant disdain for a game. This game remains one I love, it was just that good enough I guess for my evil eye.

2024年的游戏搞坦克控制+迷宫+追逐战，我实在是想不出除了打差评以外的理由为什么我要花钱买来自己玩而不是选择去看视频。你剧情再对得上电波又如何？慢热游戏大把时间都在跑图上，跑图大把时间都在想办法适应你那个逼坦克控制操作上。沉浸感不是用蹩脚的控制不停打断玩家的同步，把坦克控制改成可选项在固定视角设计下是犯法的吗？

Alan Wake + Silent Hill + Twin Peaks = Эта Игра. Нет даже не игра. Фильм. Игрофильм. Короче если бы ремеди была больше именно инди студией, то они что-то подобное сделали бы.

Best gaming experience featuring dead birds in years.

"What a traumatic experience, I guess that means it's a good time to crack a joke and ruin the atmosphere!" I only became aware of 10 Dead Doves after it had finished its Kickstarter rounds, but was lured in by the atmosphere on display, along with the interesting visual style. My expectation of an atmospheric horror-tinted puzzle game were not quite met, however, as the game quite rapidly devolved into something truly strange. While the game itself does a rather poor job of explaining its premise, 10 Dead Doves puts you in the shoes of Mark somewhere in the Appalachian mountains as he searches for the Ant Farm of urban legend, which is just another wish-granter. Mark might have ruined his marriage, failed his kid and all his loved ones and also he might be dying of something, so he's got reason to be desperate. A solid chunk of the game is built upon experiencing Marks friendship with his travel buddy Sean, which is so laden with incomprehensible in-jokes and constantly swings from ruthless insults to heartfelt apologies, that I found it impossible to take seriously. The games art style also doesn't do it many favors here. Despite its retro-stylized environments managing the occasionally moody atmosphere nicely, the facial animations riddled with excessive faux-PS1 texture warping and especially the close-up zooms utterly wreck any kind of emotional moments the game tries to build up to. The games only really successful moments as a horror game come in the briefest moments where it allows the player glimpses of something moving just off-screen, only for the game to later fully and without any restriction reveal the jankily animated monsters chasing you, at which point I couldn't help but laugh at the kind of horror even Scooby Doo pulled off better. When it comes to sound the game is also a rather mixed bag. The voice acting suffers of the indie game issue where different actors fail to maintain a cohesive theme and quality and the audio mixing varies wildly between scenes and characters. The protagonist, whom we hear the most from, struggles with over-acting in many of his scenes to a point where, once again, all drama is lost to the delivery. The music of the game does deserve a positive note, with some tracks standing well above the quality of the rest of the game and managing to salvage moments of atmosphere and mood from this mess. As for the story and overall experience, I couldn't tell you much. There are so many fake-outs, loose threads, false narratives and maddening mix-ups of what is and isn't real, all combined with a whole mess of confusing flashbacks that all seem to rely on the player having some existing information of the characters that the player has no way of having, that towards the end I just gave up on the story. There are mysterious creatures, government conspiracies, the story premise of the STALKER games' wish granter, a failed marriage plotline told to us mostly through allegories and puppets and I am sure all of this made complete sense to the writers, but sadly almost none of it made sense to me. In the end I cannot really recommend the experience to anyone. 10 Dead Doves is maybe half an hour or solid ideas padded out to about six to eight hours of total runtime and a quantity of padding that I can't recall seeing in years. So, so very many pointless maze sections... Playtime: 6+ hours (A single playthrough) Ratings (1-10) Visual: 5 Audio: 6 Story: 3 Gameplay: 2 Overall: 3

森林迷路版生化危机2like，在镜头上做到了极强的电影感，但迷宫寻物是我最为讨厌的玩法，很可惜没法继续下去了

I am quite fond of the hat man (and like, every character really) the art this game has is such eye candy to me man you would not BELIEVE