ALASKA

This game is nothing short of a masterpiece. It really makes you FEEL like an Alaskan, having to face the harsh elements of both the Alaskan winter and your own isolation. With skill-testing tasks such as fishing, hunting, and skating, you will have to use both your wits and your endurance to make it out of this story alive. In one of the greatest plot twists a game could have (which I will not spoil), the protagonist that you play will have to face the greatest obstacle that one could face: his own guilt over the murders of his neighbours. With heart-wrenching dialog such as "OH, WHAT HAVE I BECOME?", ALASKA distinguishes itself from any other indie simulation adventure game out there. You will feel the emotions that both your character and the characters around you feel through their hyper-realistic design and thorough expression. Pros: + Expressive Poses + An Interesting and Varied Cast of Characters + A Captivating, Heart-Wrenching Story + Beautiful, Scenic Environments + Robust Combat Controls + A Set of Fun and Meaningful Minigames Cons: - Realistic Gun Violence (honestly surprised there's no mature rating) - Only One Romance Option - No New Game+ - Jump Scares - Not for the Faint of Heart!

Okay, so it isn't the best game in the world, but don't expect it to be. It has it's technical flaws, and the fishing sequence is nothing short of a headache, but that being said, it's worth delving into. It's a short and simple game that progressively becomes more and more eerie, for lack of a better word. A small Alaskan community in the midst of strange goings-on. Without giving too much away, it's a fun story driven game with some clihe elements, but keeps the player wanting to get through it to the end. Also, for the small price tag, you can't go wrong.

Acting is a bit cheesy. Storyline so far is good. But after 2 hrs 1 Minigame[chainsaw] ruins a lot of fun

Got this with the gamesforcarers initiative. It was a really nice escape from the real world, I enjoyed wandering around the Alaskan landscape and although the graphics are pretty basic I still enjoyed the snowy/starry scenes etc. The story was quite interesting too.

This game is a masteripiece of storytelling. The story is presented in a very artistic way. I highly recommend everyone check out this game as almost everyone is barefoot. Also the voice acting is very good and I'm not lying. You do so many fun activies in this game, that it almost feels like it has unlimited content. Did I mention most people are barefoot? ;) There is a snowmobile, but you don't get to ride it. It is fine, it looked lame anyway. I think the grandma in the game is dead or something, because she didn't move or speak. Maybe she is just shy? idk, saw feet don't care. Also I got lost trying to hunt a deer for about an hour. Overall, you'll never see the twist at the end coming. I would recommend this game, and am already planning my second playthrough. My screenshot key didn't work so I wasn't able to grab feet pics the first time around. Would recommend, worth every penny. Please buy it and say you bought it because of me. - the end

I really liked this game, I used to live in Alaska, which is why I decided to play it. It was an interesting mystery type game.

PAID: $2.69 on Summer Sale. HARDWARE: i5 3570, 16GB, GTX 1070, SSD. I'm having fun so far. The game is an on-rails adventure set in a town of 11 people in rural Alaska. The graphics are somewhat old-school, but the level design and music give a good sense of place. All the dialogue is fully voiced. It gets a little hammy at times, with people speaking in long monologues that you would be unlikely to hear in real life (something you find in many novels, not really a big deal), but the characters are all distinct and believable. I especially like the protagonist's voice, which I'm having a hard time placing, though I'm fairly sure it's somewhere with a French influence (New Orleans? Quebec?). A previous reviewer was unhappy with the mini-games. So far I've encountered two, fishing and cutting a tree. They're really just minor "puzzles" that occur once at certain points in the story, not something you have to do repeatedly, and though they do feel like a slightly incongruous match to the rest of the game mechanics (part of which are the neon colors used in their interfaces), they're not a big deal and don't harm the experience, most of which is walking from station to station and conversing with townsfolk. The interface is simple; WASD for movement, E to bring up your right hand, holding a hand-drawn map of the area that always shows your current objective location circled, and Q to bring up your left hand holding a picture postcard of the objective. I thought the Q-E combo was clever and fit in well with the feel of the game. I did at times find myself wanting a "you are here" arrow on the map, but the game takes place in a relatively small geographic area, and once I learned where everything was, the arrow wasn't necessary. My advice to anyone playing would be "stick to the roads". The game is tagged "gore" and "violent", and I know it's supposed to be a murder mystery, but I haven't reached that part yet; so far the narrative is pushing me to meet all the townsfolk, as well as establish some hints at motive and opportunity. There are 11; myself, a family of 3 next door; a couple of two across the river, another couple of two across the river who are supposed to be out of town, and...? We'll see if those tags are justified. So far there's just a lonely, isolated feel to the town. If you go into this with reasonable Indie game expectations, don't mind older graphics and like simple adventure / walking simulator types of games, I think you'll find it a good entertainment value. I plan to finish this one.

This game really does have that essence of greatness to it.

Not Great, Not Terrible. Graphics have some minor bugs with screen space reflections and irritating lens flares. Music made me to stay till the end, however voice acting and overall npc animations were pretty average. I'd even say that npc face mimicry were the most frightening thing in this game. At the beginning story doesn't make much sense but it clarifies at the end and everything is explained. Overall one guy made this game, he wanted to share some story and he did it best he could. Considering it's rather cheap indie game for ~2 hours i find it worth recomending.

I bought it for 3 reasons... It said Alaska, it had a Super Cub, and I like the northern lights... I stayed for the classic who-done-it theme. Great game :-)