Beer Machine

short, sad game. i hope this wasn't biographical

W dad tbh

Slušná 30ti minutová jednohubka. Na to že to je free to play tak jsem byl spokojen. Low res grafika dokázala vyvolat pocit úzkosti a svůj účel splnila. Jen tak dál :)))

EDIT: leaving og review up for posterity as i think it actually shows the game in an even better light. so everything i said still stands as in its cool, atmospheric, more sad than scary but in a good way, etc. but i take back my nitpick (if you can call it that, it was more like me thinking aloud) that it didnt have as much to say as i thought it could, because i keep thinking about it and there's little things in the game im remembering and noticing that elevate it and show the devs were thoughtfully pacing and structuring this. im not saying its citizen kane or that that was the dev's intent lol i just want to give credit where its due cause its hard to do that in anything, even harder in a game. so hey grats to the devs on making me feel stupid and rethinking my take! in a good way! --- More sad than scary, but still pretty dang atmospheric and creepy at times. I feel like it ends just as it might start saying something interesting but being free, showing care and craft, it's still a recommend for indie horror fans. Excited to see what the devs do next.

[i]Beer Machine[/i] isn't anything that will blow your mind - it's a very short free horror game, after all (and even then it's not very scary) - but for what seems like is this dev's first game, it's not bad at all. It does a pretty good job at portraying what it sets out to, and at one point I was genuinely worried for the unnamed child protagonist in a way that I haven't been in a while. There isn't much gameplay here, you're mostly going to be walking around this hellhole trailer getting beers for your father, or walking around the uh, hell-erhole trailer park doing the same, but there's some touches that actually surprised me, namely a segment where you get to draw a picture with ingame tools that felt pretty good to use. Little things like this are kind of nice to see, and break up the relatively simplistic game fairly well. In-between each beer-fetching segment, there's a couple dream sequences here and there with some pretty funny Youtube Poop-esque mascot horror cartoons the kid watches, and flashbacks to their life before they were living alone with their dad, as well as chase sequences with one of the characters from that cartoon. This is kind of to mixed effect, and the game is at its best when dealing with the story of the kid, his dad, and their situation. Ironically for a horror game, the few sequences where a guy chases you are by far the weakest and least scary part of the game, with much of the real fear coming from the sad situation the protagonist's in. The cartoon bear(?) guy that runs after you is, in comparison, chopped liver. I don't think this really brings it down though, and they're kind of funny sometimes, much like the dark comedy cartoon itself. The game in general can be pretty funny, if unintentionally at points. The voice acting in particular is obviously amateur, but in a very charming way. This is no masterpiece, but if you like quick little horror walking sims, it's simple, effective, and free. What else can you ask for?

Game was funny until I got softlocked and quit to menu. Turns out you have to beat it all in one go and because of how tedious what I had already played through had been I just uninstalled it.