
A slow-burning, psychological horror walking sim set in a haunted Japanese neighborhood.
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Blue Maiden is a slow-paced walking simulator that focuses on atmosphere, exploration, and puzzle-solving. It is not an action-heavy horror game and does not feature combat or fast-paced gameplay. If you're looking for adrenaline-fueled horror, this may not be the experience for you.
Blue Maiden is a Japanese first-person psychological horror game where the terror creeps in slowly and subtly. As Tachi Tachibana, a recent university graduate, you return to your childhood neighborhood to help with the family business—only to find the streets eerily empty and the air thick with dread.
You’ve been haunted by the same nightmare over and over: a mysterious girl standing silently beneath a cherry tree. But when the dreams start blending into your waking life, you realize that something is terribly wrong. Step into the heart of a decaying town and uncover the truth behind the legend of the Blue Maiden.
Atmospheric Exploration:
Take your time to explore eerie, traditional Japanese locations brought to life with atmospheric visuals and immersive sound design.
Psychological Horror:
The game builds dread through story and setting, featuring light jumpscares and disturbing imagery designed to unnerve rather than shock.
Environmental Storytelling:
Search for clues, solve environmental puzzles, and piece together the mystery of the Blue Maiden through subtle narrative details.
Multiple Endings:
A complete playthrough takes about 1 hour, with roughly 30 minutes of extra content available for players who seek out all 3 endings.
Authentic Japanese Setting:
Inspired by classic Japanese horror, Blue Maiden blends folklore, melancholy, and mystery into a uniquely haunting experience.
Step quietly. Look closely. Not everything wants to be found.
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Pretty short and generic psychological horror game. It uses every trick in the book to scare you, at least you're not getting chased by anybody and there aren't many places to get lost, though there is quite a bit of going back and forth. It has 3 endings, none of which are hard to get, and hidden rooms - luckily, in case you missed some of them you don't have to restart the game from the beginning as there are plenty of auto-saves in important parts + chapter select. I'm giving this game a solid 5/10, barely squeezing in for a positive review. If you want a horror game with easy achievements that can be beaten in one sitting, it's not too bad.
Простенькая и короткая ходилка-игра в жанре ужастиков с уклоном на японские городские легенды, имеющая две концовки. После прохождения стандартной концовки можно продолжить игру, она сохранилась прям на развилке, ввести код из руководств и посмотреть вторую концовку. Всё незатейливо и просто, без излишних усложнений, которые иногда только вредят. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3360987008
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Languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Latin America, Portuguese - Brazil, Turkish, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian
Hours played at review time, across 41 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Всеми руками против. Это игра с невзрачным дизайном уровней и очень и очень тупыми джампскейрами. Атмосфера и напряжение в игре отсутствуют. Игроку предстоит ходить по тёмным коридорам, на которых дополнительные источники света или фонарик совсем не выручают. Сюжет. Я его понял, но как-то всё смазано получилось. Задачи. В основном про поиск ключей ради других ключей. Буквально, найдя ключ, открываем дверь, а там другой ключ... Загадки. Для решения загадок долго и далеко бегать не придётся, ответы практически будут на противоположной стене. Это дичайшее инди до мозга костей, неприглядное, с унылыми загадками и вероятнее всего, сделанное детьми для детей. Смело проходите мимо. -Немного визуализации- Так выглядят записки. Если вы куда-то торопитесь, то можете сначала подумать - это что угодно, но не записка. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3520857169 Моделька местной пугальщицы - это манекен в одежде и с волосами. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3520857072 О пользе фонарика - он включен кстати. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3520856980
AI art everywhere .. story feels nonsensical and the font makes it hard to take seriously.
逃げるなど、脱出ゲーム、アクションゲーム要素はなく、ゲームが苦手な人でも楽しめる。謎解きやパズル類は私は苦手な方だがこのゲームのパズル類は簡単だった。 エンド分岐や実績解除などやり込み要素もあり価格は妥当かちょっと高めくらいかな(私は半額セールで買ったので値段は満足)。 アクションホラーゲームを求める人には物足りないかも。 あと一部の翻訳は日本語として読みにくい箇所があった。読み物はちゃんと日本語になるが、外観が明らかに白紙だったり絵だったり中国語のテクスチャだったりしていた。 他の日本人レビュワーが批判しているがそこまでひどくはなかった。現代の街としては普通だし、江戸時代と昭和の居酒屋を混ぜ合わせた街もでてくるが「日本の風景に近いようでかなり遠い感じの街」と酷評するほど日本として違和感があるわけではない。 「パスワードやアイテムを探して同じ道を往復する場面が結構あり、イベントの密度が薄くなってしまっているのは問題かもしれない。」という批判に関してはゲームというのはそういうモノ。そもそもこのゲームは攻略方法知ってたら一往復で完結する。ウォーキングシミュレーターとして考えてもこれよりもっとぐるぐる回るゲームは普通にある。これ嫌ならゲーム向いてないと思う。ただし序盤の第1章はとっつきにくかった。親切にもアイテム一覧にやることリストがあったが何をすれば良いのか全体的に分かりづらかった。特に赤いカードだけ目印がなくどの建物にかざせばよいかわからずYouTubeで攻略動画を見た。 「ASMRが耳が気持ち悪くて辛かった。」については確かにおっさんのASMRはでてくるがこれに関してもホラーなのだから気持ち悪さは当たり前だと思う。
Typical smaller psychological horror game with the same old overused cliche puzzles and scares. Not my cup of tea.
Un titulo corto y sencillo, tiene su toque de terror Japones que llega a darte tus sustos de vez en cuando jsjs Le podrías dar una oportunidad, la trama es buena y tiene varias cosillas interesantes a lo largo de los capítulos que están geniales, aparte es posible sacarle todos sus logritos al volver a cargar x capitulo.
日本的小女鬼腿真白 哈哈哈!不吓人 只是内心恐惧罢了!
It's going to hurt for me to give it a thumbs down but the game is just kind of silly. Don't get me wrong, the game is surprisingly a whole lot more polished than most other indie horror games you can find on Steam, it's well-crafted and doesn't have bugs or glitches-- at least in my own playthrough. It wasn't infuriating to play nor does it overstay its welcome, but a lot of the game just has a lot of design choices that just makes you think it's one silly game. It's not a big part of the game, but it kind of ruins the immersion a little bit when you just see anime posters plastered around, it's a little goofy-- but charming in a way that I feel this game is best taken lightly to just goof around in it. Then you see like blank sheets of papers that are apparently readable letters, then you see a paper that is quite literally just a map-- but no, that's also a readable paper. Oh look here, a paper full of Chinese writing but, oh, none of what it says in Chinese is what it says on the readable letter. The font, while I do understand why: Blusagi Team is the name of the Developer, I just think it's a little silly for a game that's supposedly horror. A lot of the game's pacing is back and forth slow walking for the sake of cheap jumpscares that can get a little annoying. The plot of the game feels like it takes a lot of inspiration from Fatal Frame Maiden of Blackwater, but that's mostly speculation with the concept it tries to go with. The rain filter can get a little annoying and just makes it hard to see anything, especially when during the moments you'd need a flashlight, you don't have one but during a time you don't need it whatsoever, they give you one. The letters scattered around the map for lore does indeed serve a purpose for its world-building, but a lot of it can already be speculated and understood from the start and many of the ones you find later one are nothing more than just confirming what you pretty much know or repeating some parts of the world they're building it making it pretty obsolete. I do admit that the game has had some few good scares that made me jump and uneasy at some point, but overall it just comes off as a really funny, silly game. I would say that this game is lovely and charming in a way that it's so goofy and ridiculous, but I do believe in a horror aspect especially its quality/immersion-- if you're actually looking for a good horror game, this may not be it.
Tremendo juego es cortito como mi pij4, El verdadero terror es que no te puedas coger a la chica de blanco esta bien rika la condenada, como le haría un buen brbrbr en sus enormes Tetorr4s
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