
Taking the form of a first-person experience of a bad trip, Californium pays homage to sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick by transporting you into the life of a writer searching for his own identity. Explore, solve the riddles and conduct your investigation. Will you find what’s behind the simulacra ?
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Languages: English*, French*, German**languages with full audio support
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
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overall alright.
Красивая ли игра? - Безусловно. Интересный ли в игре сюжет? - Можно сказать и так. Можно ли назвать геймплей веселым? - С натяжкой совы на глобус. Баги? - Сломанное достижение и игра может сделать вам софтлок в любой главе. Я так на финале третьей застрял. Ощущения незабываемые.
Two times in the span of an hour I paused the game and accidentally restarted the level when I wanted to just unpause. So that's enough of that game, lol.
This game was a pain to get through. The gameplay was abysmal and repetitive and the story was just barely enough to keep me going. I felt like it was a waste of two hours. I honestly feel like I would have had a better experience just looking at the screenshots and imagining the game for myself.
Californium is a good adventure game with a great story, a weird ambiant and some colored deisigns. For his low price, I recommend it!!! ❤️
My impression of this game is quite mixed. Game's description is far more alluring than the actual game. Basically it's just a spacial puzzle with a bit of background story. At times it's hard to figure out what the game wants from you, but once you get the hang of looking for those glitches, it becomes quite easy. Chaos chapter was very cool. Graphics and music are quite pleasant. Overall experience is a somewhat boring and heavy. But so are bad trips. I might have gotten an actual vertigo from playing this. Still I'm going to choose "recommend" because authors obviously put their soul into this project, and I like weird. But it's definitely not for everyone. Don't believe the description. Do not expect anything dynamic. Do look into a guide when it gets too boring.
很迷幻的体验,英文苦手有点可惜,尽量在理解了( 最好不要一次打完,眼睛有点遭罪_(:з)∠)_
This is a "yes" with a LOT of asterisks next to it... It would be 100% recommend if it were given an update and some love after launch. To start with the good: - I enjoyed exploring the game, and unravelling the story. - Cool take on a hidden object/walking sim game - Quite satisfying to solve the puzzles - Philip K ♥♥♥♥ references all over the shop! :) - Such a brilliant unique art style and premise! I really did sit going "how the heck did they do that" at times. - The world created, and seeing it through the lenses of each reality absolutely nailed the PKD science fiction approach, it was awesome seeing it in an exploreable environment. - I'm thrilled this game exists and couldn't put it down. And now for the less good things that could definitely have been fixed: - Made my relatively beefy PC struggle with frame rate and cranked my fans up to full... for reference, I can play GTA V at 60fps without an issue. - I needed a guide to do some hidden object puzzles, as quite a few were things I had found, but I just couldn't get the icon to appear without vanishing when I turned to click on it. I was using the guide as a "yes, you did find it, try standing in this really specific spot and looking at this angle" (sometimes this still didn't work and I'd end up doing weird things to make it work or reloading the level) - Needed to reload at a really climactic part of the game because the thing used to progress the level.... didn't actually appear until I reloaded. Kind of took me out the game a bit having to look that one up. - One of the achievements is flat-out broken (talk to all NPCs) - people tend to edit their save files to get this achievement. - You slide down stairs when standing stationary on them (I'd imagine this is quite an easy thing to fix depending on how movement is handled) So... all in all... I paid £0.67 for a really fun evening! Sure I have some hang-ups about how nice a patch would have been to resolve the things that irked me, but... even at £6.00 I'd have not felt cheated. I had a blast. :) Admittedly I'm a massive Philip K ♥♥♥♥ fan, and love his books, but I'll be coming back to this more than once I think. :) You can see the conflict I have, as technically no probably not a great experience for people... but I had a ball. :)
I liked it. Sort of a surreal, unique puzzle-esque game, that feels like a mix between Stanley Parable and Paradise Killer. Doesn't overstay its welcome - single play through was 3 hours for me, I got this on sale but wouldn't mind paying full price for it
DNF I just didn't love it. It felt repetitive and the story wasn't keeping me hooked.
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