Ceress and Orea

This hour long puzzle game has surprisingly gorgeous pixel graphics and an equally surprisingly level of story telling depth for the alotted time. Pick it up.

60 min. on the dot of puzzle solving with a soothing background music (most of the time). The story, while simple, is well written for a game of this length. May require a second run for all achievements but easy to get it on the first try if you're curious enough (like me).

I like this game! It's short and sweet as well as simple puzzle game about Ceress trying to leave an otherworldly cave to get back to Orea.

It's a cute minimal story in a cool minimal game. I love non-combat rpg-maker games.

Cute, pretty :).

It's a cute and short game. I bought it five years ago, just had time to actually play it. It's about a girl named Ceress coming back from death from to reunite with her lover Orea. I recommend it, it's just 2 dollars (at the time of me writing this) and at most one and a half hours anyway.

RPG Maker strikes again! "Ceress and Orea" is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction. In this case it does appear some of the assets are bespoke, but not many... the majority still seems to just be flipped assets from Kadokawa. As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the intention of RPG Maker is to make demos and small games to pass around friends, and shouldn't be used for "professional" game development. Like most RPG Maker shovelware and asset flips, the game features extremely low quality copy + pasted 2D retro pixel art, looks awful, and has even worse gameplay. RPG Maker is an absolutely terrible construction kit, and never results in games of any reasonable quality or value to gamers. Notably the developer here couldn't work out how to use RPG Maker to make an RPG... and that's the only thing RPG Maker can do properly... except it's not even very good for making RPGs. Instead, we have a painfully mediocre and cringey romance adventure game with a linear plot and a couple of lame puzzles, but is otherwise indistinguishable from every other RPG Maker asset flip infesting Steam. The game is very very short and can be finished in under an hour.. Developers have at least some responsibility to provide enough content to make a game last more than 2 hours if they're serious about providing something of value to gamers. There's less content here than some free game demos. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. To make matters worse, while lazy, low quality pixel "art" has been used, making the game look bad, many elements of the game aren't done with pixelcrap... which accomplishes a couple of things. First, it shows the developers perhaps could have done better and they knew it, so that's a major screwup. Secondly, it destroys any hopes the developer had of creating a "retro aesthetic" as their excuse for the lazy pixelart compromise... It looks completely inauthentic from a retro gaming perspective. Visually, this is a hamfisted mess, a dogs breakfast of bad visuals, and this kind of laziness and poor quality should never be foisted on gamers. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 4 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam? "Ceress and Orea" is relatively cheap at $2 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. Gamers who want a good retro JRPG experience would be better off playing the originals, like Final Fantasy, Star Ocean or Chrono Trigger. This is also competing with over 14,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.

Depois de dar final, hora da análise. Não esperem nenhuma super produção só por conta dos muitos positivos, embora o jogo realmente seja OK. Em breve resumo, o jogo conta a história de um romance entre duas garotas, sendo que uma delas é jogada de um precipício e, para retornar para sua amada, deverá provar seu valor aos espíritos. Parece épico, mas na verdade não passa de um jogo com gráficos de RPG Maker contando uma história acompanhada por alguns quebra cabeças para crianças de 4 anos. Seguem os pontos positivos e negativos: + História comovente; + Boa CG (imagens para a história); + Boa música; + Bom uso de efeitos sonoros para ambientação; + Exploração recompensada; + Bom custo benefício na promoção; - Bem curto (dará final em 1h); - Puzzles simples demais; - O que é aquela gosma verde afinal??? - [strike]Estimula a violência injustificada contra espíritos do fogo totalmente pacíficos[/strike] Seja pelo custo benefício, pelas CGs bonitas e pela história fofa, eu diria que RECOMENDO o jogo.

Ceress and Orea is the story of a woman condemned to death for forbidden love with Orea and journeys through the underworld to prove to the gods her death was unjust and love is true. The backstory is pieced together as Caress makes her way through. The game has some issues beyond the narrative itself; such as no mouse support, no steam feature support (though achievements do pop, you won't be notified), no settings; there is a clear lack of effort on the usability side of things. It's only $2 and why I'm recommending the game; anything more and there just isn't enough value here as the narrative is quite short. Most of the story is told in flashbacks that consist of about a minute worth of dialog. But what's there is enjoyable enough, just don't expect anything more than an hour worth of content, with some of that time spent struggling how to go to full screen mode or take a screenshot.

Good game (use achievement guide to see all the cool stuff first time) (wish the game was more well known to see a gameplay of it)