Charon's Staircase

The fact that unless you know spanish you are going to miss a large portion of the story is a dealbreaker for me, selling this as an english localized game is just trying to trick people into buying it and hoping they take enough time to get to the point where the translation stops that they can no longer get a refund.

Enjoyed this well enough, but it has a lot of problems. The story is engaging, and an interesting enough mystery to make me want to reach the end. The environments, atmosphere, sound design, are all good. Some of the puzzles are very fun. Most notably, the game's filled with additional notes and newspapers and pictures, that don't contribute to the story or gameplay directly, but always flesh out the world a little bit more each, or tell a little bit of extra background of the area you're in or the people who were there, which I genuinely really liked and actively searched for. The game also (for me at least) played completely bug-free. However: -On a functional level, right off the bat the game is extremely dark, with no brightness setting, to the point that environmental details were being swallowed up. In some of the areas that's fine for atmosphere, but in others it didn't feel like "horror game" darkness, it just felt like I was having to squint and stumble around just to see what's going on. I even at some points just had to walk into dark parts of the area just to see if I hit a wall or not. Multiple of those notes and papers that I so liked to read I almost missed (and probably did miss plenty) because they were put in places out in the open where I could look straight at them and barely make them out, without straining my eyes. -If you're looking for a more in-depth puzzle horror, this isn't it. It's more of an exploration story game with a few puzzle elements. The puzzles that they do have are satisfying, even if they're straightforward. Most of them are in the mansion chapter, while the rest are more just "observe and look for objects", where you'll walk into various rooms to learn a bit of the story, find an item, and then continue on to the next room where you'll read a note telling you the next piece. -For the most part, the game is very linear, clearly laying out where you should walk next and what the various items are for. Sometimes it even guides you to the next path or room with a jumpscare or sound effect, or displaying the needed external information next to the actual puzzle itself. This works well enough as a story/exploration game, but is a little disappointing if you want a puzzle game. Especially as the mansion built my hopes up for the puzzles to continue, I don't regret buying or playing it, and I can *almost* recommend it. Seeing as how this os only their second release, based on this experience I'll still keep an eye out for what the devs make next.

Symulator chodzenia z ogromną ilością czytania, szkoda że połowa gry jest wgl nie przetłumaczona... Nie straszne, nudne, wtórne, nie polecam.

[h1] Genre [/h1] Ein Story Driven First Person Psycho Horror Adventure [h1] Story [/h1] Wir spielen einen Detektiv namens Desmond und sollen aus 3 verlassenen Gebäuden, Geheime Dokumente sicherstellen um herauszufinden was dort damals vorgefallen ist. Die Gebäude sehen teilweise allerdings noch bewohnbar aus. Stellt sich die Frage, sind wir wirklich alleine hier, oder treibt sich noch jemand hier herum? [h1] Gameplay [/h1] Das Spiel ist eher ein Story Driven Adventure bzw. Walking Sim mit ein paar Jumpscares. Es gibt zwar eine sehr kurze Verfolgungsszene aber ansonsten ist alles eher Harmlos. Wir laufen durch die verschiedenen Gebäude und Umgebungen und lösen ein paar Rätsel und lesen verschiedene Dokumente. Einige der Rätsel sind recht einfach und andere etwas komplexer aber nichts wirklich schwieriges. Die Atmosphäre ist dabei wirklich super gelungen. Das Spiel bietet Deutsches Voice Acting aber ich fand den Sprecher nicht so gut wie den Englischen Sprecher und habe deshalb diesen bevorzugt. An einem Ort im Spiel, wurden Dokumente nicht Übersetzt und sind nur auf Spanisch [h1] Achievement Schwierigkeit 2/10 [/h1] Es gibt insgesamt 20 Erfolge. Die meisten sind Story basierend und somit nicht verpassbar. Für die anderen muss man insgesamt 12 Bilder einsammeln und mit bestimmten Gegenständen im Spiel interagieren. Hat man mal was verpasst, ist es nicht schlimm, weil man Level wiederholen kann via Level Auswahl im Hauptmenü [h1] Pro/Contra [/h1] + Gute Story + Gute Atmosphäre + Gute Soundeffekte + Gutes Voice Acting (jedenfalls der Englische Sprecher ist gut) + Nette Rätsel + Achievements - An einem bestimmten Ort im Spiel wurden einige Dokumente die man finden kann, nicht übersetzt und sind nur auf Spanisch [h1] Fazit [/h1] Ein gut gelungenes Story Driven First Person Adventure mit Fokus auf Rätsel und düsterer Atmosphäre. Es gibt einige Nette Jumpscares und die Rätsel machen Spaß. Wer gerne solche Art Spiele spielt, wird dieses hier definitiv mögen. Ich würde aber eher im Sale zuschlagen weil das Spiel nicht sehr Lang ist und der Grundpreis dafür schon etwas Hoch ist 👑 Powered by HoI 4 Deu Curators group in German / English 👑⠀⠀⠀[list][*][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/30388691/] Follow Main group [/url][*] [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40282064/] Follow Second group [/url][*] [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44688798/] Follow third group [/url][/list]

✅ Моя оценка: ✭ ✭ ✭ ☆ ☆ [hr][/hr] В общем и целом потраченного времени мне не жаль. Но это не шедевр. [i]По скидке, на пару часов, пойдёт.[/i] ★★★☆☆ - Графика; ★★☆☆☆ - Анимация; ★★★☆☆ - Фоновая музыка ([strike]3,5[/strike]); ★★☆☆☆ - Сюжет; ★☆☆☆☆ - Головоломки; ★☆☆☆☆ - Детективная часть; ★★☆☆☆ - Хоррор.

My recommendation is with some pretty big caveats: this game has some serious problems (detailed in cons below). While I didn't encounter anything game-breaking, some parts were seriously frustrating. However, I still overall enjoyed the game and I'm pretty floored that it was created in large part by just two people - what an achievement! Based on other reviews, it also seems that they have taken some (though not all) feedback and made some fixes, which is great to see. [b]Pros:[/b] - Decent quality, highly atmospheric graphics that convey a unique atmosphere - Overall excellent sound design, with great music and scary sound effects - English voice acting is great - Though parts of the story are predictable and overdone (really got some Insomnis vibes!), there are some interesting twists and it holds your attention throughout - the ending is particularly strong - Cool and artistic cutscene presentation (although there's only 2) - Puzzles are mostly fair - Mysterious atmosphere is maintained throughout - horror parts are short, but very effective [b]Cons:[/b] - A chunk of the game (the flashlight part and the library/lab) is in untranslated Spanish - fortunately you can hold up your phone and use Google Translate, but this is a pretty giant detraction - I couldn't change graphics settings because the menu stretched off the screen no matter what I did and I couldn't see the 'confirm' button - I couldn't exit the character gallery (twice) and had to force quit the game - Some of the puzzles have seemingly random solutions - I knew the numbers to get outside, but no idea why they were in that order - Even many parts that are fully in English have a stilted translation - Some of the sound effects aren't well-localized, making it hard to tell where threats are - Lack of Playstation controller support is annoying - The end part with some time pressure is quite frustrating - I don't know how someone could possibly do it in one go without cheating - Some of the areas are too dark (hospital) - The gore in one area is just too overdone for my taste - Quite short with limited replay value As you can see, I wasn't kidding that there are a lot of serious flaws in the game. But for fans of the genre who are willing to look past them and pull up Google Translate (or better, if you're fluent in Spanish), it's a good time, and again, so impressive for a two person development team. I recommend this game to fans of intriguing mystery/horror... but you should probably wait for a discount.

The quality control had been skipped for this game. Tremendous amount of bugs, the game can't even scale properly (in case I had to play in Windowed mode). The atmosphere is there but its all so 'budget' looking. Why did they even bother with UE4? Its more like the 1st wave of Xbox360 games...

Всю крайне примитивно и заштамповано - игра как малобюджетный фильм ужасов, снятый на коленке на сдачу от походов в бургерную. Пытаются пугать, но не страшно, выглядит нелепо. Абсолютно любой аспект игры вызывает досадное недоумение. Запрашиваемых денег не ст0ит точно. А ведь у этих ребят еще и артбук имеется на продажу - с самомнением там все в порядке. ... вот игра под музыкальный контрапункт мне торжественно сообщает, что первая часть искомых документов найдена - почему бы не сохранить ее в это момент раз уж у вас автосохранения? Ну, это же было бы логично и уместно. ОК, я нашел документы, взял из сейфа ключ от входной двери и... дальше ничего: выйти не дают, что делать дальше не сообщают. Так мне выходить или что? Вернусь в игру- снова придется сбегать за ключом и снова сообщат о выполненном этапе - это чё вообще?

Kleines Horror Game mit nicht allzu heftigen Jumpscares. Grafik ist okay, aber leider ist die deutsche Synchro grauenhaft. Der Sprecher klang sehr amateurhaft, wobei man dem Spiel schon anrechnen muss, überhaupt eine deutsche Synchro zu haben. Allerdings ist die im Laufe des Spiels fehlerhaft und ich hatte sehr viele Briefe nur auf spanisch und konnte somit die Story nicht in vollem Umfang genießen. Obwohl alles in den Einstellungen korrekt eingestellt war. Die Rätsel variieren zischen leicht und schon heftig. Gerade in der Endsequenz kommt dann noch Zeitdruck dazu. Alles in allem würde ich eine 4 von 10 geben. Kann man sich bei einem Sale für ein Schnäppchen mal mitnehmen, aber den Vollpreis ist es nicht wert.

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