Crimson Ranch

So, I don't really know what to like about this game, but i definitely know what I don't like. The most dissapointing one is barriers. Wherever I go, I can't understand beforehand will I reach the obstacle, like invisible wall, or I can go freely. And this is not something I truly feel upset about, but there's some particular moment in this game - the very end, when I should go along my "Family" somewhere and I met the path, I went down the path and stucked, because my companions locked me in barriers around me, I couldn't somehow influe on situation due to Kaleb was not in my reach field, therefore I couldn't do something but close the game with some feeling like "сукин сын, я потратил последние 15 минут прохождения, чтобы в конце концов застрять в самом конце, и у меня нет никакого желания перепроходить с сохранения, ♥♥♥♥, ♥♥♥♥♥, ♥♥♥♥♥". Therefore now I don't know, when I will play it next time whether I will play it at all. Secondly, it is autosaves without ability to do it myself. I understand that I will blame myself if I do saving right in the moment monster will appear and kill me, but how about to creat save points, so people won't have to walk through 15 minutes of gameplay they already passed? Thirdly, some ways to pass through particular moments are unobvious. Like when I should perform ritual to deal with Sheep demon. I had run all the map as I thought and couldn't get what to do next, until I understood there's a path between the trees which usually you cant walk through as it's edge of the map. So there's to-do list: 1) make barriers a bit wider to not get stuck in them like i described it in the very end of the game; 2) make save points: something like object to save or a little room; 3) think again about how to make the procces of walking through the game more obvious.

So I hate doing reviews but I really liked the game I played another game by this developer called gurobu which I loved. I made a gameplay of this below if you wanna check it out. https://youtu.be/cqrhUDJ-qYE

附上全成就全结局实况视频一个： https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1zVZVY9EEP/

Length <1hr 20 Crimson Ranch is a Top Down 2D narrative game in which the player learns the story of a cursed book and those that interacted with it. While most of Crimson Ranch is narrative based, there are multiple puzzles within the game which makes the player plan out what they need to do to survive, with the items they have on hand. While at times I found some of the chase scenes annoying, they only took a few tries to get past. Crimson Ranch does have a lot of nice visuals and monstrous scenes created in a unique visual style and it was enjoyable seeing the horrifying moments. I found the story really confusing at first, as the game is shown through multiple different people’s perspectives to what is going on. With the quick changes and short story beats, I found that putting the story together became muddled. While as you get through the game it does become a lot clearer. I still can’t remember each character's early interactions that well. Overall Crimson Ranch was an Ok game, puzzles were interesting and did take a little thought. The problem was the story, the multiple quick changing character perspectives only confused me and dragged the game out, while at the end of the game I understood the base story of the game. I am still confused about the other character’s stories. The problem is the story was not engaging enough to make me want to play through it again, and I feel like I need to keep notes to remember what scenes I was watching. If you want to see some gameplay before buying my video is below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PEVZNUQe1w Looking for more horror games check out my curator page: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41770172/

The story was short, and very nice. Best I could expect from 2D graphics, all this dev's games have the same style. Sometimes it is hard to figure out what you're supposed to do, but nothing a bit of spamming the interact button can't fix. Lots and lots of dead animals. Very good game for three dollars.

I really loved the game and the graphics i did a full live game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiJp98nmMZU&t=1891s

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Good for what it is. The detailed art is inspiring and interesting. The game manages to capture suspense quite well, and the atmosphere is perfectly executed. Not very long but a greater length would have detracted from the experience, possibly pushing it into redundancy. Worth the price.

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The atmosphere is really effective, you feel claustrophobic even in the open areas, I was alert the whole time. The art and music (specially the music) highly complement the experience. I liked the puzzles too, nothing was unnecessarily complicated :) I got the characters mixed up all the time and I'll have to replay it to get the full story but that's on me.