Darkway: Murder of King Mere

Pretty cool little game, reminds me of A Short Hike but in the mystery/detective genre. The voice acting is pretty funny. I really like the graphics style and the menu art. The menus are hard to interact with because Esc doesn't exit them by default.

I THOROUGHLY ENJOYED THIS GAME (found on insta btw!) however i have some notes: - game felt short, finished in under 3 hrs - some areas (especially the wall around edgarallen crow) need terrain / collision fixes - voice acting needs a revamp, i think its super fun and sweet that your friends helped you with the va but the audio is so inconsistent w big volume changes and some audio clipping. also some of those accents might wanna be revisited - another big issue was that failed convictions didn't tend to have lasting repercussions, nothing seemed to change about how those characters or ones they had close bonds with interacted. feels like there needs to be more of a punishment system for stuff like that as far as some things i'd love to see as a player and now fan of this game: - fix for short playtime; i would LOVE to explore more of the world please please please add new levels that investigate mysteries in different parts of the empyre. that map is so extensive and there is so much cool stuff you could do (and maybe even add some sidequests bringing along cato!) - would enjoy a combat system for that end fight, maybe quicktime event style could work. the choice system is a little underwhelming - also i feel as though the pry ability is too much of a "give me the answer button" you can circumvent any downsides of prying by simply doing all the quests first, whereas if you added something like the aforementioned quicktime event system, some characters could outright attack you for prying too hard (regardless of favor) again really loved this game and i'm excited to see more, will be playing for each update :)

Genuinely an amazing game. It might not be the best in terms of visual or audio quality, but it feels nostalgic in a way and the story overshadows all the problems that the game might have.

It's good, movement is a little meh but the game itself was fun

Amazing game, worked great on the steamdeck as soon as I changed the launch options. The story is great, the characters are interesting and I loved the pixel artstyle of the world. The quests were entertaining but never complicated enough that I had to look for a guide, which is a huge plus in a detective game