Desktop Explorer

This game was great. Challenging puzzles, but I only got really hardstuck on a puzzle a couple times, I was generally able to get a hint when I needed. Really immersive and fun experience. Please consider adding some content warnings at the start of the actual game itself; I 100% did not notice the ones in the store page and was unpleasantly surprised a couple times.

Um incrível jogo de investigação e puzzle, e a vibe "pc antigo" é 10/10

This is one of those games where the less you know going in, the better. I'll try to help you determine if the game is for you with minimal description of the content. The game has a length, variety of content, and consistent level of polish that is well worth the price tag compared to other games in the genre. There are some natural "chapter breaks" that make it easy to pace the game across multiple sessions. Desktop Explorer has great puzzles. The game consistently gives you fresh tools and challenges that build on each other as the game progresses. The difficulty increases at a fair pace and you are rewarded for being observant and making predictions. There are multiple puzzles that you could figure out early with partial information and clever inferences (which feels SO rewarding), or you can keep searching for clues for an easier solve. This game has a great built-in hint system. It is consistently available and it does a great job of giving a tiny, cryptic nudge in the right direction without giving the solution away. There isn't a single unfair low quality puzzle in the game that 'requires' an external walkthrough, like in many similar games. Desktop Explorer has a rich story. Some details are explicitly told and are required for solving puzzles, but there's much more story to be inferred through tone, context clues, comparing sources, and laying out timelines. The writers put a lot of detail into the storytelling. You'll be rewarded the more you pay attention, but many details aren't required for completion. If you've played other games in this "indie detective/puzzle/horror" genre, you probably have a good idea of how you expect the plot to go. I was pleasantly surprised at multiple points that the game subverted my expectations. Enjoyment of Desktop Explorer does not rely on a shallow 'twist' that the computer program is possessed or made by the devil or something. There's a deep story that has well written characters and something heartfelt to say about a strong theme. The soundtrack and art have a lot of polish. The atmosphere of the desktop is great. Check out the content warnings on the steam page if you need to. All in all, Desktop Explorer was a great experience that I highly recommend and look forward to reinstalling and revisiting in a few years.

Puzzle solutions that are not obvious even with hints and an answer that has no connection to the actual puzzle, solutions that are not made obvious is terrible game design. Was good up until the Anubis crocodile head room and then there is no connection for the right password to progress anywhere. Even the image giving the hint didn't even make sense. Literally 40 minutes into the game on top of completing the demo. 0/10 game, devs need to not have their heads up their own butts when making a puzzle game. Refunded.

完结的太仓促了，以及我觉得中间nextroom的部分体验不是很好。

很喜欢

很有创意的游戏，真的很不错