Dum-Dum

[h1]Yes[/h1]I recommend it. Had a few good laughs and enjoyed playing. It's one of those niche games that I'm glad was made and glad I got to play.

昔のOSを操作する変わったゲーム（？） 1985年に発売されたOSらしい 「昔のパソコンってこんなだったんだな」という感慨に浸りながら しょうもないゲームをやってるだけでなんか時間が潰せてしまう でも、低解像度で潰れた不気味な女性の顔で 機械的に同じ質問を繰り返す「DUM-DUM」というゲームが怖い 突然意志を持って話しかけて来たらどうしよう…？ ▼何をするゲームかよくわからなかったら…[spoiler] 古いOSを探索するアドベンチャーゲーム OS内を探索することで思わぬ陰謀への手がかりが見つかることに… ▼もしゲームがまったく進まなかったら… [/spoiler][spoiler] ゲーム内テキストをとにかく漁って見る 英語の長文が苦手でも、”ヒントだけはわかりやすく”書いてある ▼それでも手がかりが見つからず、謎解きに詰まってしまったら… [/spoiler][spoiler] ゲーム起動時にDeleteキー長押しでBIOS画面が開ける このBIOSのヒント画面に、やるべきことが具体的に記述されている ▼たとえばこの場合 [/spoiler][spoiler] ・　README（更新履歴）を読むと、不具合報告が確認できる ・　この不具合報告に従って 　→「DUM-DUM」内の女性の質問に対して、同じ回答を5回繰り返す [/spoiler] 英語の会話シーンがメインで、基本何を話してるのかさっぱり 海外のゲームではあるけど、自分みたいなプレイヤーを想定してか 行き届いた配慮が要所要所で伝わって来た ・　英語の長文が苦手でも、重要な所だけは簡潔に記述してある ・　演出のおかげで、設定もわかりやすく伝わってくる ・　ヒントがほぼ答えというレベルで具体的なので、行き詰まる心配がない ・　そのヒント確認作業そのものが、演出の一環となっているのが凄い 英語が苦手でもキーワードを聞き取るだけでも 雰囲気や演出で伝わってくるので最後まで安心して楽しめた 「OSを探索するアドベンチャーゲーム」と言う発想からワクワクするけど その期待を裏切らず、OS内の様々な要素が伏線となっていて 最後まで「そう来るか」「まさかこれがここで！？」の連続だった 奇ゲーの類と思ってたけど、遊んで見て本当に丁寧に作り込まれているのがわかった BIOS画面や昔のパソコンのUIにロマンを感じる人にはほぼ100％刺さるゲーム ただ…ストーリーを深く理解するには英語の聞き取り力が必要で もし、日本語版もとい、吹き替え版（字幕版）があったら絶対に面白いだろうなと思った

Turns out I'm stupid enough to play this one. I hope you are too :)

the spider bot vent section increased my attention span by a large margin 10/10

The novelty of a fake browser game is that you're using a computer to use a computer (imagine that!) which helps offers a deep level of immersion... now that I'm thinking about it, maybe the deepest level of immersion a game can offer. Other games use the computer as proxy for an experience you cannot actually have but in a browser game, there are no character models or mechanics between you and the experience. Your mouse is the player's mouse, your actions are their actions, your body BECOMES their body. And in Dum-Dum, you become an idiot. That's really the root of the fun of the game, stepping into the role of this hapless "dum-dum" who's wandered into a game between geniuses and has to stumble their way through it with pluck and a bit of creativity. It's a really charming setup that they have a lot of fun with, and it adds some nice flavor to the standard "hacker" game play. The puzzles revolve around creative usage of the programs that are available to you and in my opinion they were all pretty intuitive- there is a built in hint system but I only had to reference it a few times, mostly just to get pointed in the right direction of an objective I'd already figured out. The game asked me to think like an idiot, but never made me feel like one. In fact, I wish that they had taken the gimmick of using "dumb" solutions to problems further. Like the opening gag of it is really funny but halfway through the game it starts to feel like you're being gaslit when the game keeps telling you how wAcKy you are for basically just using the programs as they are intended, and since everything is pre-scripted there isn't a ton of room for the player to really feel like they're expressing their creativity in the problem solving. Fortunately, the straightforwardness of the gameplay puzzles is balanced out by the incredible depth of the fake OS system as a whole, which is jam packed with content and does a great job of rewarding exploration and careful observation. I found all sorts of side quests and hidden pages and programs by digging around and I ended the game with a bunch of achievements still locked so there's probably more out there to find if I feel like spending a bit more time on the game. This attention to detail extended to the story as well, a quirky cyber-espionage narrative about unraveling the secrets of a mYsTeRiOuS tech company that was way more fleshed out than I expected. I can't say I was ever too surprised by the game, but that didn't mean I wasn't invested, and I actually kinda devoured the whole thing over the course of a few days because I was having such a good time with it. There are some frustrating quirks that I think could have been ironed out (only being allowed three windows at once is pretty frustrating when the file launcher counts as one) but overall it handled very smoothly and I never ran into any bugs. If anything, my biggest complaint is that apparently there was a limited Halloween episode that doesn't seem to be accessible anymore? I guess the devs have moved on but it seems weird that they would make that and not leave it up. But yeah! To quote the game: 👍❤️😀⭐

I haven't been playing this game for long and I already love it! every puzzle is so cool and unique and theres also a crap ton of extra content along with the fact that 'hogo CEO science #1' was really fun to read when you have an interest in divine machinery (which if you dont know is the personification of machinery/computers)

HOGO OS >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Windows

Exactly the kind of game I was hoping it would be.

A little repetitive with its puzzles, but genuinely laugh out loud funny at times!

A neat lil simulation of clunky, old-school operating systems mixed with a mostly fun puzzle game. A few puzzles felt weirdly directionless and vague, and some others went on for way way too long, but there's a built-in hint system so I can't knock it too hard. Story was good enough to keep me engaged, but most of my fun came from poking around the OS and trying the (surprisingly fun!) minigames. Honestly the worst part about the game is that it's too easy to compare it to Hypnospace Outlaw, which tells a story with so much more heart and empathy that it's not even funny. But this is still worth a shot if you enjoyed that game, or if you just want to try out something kooky and interesting for a little while!