
Try this year’s must-play indie smash-hit for free, with Evergate Ki’s Awakening. Take on seven unique levels in this haunting precision puzzle-platformer, set in a stunning hand-drawn vision of the Afterlife, with an original score recorded by a live orchestra.
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Try this year’s indie smash hit for free, with Evergate Ki’s Awakening

When a lost soul named "Ki" awakens in the afterlife, her path back to earth is blocked by the ‘Evergate’. To return home, Ki must decipher her mysterious connection to kindred spirit as she navigates through memories of a time once past.

Complete each level by reaching the end gate. Analyse the environment, plan your route, and use the mysterious crystals to your advantage.

Precisely align your Soulflame between crystals and a white surface. Fire a beam of energy and watch as you smash through, releasing powerful energies that will aid your pursuit of the end gate.

Each type of crystal scattered throughout each memory holds their own unique power. Experiment with them and discover new ways to reach the unreachable and safely navigate perilous environments. Hit multiple crystals at once to combined their energies and find new creative ways to reach the end gate.

Gorgeous hand-drawn visuals and an elegantly orchestrated soundtrack - recorded by a live orchestra - immerse players in the Afterlife and bring dreams, nightmares and spirits alive in stunning detail.

Stone Lantern Games is a Boston-based studio comprised of 4 MIT graduates. Like a gamer choosing a character class, each engineer on the team specializes in one of four proficiencies: Visual Effects, Art, Music, or Narrative.

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BRABO D+
Neat little demo, looks really good and only had a couple issues with not understanding why I couldn't use certain abilities but pretty solid overall
Beautiful soundtrack, challenging platforming puzzles, character design on main character a bit bland.
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Милый платформер визуально напоминаюет Ори, но, к сожалению, игровой процесс совершенно другой и со мной никак не резонирующий. Сюжет повествует о некой душе и имени Ки, которая пробуждается в загробном мире, её путь обратно на Землю блокируют «Вечные врата». Чтобы вернуться домой, Ки должна расшифровать свою таинственную связь с родственной душой, пробираясь сквозь воспоминания о давно минувших временах. Звучит многообещающе, но по факту это череда из 7 уровней на каждом из которых нужно пройти череду препятствий целясь через определённые точки, чтобы получать тот или иной эффект от взаимодействия с ними. К сожалению это такой акробатический паззл, а совсем не платформер. Мне не зашло.
Yes I find the spirit kind of cute
muto bom o jogo bem simples e rápido mas seu lançasse uma versão maior desse jogo eu com certeza compraria
yani oyun işte bana sarmadı zor geldi 2d platformlarda iyi değilimdir ama belki size sarar
Hübsch, aber zu schwer.
"Evergate: Ki's Awakening" is a student project from MIT. One of the first things students should be taught in game development is that 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid 1990's with dedicated 3D cards like the Voodoo3 and the ATI Rage. But the students were deliberately mistaught that it's okay to release obsolete 2D games in the 3D era of gaming... certainly any professional developer seeing a prospective new hire who doesn't even know about 3D gaming probably isn't going to give them a job. The grad students showed the world the intellectual power of MIT by making a really mediocre 2D retro platformer. As a platformer it's not the suckiest of all of them but it's no Hollow Knight, and there's no prizes for being the best looking guy in the burns ward. The platformer features a few gimmicks like crystal powers and the ability to create platforms and so on, but there's nothing here that hasn't been done before. What's the point? We also have to question what value there is for gamers on Steam when institutions flood the store with low quality 2D video game homework assignments... sure, it might make the students feel good about themselves, but this has no benefit for gamers who have to wade through this stuff to find professionally made 3D games. This looks a lot like it was designed for consoles, but released on Steam instead by mistake. While this is on PC, it has all the hallmarks and deficiencies of a console game, from the clunkier than needed control scheme to the less than cutting edge graphics. There's 10's of thousands of PC games on Steam, and PC gamers deserve only the best. This might not appeal to many gamers due to the lack of PC-centric design. It's unclear why this never made it to the video game console appliances it seems to have been designed for. The graphics are lacklustre because this was designed for mobile phones, not gaming PCs. Whenever a product is designed to run tolerably on 5 year old iPhones, it's obviously not going to come close to the minimum quality standards that PC gaming enthusiasts expect on their cutting edge gaming rigs. Mobile devs have made gaming worse for everyone. PC gamers don't spend thousands on their gaming rigs so they can pretend they're iPhones. That alone is enough to disqualify this for recommendation. This game is fairly dated at 6 years old... and even back then it looked old and busted compared to contemporary, professionally made 3D games of the same period. It looked bad then, it looks worse now. Next is pricing and what value this has for gamers. It would be unethical for students to try charge money for their homework assignments, so you don't have to pay any money for this. But you'd still have to spend your time downloading this, and "time is money", as they say. There's the other problem, too... as a student project, this wasn't made for gamers. There's no requirement for them to polish and balance the game properly, all they need is something to show the faculty so they can get their grade and move on. Let's once more ask... why is that good for gamers? It's obviously not delivering a solid product. Yet here it is, on the store page, and here you are, reading my review for a student demo that's going to waste your time. While genuine amateur developers who made real products get ignored because they have to compete with this stuff. In some ways, this deluge of student projects on Steam is harmful to everyone. A peak of [b]10 concurrent players[/b] (according to SteamDB) for a "free" game is a disastrous public reception. Out of 130 million potential players here on Steam, almost nobody was interested. Even though this is "free". That level of rejection speaks a lot for the quality of the game. This isn't a complete game for gamers, just a glorified homework assignment, and there's no profile benefits like a +1 count to your game collector badge, so I can't recommend adding it to your library. Finally, I write these reviews to try help people navigate the thousands of games on Steam so they don't waste time on low quality products. There's over 140,000 games on Steam... Steam Direct is allowing an influx of around 40-50 new games [i]every day![/i]. If you think I'm wrong about this one, go ahead and add it to your library, download it, install it, play it and see for yourself. Maybe you'll come to agree with me after wasting your time. Either way, consider writing your own reviews too. I'm just glad if my review helps give gamers enough info to make a better informed choice.
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