Gaze Into Fate

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It is a free game, so I didn't expect much. This is barely a game, though. It tells you an order to click stuff and then you click stuff in that order. It is the worst mini-game in Among Us; should not be a full game. I kept thinking, "surely, this can't be it?" and then the click stuff in order did end! I thought, "GREAT! That was just the intro!" but after a short (45 second-ish) story segment, it went right back to it. I immediately turned off the game and will be uninstalling once I am finished typing this. I appreciate that it is probably difficult to make a game. However, I honestly think this would have been better as just a story. The protagonist seems good and likeable, and the story seems like it could be interesting. I just do NOT want to play this mechanic. It's not a puzzle, or challenging, or anything. There is a "Story Mode" on the menu before you start a game, but it was greyed out. I assume you have to unlock it. I don't even know if that mode would have solved my problem. If you enjoy mindlessly clicking things in a predetermined order, you might like this.

overall alright for free.

I am honestly torn with this review. The visual novel was really stunning. I loved the art style and the story was somewhat interesting, however it took really long to get a sentence from the ancestors. You basically need to play the same 2 memory puzzle game approximately 10 times each to complete the story. After you have completed the game there is only a short part of what happened in the end, however it is still very open ended. Then you get story mode where you don't need to do the puzzles, however the whole story is just in front of the flame. The images etc you see in the first game is nowhere to be seen in the story mode, which is quite sad, as that is the only part that makes the story better. I would honestly have liked to give this a neutral review, however for a free to play game it is a different experience and it's not a bad visual novel. It takes less than 90 minutes to complete the initial game and story mode.

哪里不会点哪里，步步高家教机

Bei Gaze into Fate spielt man einen Schamanen, der seinen Stamm verlassen hat, weil er die Schnauze voll hat vom ständigen Krieg. Nun sucht er die Weisheit seiner Vorfahren, um den richtigen Weg für sich zu finden. Die Story ist an sich erfrischend und spannend. Allerdings ist sie doch auch zu zahm, als dass sie wirklich packen könnte. Und das Ende ist wieder einmal so pseudophilosophisch, dass es nicht wirklich befriedigt. Das wäre ja noch annehmbar, wenn dafür das Gameplay genial wäre. Ist es aber nicht. Denn dieses besteht lediglich aus einem immer komplizierter werdenden "drücke die Sterne/Gegenstände in der Reihenfolge, wie ich sie dir vorzeige"-Spielchen. Das ist ziemlich mühsam, wäre aber annehmbar, wenn die Geschichte wirklich genial und packend ist. Ist sie aber eben nicht, was das Spiel leider eher zu einer Geduldsprobe werden lässt als zu einem echten Spass. Das ist schade, denn wie gesagt ist das Szenario absolut frisch und die Thematik ernst und gut aufgenommen. Auch die Atmosphäre stimmt - Stichwort Sprecher - und die Grafik ist zwar nicht wunderhübsch, aber doch stimmig und passend und hebt sich angenehm vom sonstigen Indie-Pixelbrei ab. Nur leider können diese Pluspunkte die Schwächen des Spiels nicht ausgleichen. Fazit: Wer auf exotische Szenarien und ernste Themen steht und kein Problem mit ödem Gameplay hat, für den ist dieses kostenlose Spiel durchaus ein Blick wert. Für alle anderen gibt es aber unzählige bessere Alternativen, die mehr Spass machen oder Storytiefe haben.

I have only played 25 minutes in, but I do not understand the point of this. Every single thing is the same two puzzles, they just are different sequences each time. I expected the puzzles to change once I reached a certain difficulty. I am not really sure what the point is in this game. The biggest issue is, this seems like a very strange pan Indigenous take on lifeways. Not really sure what is up with this. Totem pole, blue eyes, North American Indigenous man, feather fans, African accents and people too, a giant missmash. it's odd. Not really sure what is up here.

[h1]ゲーム性が似合っていない。面倒な通訳の気分[/h1] 第三夜まで来てプレイを止めた。「50以上の挑戦的で、決してイライラさせないパズル」とあるが厳しい。パズルは暗記パズル…これパズルか？　一筆書き的なものが指定されるのでそれを真似する。これが50以上あることになるが勘弁してほしい。暗記が好きな人には合うのかもしれない。機械翻訳だが日本語があるのでストーリーは分かる。 ストーリーはシャーマニックなもので、先祖との対話が捧げ物の順番や星の瞬きで示されるというのは良いと思った。ただ、会話のボールを投げるたびに暗記パズルが発生するので非常にうざったい。いくつかなら構わないが、これが全編通して行われるであろうことを知ると苦痛でしかない。 また、プレイヤーの立場が謎。主人公と先祖の両方の操作をすることになるため、個人的には感情移入先の無い傍観者であり部外者と言う気分になった。会話の間に操作が入るものだから、気分的には通訳。毎回方法を指定される通訳。 順番に意味があり、かつ、プレイヤーがそれを選択することでストーリーが変わる、みたいな内容だったら良かったと思う。現状は数行ごとに暗記パズルが必要なノベルゲームといった印象できつい。

"Gaze Into Fate" is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam for no apparent reason. It's a garbage minimalist puzzle game with a bit of visual novel drivel stapled onto it. I guess they thought it would go viral amongst the art community or something. Spoiler: It did not. What do you do in the game? All you do here is swipe your finger around on your iPhone to connect the dots in the order they tell you to do. That's it. Boring. No wonder it failed. The game features really lacklustre 2D visuals (does the developer not know 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid-1990s?). Gamers don't spend thousands of dollars on gaming rigs to pretend they're mobile phones. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 5 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.