Ginkgo

MUKKAMMAL KORKU ♥♥♥ GUZEL OLMUŞ ELİNİZE SALİK

простенькая коротенькая игра, механика с иглой - мое почтение)))

game cho thu chs

unique concept, short but pretty fun

I didn't care for it.

It's a very charming and pretty game, that while short, is kind of unreal that this is a student project. While the core gameplay is "do simple puzzles and sometimes hastily try to do more finesse things while under pressure", and the puzzles are basic, it is made charming by the art design and the core mechanic of sewing. Unsure entirely how much this would translate to multiple hours, but for what it is, it's a very charming game that's highlighted by a unique game mechanic. It's like if ps2/early ps3 games like puppeteer were made into a more straight forward horror game. Going to be blunt, I don't like "do something while avoiding a wandering aggressive boss to progress" gameplay loops, I despise them actually, but this didn't wear it's welcome and the checkpoints were generous enough that once you knew what you were doing, it didn't take long to get back to the part you died. You'll probably be looking at the one enemy/boss character on a detailed level here than in the game, cuz you just don't want to be in the same hallway as him, but it's also kind of cool that they went with that sort of design for the world/boss. What story there is given in small little bursts of notes/unvoiced text coming up upon interacting with certain objects, and there were at least 2 little obviously "hidden" rooms that were optional. Glad I played it, would be nice to know what these people were working on nowadays or if they were planning on making more together as a group, but for now, we just have this charming game. It's free, but better than some paid products I've played through, albeit super short. Was kind of the reason I jumped in tongiht though, I wanted to make some real damage to my backlog. PS: If the people who made this game are around, please let me know about any future games, if they are anywhere as charming as this, I'll make sure to follow your studio/studios, and wish list your games (bar some major controversy)

"Ginkgo" is what looks a bit like an Unreal engine asset flip, although I suppose the assets may be original content... it's somewhat besides the point because functionally it's no different from literally hundreds of similar games that are definitely asset flips. That's right, another first person horror adventure where the objective is to go through a creepy environment and maybe get jumpscared. Yawn. It's been done before a hundred times or more, most of them better than this. The game graphics look better than you might expect, but that's just because it looks like some or all of them are "borrowed" from asset stores or wherever. Gamers can tell... and it comes across as insincere. There's also the old adage that those who lack the budget and talent to make their own game assets usually lack the budget and talent to do the rest of the job of game development properly, too. 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 11 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.