
An ancient custom is invoked, and five kingdoms send their young heirs to play a legendary game. Build relationships, form alliances, and win the crown in this high-stakes game of woodland politics and social maneuvering.
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"Hare Apparent" is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game. This is a furry fan-fiction written by a furry for other furries. Thankfully it doesn't seem to be about the authors imaginary furry girlfriend, instead it's an incredibly dry, bland political fan-fiction CYOA e-book. It reads like someone wrote down the sequence of events for a game of Town of Salem, but with furries. It's no surprise this was a complete flop on Steam Direct. This e-book isn't that linear and works more as a Choose Your Own Adventure, but the point still stands... nobody read a CYOA book and then said "Wow, what a great game I just played." Books aren't games. Visual novels/e-books are tedious at best... imagine the best novel you ever read, be that Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy or 2001: A Space Odyssey or Twilight (if you have terrible taste in literature), but then translate that to a format where the words dribble out and you have to click your mouse every time you wanted to read the next sentence, instead of just turning the pages. You'd think it was garbage. Now imagine that experience, but with much worse writing (because if these guys could write professionally, they'd be published authors and this would be on shelves in bookstores, and they wouldn't have to pay Valve $100 to self-publish this on Steam), and you have your average Steam e-book. One of the chief problems with failed authors polluting Steam with non-game E-books is that E-books can easily just be presented in a web browser... there's no justification for charging money on Steam for what might as well be a webpage. We don't spend thousands on buying a gaming rig to spend money on Steam for something Chrome or Firefox could do. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the e-book peaked at only 4 concurrent readers... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. The funny thing is, if you wanted to print this book, you'd only need to print 4 copies to satisfy the entire world's demand for it. While this E-book is "free", you can get better quality, professionally written books and comics for free online (from places like Project Gutenberg) or from public libraries. Steam isn't a comic book store, neither is it Netflix, it's for games. Your gaming rig is not a Kindle. It's impossible for me to recommend things to PC gamers that aren't really games.
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Very fun. Enjoyed each character and ending.
Pretty good game!
I am happy you can still play games like this for free. It is a short, but charming game. I would gladly play a more in depth RPG or Strategy game set in the world this game created for us! If you love a few minutes worth of political intrigue, spend a few minutes with Hare Apparent. You might be surprised by how interesting it is, at least!
I've gotten to see Hare Apparent evolve from beginning-to-end of its development, and it is genuinely one of the best short-form social deduction experiences I've had. The dialog is colorful and masterfully written (particularly for a project of this size/scope), and I can easily imagine it being expanded or included as part of an even broader roleplaying game. I'm an extremely big fan and recommend it whenever I get the chance. Well worth your attention/time—the Conclave awaits!
a nice little politics sim with beautiful art and a decent little story, well worth the hour or so of your time
Little game with huge character design and world's history. All with a nice design and well eritten dialogues. If more RPG were like this, I would play them more!
It's a real nice game that has the player engaging with different political ideologies in order to succeed. Something that I liked a lot is that, unlike most games involving these sorts of choices, you aren't meant to side with one ideology over the others. Instead, everything is a sort of competition where you have to understand the characters and meet them where they're at, and your final goal is to establish your own leadership over theirs. It's a nice twist on things, it's sneaky, and it's probably way more realistic lol. Since the game is short, replays are fun and easy to get into, especially if your previous playthrough ended in disaster. Not that I would know, of course. Anyway, it allows you to play experimentally and be as casual or role-playery as you want. The art is really great too. Each character stands out on their own and the designs are perfectly aligned with their personalities. Ryan Gosling does an excellent job as the main protagonist, channeling the same energy that he brought to films like Blade Runner 2049 and the Mickey Mouse Club! All this and more, and the game is completely free. I think it's a no-brainer.
[i] Hare Apparent [/i] manages to flesh out a complex world and characters in only an hour or two. The setting is introduced quite naturally through the other characters lenses.
It's a nice and short game, at the price of 0. Of course I recommend... I'd like to share that, initially I found the game easy. Won 2-1 at the final day, but the epilogue was unsatisfying. So, I played again, got to see some different dialogue and won uninamously! I then noticed there are difficulties, so I tried Doomed... I talked with everyone, told them what boosts their opinion, agreed to vote Adaro and then got voted out uninamously, reaching the epilogue... So, if I have a complaint, is that we don't get to vote ( & urge others towards) for the High King/Queen if we lose.
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