Homesick

bgm好听，但是为什么我这么多bug

심야 공포가 주도하는 건물 탈출 게임이지만, 그렇게 무섭지도 않고 난이도도 쉬운 편이라 가볍게 즐길 수 있었습니다. 이해할 수 없는 기괴한 엔딩에 반감이 있었지만, 이 게임이 만들어진 배경을 알고 나니 적절한 엔딩이라고 생각이 바뀌었습니다.

This is a really good walking simulator with limited interactivity and some easy puzzles. You wake up not knowing who you are, where you are or why there is nobody else around. You will find some partially readable books and various notes and newspaper articles, but don't understand the strange symbols they are written in. The game alternates between day scenes and night scenes where you wield an axe and can go to areas you can't during the day. After bashing in a door you will wake up and have acces to a new area. After some progression you will be able to decipher the strange symbols and read all books and notes. There is also a little twist at the end. It's a fairly short game that you can probably finish in about two to four hours. There is no dialogue and very little sounds, but very nice soothing music in the background. My biggest gripe is the slow walking speed, though you do pick up some speed after walking for a couple of seconds. But the gameworld isn't that big and you unlock several short cuts. Also there are no achievements.

A slow, melancholic sort of game. I really liked it.

Ce jeu vaut le détour. Sorte de déambulation cauchemardesque ou de purgatoire (selon l’interprétation que vous en ferez) avec quelques puzzles à résoudre pour la partie ludique, Homesick est surtout, à mon sens, l’équivalent d’une nouvelle écrite. Une idée jetée sur palette graphique plutôt que sur une feuille blanche. Rien d’original, mais la DA et la musique (superbe) portent un sujet personnel, ce qui est très rare dans le monde ludique. Rien que pour ces raisons, le jeu m’a plu. Pour ce qui concerne la partie ludique, enfin, les puzzles m’ont parus liés à l’intrigue, pas d’esbrouffe, tout est logique à mes yeux ; c’est pour cela que je n’ai jamais pesté en jouant. Quelques heures de jeu à se creuser un peu la tête, dans un décor énigmatique, avec une très belle musique mélancolique, pour une intrigue et un final à interpréter ; je dis oui !

I'm mostly on the fence for the recommendation. The style is good and I appreciate a lot of aesthetics. The game is a good length for what it is and, overall, a good, thought not great, art game. Several gameplay and technical issues. The block puzzle was needlessly extended by having some of the cipher in another room, and with a plodding walking speed, the puzzle quickly got too long. Technically, there was a bug where I couldn't access my inventory or interact with anything causing me to reload and lose progress. Input remapping is done with text files, no volume controls, doesn't seem to remember that I don't want mouse smoothing. These issues are what tip the scale towards not recommending the game. Maybe when it's super cheap it'd be worth the price.