Invisible Apartment

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[h1]Киберпанк для бедных.[/h1] Ещё одна игра, по которой плачет невидимая кнопка "Сомнительно". И ругать особо не за что, и хвалить, в общем-то, тоже. По сюжету вы играете за симпатичную хакершу по прозвищу Кролик, которая занимается своими хакерскими делами и бегает от местных агентов Смитов. У девушки есть забавный, но пресноватый ИИ-друг и помощник по имени Маска, а позже появится и союзник. Из плоти и крови, так сказать. События игры происходят в высокотехнологичном и закрытом городе, в котором некий злой гений творит свои недобрые дела. [h1]ЧТО ПОНРАВИЛОСЬ:[/h1] Это бесплатная визуальная новелла, которая проходится меньше, чем за час. В ней многовато текста, есть несколько реплик с выбором ответа по богатырской системе: налево пойдешь - друга потеряешь, направо пойдешь - свободу потеряешь, прямо пойдешь - на свободе будешь. Иллюстрации в игре простенькие, но симпатичные. И что самое приятное, их довольно много. Музыка тоже хороша. [h1]ЧТО НЕ ПОНРАВИЛОСЬ:[/h1] Игра на английском, читать придётся достаточно, и в тексте присутствуют специфические термины, которые могут быть непонятны простому обывателю. Несмотря на приятную музыку, которую можно отключить в верхнем меню экрана, во время некоторых сцен у меня складывалось ощущение, что она совершенно не подходит под происходящие события. И это несколько портило общие впечатления и не давало сосредоточиться на некоторых важных сюжетных сценах. Также хотелось бы отметить некоторую скомканность сюжета и поверхностное раскрытие персонажей. Хотя я не исключаю тот факт, что так и было задумано создателями, поскольку у данной игры имеется предыстория в виде отдельной игры и два продолжения. Мне сюжет показался довольно скучным, а персонажи - пресными. Если убрать из истории высокотехнологичные примочки, а Маску заменить на какого-нибудь котика, то вся атмосфера киберпанка сделает ПШЫК! и испарится. Желания поиграть в другие игры из этой вселенной у меня не возникло, поэтому я не буду рекомендовать данный продукт к ознакомлению.

무료게임은 어지간하면 욕 안하려고 하는데 이건 욕해야겠습니다. 메뉴에 세이브 로드 기능만 있고 옵션이 없어서 배경음악조차 못 끄는 게임입니다. 아무리 무료라지만 이러면 안됩니다. 비추천. 누가 이거 하겠다면 무조건 말리겠음.

Slightly interesting, but overall forgettable story. Very few choices which lead to a quick game over if picked poorly. Quicksave and quickload did not seem to work. Had to remember to go into menu and manually save and load occasionally. Not enough to interest me in the prequel or sequels.

Another good VN - Cyberpunk theme'd. Was an interesting story.

So, I played through IA 0,1,2 and 3. Gotta be frank. Artwork is inconsistent in quality but not terrible, I'd give it a C+. The story itself is extremely dumb, to be frank. IA 1 was a fun and mysterious little standalone. IA 2 was nice, a bit deeper and more introspective. But IA 0 and IA 3 are pretty terrible. Kasey isn't that well fleshed out, neither is Joel or even Mask. Mask constantly remains a flat and boring character. IA 3 brings everything to a disappointing conclusion that can most kindly be described as workplace politics. It's all this entire saga comes down to at the end, which just cheapens the entire journey.

Modern bir dünyada mücadele eden bir kız hacker'ı konu alan Cyberpunk Görsel Romanı. Hikaye gözetleme, hackleme, yapay zeka, sibernetik implantlar ve yüksek teknoloji toplumunda normal bir yaşam sürmek isteyenler etrafında dönüyor.

Invisible Apartment 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 garbage high school sci-fi club dropout fan-fiction once more features the authors most favourite topic, his imaginary girlfriend who is a super cyberpunk hacker, but you wouldn't know her, she goes to another school in Canada. Sheer cringe aside, this badly written fan-fiction isn't even free, despite being marketed as such, because it's just the first part, and you have to pay out $14 to buy the rest of the cringe. Imagine charging money for high school fan-fiction cringe. This kind of thing is why indie devs on Steam have such a bad name. 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 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the e-book peaked at just a dozen or so concurrent readers, and now there's basically nobody reading it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected 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. It's important to note that, despite this being such a low quality product, there's a number of positive reviews that all appeared immediately after the game launched, from suspiciously inactive Steam accounts that have reviewed almost no other games apart from this. Take the review score of this e-book with a grain of salt.

Invisible Apartment is a Visual Novel with just a few choices. Despite the choices, it definitely is a short game and you should not expect a long journey. However that isn’t really a problem. The whole story takes place in a cyberpunk future, which is presented in a decent manner. Same can be said about the artwork presenting the world and characters and of course the story itself. The story focuses on a world, which is regulated by government. Government sees and hears everything. Rather typical thing when it comes to cyberpunk worlds. And in this world there is a person that doesn’t exactly fit in, the main character – Kacey. Who is a hacker. And as you might expect this is not the safest thing to do in this world. Overall it’s a neat little Visual Novel you can play for free and I totally can recommend doing so. Also covered it on my YouTube channel a few years ago. To be honest though, the version I covered there I found on not existing anymore Desura, so it might vary a little compared to what's here on Steam. The videos covering the game you can find on [url= https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF6bMpb7g7_SbwLUZnmxdWReLGm_ZjjYa]Invisible Apartment playlist[/url] that’s on my YouTube channel.