IOUA

[h1]Before I played IOUA, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

Really makes you think

Unutulmuş RPGMaker bulmacalarının çarpık kalıntılarında geçen sonsuz bir işkence oyunu.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16

I feel so disheartened, because I love the concept of this game, but without much (if any, at times) guidance in game and the removal of the developer's guide this game has become next to, if not, impossible to finish which also makes it next, if not, impossible to recommend. 2/10 I want to update this review since the developer remade a [https://youtu.be/MRiCLzCBPhM?si=DzV1QkqhbYGCG3bd] YouTube guide [/url]. It is impossible still to beat the game's convoluted puzzles without it, but I appreciate the effort to create the guide and possible future game updates to make the game (more) playable.

RPG Maker strikes again! "IOUA" is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction. Notably, the "developer" couldn't work out how to use RPG Maker to make a JRPG (the only thing it can do, and it's terrible at it). Instead, we have an "I'm thirteen and meta is clever" plot around this RPG Maker asset flip being the product of a bunch of other RPG Maker asset flips, and you have to do 2D adventuring and solve puzzles while reading, yes, you guessed it, the high school anime club dropout fan-fiction cringefest of writing that makes up this RPG Maker asset puke. At least it's not about the developers imaginary anime girlfriend. As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the intention of RPG Maker is to make demos and small games to pass around friends, and shouldn't be used for "professional" game development. Like most RPG Maker shovelware and asset flips, the game features extremely low quality copy + pasted 2D retro pixel art, looks awful, and has even worse gameplay. RPG Maker is an absolutely terrible construction kit, and never results in games of any reasonable quality or value to gamers. The game is really simple and unambitious in terms of implementation, more of a tech demo or one of those cases where an amateur developer spends $100 to publish something on Steam Direct to see if it's possible. Yes, obviously it's possible. A proof of concept, tech demo, or something that's less than a little blip on the radar isn't offering anything truly valuable to gamers. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. This is "free" enough (not every "free" game in the "free" section is truly free, there's usually some hidden price tag), at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at [b]only 3 concurrent players[/b]... 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.

Throws you into a bunch of puzzles for which there are no clues and you're on your own. Not for me.

this game has no real way to solve the answers