Kill The Clock

[h2] 游戏故事简述 [/h2] 男主的名字叫雷蒙德索兰，开局在一辆火车上，任务目标是前往刺杀威廉梅耶尔，然而刚潜入进去却发现目标威廉梅耶尔早已身亡。 此时威廉梅耶尔的妻子正巧赶到，警察也随后到来，男主当场在第一现场被指认为杀人凶手，属于是跳进黄河也洗不清了，只能先推开警察并使用伪装道具隐藏身份躲避搜捕，随后再慢慢回来调查任务目标死亡的真相。 [h2]有意思的设定[/h2] 游戏的时间循环设定挺有意思，男主会在每次被杀死之后通过时间循环回溯到开局的火车上，重新开始新一轮解密。 [h2]游戏玩法[/h2] 开局可以自由选择加点和5个职业（侦探、记者、运动员、售货员、艺术家），不同的职业有不同的加成，比如艺术家可以每天可以画一幅画，送给npc提高好感度，运动员可以每晚在房间里的时候用哑铃增加一点力量。 游戏的玩法主要在于骰子检定，而开局所增加的属性点与职业都决定了各类骰子检定的通过率，比如力量属性可以提高战斗和投掷的骰子加成值，而魅力则是提高说服和贿赂的加成值，所以不同的职业和不同的加点所带来的收益各不相同。 当然也可以通过存档去手动提高骰子检定成功率，没通过就回档，直到通过为止。 [h2]游戏总结[/h2] 作为一款推理类游戏还是挺有意思的，搭配上骰子检定的玩法玩起来感觉挺上头，就是玩完前两章之后发现后面两章还没有做好，玩的正爽有一种被寸止的感觉。综上所述，这绝对是一款佳作，推荐游玩。 [quote] 晚八不睡，早八不醒，梦里准点测评，迎接美好游戏人生！ 欢迎关注：[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/46039267/] 睡不醒的早八人 [/url] [/quote]

EA Review: It's a very attractive art style used in this game. The music also isn't jarring like other games of this genre so the fact it's looping is just filling the background void without grating on your nerves after the 100th repetition. But some of the interactions make absolutely no sense. For example: You can pick professions at the beginning of the game. I picked Artist... I apparently broke into someones house, and am chatting with a police officer and two women. Why haven't I been kicked out? Why are they spilling their life stories to me? Why is the police officer just handing me all the juicy details? I'm a no body who broke into this house to snoop around a crime scene... It's assuming I picked detective (Which would make sense on this branch of story telling). Honestly, if the games art didn't rescue it, I'd be thumbs downing it for the wild writing assumptions (Or maybe just poorly implemented professions that don't work with the current narrative). Perhaps the situations like this one could be resolved by a change in tone, or attitude towards the player followed by "Why are you still here?".

Buyer beware, you'll likely be paying for an incomplete game that will NEVER be completed. It's been 4 months since my review and at the time, they claimed CH3 was actively being worked on. Guess what. It's now June and no signs of CH3 in game - even tho the dev notes said - CH4 is now being worked on and CH3 is being bug-fixed (with full translations done). That note btw, was from last month - it's now June 24th and devs have not updated yet. If you can't finish the game or deliver on deadlines, I'm going to recommend no. Devs barely communicate OR miscommunicate. Just for example. On Feb 28, dev notes said for CH3: "Script implementation into the game (97%) 🆕 QA (15%) 🆕" Guess when CH3 was "finished"? Devlog #12 - May 31st. But guess what also?? It's not in the game! Oh well.

[h1]轮回千次只愿亲手了结你[/h1] 《Kill The Clock》是一款以20世纪中叶的欧洲为背景的悬疑推理向冒险游戏。玩家将扮演主角雷蒙德·索兰/雷蒙娜·索兰（性别），为了杀死威廉·梅耶尔而踏上旅程。谢邀，人在维里塔斯福德，刚下火车，就因私闯民宅被受害人的妻子琳达·梅耶尔发现。随之而来的警官莱斯利·欧文立刻将站在尸体旁边的某嫌疑人逮捕。冤枉！清汤大老爷！我刚潜入就发现目标倒在地上，我还没来得及动手呢，这是碰瓷！推理小说里不是这样的，我现在的角色应该是外地来的侦探才对，而不是不明不白就被当做杀人凶手（不过《名侦探柯南：犯人犯泽先生》已经播过这样的剧情，就认了吧）！为了洗清自己的嫌疑，不得不越狱+隐姓埋名，以全新的身份调查威廉的死因（怎么感觉背负的罪名更多了……）。 不同于传统的视觉小说，游戏有性别选择、职业选择（影响初始技能加成和天赋，一周目我以为是默认就没选）、状态属性与技能加点，还有自由捏脸。虽然只是为了伪装躲避通缉，更换发型、发色、面饰这些，但也让我有种新鲜感。这些开局做出的决定在之后的游戏中会影响游戏的进展，玩家的行动成功与否均通过掷骰决定。这样的玩法设计让游戏充满了随机性，自由度非常高（有人一直在偷窃我不说是谁），而且符合现实，毕竟哪有一帆风顺的查案，嫌疑人才不会乖乖地老实交代呢。多周目的循环也能提供不一样的体验。 是的，多周目的循环。因为被抢人头只有0次和无数次——成功找出了真凶以后，时光倒流、重置回原点，威廉依旧会以不同的方式被另一个凶手以不同的方式杀害（威廉：你是说我非死不可，对吗？雷蒙德/雷蒙娜：你是说我每把都被抢人头，是吗？）。故事的发展不再唯一，于时间的循环中，破解同一起杀人事件的新手法。 [quote] 闲暇时光，不妨试试游戏。 欢迎关注[url=store.steampowered.com/curator/45653622/] 闲暇時光鉴赏组 [/url] [/quote]

This is an EA review with only two chapters available at the moment. It is an interesting detective game with a time loop scenario. I'm wondering how everything will turn out at the end of the game. There is no romance in the game, but I personally think thats fine since it wouldn't or should'nt be the main focus of the game anyway. It should also be noted that I only did one playthrough so far and didn't look for every ending. Pro: [list] [*] The art was actually the main reason I even got interested in the game  [*] Slight animations [*] Character customization. You can choose a gender and set up a disguise with a nickname to go into the fully hidden character mode. Interesting idea! [*] You can choose a job, which will in turn affect how your stats turn out. This game will do stat check ups :) [*] Replay value  [*] The story itself is interesting. [/list] Neutral: [list] [*] The game itself offers different mechanics such as investigation, heart check (which is kind of like a stat check on how people are feeling/looking like) [*] You can try different approaches to solve stuff (e.g. bribing, talking, combat, ...) [*] While you can increase your friendship levels with different people, I'm kinda missing, like, extra scenes for this. Or maybe it did change something, and I was just too blind to see it  [/list] Con: [list] [*] The controls of the game feel a bit weird sometimes. An example would be: You would need F to move in a location you are investigating, but in the map S, so switching controls for what feels similar. [*] You can only gift something after talking to a character. I wonder why it is even an option at that time if it's blocked at the moment. Why not only show it if you can do it? [*] You can't save when there is a dialogue ongoing [/list] What else can I say? I'm really looking forward to how everything turns out and what other characters might appear - or what might change when I replay it once a new chapter comes out. :) Also, since the game is still in EA some of the stuff I didn't like might change over time as well.

Played Chapters 1 and 2. Extremely enjoyable! Very excited for the remaining chapters to come.

Nice story with some very interesting characters. Finding out about the twists and turns of the whole mystery is actually fun. The actual detective work is a bit lacking, though. You have to actually work to get the *wrong* culprits, because everything is pretty spelled out. Other than that, it's a very interesting mystery game.

TRPGとループ要素のあるミステリーアドベンチャー。 現在アーリーアクセスのため全4話中2話まで配信。 【良かった点】 ○アドベンチャーにTRPG風の要素があるのが新鮮 ・ゲーム開始時にまず主人公の性別・職業・ステータスの設定をする。 ・職業は探偵、記者、アスリート、販売員、芸術家があり、例えば探偵なら調査パートでもらえる通貨が増加、販売員ならショップの価格が割引になるなどそれぞれパッシブを得られる。 ・選択肢を選ぶ際はダイスによって成否が決まり、例えば戦闘力が高ければ武力による解決、説得が高ければ話し合いでの解決を選んだ時にプラス補正が入る。 ○キャラのビジュアルと音楽がいい ・国内のゲームだとファイアーエムブレム風花雪月の雰囲気に近い。メイドさん可愛い。 ・音楽も雰囲気に合ってて聴き心地がよい。 ○ストーリーが面白い ・好みな展開なので先が気になる。12月に3話が配信されるみたいなので楽しみ。 【気になった点】 ○デモ版からの引き継ぎでフリーズ ・2025年8月にデモ版から製品版に引き継ごうとしたらローディング画面から先に進めなくなってしまった。幸いスキップもあるのでもう1度最初からやり直したが少し面倒に感じた。 ○TRPG要素の必要性が薄い ・現状選択肢によって大きく展開が変わることはないので、TRPG要素がフレーバー程度にしか機能していないのがちょっと勿体無い。 ・個人的に気に入っている要素なので、もっとストーリーに影響があると嬉しい。 日本語訳も今のところ違和感なく読めている。 強いていうなら女性主人公の口調が男勝りに感じるけど、そういう性格なのだと脳内補完した。(戦闘力高めのアスリートに設定した) 正式版リリースとても楽しみです。

本作是一款设定在20世纪中叶欧洲虚构城市的推理冒险游戏，在游戏中，主角为了杀死威廉而踏上了旅途，谁知刚下火车进入他家，就发现目标已经倒在地上死了，这时受害人的妻子跑了过来，在犯罪现场的主角成了第一嫌疑人。玩家因此被警察认为是杀人凶手，为了洗清自己的嫌疑，玩家隐姓埋名，换了身行头开始调查威廉的死因。 游戏最大的特点是它的“循环侦探”玩法。在玩家每一次成功指认真凶、解决案件后，时间会重置回原点。但时间回溯后虽然受害者不变，凶手和作案手法却会发生改变。这就使得玩家在不同的循环中，从熟悉的人物和地点获得的信息是不一样的，这种让玩家从新的角度切入调查的玩法，提供了新鲜且富有深度的游玩体验。 在游戏的玩法上，本作融合了一定的“跑团”元素。比如在游戏的开始玩家可以自定义主角的职业（如记者、运动员、侦探等，影响初始技能和特定加成）、属性（体魄、智慧、敏捷、魅力、幸运）。而这些开局做出的决定在后面的游戏中都会一一影响游戏进程。在游戏中，玩家的行动基本都需要掷骰检定。在一些需要判定的地方（如说服、贿赂、获得情报等），玩家需要根据自身属性、幸运值、加成等进行掷骰判定，成功或失败都会影响剧情走向、线索。这种游戏玩法让游戏中充满了随机性，让每次循环都为玩家提供了不同的游戏体验。 总的来说，《Kill The Clock》是一款极具潜力的推理冒险游戏。不过目前游戏正处于EA阶段，内容并不完整。游戏的未来高度还是取决于后续章节的剧情质量和整体完成度。 [quote]欢迎关注我们的鉴赏家:[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/35402982/]走心评测[/url] ←遵从内心，写出真实感受 欢迎加入我们Steam组:[url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/ZXPC]走心评测[/url]←点击加入，一起探索游戏的乐趣 喜欢这篇评论，也麻烦点个赞，让更多人能够看到！[/quote]

Kill the Clock is in early access so the game can change drastically. A murder with an interesting twist. I wake up on a train, bewildered at how I ended up here, as it was not my intended location. My objective? To kill a prominent local figure. When I infiltrate the mansion, he is already dead on the floor and his wife catches me; I end up in jail and escape, having to prove my own innocense. Kill the clock is a detective visual novel with an interesting twist on it. The goal is for the protagonist to solve a crime while dealing with a time travel mechanic to it. That is the entire premise and a sudden but intriguing introduction to the game Kill the Clock. The customization is nice. I can choose gender and profession, which impacts the amount of skill points in the abilities. Art direction is flowery and inspired by romanticized European art from the Belle Epoque era. Some of the character art design seem to have a dash of JRPG styling, particularly the hair. I love it. The standout feature in the game is the dice-rolling mechanic that is typical of the tabletop RPGs. Examples can be used when you need to convince someone what to do, or maybe break a lock, and even have to fight someone. In moments, I can use it to convince a person to do something, or use a bribe to loosen tongues. Or it can totally fail. In some moments, I have to resort to violence. Totally hilarious. Characters exhibit stereotypical tropes, and yet has some depth with their own persona hidden secret I even like the hidden gaming den where the dark game and coin clips costs money. The game has two quirks that I have issues. The save file system, the 1st slot is always the autosave, and I cannot overwrite with a manual save, apparently. Also, Pressing F is meant to move from one place to another, and press S to go somewhere. If both were changed, I would be super happy. A full voice over would be a great addiction. Soundtrack is nice, although more variety would be appreciated. Current price point is fair for the amount of content, although do expect it to increase dramatically upon the release of the 1.0 version. In the end, the game is truly an art form, where the plot and story feel interesting enough for me to dive through. One other comment though, as of now, May 2026, They are working on Chapter 4, as of April 2026, and I have to wait for them to finish. At the very least, the developer are transparent about it. It is a good use of the early access program. Also, I found it via the Steam Next Fest in February 2025, but it took me a full year to get strated playing the game. Consider it a backlog that held me back. In the end, Kill the Clock is a fun and engaging game for any fans of visual novels.