Lifestream - A Haunting Text Adventure

Very interesting gameplay, good story, will be looking out for more of this type of game.

Lifestream, Shady Brook and The Filmmaker are the first three episodes (in this order) of a planned long series, whose fourth episode is Stonewall Penitentiary and the upcoming fifth one is Summit of the Wolf. These episodes are (seemingly) very loosely connected, so each of them can be played on their own, but it is easy to see the connections and the slowly emerging overarching themes. The first three episodes have a certain kind of choose-your-adventure-style interface, but the author still manages to integrate meaningful puzzles, which are mostly inventory-based. The main draw of these games however are the stories. All the stories are very different and their mood ranges from dark to extremely dark. :) But for lovers of good stories they are very much recommended.

It's a graphical text adventure with a "shadowgate" type of gameplay and interactivity. The story gets really good and interesting the further you go with it. Absolute top notch interactive fiction!

https://gamejudges.wordpress.com/2016/09/28/lifestream-a-haunting-text-adventure/ This game looks like the old school text adventures that had area pictures and a map, except it has buttons for everything and no combat, wrong moves or timekeeping. The story seems very short as well, not giving much gameplay apart from when you get stuck. When you get stuck, you have a hard time finding a walkthrough. The whole game is 8 hours +. That’s on par with proper point-and-click adventure games with voice overs.The engine is worse than games from the 80s in the same genre. And the content is a remake from 2004. Seems almost like the graphics are as well. You’re not getting much gaming for your money, even if you buy it on sale. Verdict for PC This game somehow misses it’s key demographic, text-adventure fans and retro gamers. I would only recommend it to someone that are looking for a book to read instead of an actual game. Rather than getting this game, get the actual old-school games like Spellcasting 101 and the Zork series, and the free games made with Text Adventure Development System (TADS). Or just read a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ book for a change. Verdict for cellphones and tablets This game is probably easy enough for non-gamers to play as the game is very streamlined And it is riddled with hints on easy difficulty. The controls probably work as well as on PC. Plus the text is big so you can play it on a small screen. It might be worth the money as a novelty game on touch screen units, but it’s definitely a waste of money on PC.

This reminded me of some old text adventures I used to play on the Vic-20 (Voodoo Castle comes to mind!) Very enjoyable!

UPDATE: The developer fixed my save file and I was able to finish the game. The story is good, the ending a bit of a surprise. Probably not something I would play again, as I felt too constricted, and I prefer more freedom. I am changing my recommendation to yes, though, as it is still a good game. Only made it to the start of chapter 2, where I encountered what appears to be a game breaking bug, but here is what I think so far. It's not what I expected, and I don't like the changing of which character I am, or the very linear gameplay. The story seems fine so far, accept for all the "surprise" at how someone who's been missing for 2 weeks hasn't been keeping up with their gardening, yard work, etc. The music was nice, til it changed to a more suspenseful tone, then I turned it off. If the problem gets fixed I'll update.

Ich mochte es :) Die Grafik ist nicht die feinste, aber auch nicht hässlich, wie sie hier schon betitelt wurde. Die Geschichte macht Spaß, auch der Wechsel der beiden Perspektiven. Man kann an manchen Stellen zwischen Antworten wählen, ob das aber irgendwelche Auswikrungen hat, weiß ich nicht - ich denke eher nicht. Es ist eben ein Text-Adventure, man muss die richtigen Dinge finden und kombinieren und kleinere Rätsel lösen. Find' ich in Ordnung. Die Musik passt, Sounds ertönen auch ab und an und bereichern die Atmosphäre. Für die paar Kröten macht man hier nichts falsch :)

It's amazing how well the text adventure controls work. And there's an excellent balance between the puzzles and it's intriguing story. Everything works together really well, it's a wonderful game

First I really enjoyed this adventure/visual novel - on this second playthrough. Second, I only remember bits and pieces of this from my first playthrough back in 2017; I clearly played it all the way through successfully because I had most of the achievements time stamped then. Rather primitive but the plot kept me intrigued and the puzzles although straight forward were OK and usually made sense.

Very nice and cozy game, highly polished and featuring nice plot and decent, albeit simple, puzzles. Great "easy listening" fun.