Look Closer!

Looking for differences without a reference point can be hard. The gameplay is very similar to traditional anomaly-seeking games, although it takes a somewhat different approach. Instead of moving through an area, this game allows you to watch it through surveillance cameras. The purpose remains the same: to identify and report anomalies. There are four stages. Each contains a number of cameras that you must switch between and monitor for changes. You can't move, so each camera displays a single image or a portion of the location. The objective is to send a report as soon as you see anything suspicious. This is accomplished by simply selecting the location and type of "event". Lights may flicker, items may go missing or appear, things may open by itself, and so on. If you report the wrong event, the time for sending the report will increase. However, if you report the correct event, the anomaly will be erased from the scene. You must "survive" until the bar at the top is entirely filled up. However, if too many anomalies appear near the site, you will lose the round. Each round lasts a very long time. Although each location contains only a few anomalies that repeat throughout the round, the game is quite difficult. The reason for this is that you don't know what the scene should look like. The only option is to take a screenshot of each camera as soon as you begin playing and then compare them. If you do not do this, you will have to rely on obvious anomalies.

I want to give this game a thumbs up because it finally offers an experience that appeals to me without the widespread, almost standardized early access vibe. The game is relaxing, but it doesn't put you to sleep either, without giving too much away. *evilgrin* The graphic is quite beautiful and the locations are very detailed. Ok it better should be, because of it's Observation theme. And it is. For me its very challenging, almost a bit too hard. But this should never be negativ, some of you might enjoy it even more so. I've noticed that within just 3 hours of playing, there has already been a second update/hotfix. Personally, I haven't encountered any technical issues, but the developer seems committed to perfecting his / her game. It's impressive to see what a one-person team can accomplish. Keep it up!

Look Closer! to read this review. A fun little puzzle game in which we have to spot vanisched, moved or new objects, flickering lights or sometimes even skelletons taking a walk. The game forces you to memorize a different number of still (with exceptions) scenes to come back to them and find anomalies. Although I am not that much into these kind of games I felt well entertained. Not only that. Some scenes possess a lot of detail so you have to be really pedantic to memorize all of it. It is very difficult at the beginning but playing certain locations repeatedly makes it doable. It is a fun little thing to do for in-between. I can imagine playing this with Twitch integration might be really fun for streamer as the whole audience can participate. I was not able to test that as I am not a streamer. The game ran smooth on my PC without any issues. Good job, keep it up!

Many issues that other observation duty style games have done properly that this just flubs on. -There's no indicator if a report was incorrect other than the report time increasing. -report screen doesn't go away after filing report. You have to manually close it. -report screen text and check boxes are super tiny -MUST use keyboard to switch cameras as there's no on screen arrows -please get a spell checker. "menue" and "animalies" aren't words -Twitch integration did not work at all. It would say it was connected to channel, but no chat reports were ever logged and no leader board was ever created even after multiple tries and positive reports. Needs a lot of work and although the twitch integration could be a neat feature- if it worked and worked differently.