Lucifer Within Us

I liked this. It's true that is really short, and that's its greatest downside, so if you can get it at a heavy discount, like I did, you probably should. That aside, I enjoyed it immensely. It's a very neat deduction game. (I like those). Most of it is pretty simple and straightforward. It could have been more elaborate and fleshed out. I really, really I hope the studio does a bigger, denser project in the future.

Good detective game with a unique setting. I wish there were more cases. And remember to click on the head after unmasking a lie, I forgot to do that once and was stuck for a long time.

It just goes on and on and on. There's no straightforward way to get to the bottom of these little detective moments, and the pacing is just so... so.. slow.

Shorter than I thought, but very atmospheric

Really interesting setting and characters, wish there was more of this setting!

玩法有意思，但实在是太短了

Hmmmm, not sure what to make of this one. Lucifer Within Us is a detective game set in a cyberpunk-y church in the future - you are an exorcist who has to find demons controlling humans who committed murders and remove them from the people they inhabit. I want to start with the positive things. I really enjoyed the worldbuilding, because the bizarre mechanics of the world didn't come with preconceived notions about how the murders were committed, and I just thought the whole idea of a tech-church was a really cool vibe. And the actual investigation mechanic was really fun too - your main action is to contradict what the suspects have said by presenting conflicting accounts, or additional environmental evidence, which leads to slowly unraveling a more and more accurate timeline of events. And since there is quite a bit of evidence, it made brute-forcing an absolute last resort. However, I found the game awfully short - there are only 3 cases to solve and one of them is the tutorial case. It does say that in the description, but for 19€ I just expected the cases to be... bigger, or more complex. I found all three of them rather predictable, because the game just hands you way too many hints about who the culprit might be, even before the case starts, and it's usually the "||there is an obvious red herring and it's the person that seems least suspicious at first||" formula and even if you ignore that ||the demonology book kinda gives all of the cases away||. And I found some moments kind of tedious, because I wanted to prove something I figured out, but the game didn't react to my input. I especially think that the last case could have gotten more playtesting. However, the second one I really liked! Then, the game ends on a kind of lore-power-point presentation, which I thought was kind of... okay. But maybe a bit of an underwhelming ending. If you want to see a cool detective mechanic in action, I would recommend the game, but if you want something that's overall a great experience... then you might like it... or you might be a bit disappointed. I guess it depends on the person. I thought the vibe was really cool, and the mechanic was very enjoyable, so I actually would say I did enjoy playing it. I did buy it on sale, though - if I had bought this for full price I probably would have felt a bit cheated.