PACTUM + EPISODE 1

this game turned me into a slug. would recommend, unless you dont want to be a slug.

[h1]Awesome game with amazing atmosphere[/h1] I'm incredibly impressed by how well made this game is and how well it's all pieced together. The atmosphere of this game is phenomenal, the art style, sounds, &c all work together well. The story is pretty well written and has some humorous bits (overall a good mix of humor and seriousness). The characters have a good originality and seem very alive (even with the "limited" dialogue). I'm very excited to see the next parts of it!

This game is super well made and underrated! i love it smm

I loved the art, interesting endings! Can't wait to play and see more :)

C'était rigolo rigolo j'ai passé un bon moment avec des amis en ligne à faire le jeu, C'était bien écrit, des perso attachants et une histoire intriguante. J'ai fait toute les fins j'attends le 2 avec impatience ! J'émet déjà quelques théories sur la suite de l'oeuvre

je sais ce que tu as fais Luke. je trouve que la mécanique de devoir faire différentes fin pour avoir différents points de vues pour une même histoire est vraiment vraiment trop cool, ça fait qu'on a vraiment une bonne compréhension des perso et de leurs relations avec très peu de contexte, on le sens direct avec leurs interactions trop trop hâte de voir comment cette mécanique va être utilisée dans la suite !!!!!!!!!!!!! TROP HÂTE DE LA SUITE !!!!!

"PACTUM + EPISODE 1" is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "Pactum" (I assume that's the intended name for the product this is advertising). Pactum is a product that doesn't even exist, and given how long it's been since this advertisement was placed on Steam (and ignored by almost everyone), it's unlikely the full product will ever arise. But if it does, you'd find it's a garbage Ren'Py kitbash with some crappy pixel art, part text adventure and mostly badly written Choose Your Own Adventure fanfiction writing. And, as usual with all these fanfiction Ren'Py e-books infesting Steam as if they're real games (I maintain that books are not games), the cringey writing is so bad it's almost weaponised. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not Pactum, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "PACTUM + EPISODE 1" too. This is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser are. This is a game demo that's been dumped on Steam to advertise another Steam store page in the hopes of raking in some cash. Just because advertisements are free, doesn't mean they're worth your time. It's important to understand there's a formal process to create a demo/page for a game which hasn't been followed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos While it might seem like an inocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful. This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game. Instead, that visibility is given over to a demo/advert that's been published incorrectly and is polluting the marketplace. It's unclear if this mistake was made through incompetence or a deliberate intent to mislead gamers. Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 2 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Advertisements and incorrectly published demos don't add +1 to your game collector count, they aren't full games. It's impossible for me to recommend this incorrectly published advertising spam to gamers, you deserve better than adverts.