Remote Position

Old-school first person point and click puzzles with a pulp-novel writing style. --- The writer here has a story to tell, and it's told as much through exploration as it is through words. Though it unfolds rather slow, it has the nuance to create enough subtle texture to make you wonder what's coming next. Without going too heavy into spoilers, the game opens with you losing your career and your father and being put into a position of starting a new remote job after moving back to your old childhood home. The mystery unfolds as you uncover what he was working on and trying to restart your own future. With themes ranging from personal loss, to conspiracy and aliens there's a lot of hints, but very little prompting. You're often left to figure it out on your own. The mystery and depth of the game comes in not just figuring out what's going on, but often in how to proceed. Your daily task list is minimal and you'll need to solve the small obstacles of navigating the world, finding keys, solving puzzle boxes and the typical point and click mystery presentation. If you need constant praise and hand holding, this probably isn't for you. The setting is isolating, providing a mild psychological horror theme, and the aesthetic is intentionally leaning towards the bland and depressing. The narrator (your character talking to himself) is brooding and introspective and brings life to what might otherwise feel like a rather empty world. I need to temper my praise here as the presentation is hampered by the limitations of the Unity engine, it's a janky and not particularly inspiring visual game and it definitely feels more 2005 than 2025, but it's still pretty impressive for a solo developer. And if the mystery and story telling are more important to you than the graphics, than this won't matter anyway. Overall if you're the kind of person who can curl up with a good book and a hot chocolate to explore your way through a mystery at the pace of a slow rainy day, you might find yourself enjoying this. --- Bottom line: A janky point and click mystery, held together by decent writing and narration. --- [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38232109/]While you are here, would you consider following my curator page?[/url] [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/kunovega/recommended/]Want to read all of my reviews and not just the curated ones?[/url]

It's confusing, unpolished and unclear objective - overall it works clunky

Remote Position klingt nach einem spannenden Spiel, und der erste Eindruck ist tatsächlich vielversprechend. Mit guter Sprachausgabe und einem spannenden Intro beginnt die Geschichte: Als gescheiterter Technikgigant zieht man sich in das Anwesen seines verschollenen Vaters zurück und soll dort dem Geheimnis seiner alten Forschungen auf die Spur kommen. Das klingt vielversprechend, und so landet man im Anwesen und… hängt erstmal ein paar Hundebilder auf, weil die Ehefrau mich per SMS dazu auffordert. Schon hier zeigt sich ein Problem: Das Spiel sagt einem kaum, was man genau tun soll. Die Aufhängeplätze für die Bilder zu finden ist mässig interessant und eher mühsam. Aber gut, das wäre noch zu verschmerzen. Doch genau hier wird das Grundproblem deutlich: Das Spiel erklärt fast gar nichts. Und leider ist vieles nicht so intuitiv und selbsterklärend, wie es in so einem Fall sein müsste. Das zieht sich weiter. Beim ersten richtigen Rätsel wusste ich im Prinzip, was ich tun musste, hatte aber keinerlei Anhaltspunkt, wie ich es tun sollte. Mag sein, dass das für Fans besonders kniffliger Rätsel genau das Richtige ist, für mich war es einfach nur frustrierend. Der endgültige Sargnagel war dann die erste Begegnung mit einem Feind. Ich hatte durch Hinweise im Spiel zwar eine Ahnung, wo der Schwachpunkt liegen könnte, aber nichts von dem, was ich tat, schien zu helfen. Ich wurde getötet. Auch hier: keine Hilfestellung, kein Hinweis, wie man es hätte besser machen können. Es gibt sicher eine clevere Lösung, nur leider erschliesst sich mir diese nicht. Und so wurde das Spiel für mich zur einzigen nervigen Katastrophe. Fazit: Wer auf harte Rätsel ohne Hilfe steht und es aushält, mehrfach zu scheitern, bis er vielleicht irgendwann eine Lösung findet, der kann hier vielleicht glücklich werden. Wer das wie ich nicht kann, sollte einen grossen Bogen um Remote Position machen. Von mir ganz klar: keine Empfehlung.

I really wanted to give this game a shot. I tried, and so did those who were watching tried, and none of us could properly understand what we were supposed to be doing. Specifically how to wash our clothes in the garage that would not open and had no door. It overall is slightly clunky, and gave me mild motion sickness, but it was the lack of clear instruction on how to do things that kinda threw it out for me. There's photos to use the device on the wall, but when you follow the steps it doesn't work, and that's the only thing you really have right off the bat besides chores you can't do. The appeal of the game is there, especially with visuals, as well as atmosphere. So if you're looking for something pretty, this game has it. Just keep in mind it gets frustrating fast.

Definitely has some potential. But it is very confusing and easy to get lost with no real direction. I was stuck within twenty minutes on a puzzle that I had the answers to but weren't working for some reason. If the game gets more polished and maybe a proper hint system then I could see it being really fun.

I really wanted to use controller with this game but it glitches out when it does. The menu screen would freeze. If you use KBnM, it is a lot better. You also have to fix the graphics every time you log in. Overall the game can be fun if you are into the puzzles like tormented souls or other games that have similar gameplay. Small things could be updated like when things don't open, can note it is "locked" but maybe i don't play enough puzzle games to know what certain things mean.

Remote Position propose une expérience d’horreur psychologique immersive centrée sur la tension et l’étrangeté. Le jeu nous place dans la peau d’un employé recevant des ordres de son mystérieux superviseur, à travers des tâches de plus en plus absurdes et inquiétantes. La narration s’installe progressivement, mêlant malaise et curiosité, tandis que l’atmosphère sonore et visuelle maintient un sentiment constant d’isolement et de paranoïa. Côté gameplay, Remote Position alterne entre exploration, énigmes et séquences de survie nerveuses. Certaines mécaniques de combat participent néanmoins à la tension et à la vulnérabilité du joueur. En somme, Remote Position est une courte mais marquante aventure horrifique qui séduira les amateurs de jeux narratifs étranges. Sa force réside dans son ambiance et sa progression psychologique, plus que dans sa difficulté ou sa durée. Une belle surprise.

Not a bad game and with more polish it could be great. I liked the puzzled solving required more thinking on my part, and the story was pretty interesting. However, there were clunk parts. [spoiler] When leaving the attic to escape the house, it was hard jumping out the window after breaking it with the ax. Also, when I filled the mug with water, sometimes, if i died and restarted, my mug would have no water (which made sense) but I could splash the enemy and nothing happened, preventing me from filling the mug and getting rid of the enemies. [/spoiler] With some fixes on the clunky parts and puzzles, this would be a smoother. Hope this helps it the updates.

The game seems unpolished, several time I would progress the puzzle just to be meet with nothing behind a safe only to find the safes contents floating in the air outside. I understand you should just explore and try all information on all puzzles you have but there is really no direction.

还没通关，刚打开后院的隐藏门被提示 to be continued，与作者沟通马上给了补丁。目前看来质量不错，虽然画面一般但是解谜很有趣，恶心的外星“💩”怪拍💦…… 还没通关，尽早更。 终于通关了，youtube上唯一的通关视频和目前的版本有很多区别，导致卡关数次，与开发者沟通才得以继续，图像音乐故事都是平均水平，谜题的逻辑性不强，但是幽默感还是不少，四星勉强