Rest House

Update #1 03/17/2020: The fall damage problem has been fixed. The game is still really buggy and I still don't feel I can recommend it in it's current state but it is definitely closer to a "recommend" than I thought it would be at this point. At the very least, it's kind of playable at this point and you can make some progress. Fundamentally broken in just about every way imagineable. I thought the game couldn't possibly be as bad as the other reviewers made it out to be. I was wrong. It was even worse.

[quote][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/9686972/]Follow "[b]First Person Exploration and Puzzle Games[/b]" for more games like this![/url][/quote] This game reminds me a [i]lot[/i] of Off-Peak and The Norwood Suite. So much so, in fact, that I'd be willing to bet it's the same developer by a different name. All three games look and feel very amateurish (especially the programming), but are oddly appealing due to the environments. You walk around very strange environments doing strange things while a strange (but very basic) storyline unfolds. Unfortunately, of the three games, this is definitely the worst. The game is so buggy that I died while walking around doing nothing (why can you even die in a walking simulator??). It's still in 'early access', but it was supposed to be finished over a year ago, with no word from the devs, so it's unlikely to ever get fixed. I'd have to recommend you avoid this and play Norwood Suite instead.

#CONFUSING# So, the Rest House is an early access horror game puzle with a nice atmosphere and music. But there is many of things that need to be fixed. For example: 1. To many empty spaces. (Game has rooms with nothing in it, just walls and some mist) 2. Planty of bugs and messed up textures. (especially hate messed up font) 3. Game doesnt have a control manual, so I accidentally quit the game all over again and redo all my progress. 4. Save button doesnt save game, like seriously :D 5. Sometimes sounds are too loud and its uncontrollably. Okay, now move to the good part. 1. Really nice and catchy music. (I want soundtrack from this game if its original) 2. When rooms are actually filled with something, it looks pretty good. 3. Although it was confusing and sometimes silly, I got scared twice or more. :D So, thats all, I hope this game gonna be a lot better with time and I will come back and play it again.

Game is very buggy and save is not possible. Some levels can not be finished because textures are missing and you fall through the floor. You can die if you jump against a wall but there is no fall damage.

[h3]Rest House[/h3] Bunter Erkundungs-Labyrinth-Rätsel-Plattformer in der Egoperspektive. Raum für Raum gilt es, den Ausgang zu finden, was nicht immer leicht ist, weil nirgendwo eine Anleitung existiert. hast Du Dich erst mal an das Spiel gewöhnt, geht es aber: Dinge einsammeln, Türen öffnen, Bodenplatten betätigen (nur wie bleiben die unten ?) hüpfen und springen, Hinweise finden und auch lesen oder anschauen, das sind im Wesentlichen die Aufgaben, die zu meistern sind. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2525634009 Die Geschichte des Spiels, In befriedigendem Englisch, gesprochen oder als Untertitel und mit teilweise musikalischem Hintergrund versehen, habe ich nicht kapiert, da halfen mir auch nicht die in vielen Etappen zu findenden youtube-Verlinkungen zu Videos der Entwickler nicht weiter. Das Belohnungsvideo nach Erreichen des Endes war mal eine wirklich nette Idee, nur leider entzog mir sich auch hier ein tieferer Sinn, wenn es denn einen geben sollte. Vielleicht geht es um die Metapher, dass wir Menschen auch nur Mäuse in einem Labyrinth sind, wer weiß (das kommt im Spiel öfter mal vor) ? Vielleicht kriegt ihr es ja raus... Ich wollte das Spiel eigentlich erst empfehlen, weil es so ungewöhnlich ist, dann dachte ich aber an die Jahre um 2000 zurück, als es in 3D unglaublich viele einfache und stupide Spiele gab. Dies hier wurde zwar mit den neueren Möglichkeiten programmiert und sieht deswegen auch einigermaßen gut aus, aber überzeugt hat es mich leider gar nicht, das Gesamtpaket war eben zu schlecht und der/die Entwickler werden wohl was draufpacken müssen, mal sehen was die Fortsetzung so bringt.

A very peculiar obsession of Don Quixote paints this game's cerebral narrative. The levels and artwork are muddled, jarring, and provide a fenestrated glimpse into the developer's unusual psyche. A commitment worth its value if you're into strange games. Warning: The game offers links to external websites usually found at the end of each level to Youtube videos, Leaderboards, and other websites. Some of these links were blocked by my antivirus for malicious code. Some of those loaded in-game windows to these external websites that my antivirus blocked as well.

Игра очень необычная и загадочная. Сам сюжет – большая загадка для многих, тайна, которую надо открыть пройдя игру. Сразу уточню, что игра в стадии раннего доступа. Работа над ней кипит, но многое еще предстоит сделать. Сейчас в игре доступно несколько уровней. Все они выглядят как цветной Нуар и Сюрреализм. Прям как «Другое кино» для ценителей высокого искусства. Как по мне, так слишком много всего совместили в игре, а сюжет скрыли в самую середину. Докопаться до сути смогут только самые пытливые умы. Внешне все красиво смотрится. Яркие краски на фоне темных тонов, необычные сочетания света и тени. Создателя явно вдохновила игра «Bioshock». Звуки неплохие, но скрип открывающихся дверей и скрежет переключателей надо заменить. Этот звук сильно раздражает! Если вам нравятся подобные хорроры, любите Нуар и Сюрреализм, то обратите внимание на «Rest House». Интригующая игра на стадии раннего доступа. Получите возможность проследить за ее развитием. Очень любопытно как она будет выглядеть в релизной версии!

一款第一人称的恐怖游戏 唯一的感受就是放了一大堆毫无关联的家具/设备，搞出来的辣鸡

Unplayable, broken trash art platformer/walking sim abandonware. It has no redeeming qualities. Rest House is an undisciplined mess. It seems like a journey through the mind of a person, but that is nothing more than a bad excuse to ignore art direction and level design completely and throw in random assets, materials and light objects to hide the eclectic and directionless art with pretty volumetric lighting. Even if you like games like the Norwood Suite, avoid this garbage. There are no save points, no way to heal and so many bugs and bad collision detection. I died way too often to fall damage. Even jumping at ground level can kill you. No tutorials or options. The GUI is terrible. It's either unfinished, unpolished or stolen from what seems like Bioshock. The story is of course nonsense too. The "puzzles" sometimes work, sometimes don't. The assets sometimes have textures, sometimes don't. Apparantly there is a multiplayer mode, but after trying it once, that is broken too, with objects flashing and lighting up, NPCs running around and then bugging out. This isn't trash art, this's just trash.

I find this one hard to rate actually. I kinda like the crazy random visuals and since it's early access I don't want to be too harsh. But there were 3 aspects that annoyed me too much to give it a thumbs up: First, if you just get a description of what to do to solve a puzzle, it's not really a puzzle anymore. Second, Wtf is this fall damage? Falling 4 floors down without getting damage and then, on the other hand, loosing 20hp when just jumping on the spot? I don't get it. And third, please don't use stairs which you can only climb by jumping every 2 steps! It's just annoying. So all in all, I stopped playing in the third chapter after dying from a combination of those stupid stairs and random fall damage... I look forward to give this game another go though :) ... if it ever gets finished. Best wishes.