Runes: The Forgotten Path

Although heavily unpolished, I enjoyed the two hours I spent on Runes. The puzzle segments had me look up a tutorial because the way I was trying to solve the puzzle would always make the psychics engine freak out. In hindsight, they were very simple and rewarding puzzles. One thing I wished there was more of was combat. There was a small combat segment at the end, however as you unlock runes in the game they always use enimes as targets but it feels like a lot of buildup for very little reward. Some gripes i have with the game is that there is no native joystick support. On top of that, in order to turn around you would have to go into their 'astral projection mode' rotate the little ghost character that pops out of you and then get out of it in order to rotate. This system is very clunky at best and confusing at worse. A simple rotation system that i found used to great effect is just allowing the player to rotate with the press of a button. Think how VRchat handles rotation. TLDR: Although if this game wasn't free I would have picked it up for a couple of dollars. Dont expect much though as its two hours of puzzle segments and a small bit of combat at the end. It feels like the game wants to be puzzle segments broken up with segments of combat, but its just puzzles. If you end up playing this average game, I hope you love puzzles.

Un jeu indé en VR qui reprend dans l'esprit la mécanique de lancer de sorts en les dessinant dans l'air d'Arx Fatalis etc... On aurait pu croire qu'il devienne très action suite à son intro mais que né-ni, c'est plutôt le contraire au final. Il sera basé principalement sur sa narration & sur des puzzles dans un jeu d'aventure linéaire où il faudra résoudre des énigmes pour se remémorer les différents sorts au fur & à mesure. Avec 4 environnements majeurs (+un hub menu) dont le labo où on reviendra régulièrement résoudre quelques énigmes assez simples. On peut utiliser un sort par main & ralentir le temps... très utile pour certaines énigmes & les combats. Assez bien réalisé dans l'ensemble mais avec une physique qui varie entre correcte & bien buggé par endroits (dont les boites d'ingrédients qui se pètent la gueule tout le temps dès qu'on revient dans le labo, qu'on doit re-trier en partie à chaque fois...) Les animations des quelques personnages sont rudimentaires, ils ont par contre tous des masques (on se doute bien pourquoi)... Les phases de combat sont par contre très très laborieuses, heureusement il n'y en aura que 2, (l'intro & la scène de combat finale plus longue) Par contre attention, la sauvegarde est automatique mais ne sauvegarde pas forcément quand on change de lieu mais dans le labo... J'ai du recommencer plusieurs fois des sections du jeu en croyant que cela avait sauvegardé...la misère ! Un sympathique 1er épisode/chapitre d'une série qui n'aura pas de suite... avec de bonne idées (dont un déplacement à la 2ème personne possible) même s'il aurait eu besoin d'un peu plus de fignolage. Il est devenu gratuit (sorti à priori à la base à plus de 16$) donc aucune raison de ne pas le tester. Fonctionne sans problème sous HTC Vive Pro 2.

The story is straight crazy in a good way. The voice acting is great with few shortcomings. The main character's voice is similar to Garret from Thief. It feels like it is going to be a cheap pos game from the intro but then you get into the house which is your main hub area and it is like an escape room. It is a blast from there. The end battle is unforgiving but doable and has invisible checkpoints so it isn't so bad when you die a lot. ( I recommend you hold a giant rock as a shield and fireball everything until only the giants are left and then take them out with the rocks) There is possibly a second ending since you are faced with a choice ,where you can do nothing or do what you are being told, which I will be looking up after writing this. Overall, it is a really fun game and should not be ignored.

For free, it's definitely a fun experience provided you have a decent VR setup. It has a lot of different options for traversal that made it enjoyable even with my the small space I have and there were a lot of interesting ideas here. My favorite was the stuff involving the drawers. If an alchemy game was made centered around just making stuff with them with some extra steps before or after creation, I'd happily buy it. That said, the spell casting is sometimes a little awkward, the movement sometimes glitches a bit, and the graphics are just okay (though it wasn't enough to bother me). Still a good amount of fun for a free game. Note: If an item gets stuck in something else, grab it and teleport out to move it.

Runes'ta sanal bir fantezi dünyasında hayatta kalmak için savaşan hain bir büyücüsünüz. Güçlü büyüler yapmak, bulmacaları çözmek ve düşmanlarla savaşmak için ellerinizin hareketini kullanın. Bu hikaye odaklı fantastik macerada, tam bir VR deneyimiyle zengin ve ayrıntılı dünyaları keşfedin.

Al ser gratuito no me esperaba que fuera tan bueno. Es cierto que es corto (me lo he pasado en 2h) y que se notan algunas cosas sin pulir (sobre todo detalles técnicos, cambios entre escenarios, etc) pero en cuanto a mecánicas está genial; y la historia me ha parecido bastante buena y MUY bien contada.

It's old, and it's janky, but it's fascinating and reasonably well written. It's very atmospheric, and (as far as i have gotten) the puzzles have been very entertaining (very escape room-y). Also, at least at the time of writing it's free! In the context of which this is just an amazing game.