Silent Earth

Short, making it longer down each path would make it better

"Silent Earth" is a frankly awful, failed attempt at making a text adventure, which could have been done in a browser, but the developers decided it needs to compete with GTA:V and CS:GO here on Steam. It's not free, the developers want some money, but it looks like they failed to get any as the peak player count shows. What do you do in the game? Click on text in this garbage CYOA e-book (not game). Modern gaming, being a rich, visually interactive medium, requires at least passable visuals for any acceptable entry into the annals of the industry. Here, the developers didn't know how to do that, so you just get some static pictures and a bunch of text. Like I said, this could have been a web page. I don't think Steam was intended to compete with Chrome and Firefox. This is only free in a rudimentary sense... the developer has their hand out for a $4 USD "donation" for this as you're expected to buy some extra DLC from Steam... digital panhandling. Like the homeless guys who splash dirty water on your windscreen at the traffic lights. No thanks. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 3 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Nope. This isn't worth downloading. While this didn't cost me any money up front, I still feel ripped off.

The situation, characters and call for action are all set up well for the beginning of a great story. There are lots of nice themes being built that could take this game in so many different directions. An ambitious adventure for the characters and ambitious plot for the writers. Although, I only came to one of the endings. I hope they all sound as interesting as the one I ended with. I hope the developers aren't finished yet. This free game doesn't feel like a full game but rather a test or set-up for a future, more detailed game. I think the plot and characters are interesting enough to go all the way. Please continue the story! A Mass Effect-like world would be fun if you have the budget! :D A point n click would work too. And, again, if it remains text-based (cuz text-based is cool, too), need to bring the readers further into the world and make the user experience nicer. The black screen does have a feeling of reading in a void. And I turned off the music half way through. I thought that the progression of the game, as it is, already does the same things as a point n click game such as being able to hover over words/objects to get more detail. Just needs more development and encouragement to keep going.

Its exactly as advertised. LGBT friendly, too, judging by what I saw of the character interactions. A choose your own adventure in space, short and free.

Great sci-fi text adventure. The story is interesting and the music is decent.

还行

Какая-то хунта

Pretty smooth to navigate, doesn't lock in choices. I quite liked it. That said it was rather forceful for a choose your own adventure. I did four endings and none of them felt like something I would choose. All pretty depressing for some reason. That said, I think it did a good job with setting and tone and overall would really enjoy seeing more like this.