Tear Factory

A severely gut wrenching sad tale about a kind father / husband desperately trying to feed his family. Refusing his beautiful home cooked meals, day after day, his family is truly ungrateful. The father's wife and his two teenage sons do not even acknowledge his existence. The give him the silent treatment, day after day. The father eventually drives off into the sunset away from them, seeking a newfound hopeful future. On his travels he meets a lonely sheep in the middle of the road, and engages conversation with the animal. In this conversation the father finally discovers true love, a friendly companion to talk to, and finds exactly what is needed to heal his brutally wounded heart. 7 / 13

5 стадій з опису гри це не про сюжет і саму гру, а скоріше про враження від неї. А от про "вбивати щурів, годувати ними сім'ю і лягати спати" гру описує на 100%, більше там нічого не відбувається. Чесно, я люблю дивні інді ігри, але це мав бути короткий артхаусний фільм без слів, а не гра з непристосованим ні для чого управлінням. Не розумію, чому тут стільки позитивних відгуків, хоча прочитавши їх вже після проходження бачу, що гравцям і досі подобається вигадувати сюжет і надавати зміст будь-чому. За цю смішну ціну можна пограти 20 хвилин, особливо якщо подобаються шутери і умовно-депресивний сеттінг, але нічого нового чи принаймні вартого уваги я в грі не знайшов.

I usually am pretty lenient on short, low budget horror games but the "Very Positive" scoring for this game puzzles me. It does look nice and has a decent style, but that's it. It's only 20 minutes, and while I don't mind the length (I've come to enjoy bite sized games you can knock out in one sitting), there is very little substance to it. Anything I say will feel like a spoiler! Anyways, this is what the game consists of: [spoiler]You and your family get into a car crash and then every day you wake up in the morning, check your phone for messages, walk past your wife and two kids who are sitting dead, and go out to hunt 3 rats to feed them. You can pick up and drop random objects in the house but it didn't seem like there's anything to do other than that. You leave the house and each time it puts you in a different place where you have a shotgun, need to pick up shells, and shoot 3 rats to unlock a door that takes you back to your house at night. First day it's a maze, then a shop with a warehouse, some kind of art gallery, and a motel. The maze and art gallery have next to nothing going for it visually, and even though the other two "levels" are much more 'designed,' there's still nothing to do or see. Shoot three rats that are scurrying about and leave. If you wait a little too long, a giant JPEG of a rat comes after you. When you return home it's the night and you put the rats you caught on plates for your dead family to eat. On the last day, instead of hunting for rats, you get in your car and drive until you swerve to avoid a sheep or something and crash into a tree. The end. [/spoiler] Apparently there is a second ending if you grab some objects in each level (I had no clue there was anything you can collect while playing this) so you can [spoiler]bury your dead family[/spoiler] but I don't care much to see it. There's also some kind of commentary on churches and Christianity, but it's absolutely nothing deep. This guy's got some crosses hung up above his bed, a Bible on the nightstand, the "art gallery" has religious art in, and his church is calling him for donations [spoiler]even though they know his family died[/spoiler]? Okay? I don't tend to look too much at store pages for these kind of games since they're cheap and I like going in fresh. The half-decent screenshots and "Very Positive" were doing the heavy lifting in my choice to buy this, so I guess it's on me. Watching the trailer after I just finished the game, I don't think I would've bothered with this at all. I paid $0.60 and still feel like it should've been free.

[h2]Кормить тень - значит ли быть светом?[/h2] Tear Factory - это скорее короткий перформанс скорби, чем традиционная игра. Будто остаёшься один на один с тем, что обычно прячешь. Ты уже всё понял, но всё равно продолжаешь идти кругами. Без цели, но не просто так. Нет борьбы. Нет выхода. Только ритуал, который становится частью тебя или ты его частью(?) Прошлое тут не просто фон. Оно липкое, оно тянет, ест тебя. И ты не сопротивляешься. Странно, но в этом есть покой. Как будто, если не дёргаться, всё не развалится окончательно. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3420502198

ungrateful family doesn't realize all that i provide for them

Solid grief story that gains a lot from the strong cinematic implementation and musical accompaniment - There's a lot to uncover here in terms of metaphor, whether it's about 5 stages of grief or survivor's guilt, what the end means, etc

Tear Factory is a little horror game where your poor very hungry and very communicative family need you to go and hunt rats and nothing is strange whatsoever. The gameplay loop here is simple. Your family is hungry and demanding so you must go out into the world and shoot rats and bring them home, each day there are different environments to hunt for rats. Look out for the REALLY big ones. You then bring the rats home and you can have a delicious meal! Hooray! Nothing else is wrong. NOTHING! The game has a really unusual look and feel giving a disturbing otherworldly live throughout but this is clearly just an aesthetic choice because absolutely nothing is wrong. For the price this is worth playing for a short horror experience. Interested in seeing what else Daddysucc (best dev name). Can come up with in the future.

Жижа, насилующая глаза и косящая под игры Дэвида Шимански. Из плюсов тут только прикольный звук, возможность кинуть кастрюлей в мёртвую жену и стрельба по jpeg-крысам. В остальном это крайне тухлая и претенциозная демка на 20 минут - походил по четырем микро-аренам, пострелял крыс, накормил ими жену и детей, а потом титры. Daddysucc more like Daddysucc my balls.