The Apartment

Encountered a game breaking bug tied to the auto save system. Behaves like checkpoints. Saves after each segment of an investigation concludes. For me it created a sequence break at the hanging corpse crime scene. Followed by a hard softlock, after I returned to the game mid investigation. Restarting the level doesn't do what it is supposed to, instead loads the last auto save. *Sigh* To resume playing I'd need to delete all my save files manually from the corresponding steam directory. Might return to this, might not... Try the demo first. It is a good vertical slice I believe. The Apartment was pretty ambitious for it's time and place in indie history.

我想知道逃出着火的房间后，为什么犯罪现场的幕布会卡住人，进不去？？？

I really like the idea of a first person detective game. So far, fairly decent game for the price. Check out my gameplay video of it for a better idea. https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=N0BDgcrBhGY

This game is about 3 hours long I like the detective gameplay there isn’t anything bad i would say about this game the only thing is there were bits in the game that didn’t seem like it was needed and some of the clue solving didn’t feel like it suited the game if I’m making sense here but overall not a bad game. It did seem like there might be a part 2 coming. Check out my gameplay if you wanna see what it’s about Part 1: https://youtu.be/K5Zb5aAsCzM Part 2: https://youtu.be/gVS28bTjU5k Part 3: https://youtu.be/JiM8j167Y9E

The Apartment is a game which has so many strengths, but doesn't seem to realise where they lie. It's also a game that wants to be at least 5 different things, and while it might achieve them all to varying degrees, it makes for such a confusing and unsatisfying whole that I eventually just checked out. Which is a shame, because for the first few hours at least, I was completely engrossed. Starting out as an investigative thriller with horror elements, The Apartment sets a brilliant tone. Investigating grizzly crime scenes, piecing clues together - the early environments are stunningly detailed, and at times you feel like a genuine investigator. It's also clear from early in the piece that your character isn't a stable one; there's relationship breakdown, substance abuse - all he has left is his work. Again, this is handled really well, and the surrealist interludes that bookend the early investigative segments are brilliant. Finding your way back to the apartment after each investigation is a touch of genius, as you never quite know how you'll get there or what you'll find when you do. Things start to drag a little around the 2/3 mark, and then... Well, the last hour or two is completely ridiculous. It's almost like the devs took everything they had been building towards - all the tension, all of the plot development, all of the increasingly complex investigations - and said "♥♥♥♥ it! Forget the plot! Forget all the things!" What ensues is a barely competent shooter, and the "plot twist" (being generous) that leads to this made me literally laugh out loud. It's one of the dumbest switch ups I've ever seen in more than 20 years of playing games. If you can imagine sitting through two hours of Apocalypse Now, only to get to the Kurtz Compound and have the whole thing turn into a zombie sex orgy, that's kind of where we're at. And you'd be annoyed, right? Because everything preceding that was pretty damn brilliant. So, yeah. I'm sorry. But I just can't recommend this. It's an exercise in building something good and then completely destroying it with cheerful abandon. I'd be happier if it had been trash from the beginning - we could have all saved each other time, money and disappointment.

This is the absolute worst game that I have ever had the displeasure of coming across. This game just kept going on forever to no avail with no rhyme or reason. The puzzles were mystifying and impossible to solve. Yes we want difficult mind bending puzzles but make them solvable and make them make sense. The restarting of the levels was very frustrating as well when you gave us a scenario with nothing to connect the dots and just threw us into a new puzzle. The creators of the game seriously need to go back to the drawing board and work on the story line and the step by step process of the puzzles and how they are supposed to play out. They need to ask themselves, "Does this puzzle make sense? After 3 hours of wasted time and lots of frustration I finally threw the towel in for the night. Would not recommend.

Não sabia bem o que esperar deste game ao começar a jogar !! É um mistão de muitos gêneros como descrito na descrição do game, só que não esperava que isso pudesse mesmo ser possível em um jogo. Achei o game bem ousado na proposta dele e muito barato pelo que oferece. O jogo é baseado mais em investigação do que horror ou outra coisa, você é um detetive que esta a resolver assassinatos em série de possíveis turistas.. Mais por que elas tão morrendo? e são mesmo turistas? A forma como tudo vai se desenrolando e formando enigmas na mente é brilhante, fora os puzzles que você acha que se resolve de uma forma e a solução é de outra. Talvez pouca gente conhece este game, pois isso seria a unica forma de explicar as baixas vendas na steam. Se você gosta de games de investigação, com elementos de objetos ocultos e leves pitadas de insanidade este é um grande game e merece ser desbravado por você !!

I say I recommend it because I was into the investigative parts (wish there were more) and finding clues and all BUT ... well without getting spoiler-ish things were weird but interesting story-wise, but I feel like the ending went off the rails and spent waaaay too much time being something other than a investigation/psychological thriller. But still not a bad deal at the lower price.

This feels like a little bit hidden gem for me and unique in some way. Crime scene investigation is nice and story is some things good but some plot/levels is very stupid and boring especially game ending is stupid. but if you get this cheap it worth of the money maybe 6/10 nothing very special but playable at least once and mostly enjoyable/interesting. Some mechanics are very buggy and frustrating example when you need to jumping using an object as an platform feels like its luck if you got to up.

The Apartment beginnt mitten in einem Designerapartment, dass den Protagonisten repräsentiert, sowie seine berufliche als auch private Situation. Wir bekommen durch Monologe heraus, dass wir ein Detektiv sind, der dabei ist, eine Reihe von Morden aufzuklären. Beim Betrachten einiger Gegenstände, bekommen wir das Gefühl, dass unser Privatleben zu sehr unter unserem Job gelitten hat und wir wahrscheinlich von unserer Frau verlassen wurden und unsere Sorgen in Alkohol ertränken. Bizzare Traumsequenzen spiegeln unseren Gefühlszustand, Druck und Unterbewusstsein wider. Diese Traumsequenzen wechsel von einem surrealen, P.T. ähnlichem Setting, zu einer actionreiche Szene mit sehr viel Goreinhalten, bis hin zu Puzzlesequenzen. Die Texturen sind teilweise sehr ansprechend, aber dann fehlt es doch an "Tiefe", z.B. wenn man sich den leeren Hintergrund am Balkon ansieht. Da hätte man etwas mehr heraushauen können. Musik wird spärlich eingesetzt und nur zu bestimmten Situationen, um diese besser zu unterstreichen - definitiv kein Mangel, da der Fokus auf die Sounds und Atmosphäre gesetzt wird. Was mich mehr stört, ist die Tatsache, dass das Spiel für 10€ ziemlich viele Bugs und Fehler aufweist, sowie mangelnder Erklärung und/oder Textelementen. Öfters fällt man durch den Boden, der Controller lässt sich nur stellenweise steuern, das Anklicken von Auswahlmöglichkeiten funktioniert nicht richtig oder man kann Mordszenen nicht verlassen und kommt somit im Spiel nicht weiter (!). Solche Geschichten dürfen gerne in einer Alpha vorkommen, nicht aber in einer Vollversion. Es handelt sich hierbei auch nicht um kleinere Fehler, sondern essenziellen. Mit diesen Bugs ist das Spiel NICHT SPIELBAR! Einige Dinge wurden bereits behoben, aber nicht alles und das schlägt mir persönlich sehr auf die Laune. Für mich persönlich wäre auch eine etwas detailliertere Beschreibung im Menü oder Hinweisen im Spiel lieber gewesen. Kleines Beispiel: der Spieler betritt zum ersten Mal die Wohnung, klickt auf Objekte, wie den Fernseher und bekommt einen Game Over Screen. Ohne jegliche Vorwarnung und Sinn... Ebenso sind die "beenden" und "weiter machen" Auswahlen sehr "poetisch" geschrieben. Ich kann verstehen, dass man auch hier versucht eine bestimmte Atmosphäre zu schaffen, finde es aber extremst unnötig. Wechselnde Szenerien sind gut, allerdings lässt der Wechsel dorthin etwas zu wünschen übrig. Entweder hat man langatmige Sequenzen oder übertriebene Darstellungen. Ja hier soll auf das Unbewusste hingewiesen werden und Elemente des Tatortes aufgegriffen werden, allerdings spüre ich nichts von einer Atmosphäre, wenn ich immer wieder durch einen Raum gehen muss a la P.T. Eine Fokussierung hätte dem Spiel besser getan. Es ist ok, dass man keine richtige Intronsequenz hat und nebenbei alles serviert bekommt, so wie die Steurrungserklärung, auch das Voiceacting ist nett. Aber die Mängel, die das Spiel aufrufen demotivieren mich zu tiefst. Es kann auch nicht sein, dass man ständig auf ein Update warten muss, damit alles gefixt ist. Das Spiel hat Potenzial, sofern es besser umgesetzt worden wäre. So vergebe ich nur mit sehr viel Wohlwollen ein "So lala". Würde mich die Spielidee nicht so packen, wäre es mit Verlaub einfach nur scheiße. Für Interessenten hier mein Gameplay Material: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfnWdatlb6Q