The Forgotten Village (Demo)

Игра "The Forgotten Village (Demo)" оставила смешанное, но в целом положительное впечатление. Атмосфера заброшенной деревни передана отлично - гнетущая тишина, пустые дома и ощущение чьего-то присутствия заставляют напрячься. Графика, хоть и бюджетная, создает достаточно убедительный визуальный ряд. Геймплей фокусируется на исследовании и решении головоломок. Головоломки, представленные в демо, не слишком сложные, но заставляют внимательно осматривать окружение и думать. Сюжет, пока что, представлен обрывочно, но чувствуется загадка и потенциально интересная история, стоящая за исчезновением жителей деревни. Однако, демо версия ощущается короткой и обрывается прямо на самом интересном месте. Есть небольшие проблемы с оптимизацией, иногда наблюдаются незначительные проседания FPS. В целом, "The Forgotten Village" имеет перспективный потенциал. Если разработчики смогут доработать оптимизацию и раскрыть сюжет до конца, то может получиться неплохая инди-хоррор игра. Рекомендую ознакомиться с демо-версией любителям жанра и поддержать разработчиков, если представленный материал покажется интересным.

"The Forgotten Village (Demo)" is is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "The Forgotten Village". The Forgotten Village is an unfinished tech demo from an attempt to make some kind of indie game studio... and based on how badly this advert failed, it's likely they imploded immediately after. Should have saved the $100 Steam Direct fee for a few drinks at the pub instead. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not The Forgotten Village, it's just an advertisment for it (and their game studio), so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "The Forgotten Village (Demo)" too. Usually the purpose of these advertisements is to get you to shell out money to the developer to buy the full product, but the developer hasn't bothered actually making a product you can buy, leaving this as an advertisement for nothing. We must question what value this pointless advertising has for gamers... and the answer is "none". Due to the poor public response amongst gamers for this advertisement, it seems unlikely the developer will go on to make the full product. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. As an advertisement, this is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser are. This is a game demo that's been dumped on Steam to advertise another Steam store page in the hopes of raking in some cash. Just because advertisements are free, doesn't mean they're worth your time. It's important to understand there's a formal process to create a demo/page for a game which hasn't been followed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos While it might seem like an inocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful. This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game. Instead, that visibility is given over to a demo/advert that's been published incorrectly and is polluting the marketplace. It's unclear if this mistake was made through incompetence or a deliberate intent to mislead gamers. Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at [b]only 3 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Advertisements and incorrectly published demos don't add +1 to your game collector count, they aren't full games. It's impossible for me to recommend this incorrectly published advertising spam to gamers, you deserve better than adverts.

Very fun demo, though a little to short in my opinion, it left me wanting more :) Game is very easy to learn and super chill. There could be a few more styles in the customisation in all honesty . Looking forward to what comes with the full release.