The Keyless: Awakening

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Had fun playing this game, and will play this again now that there is a new update!

"Find The Key" is a low key asset flip, a bunch of other people's assets assembled badly to make a basic game, typically this kind of thing is done by amateur developers without sufficient budget, talent and/or staff to do the job of game development professionally. It's then quickly rushed into Steam Direct. And, unsurprisingly, this never results in a product with any quality, interest, or value for gamers. This is a lame simplistic first person horror adventure, there's literally thousands of these low effort jumpscare asset flips here on Steam, and this, remarkably, is one of the worst. All you do is explore the same asset copy + pasted a couple of times, with a nonsensical layout and even more nonsensical gameplay. Unfortunately despite being so bad, this game has plenty of equally awful peers here on Steam. So, the game might look better than you'd expect from an amateur project, but this is because it's partially or completely made up of stock assets, "borrowed" from asset stores and free asset websites. Very little in this game is truly the creation of the "developer", it's just a bunch of rearranged assets. While there's no up front price for this asset flip, the other problem with asset flips is that when developers aren't capable of doing their job and creating high quality assets, it's also true they can't do any of the rest of the job of a game developer either. That's definitely true for "Find The Key". The game is really simple and unambitious in terms of implementation, more of a tech demo or one of those cases where an amateur developer spends $100 to publish something on Steam Direct to see if it's possible. Yes, obviously it's possible. A proof of concept, tech demo, or something that's less than a little blip on the radar isn't offering anything truly valuable to gamers. Insultingly, the developer insists that you should play this with a console peasant children's toy gamepad instead of KB+M. Developers should try to be aware which platform they're designing games for. It's the responsibility of the developer to ensure the game runs well on the platform they're selling it on, with the primary peripherals that PC gamers use. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. There's no initial download price, but the developer was charging $1 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It seems like a nice gesture for the game to have no up-front cost anymore, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. This is also a bit of a slap in the face to anyone who showed enough questionable judgement to pay money for this... nobody got refunded. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 6 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Given that this free title won't increase your game collector count, is it worth your time to add it to your library? Nope. This isn't worth downloading. There's no financial cost up-front, but you'd still be spending your time and a little hard drive space on a product that's far from the best. There's thousands of better alternatives on Steam.

Great free game. loved every minute of it. Took me about 1h 50 to finish so not sure why steam says 58 mins. Anyway, the game is great with effect. You start off at a door to the outside world but just as your about to go through a phone call stops you and tells you the only way through that door is THE KEY....IF IT EXISTS? The unknown caller will constantly call you throughout the game (text on scren) and keep telling you the key doesn’t exist and to stop looking for it, but your protagonist insists it must be real and he will keep looking for it. Basically, you ignore the caller and keep looking. There are a few chases from whatever is chasing you, some are easy, some are tricky as their ws blood pools along the way and if you fall in you start the chase again so make sure to jump over the blood pools or go around if you can. The effects are nice with the green NEON man and the spinning orbs and planets. The developer put in tonnes of effort for this game. I can't understand why it's free. I enjoyed the whole game. It's a walking simulator but be aware the rooms change a lot, walls move etc as thing happen. When you finish the phone calls, blood pours from the phone, the room changes. There are puzzles to solve like solving the wall pictures and putting them the right way and enabling gate switches (easy enough just hold left click or E and release E when it is right. You get a game notification sound when it is right. I only had one game breaking bug throughout. I was transported to the room at end game and the phone was ringing except the phone wasn't on the wall and it was a blank room, yet I could hear the phone. I couldn't do anything as the game stuffed. I had to exit to main menu and continue game to load to where I was then the phone appeared so I could answer it then the game fixed itself so not sure what happened there. I went onto finish the game in the end. It’s a great free game. Probably will take around 1.5-2 hours to play but be glad it's free :) The game has achievements. You collect mini skeleton along the way too if you like collectibles but there is no inventory as it is not needed. The stone monster was fun where your trapped in a room with it and you have to somehow work out how to hit it with the spinning green disc you can't pick up, Unfortunately the game doesn't give you much of a hint on how to do so here. It tells you somewhat what to do but it wasn't clear, so I was running around for a few minutes wondering how to progress the game, then I worked it out. All up a great free game. I won't spoil the ending for people on this review if you ever escape and find the key? or not? Great free game. Loved it. 9/10.

Игра 'Find The Key' оказалась на удивление увлекательной! Простая концепция, казалось бы, – найти ключ и выбраться из комнаты, – реализована очень качественно. Головоломки логичные, хотя некоторые заставили попотеть и по-настоящему подумать, что не может не радовать. Визуальный стиль минималистичный, но приятный глазу, создаёт атмосферу таинственности и сосредоточенности, не отвлекая от самого процесса решения задач. Отдельно хочется похвалить интуитивно понятное управление, благодаря которому быстро осваиваешься и не тратишь время на борьбу с интерфейсом. Уровень сложности сбалансирован – игра не кажется слишком лёгкой, но и не бросает в отчаяние неразрешимыми загадками. Прохождение заняло около часа, и это время пролетело незаметно. Единственное, чего немного не хватило, это разнообразия в визуальном оформлении комнат. Всё-таки несколько локаций в похожем стиле могли бы добавить больше реиграбельности. В остальном же, 'Find The Key' – отличный представитель жанра "escape room" в мобильном формате, который рекомендую всем любителям поломать голову и провести время с удовольствием. Определенно заслуживает внимания, особенно если ищете что-то простое в освоении, но при этом затягивающее.

玩十分钟九分钟都在黑屏，我都以为是我电脑卡了

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