The Mind of Marlo

"The Mind of Marlo" is a very badly made 2D retro pixel interactive novel with some lightweight adventure game elements... mostly just an E-book as the developer behind this failed to understand a basic rule of game development, "Show, don't tell." The subject matter for this more-book-than-game is a mockumentary about the character suffering an imaginary brain disease. Certainly, I imagine that imaginary brain diseases are the reason we have so many bad games on Steam. This features really godawful, lazy pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks bad because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded [i]despite[/i] the bad graphics, not because of them. It's free... now, but it wasn't before. The developer was charging $3 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It's a nice gesture for the game to be given away for free, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 5 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? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.

[h1]The Mind of Marlo[/h1] Pra uma experiência gratuita está ótimo. É um daqueles jogos de point & click que vc pega objetos pelo cenário e combina eles pra usar em partes do cenário. Seguindo um guia vc deve completar rapidinho e ainda conta com conquistas tranquilas de se pegar.

[h1]Absurd humor is one of the best, change my mind.[/h1] ㅤㅤI really enjoyed the game's absurd plot, spiced up with the famous British humor. The Mind of Marlo is a short quest-puzzle in the genre of walking simulator, where you need to help the main character, suffering from a fictitious disease called "Spontaneous Silly Head Syndrome" (idk something xqc may be diagnosed with, considering what nonsense he speaks of sometimes lol..), to get rid of 3 different states: a cat, a shark and a slug. The ending is a bit unexpected, in a pleasant way, although the whole game is perceived as rather chilling and is not taken seriously. And for some reason it reminded me a little of the book Filth. If you know, you know... [strike]I'm sorry to all who knows tho.[/strike] ㅤ https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3504235192 ㅤㅤThe game can be completed in an hour at most, it is free and you can easily get 100% of the achievements, adding the game to your collection of ideal ones in Steam. If you're completely allergic to any kind of nasty and vulgar humor, you may not like it, but overall absurdly funny tone of the game (like the ending with the father literally made me laugh quite hard) is the majority of it's jokes right there, so you might give it a chance, if you're bored and looking for something light, funny and short. ㅤ https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3504235584 ㅤㅤFor me it was a pleasant silly little experience, as I really love absurd comedy as the concept itself, like, one of the most funny comedies I've watched was Kevin Smith's first "Clerks" film, so no surprise I liked this game. Great film btw, recommend it too (let's make it a recursive review lol). ㅤ https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3504235350

Marlo is frustrating

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Love the narration. Also great plot twist in the second part. Would recommend!