
"The Sheltered" is a top-down adventure game with an emphasis on exploration and decision making. Combining old school graphics and simple gameplay with modern storytelling and a multitude of choices, "The Sheltered" pushes a choice between safety and morals.
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Languages: English
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Мужики, спасайте, если наберём 10 лайков и 5 наград, то жена подарит ящик пива
RPG Maker game about managing a shelter and a group of survivors, where you make moral decisions and gather resources ✅The only positive aspect of this game is the moral choice system, which can influence the course of the game ❌Virtually no save points (only one), which is extremely frustrating ❌Gameplay reduced to tedious resource gathering ❌Slow character movement, which prolongs and makes returning to the death location irritating ❌Lack of consistency in events (e.g., illogical character behavior and plot) ❌It’s easy to get lost in the mazes, which further reduces the enjoyment of the game ❌Repeating the same sections after death (grinding and backtracking) ❌ High price ❌❌ Verdict: [b] Terrible [/b], [strike] Bad [/strike], [strike] Mediocre [/strike], [strike] Decent [/strike], [strike] Good [/strike] , [strike] Very Good [/strike] (Rating scale for short games, retro indie simulator games and similar) [quote]If you'd like to see more of my reviews, you can find them on my curator page:[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45994324/admin/reviews_manage/]CuratorKingViking[/url] and on my group: [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/CuratorKingViking]GroupKingViking[/url] If you have any questions about my reviews, feel free to ask.I'm happy to answer them. All reviews are my own!!Best regards, King Viking Bezimienny, Polish Game Reviewer. [/quote]
The Sheltered is a game that delivers on the amount effort that you put into it. You can literally complete the game in under 10 minutes, and feel like you threw your money away, or you could attempt to find everything and save everyone, which ends up delivering some surprises and a lot of satisfaction. For me, I thought that this has actually been the most underrated title I've played thusfar. I really enjoyed the mood, the dialogue, the puzzles, and exploration required to really get the most out of the game. With that being said, it isn't perfect and it won't appeal to everybody. There is only one save point, which can cause a lot of frustration as you have to replay or backtrack when you die or want to save. There isn't a lot of direction, which appealled to me, but can really put some gamers off. There is not a lot of action or constant activity to really keep you enthralled second-to-second. So, if you are looking for an action-packed title that doesn't necessarily require a lot of thought, then this really is not going to be your game. However, I'd recommend it to anybody else who is curious about the game, if only for the fact that it is $2 (without being on sale) so, even if you don't happen to like it, you won't have spent more than you would have for a soda anyways.
Все мои НО были опровергнуты. Лучшее в году.
RPG Maker strikes again! The Sheltered is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction. The generic fantasy anime fan fiction here has been replaced with a craptastic fanfiction from someone who played too much Fallout and decided it would be cool to rip off the entire game concept, only with a crappy RPG Maker adventure game instead of a crappy RPG Maker JRPG. But what should we expect from known asset flippers? As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the intention of RPG Maker is to make demos and small games to pass around friends, and shouldn't be used for "professional" game development. Like most RPG Maker shovelware and asset flips, the game features extremely low quality copy + pasted 2D retro pixel art, generated characters, looks awful, and has even worse gameplay. RPG Maker is an absolutely terrible construction kit, and never results in games of any reasonable quality or value to gamers. Notably the developer here couldn't work out how to use RPG Maker to make an RPG... and that's the only thing RPG Maker can do properly... except it's not even very good for making RPGs. Benjamin Famiglietti/SA Industry have shown a repeat pattern of unethically dumping other people's work onto Steam as a cheap, nasty cash grab, through this account or through closely linked/alt accounts. Here's some examples so you can see for yourself: [list] [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/756260]Kingdom Defense[/url]" = [url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/packs/tower-defense-basic-pixel-art-pack-45705]Tower Defense Basic Pixel Art Pack[/url] developed by FreeThePlayerOnGame [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/856490]Falling Words[/url]" = [url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/packs/2d-typing-game-endless-random-falling-word-text-font-typer-game-107867]2D Typing Game[/url] developed by Steelkrill Studio [*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1053650]Drive For Your Life[/url]" = [url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/templates/packs/zombie-drive-full-game-template-73074]Zombie Drive - Full Game Template[/url] developed by Puppeteer [/list] Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game, it doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts. Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a very healthy spike in player counts for the game. But this only happened once, around the same time that trading cards were applied to the game... so this is just card idlers getting their cards and moving on. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. We must ask how it benefits gamers for there to be so many games like this, with no merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards. It's also important to note the "developer" here has connections to a number of shady Russian asset flippers and review manipulators who show an organised pattern to scam and defraud gamers with fake reviews and asset flipping the work of others for profit. While reviews are about the games, gamers should be informed when developers act unethically. Whether these connections are the same developer using multiple accounts, or just working closely with other unethical developers, gamers should be warned about the harm to gamers by this developer and their associates. Buying games from unethical developers puts your money at risk. [quote][b][url=https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/federal-register-notices/16-cfr-part-465-trade-regulation-rule-use-consumer-reviews-testimonials-final-rule]Warning: Review Manipulation![/url][/b] This game features a small number of fake positive reviews from accounts known to be in the business of review manipulation/paid reviews. They're all written in either Russian or broken English, appear at almost exactly the same time, very shortly after the game launched on Steam, all have a direct Steam purchase of the game, and the accounts are used consistently to write fake reviews for asset flips and other cash grabs/scams. The "Positive" review score on this game should be disregarded due to this blatant, unethical review manipulation. This is done to deceive and scam gamers into paying for a bad product. Due to the 2024 FTC ruling (16 CFR Part 465), these fake reviews are a violation of US Federal Law.[/quote] So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam? The Sheltered has the preposterous price of around $5 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the unethical nature of the developer. Gamers who want a good retro JRPG experience would be better off playing the originals, like Final Fantasy, Star Ocean or Chrono Trigger. For comparison, the $5 asking price for this game could get you games like "Portal 2", "Far Cry 3" or "Fallout: New Vegas". No pixelcrap is worth $5. If developers want to get paid the same kind of money as real game developers who know how to do graphics properly, they need to learn how to do graphics properly.
Честно ну не мое RPG maker.Вяло,скучно и уж слишком дешево.В такое играть только на старых мобилках. Переводить также заколебался уж слишком много бесполезной писанины! Боевка вообще ущербная.В топку сие продукт! Благо хоть карточки выпали!
Awful game. Way too short. Not even worth £1.59 in my opinion.
Just another RPG game that you should probably avoid.
i was sheltered that hard, my wife has become sonic the hedgehog
节奏缓慢,没有中文 玩了一会儿,一按F12,直接一夜回到解放前
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