The Swapper

Even though I recommend the game it's faulty. When I booted it up for the first time my mouse wouldn't move. So to just move the mouse, I had to change the game version from my Steam library to "Compatibility mode". Also, when interacting with secrets the game freezes until you bring up task manager and shut it down. The fix is playing the game with Steam in offline mode. When you finish the game you can boot it up in online mode to get your achievements without problem. Those two bugs are the only ones I encountered, but they are pretty big, right? If you get over the bugs there is a great sequence of puzzles awaiting you. I really enjoyed that part. Pretty good difficulty curve and interesting mechanics. Just for those hours of fun the game is worth it. The graphics are unique, and the scenarios are amazing. The only thing I didn't like about the looks of the game was the animations and the characters; they took all seriousness out from every scene for me. The premise is super interesting; it doesn't pay off that well to me, though. Dialogs were another weak point of this work. They were filled to the brim with exposition without developing any character at all. I leave this game disappointed that it didn't make me feel anything for itself. Just to clarify, this is very subjective, and I do believe that most people will enjoy the story very much for how different it is from most other games. If you end up liking this game take a look at Soma.

ギリ、オススメします。クローン作って面白いんですが、ちょっと短いので減点です。

Jogo com uma arte incrível e uma mecânica de puzzle desafiadora, que envolve fazer clones seus e trocar de corpo. Tanto a arte, som/música contribuem para trazer uma boa atmosfera ligada a historia e ambientação. Para os caçadores de conquista será necessário seguir um guia, pois para coletar cada conquista é necessário acessar um terminal que por muitas vezes está MUITO bem escondido. Ponto negativo para um bug que você tem que mudar o jogo para compatibilidade para poder jogar, pois se não fazer isso você não consegue mover o cursor, é bem fácil fazer, só seguir o guia na central da comunidade do próprio jogo. O jogo é curto, durando em média 4 ou 5 horas de gameplay, mas mesmo assim vale a experiencia, recomendo aguardar alguma promoção para adquiri-lo.

자신의 동작을 따라하는 클론을 여럿 만들고 그 클론들 중 하나에 자신의 의식을 옮길 수 있는 기능을 사용해 막힌 길을 열고 오브를 수집하는 퍼즐플랫폼게임입니다. 조금 궁리하다 보면 풀리는 정도의 난이도에 스테이지 구분도 확실해서 간식용게임으로 삼기 좋았습니다. 클론 생성이나 의식옮기기를 막는 공간이 추가되거나 클론생성 조준 중 느려지는 시간 속에서 얼른 의식을 옮겨야 하는 등의 난이도 상승이 있구요. 시간 느려지게 해서 의식 옮기는 건 처음엔 눈치채지 못해서 좀 헤맸습니다. 몇몇 스테이지가 좀처럼 방법을 찾기 힘들어 어렵게 느껴지기도 하지만, 가이드에 동영상으로 공략이 있어서 크게 스트레스를 받지는 않았습니다. 스토리는 조금 오래된 SF공포영화 같은 느낌. 괴물 같은 게 나오진 않지만, 어둑어둑하고 스산한 실내에 백열등 같은 불빛으로 표현되는 분위기가 아주 좋았습니다. 텍스트만으로 배경이야기를 풀어가는 점은 조금 아쉬웠지만, 후반엔 이야기 큰줄기는 이해할 수 있게끔 직접적인 표현을 해주기에 크게 불만스럽지는 않았습니다. 가장 불만이었던 점을 뽑으라면, 종이인형 같은 주인공의 움직임 정도겠네요. 넉넉한 스테이지 수와 독특한 기믹으로 궁리하는 재미를 주는 퍼즐, 어두운 SF 분위기를 즐길 수 있는 배경그래픽, 약간의 생각할 거리를 주는 스토리 등, 만족스럽게 즐긴 게임이었습니다.

One of the most atmospheric platformers out there.

cool story broken game

wow, this was an incredible experience, the first 0g moment was incredible. the visuals and sound design are excellent, and the puzzles are very fun and engaging. there was one moment towards the middle of the game where spoken dialogue comes in right after reading a bit of unspoken written dialogue, and as both can be very thought-provoking it was difficult to focus on both of them at the same time and I ended up dying to hear the spoken dialogue again; this is probably my only criticism with the game design. the soundtrack is a bit minimal with the piano but it works well enough, and there are still some interesting adaptive music moments in the game that I enjoyed. the music serves the deeply thoughtful and frightening nature of the story quite well and I felt I got the kind of immersion that a brilliant short novel will give. unfortunately, the current release of this game has a few egregious technical issues that can sour the experience. as these can be circumvented I'd like to give an opportunity to recommend this game with a quick guide on how to get around these issues until they're fixed, as I still feel it was worth playing despite having to browse the discussion pages to fix them. 1. When you first boot up the game, if using mouse and keyboard you may find it difficult or impossible to move the cursor. If this occurs, exit the game and go to the steam library. Right click the game in the library and click "Properties", then go to the "Beta" tab and change to the "compatability-compatability" beta. Relaunch the game and the mouse issue should be fixed. This issue may not be present if using a gamepad. 2. When encountering certain secrets in this game, your game may suddenly freeze. This crash is somehow related to the steam achievements; you'll notice when this happens that you'll receive an achievement but you won't be able to see the contents of the secret due to the freeze. If this occurs, you should be able to fix this by running the game outside of steam. First, you need to Exit Steam (the menu at the top left), or end the process through task manager. Then, locate the game files, which should be in C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/The Swapper. In there should be a file named steam_api.dll, which you want to rename to steam_api.dll.bak (make sure file extensions are visible in Windows Explorer or your equivelant program; you can find this in the View tab). Finally, in the same folder run The Swapper.exe and the game should run. You will be able to play the game without experiencing crashes. All in all, an incredible experience and well worth playing. Unfortunately because of the technical issues, I will have to recommend purchasing it when it is on sale, however once I found the workarounds for the issues they didn't hinder my experience very much. One note about the game's ending; [spoiler] maybe it is a flaw that you have to replay the whole game to see the other ending, however I can see the reasoning behind it and even see that it may be a deliberate choice. firstly, the secrets can be hidden pretty well especially the last one, and so for most people a repeated playthrough would still provide value. As the puzzles are required to beat the game, the puzzle gameplay will be easily finished and you can replay this game in an hour or less to beat it after doing so once; since a lot of it is just understanding the mechanics the earlier ones especially feel quite intuitive on a repeated playthrough, and as there are exploration elements to the game I think that this decision is not itself an objective flaw. I also think that this adds more weight to the decision, though admittedly this should have been communicated better (like in Oneshot for example). I would only say that the way it is done is a bit sloppy, with how the credits scroll and then you can still continue the file that jumps you to the credits; a better way would be to simply delete the file after completing the game as it comes across as a technical issue in this case. [/spoiler]