The Town of Nowhere: End Of The Line

I've played quite a bit of this from testing the game, so full disclosure there! The Town of Nowhere: End of the Line is a short, visually striking walking simulator with fun characters and a simple questline - find paintings and record footage for the player's YouTube channel. I compare it with Yume Nikki, where the game has very interesting setpieces with not a lot of explanation behind them - the more you immerse yourself in the world, the more you'll get out of it! The game itself takes place (largely) on a train, and about half of the train cars have some unique thing going on for them. You'll run into a cafe car, a library, a warzone, and even more esoteric stuff, some with really cool visual tricks to boot. The characters themselves are all unique - from humans to homunculuses. There's no extensive dialogue for the most part, but it does a good enough job to add a bit of characterization to each. Shoutouts to the snail - I'll have to watch its entire path one day. You'll get a bit more out of this experience with some background knowledge of the characters from the creator's The Town of Nowhere video series (links are in the game itself), so feel free to check those out if you like the universe and want more of a look into it! I do wish there was a bit more to actually interact with in the game itself - since we're an in-universe YouTuber of sorts, it would be fun to have camera / recording mechanics that interact with the world in some way. The camera filters could do all sorts of weird things to the world, and I think there's plenty of potential there! There are also a few issues with the volume sliders that I hope get worked out since it does get pretty jarring hearing a loud sound effect when you have the sliders down all the way. I also really enjoyed the one platforming section in the game and I kinda want some more of that - esoteric platforming is something I don't see pulled off well a lot and I think there's potential here for more of that. Overall, a nice one-sitting experience that serves as a great look into the CGA-colored world / characters that the developer has been cooking for years. Check it out if you want to immerse yourself in a strange, new world.

Take this with a grain of salt since I am a fan of the dev. But I enjoyed it. If you like some spooky surreal atmospheric type stuff you'd probably enjoy it too.

A game in the Town of Nowhere series by streamer Revscarecrow. The series, before this point, was a twitch-plays-D&D style thing with Revscarecrow as a DM set in his surreal version of Texas. Come for the vibes and the cryptids. Not a game here for a long time, just a good time. Worth spending a little extra time exploring to find a couple of secrets and kind of just enjoy the art and vibes in general. No save system so you have to complete it in one sitting, but it's easily doable.

Full disclousre I did receive this product for free BUT! I think this game is overall EXTREMELY CHARMING! if you love ENA Dream BBQ or just visually interesting and short walking sims, this is the game for you! It's atmospheric and at times a little cinical about the life of a content maker, but i do think it adds to the charm of the game. I would love to see more people experience and enjoy this game! I will say there was a part of the game that was a bit tough for me because im not used to platforming, but when I got through it I was SO PROUD OF MYSELF! My favourite character is Dale, he's my fav chain smoking snail My one and only con from my first play through, I did find the text to be a bit to compressed to one another and sometimes T's would look like commas if the sentences were ontop of each other, might be something to fix up later, but it was legible just at times felt to..... compressed? (i think thats the right wordage) Thank you for the opportunity to play this game! I'd give it a 9/10

through thick and thin layers of equine shine, im just here to journey with Dale the Snail the absurd assault on my sensibilities leaves me wreckless of these events

revscarecrow

As someone who frequently travels by train in sleeper cabins, this felt exactly like waking up in the middle of the night in a bed that's not your own when the room is too hot and there are 5 strangers sleeping all around you. You leave to go to the bathroom, stare longingly at the non-potable water tap before slowly making your way back while the train thunders through familiar terrain warped by the night. The game itself is a walking sim where you collect objects, talk to NPCs and look at the various wonders, it's a surreal dreamlike journey with funny dialogue, if you enjoy that sort of game you should absolutely check this one out.

follow the snail its worth it

a neat dreamlike, surreal experience with great character interactions and cool environments. Had a fun time

annoyed a catfish till he ran away 10/10.