The Watchmaker

Bugs, bugs everywhere. Y juraría que hasta los logros están bugueados...

[quote][b]Warning: Broken Game![/b] This game has design/implementation defects that will render this unplayable for many gamers. There's no working exit button for the game menu and no options to change the controls beyond console peasant inputs, yet the developer does not incidate use of a console peasant children's toy controller is needed to play this shoddy console port.[/quote] Glancing at the marketing materials for Watchmaker and you could easily be fooled into thinking this is a game you want. A third person steampunk (Steampunk is when goths discover the colour brown) puzzle adventure game where you're aging rapidly and you need to explore and solve puzzles fast... that could work, right? Not this time... this is such a bad, lazy console port that the game doesn't even work and can't be played unless you plug in a console peasant kiddies toy controller... nothing works properly unless you do, but the developer didn't put the mandatory "controller required" warning on the store. They also know about this problem but simply refused to fix it... this 8 year old Xbox port hasn't been patched in 4 years... it's abandoned. But they still want your money! From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. Because this is designed for consoles, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the inferior console gaming appliances that the game was designed for. These are unfortunate compromises and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was a second thought for the console-centric developers. The game is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for consoles forces upon a game. Once more, console peasants have made gaming worse for everyone. Due to the age of this game, and the lack of modernisation, the graphics appear quite dated. This compares poorly to more contemporary games with professional standards. Given that gaming is primarily a visual medium, this is a bit of a problem, so should be taken into account when considering whether to get this game. 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 (at least using mouse and keyboard), 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. PC gamers will be insulted by the presence of console peasant children's toy controller prompts, despite this being on PC. Developers should try to be aware which platform they're developing for. Those technical flaws drag this game well below the minimum quality standards expected of a modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was [b]only 6 players[/b]. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 130 million gamers on Steam and well over 140,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. Unethically, the developers have left this on the Steam store in an unplayable and broken state. It's the responsibility of the developer to maintain their product, ensure it runs on all modern PCs, or if they determine there's defects and the game doesn't work, they should remove it from sale instead of misleadingly trying to scam gamers into buying knowingly defective products. This is harmful to Steam and to gamers, not just because it's a direct and intentional attempt to scam people, but because it takes a share of the marketing space and visibility away from other games. It's polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuine games and for genuine indie developers who put months or years into making proper games find an audience. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 140,000+ games on Steam? The developer is deliberately and unethically trying to scam gamers into paying them the almost scam-like price of $10 USD for a game they know is broken. Don't give it to them. Developers must decide to either maintain their game, or if it's broken, like this, remove it from Steam when they have no intention of correcting their mistakes.

[h3]UPDATE:[/h3] The current "Ultimate" version is still BROKEN and ABANDONED BUT there is a workaround to fix it and be able to actually finish it, if you're curious to try it or you can't refund anymore. You need to download an older version and replace the current one with it. It will involve opening the Steam console and use the respective code from depot id to get it. There are several tutorials on Youtube if you want more details. Despite the fix the game is not really worth the trouble anyway, even on a sale. It is still janky, the writing of the dialogue is kinda weird and the puzzles don't take advantage of the time powers enough.

Amazing game but glitches make it borderline unplayable edit: Just had to restart The Whole Game since it softlocked itself. The golem who im supposed to bait wont chase me. Its a shame since I really like this game and am even replaying it. If you are going to make a game this broken at least let me load multiple savepoints back or at least add a restart stage button. Also the menus dont work properly using keyboard. And the controls menu only has controller buttons (not keyboard). Also dont put voicelines right before cutscene triggers because then the voicelines just cut off. edit 2: after replaying the first few levels, one of the golems is still frozen slamming the floor and wont chase me, hence there is no way to progress. The first time I played this game years ago it was borderline unplayable, but now its fully unplayable. edit 3: Seems none of the enemies in the game attack anymore, as well as a few other glitches that make it so I actually can't finish the game anymore

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J'avais pris ce jeu dès sa sortie car le concept d'un puzzle game avec l'age du personnage qui change pouvais être intéressant. Dès la sortie du jeu, je ne pouvais pas jouer car le jeu se fermait automatiquement, j'ai attendu patiemment des mises à jour réglant se problème, mais lorsque j'ai enfin pu démarrer le jeu celui-ci buguait dès la première énigme. Je me retrouve aujourd'hui des années après la sortie et le jeu n'est toujours pas dans un état convenable: - bug de caméra : la caméra se retrouve en dehors de l'arène du premier boss - bug son : la musique s'arrête et ne repars jamais - bug du gameplay : les ennemis n'ont plus de barre de vie; le boss n'inflige plus de dégâts, ce coince dans certaines phases - on ne peut pas sortir du menu des paramètres avec le clavier/souris, obliger d'utiliser une manette - on ne peut quitter le jeu qu'avec alt + F4 suite au dernier hotfix de février - les succès ne se débloquent pas Autant de bug que j'ai eu en 80min de jeu en 2022 alors que le jeu est sorti en 2018. Et je ne parle la que des bugs car on pourrais parler du fait qu'il n'y a pas d'indication pour savoir quand le jeu sauvegarde; que le jeu est simple mais l’imprécision des mouvements, des attaques, ou du magnétisme rend la prise en main frustrante. Les dialogues sont choisit au pire moment, le jeu subit des pertes de FPS visibles à l'oeil nu avec une 3090. Je me suis arrêté de jouer après la cinématique ou l'on voit le grand méchant pour la première fois car je m'attendais à ce que le jeu donne envie de continuer, mais non, on avance sans but en résolvant tant bien que mal des "énigmes" (si on peut dire vu la simplicité du premier niveau) avec ces bugs incessant. Autant d'attente et de patience pour un jeu qui n'a jamais été suivis par ses développeurs. J'ai aussi remarqué que la plupart des commentaires positif n'avait pas passé beaucoup de temps sur le jeu et ne parlaient que de l'intrigue de base, je me demande si ce ne sont pas des faux commentaires pour aider à faire vendre le jeu.

very unpolished experience a lot of things just don't have sounds, platforming feels odd, and lots of buggy behavior. too bad cause the concept is interesting, and the story seems okay its just mostly a meh meh title buy it if it goes up for a dollar or something, or if you hate yourself.

Задумка неплоха, жанр игры стимпанк + управление временем но вот все что связано с переносом на PC это нет слов.Чтобы играть используя клавиатуру и мышку это никак, в настройках чисто на геймпад управление игрой.Я играл по ходу обучения, узнавая и запоминая на какую кнопку что использовать. Впервые вижу игру,где можно умереть от старости,если не успеть сбросить несколько десятков лет...

创意其实还不错 画面也没那么那么糟糕 但是观感确实比较一般 语言问题有点儿让人玩不下去 这个游戏有个最大的缺陷就是我玩起来 很困，，，

"The Watchmaker" — это удивительная игра, которая обращается к любителям внимательности и механики. Она погружает тебя в загадочный мир мастерства и точности, где нужно разбирать сложные механические часы и решать головоломки. Плюсы: Изысканный дизайн: стильный визуальный стиль, который отлично передает атмосферу часового мастерства. Интересные механизмы: каждая головоломка уникальна и требует логики и терпения. Завораживающий саундтрек: музыка и звуковые эффекты создают ощущение уюта и загадочности. Разнообразие задач: игра не надоедает благодаря множеству различных механик и уровней сложности. В целом, "The Watchmaker" — это отличная головоломка, которая заставляет задуматься и дарит удовольствие от процесса. Особенно понравится тем, кто любит точность и непростые задачки. Очень рекомендую!