THORNYWAY

AN PRISTINE PARABLE, TOO OLD TO REMEMBER AND TOO HEAVY TO ENDURE. THE THORNYWAY UNIVERSE - is an empirical puzzle about the meaning of the human soul, endowed with the curse of life and the gift of destruction. The hero will have to independently read the map of what happened earlier and decide what to do next. Here is the metaphor of the lost mind in the mist of values and desires. The choice between harmony and rebellion is different ways to go through the game. The path against the stream and along it. The challenge will be thrown at you and you will feel it. The keys and landmarks are hidden in the songs, without them they feel, it will be difficult to understand the developers' message. And in this I think the main conflict between the audience and the creators. But I want to show the players faith, perseverance and endurance. Later, the game will reward you with a gift in the form of audio files composing the released album THORNYWAY - AWAKENING. Game + Music album = $ 6. For example, other indie games from the list cost about 15, and Beyonce last album in itunes more than $ 6. This work is made by a group of 7 non-professionals, for their money. In the city of Minsk, Belarus. Term of work is almost 3 years. In fact, this is the first and unique precedent, when a musical group releases its album in the form of a computer game. Without bills, connections and artificial marketing moves. Only the real reaction of people to this large-scale work. Consisting of: 1. Records of 20 soundtracks, which are piano versions of the compositions of the first and second current album of the group. 2. Records of the most fully-instrumental album playing in the moments of the apocalypse: 13 compositions using more than 12 instruments. 3. Develop ideas, gameplay features and filling the lorry universe (it's deeper than it seems - see the pages of the book and around). 4. Design, graphics and software design. At this moment, without artificial placement in the charts, lists and radio. Without costly advertising on major channels and portals. Weak development of the CIS countries and Russia's system of independent media and the scene as a whole. Without the support of the audience, the project remains narrowly known: due to the experimental nature, the high entry barrier, not a close look at the secrets and meaning of the work - the developer, in fact remains in the financial and spiritual fall, which will undoubtedly repel the desire to continue and do similar things from the CIS countries and Russia's developers. A low bow to the creators. It is because of people like you that hope is alive.

THORNYWAY (с англ. «Тернистый путь») — это глубокая и сложная инди-игра с видом от первого лица с инновационной системой бега и двумя типами геймплея, выпущенная белорусской студией Intelligent Systems. Изначально Thornyway — это музыкальная группа из Минска, играющая современный тяжелый metalcore в духе Himsa, All Shall Perish, Make Them Suffer, Attila и иже с ними. В этом году группа захотела порадовать своих старых и новых поклонников свежим релизом, но сделала это весьма необычно выпустив видео-игру, в которой игроки и знакомятся с новым альбомом. Но не спешите подумать, что THORNYWAY будет сходу выплёскивать на вас бластбиты, гроулинг и брейкдауны, нет. Игра получилась нечто большим, нежели симулятором Винампа или очередным ритм-кликером. Как мы написали выше, игра удачно сочетает в себе два типа геймплея, и в каком из них вы захотите провести своё время — выбирать вам. Читайте полный обзор игры на нашем сайте: https://belongplay.ru/thornyway/

Fans of the band are gonna love this. Everyone else will probably find the game extremely tedious. Around every corner is...another corner. Just over the tree-covered hill, is another identical tree-covered hill. There are some pages to find apparently, but it is seriously not that m,uch fun looking for them. The jump doesn't even work. https://youtu.be/jaZzh2GjLqc

THORNYWAY- The Game (REVIEW) (By Paradox29 from Chicken Tikka Gaming) To start off, a huge thanks to developer x0maze for sending us this copy of this game for review. Due to technical reasons, we couldn't record a gameplay session of this game, so it's just going to be a written review. (OBS and Shadowplay screwed us over and we have no idea why) We at Chicken Tikka Gaming heard of this game introducing a new concept of conveying the story through the music of a band named, Thornyway, and we absolutely loved this idea. And as expected, the music in this game was just marvelous. The piano scores immediately resonated with us, as we are fellow musicians as well. We could very well have just sat there and be immersed in the masterpieces that Ian Kmit, Roman Chernitsky and Pavel Dyshlevich along with the vocalists and composers have produced. Kudos to you amazing people! Unfortunately, the rest of the game doesn't fall into place quite as well as the music did. From constant frame drops that manufactured migraines, to buggy controls - the "jump" wouldn't work sometimes, even while you are running - to completely non-intuitive gameplay, made this game a chore to play rather than a pleasant experience as this game wouldn't fit into the "Casual" tag that we see on steam. The starting location had a ton of glitches with random wall flickering as well as stuttering and for a game that requires very low hardware requirements for it to run, this is completely unacceptable considering that this is a finished product and not one that is in Early Access. The frame rate would abruptly drop to about 15 to 20 fps and then shoot back to 60 fps in an instant - which simply induced headaches for us while playing, dissecting us from the immersive and soothing music in the background. The controls are just a huge mess. There is no indication of a sense of direction and objective, which makes this game the antonym of a "Casual" game. The sounds cues (which we believe are there for guidance) only led to a dead-end with no where else to go. Overall, this game - with the amazing concept expected of an indie developer - will definitely appeal to fans of the band, but not gamers in general. If you're in for just the music, we'd suggest you to buy the music album from stores, when it goes on sale. [b]If the aforementioned points are noted and are patched in the future, we'll write another review of the product; but a buggy and unfinished game does leave a bad taste on our mouths.[/b]

Игра действительно подходит любителям хардкора и тем, кто хочет пожечь нервишки Очень всё понравилось, на моём железе всё просто летало на максах 11 неперепрыгиваемых преград из 10

[quote][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/9686972/]Follow our curator page "[b]First Person Exploration and Puzzle Games[/b]" for more games like this![/url][/quote] Another pile of garbage that shouldn't be allowed on Steam. You walk around a giant pointless maze with copied+pasted decay everywhere. When you reach what appears to be the end of the maze, you're awarded with a staircase blocked off by rocks. If there's anything more to this game, there's no indication of that in the game itself. This game is apparently supposed to be a promotion for some band, but I don't even see where that comes from. There was only one background track while I played, consisting of light piano music. Avoid this game at all costs.

Игра достаточно "новая" в таком сеттинге, пейзажи заставляют засматриваться раз за разом. Механика в игре необычная, так что лучше посмотреть видео о игре, чтобы в ней разобраться, так же игра понравится тем, кто любит настоящий ХАРДКОР.

Ну начнём по порядку, те кто хотят хоть что то понять в игре - вначале вперёд смотреть летсплей разрабов, они там всё подробно объясняют о механике игры, без него сам ну никак не разберёшься, ибо она тут особая, в других играх такого не видел. Но зато как разберёшься, тебя ожидает несколько часов долбежки по клавиатуре и отчаяния от количества твоих смертей, и в итоге, только когда ты дойдёшь до конца, ты сможешь успокоиться. 10 сломанных клавиш Shift из 10.

Очень положительное впечатление.Сочетание музыкального сопровождения очень неординарное.Для меня игры подобного жанра в новинку,но эта так сказать "зашла"!Хорошо пробаботанные детали впечатлили. Осталось только научится бегать и прыгать. Отдельный плюс за альбом!