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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Reviews
很萌的类史丹利,哈哈哈,作者太喜欢藏彩蛋所以专门做了个找彩蛋游戏 在点击食盆并弹出一个成就的那一刻,突然想起自己游戏玩得还不多的时候,在《森林》结局场景里和饮水机交互并弹出成就时的心情,一种最快乐、最纯粹的愉悦,唉
Dieses Game war einfach nur crazy! Zuerst: Man sieht woher das Spiel seine Inspiration hat. "The Stanley Parable". Aber: Inspiration ≠ Kopie Das Game spielt mit einem sehr interessanten Konzept: Ein Spiel das self-aware wird und die Spieler + Entwickler in sich hineinzieht um..... Naja, das müsst ihr schon selbst herrausfinden. Am anfang dachte ich es ist nur ein "normales" 4th wall breaking game, aber es hat sich schnell in eine unerwartete, horror angehauchte, bedrückende/bedrohliche Richtung entwickelt, die ich nicht erwartet habe, aber als sehr positiv empfand. Es ist sehr liebevoll und schön gestalltet, die Story ist wirklich mal etwas neues und spannendes und allgemein fand ich die experience episch. PS. Das Ende ist nochmal ein ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ moment itself Was ich allerdings kritisieren muss ist der Preis. ~10 Euro sind jetzt nicht viel, und ich möchte Indi-Entwickler eigentlich unterstützen, aber in Anbetracht dessen dass die Main-Story nur ungefähr 1,3 Stunden geht finde ich es etwas zu viel Geld. Ja, es gibt viele secrets und alternative paths, aber ich würde trotzdem sagen dass man hier lieber auf einen kleinen Sale warten sollte. Anyway, wer nach einem nicen, kurzen game mit Inhalt und Kreativität (welche in 2026 leider kaum mehr in der gaming industrie vorhanden ist) sucht, ist hier genau richtig! Ich kann es sehr empfehlen. 8,5/10
Imagine "Stanley Parable", except you have to do whatever the Narrator tells you every single time. Kinda defeats the whole purpose of the game, doesn't it? Also, The Narrator is now a regular office worker dude without any personality and charm. This is what it's like to play this game. Title_Pending does a piss-poor job of pretending to be an unfinished game that you're meant to explore. There's very little to find and to progress you have to do exactly what the game tells you to. It just doesn't feel like you're "breaking" the game, when it's the only thing you can do at any given moment. By the way, are we still pretending this is a Source engine game just because that's what Stanley Parable was? Even they changed stuff around once they switched to Unity. This is an Unreal Engine game, do something with it maybe! Title_Pending fails at setting up a tone. It tries (?) to be funny, but to be honest I did not laugh once. Just look at the achievements names to get a taste of the humour you're gonna experience here. It tries to creepy you out a little bit, but flashing "YOU'LL REGRET THIS" on screen or using your Steam nickname is hardly anything. The story fails to clearly set up whether I'm supposed to assume the characters in the game are "real" people or just characters "in-game". The "villian" of an evil rogue AI is bafflingly cliche and honestly lacks any interesting characteristic apart from very slowly typing word on your screen a few times. Overall Title_Pending did not work for me at any level and did not acomplish anything it set out to do. As a result it felt like a repeatable, forgetable experience that tried a bit too hard to emulate games that did this sort of thing a lot better, and a long time ago.
An incredibly fun (but maybe a bit short) walking simulator that takes clear inspiration from games like The Stanley Parable but with so much of its own charm. Sadly those comparisons are inevitable - but Title_Pending more than just stands on its own. If you've played their previous game - Watching Paint Dry: The Game - you might have an idea of what to expect. The game is also so full of little things to find and explore - I highly recommend it!
There are quite a few Stanley Parable type games on steam I have played. This is one of the better ones, its quite fun, well made and polished. I do recommend this game i picked this game up for $2.90 AUD. cheaper than a movie ticket. for 3 hrs of gameplay. Do check it out. if you want a witty, interesting story that brings a twist on the genre.
Better than Stanley Parable.
Playtester, Yippie :)
i loved the pacing of this game and the amount of hidden lore bits that you could find LITERALLY laying on the floor!!! It also helps that the narrator's voice acting is good and i can feel joy when I ragebait him ... but yeah this is so peak I reccomend it heavy
I'm surprised to see so much praise heaped upon this game. I wish that I liked it as much as everyone else, and I wish that I found it as clever and charming as the game presumes that it is. There are a lot of frustrating aspects about this that stop me from being able to give it a full, ringing endorsement. There are simply too many parts of the game where control is taken away from you and you simply have to sit there and listen to the narrator or, worse, watch BIG IMPACT FONT TEXT SLOWLY SCROLL ACROSS THE SCREEN BECAUSE IT IS SERIOUS AND INTIMIDATING OH BOY. That kind of stuff, in a time-loop game where you are repeating the same environments over and over again, feels extraordinarily confining and exhausting. The game even goes out of its way to make fun of how annoying the narrator is. Yeah! He is annoying! Well spotted, video game. There is an infinite stairwell. A stairwell that just keeps going forever. If you, like me, are curious and want to see every nook and cranny of this supposedly creative and zany world, you will probably also enter the stairwell and see how fair it goes. And then it never ends, and you are so deep in it that the only reasonable solution is to quit to the main menu and start the entire loop over again. That's fun, right? For as funny as this game thinks it is, it has massive problems with not at all respecting the player's time, and that made me resent all of the attempts at humor more than anything else. And at the core, this is not a new story. There is nothing about this that is terribly original. This is I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream with a silly British man yapping in your ear the entire time. That all said, you could do worse. There are cute pictures of cats and dogs all over the place, and you just cannot hate that.
Oh my god, my brain. I would highly recommend checking out this game to anyone. I am still shook from it, and I am so glad I played through this game on stream. IT was an amazing experience, and haven't really felt many games like this before. Thank you devs.
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