Transient: Extended Edition

Полный ребусов детективный квест. Смесь киберпанка и Лавкрафта. Несколько интересных часов погружения

Watched the intro, started playing, walked 5 meters and got stuck in the map. Great game -_-

Transient welds neon-lit cyberpunk aesthetics and ancient cosmic horrors into a post-apocalyptic domed city named Providence where cybernetic implants dictate daily survival. Players investigate environments by scanning data and deceased bodies while navigating a society steeped in meta-shamanic hacking and deep-seated conspiracies. Traversing these gritty urban slums and sleek digital terminals requires alternating between waking reality, virtual meeting spaces, and deep subconscious trances triggered by specialized concoctions. Moving across these disparate domains feels slightly sluggish due to restricted sprinting speeds during specific exploratory segments. Embedded mini-games break up the investigation with memorable homages, featuring a retro survival-horror sequence alongside a hacking minigame inspired by System Shock. Solving these interactive challenges drives the narrative forward, though certain interactive triggers blend too easily into the background and cause unnecessary trial and error. Memory modules must be managed carefully alongside environmental notes to piece together the protagonist's forgotten identity and uncover the true reach of the cosmic entities. Discovering narrative logs deepens the engagement considerably, turning early uncertainties about the pacing into a compelling search for answers. Subtitle sync points occasionally fail to match spoken audio precisely, creating fleeting moments of friction during crucial dialogue exchanges throughout the cybernetic enclaves. These minor technical quirks remain isolated, allowing the stable performance of the native hardware to maintain a smooth flow between the various surreal, dreamlike landscapes. Tension builds steadily through atmosphere and environmental dread rather than traditional jump scares, leaning closer to a cerebral sci-fi thriller than conventional horror. Anyone expecting relentless terror might find the execution understated, yet the rich world-building more than compensates for the lack of explicit frights. Overall, data scanning and meta-shamanic hacking transform the investigation into a thoughtful puzzle of identity and cosmic manipulation. Exploring the blurred boundaries between virtual realities and physical decay provides a rewarding journey that leaves a lasting impression long after the final terminal shuts down.

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Ich fand schon Conarium toll und Transient gefällt mir auch sehr gut! Die Grafik ist bombastisch, die Story war größtenteils nachvollziehbar und die Möglichkeit, Minispiele nach ein, zwei Versuchen zu überspringen, ließ Frust überhaupt nicht aufkommen. Ein starkes Spiel!!!

nice looking game, but the story was incomprehensible and the puzzle were a bit tedious

Aburrido

I did not know I needed this type of genre until I found this game. Now I want more of it and there's nothing anywhere like it. Great game, good story, leaves me wanting more.

i really wanted to give it a try, but it lacks. There are bugs where sometimes you just cant move and you have to restart the chapter just to get through it. You cant really save the game, or in specific moment/area in a chapter, so next time you come back to play; you need to do everything in that chapter again. There are no explanations regarding the mini games, i got stuck in chapter 2 where you get locked in a corridor and you send a flying ball to help hack it for you but for the life of me i couldn't understand what to do, the other problem is that whenever i search for information on the web, there are no results about the game. Just overall experience isn't great and i gave up, its a shame because i really like these types of games.

I really liked the idea of the game, but the execution did not fully live up to that. It was a bit clunky and the story somewhat questionable. 6/10 Cosmic Horrors