Westwood Shadows: Prologue

didnt get very far. first save caused the game to lose all keyboard controls. and no controller support which games like this need.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16

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"Westwood Shadows: Prologue" is is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "Westwood Shadows". Westwood Shadows is not anything related to the beloved and destroyed Westwood studios that created the beloved Dune 2 and Command & Conquer games. Instead it's a (possibly asset flipped) looking first person horror adventure (possibly not one of the worst, even if asset flipped). But this isn't completely relevant because this is not Westwood Shadows, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "Westwood Shadows: Prologue" too. There's a correct process to publish game demos and advertisements like this on Steam. You can see it in [url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos]Valve's Steamworks Documentation for Demos[/url] but either the "developer" didn't know about that (something they absolutely should before they even touch Steam Direct), or they deliberately and willfully bypassed this process to mislead gamers, for profit. Either is not okay. The purpose of this advertisement is to get you to shell out a whopping $12 USD on buying Westwood Shadows, and I don't recommend you do that either. This game is fairly dated at 5 years old... and even back then it looked old and busted compared to contemporary, professionally made 3D games of the same period. It looked bad then, it looks worse now. Let's talk about pricing and the actual value this has for gamers. As an advertisement, this is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser are. This is a game demo that's been dumped on Steam to advertise another Steam store page in the hopes of raking in some cash. Just because advertisements are free, doesn't mean they're worth your time. It's important to understand there's a formal process to create a demo/page for a game which hasn't been followed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos While it might seem like an innocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful. This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game. Instead, that visibility is given over to a demo/advert that's been published incorrectly and is polluting the marketplace. It's unclear if this mistake was made through incompetence or a deliberate intent to mislead gamers. Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers. You can always judge a game by how popular it is with the general public. Steam has over 130 million unique gamers, and over 40 million unique logons every day from dedicated PC gamers. But this only ever had a peak player count of a dozen or so people... that's very poor public reception. Gamers rejected this, most likely due to the reasons I supply in this review. Advertisements and incorrectly published demos don't add +1 to your game collector count, they aren't full games. It's impossible for me to recommend this incorrectly published advertising spam to gamers, you deserve better than adverts.

THIS. GAME. IS. TRASH, TRASH, AND ALSO GARBAGE. IF YOU PLAY THIS GAME FOR MORE THAN 10 MINUTES YOU WILL REGRET IT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. ITS ALL EXTREMELY BORING AND THE END WAS A ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ CUTSCENE, NOT EVEN A PROPER JUMPSCARE. ♥♥♥♥. YOU.

I won't die of a heart attack, thank you. Westwood Shadows 2024

Игра 'Westwood Shadows: Prologue' оставляет после себя приятное впечатление, хоть и является лишь прологом. Визуальный стиль в духе классических point-and-click адвенчур создаёт теплую ностальгическую атмосферу, а детективный сюжет с элементами мистики сразу же захватывает внимание. Головоломки, хотя и не самые сложные, логичны и требуют внимательности к деталям окружения. Персонажи, хоть и появляются на экране ненадолго, успевают запомниться своей индивидуальностью. Особенно радует озвучка, которая придаёт героям дополнительную глубину. Однако, игра ощущается короткой, что вполне объяснимо её статусом пролога. Хочется больше исследования локаций, взаимодействия с персонажами и развития сюжета. В целом, 'Westwood Shadows: Prologue' - отличная затравка для грядущей полной версии. Она демонстрирует потенциал интересной детективной истории с хорошо проработанным миром и увлекательным геймплеем. Рекомендую всем поклонникам жанра point-and-click и тем, кто ищет небольшое, но атмосферное приключение.