Whispers of the village

Not a particularly long game, perhaps actually closer to a visual novel. The final puzzle was a bit hard to figure out because the tutorial for it came up when I first visited the page and I couldn't bring it back at the end of the game when I actually needed it. If you enjoyed other story-driven puzzle games like Strange Horticulture or Chants of Sennaar, then this might be up your alley as long as you can tolerate a slightly janky UI.

AVOID | LACKING | MAYBE | [b][u]WORTHWHILE[/u][/b] | COMPELLING | UNMISSABLE Whispers of the Village is a narrative-based puzzle game. In it, you play as a fortune-teller who speaks to four people in a village you have recently arrived at. When you speak to them, you also read their tea leaves and start to piece together a story that is being told to you through different perspectives. The art design is beautiful in this game. It gives me Brett Helquist vibes and very much nails the atmosphere. The story is interesting as well, though undercooked/shorter than I think it should be. There are some QOL changes that I think would be beneficial - sometimes the tea leaves were a little difficult to decipher when they overlaid on each other, and I found the need to make the predictions/timeline at the end to be a bit of a guessing game. The game took me just over an hour and a half to complete, and I generally found it to be relaxing. If you decide to play it, you'll have a good sense of whether or not you'll enjoy it within the first five minutes. Given it's free, I think it's worth a try for the artwork alone.

A wonderful cozy game with amazing storytelling and puzzles, a great feat for a school project. Perfect for when you need a break. I did experience a few bugs notably when clicking on the images on the prediction page of the book but with a little persistence I made it work.

Sehr süß für zwischendurch, buggt bisschen tho

[h2]Story[/h2] You have four days to uncover the events which will lead to the villages downfall. Play as a fortune-teller to read tea leaves, conceive predictions and discuss events with the villagers. [h2]Gameplay[/h2] Follow designs in your guide book to decipher patterns in villagers tea cups as they come to you for insight. Use this to complete your journal of predictions to uncover the mysteries of the village and solve the puzzle. Beautiful graphics and pictures. Reminds me of old paintings, with 3D objects giving an atmospheric experience. Colours are rich, dark and eerie - and each of the characters have their own design charm. No 'copy-paste' people to be seen. Narrative is well-written and easy to follow, and even the text boxes blend perfectly with the environment. The tea leaf puzzle is intriguing, with just the right amount of difficult. If you get stuck you can always use guess work or a guide to allow you to continue through the story. About 1.5-3 hours of gameplay depending on personal pacing. A few issues mainly caused by the fantastic graphics. Pieces don't always load correctly. I had an incidence where a character was a huge white box and the text box was blank, so I couldn't follow the text or move the story along. Crashes from time to time, but the game frequently auto saves. You can close/reopen and everything seems fine. Hit box on text options is tricky, sometimes have to move the mouse until the hit box becomes a shadow to know what is selected. These issues may be worse depending on individual PC settings, but it didn't affect me finishing the game. Following the update from the students who created the game, I am sad to hear that you all have moved onto other projects. I hope you get chance to come back around to the game to execute some fixes. If the changes are implemented, this game could be even more fantastic and would be well-worth paying for. This is a brilliant game that deserves far more recognition, and I hope more people come to download and give it a try. It's great for relaxed gamers, visual novel readers or people who want to experience a little mystery. [i]Join my curator group for similar game recommendations: Group: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/deeryrecs Curator: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45660858/ [/i]

Whispers of the Village is a free narrative & puzzle game. The player is a Fortune Teller visiting a village which is in crisis, and which is apparently heading towards a deadly event. Over four days the Fortune Teller meets the main characters who are involved somehow in the coming catastrophe and, through reading their futures in the tea leaves and talking to them, tries to piece together what sequence of actions and by whom may bring about the terrible outcome. Note that there are no achievements in the game, at least so far. This is a deep and beautiful-looking game (though the penalty for the lovely artwork is a literal hammering of the graphics processor), with excellent dialogue, sympathetic and likeable characters in spite of their weaknesses and flaws, and surprisingly tricky puzzles (pattern-matching in the tea leaves, and working out the actions and sequence of the coming climax). I was genuinely sad when it was over, and I hope that the mechanics and story-telling can be used again in a longer game which I would gladly purchase. My play time represents two partial playthroughs (when I mistakenly thought that I had messed up the game and so restarted, when in fact I just hadn't realised how to trigger its next phase i.e. attaching story elements to each scene in the prediction), and a final successful playthrough; so I guess that the game should only take between one and two hours rather than the 5 hours I spent on it. It was entirely my fault that I didn't take in the instructions about the prediction phase properly, but I would suggest a modification to the game to allow the player to display and read them again if desired. Some graphics options to reduce the strain on the GPU would also be very welcome (and would allow more players to experience this lovely game).

eigentlich ein tolles Spiel und hat auch Spaß gemacht aber am ende gibt es ein Fehler da ladet es es steht Kiril da aber er ist ein weißer block und kein text oder so und Mr H, der Mayor des Dorfes da fehlt mir eine Weissagung noch