Window Of Perspectives

It's a fun game but incredibly short. I would recommend buying this game because it has potential to grow into something very unique and fun as well as the cheap price but at the moment it is still in a very bare bones state.

This is still early access and a long ways out from completion. So I'm not recommending it on the strength of the full game, which is unknown, but the cool potential the early access copy shows. You have a limited 3D perspective to examine each mystery scene through a window, gathering clues and assembling them Golden Idol-style into a summary of what happened. But you gather clues not just from the scene, but by combining relevant ones in a search engine to dig up more clues. The real twist is that each scenario seems to have two possible solutions: a mundane one and a weird paranormal one, and how you solve one scenario will affect what plays out in its follow-up. That's a cool twist, and I'm interested to see where the developer takes it. The current product is rough around the edges with some spelling mistakes, but I think it's well worth a wishlist or follow to keep track of as it moves through development.

At the time of writing this review the game is in Early Access, with 4 cases to solve. The main gimmick of this game you can see in the lower right corner. Because not all the needed "words" are present on the screen you will have to use the [b]Looking [/b] browser. By searching a combination of two "words" you might find a website with additional "words". This works to varying degrees. Sometimes the combination will be obvious, but few times I just had to try every combination of words, just to get the last one missing. The second gimmick is "branching" paths. I put branching in brackets, because so far it has been properly used only in one case. When you're filling out the scroll, you'll have a choice to solve the scenario in a logical way e.g "Developer hired a hacker to complete their game.", or solve it in a paranormal way e.g. "Developer summoned a demon to complete their game." The scrolls are structured in such way, where both sentences make gramatical sense. Unfortunately this feature isn't properly used throughout the cases. While this choice in case 1 leads to a completely different follow-up, in other cases the choice changes nothing or there is no follow-up case. To sum it up, this game is a great proof of concept and I still see the potential in it. If the developer can properly utilize the searching and branching features, and most importantly fix all the typos, I think it could be fun Golden Idol inspired game.

For anyone looking for more Golden-Idol cases, this game really helps scratch that itch. At the same time, this game also stands on it's own merits. The culty, spooky vibes really work well. It's still very early-access, but new cases are being added regularly and I'm really curious to see how this game develops.

thank you for this fun game

Unfortunately, I can't bring myself to recommend this game. It tries to be an interesting puzzle game, but it ends up being a poor Golden Idol clone with the only difficulty in the puzzles being the use of the clunky search system. These games are meant to make you think, but the scenarios are far too easy to piece together for that to be the case here.

I really love the concept, art direction, and vibes of this game! It's early access, so it's still kind of rough around the edges, but I think it's going to be great. For now, there are two main sticking points: - The search function is pretty clunky, requiring you to match specific words together that are not always intuitive. Because the hint function only gives you a hint to the solution, and there is no way to get a hint re word matches, I found myself having to brute force word combinations on more than one case. When at least one case has forty words to find, this can get a bit tedious! It can also sometimes be a bit buggy. - The ideas and the cases are very solid, but the writing is also clunky and there are a lot of errors. In a lot of games this would be less of a problem, but sometimes the awkwardness genuinely makes it harder to solve cases. Please get someone to proofread, it would instantly improve the game experience! Hell, I'd do it for you!

Played the demo some time ago, and now the new levels on the early access, Pretty good game, fun, uncommon gameplay style but yet it's way too short, Looking foward to the addition of more levels and mechanics!!

Un peu long de se mettre dans le gameplay, mais une fois pris en main le jeu est fluide. Sympa pour passer un aprem' sans prise de tête.

Fun Curse of the golden idol-like.