The game's creator has a spot reserved for him in hell for stealing the souls of millions of players. His punishment will be playing 10 star maps 24/7 with arthritis.
Halfway through the writers forgot they were writing a parodic hardboiled story and started writing an actual hardboiled story. It's jarring, but also weirdly fun. Recommended.
This game has the worst mechanic I have ever seen in a video game, bar none, and I doubt it'll be surpassed.
The introduction has my(?) phone(?) hacked(?) and some guy(?) telling me to go to an apartment(?).
Because reasons, I am in the titular Mystic Messenger, where a bunch of people are secretly hosting a """party""", and they let me join, because reasons.
After this introduction to the writing of Mystic Messenger, I learn that
ALL THE CONVERSATIONS ARE IN REAL TIME!
The game description won't tell you this. The trailer won't tell you this. They're deliberately hiding the main aspect of the game.
They also won't tell you that you can skip the wait with hourglasses, which you get with real money.
***Your only choices to progress are to ruin your sleep or spend money, and the developers are banking on the latter.***
The game seems to take pride in not telling you important gameplay aspects, so here's another thing it won't tell you; each character has their own route. To get on a route, you have to get enough Hearts from a character, which involves being a jerk to everyone else. If you fail to do this (and you will, the only way to figure this out is by looking it up), you get the bad ending.
The bad ending reveals that everyone in the game is a robot except for two characters. ...ok then? You're telling me I don't need to care about most of the characters?
I'm not spending another second on this crap. Goodbye!
The gameplay consists entirely of clicking text bubbles. It's like a visual novel, but even worse. You'd genuinely be better off watching a gameplay video. Why they decided to compose such a beautiful soundtrack for this crap I don't know. Not recommended.
"You must break the pattern, or it will break you."
Duet is a game that constantly throws curveballs at you to make sure you are infuriated, while simultaneously demanding that you maintain calm and focus. (The best example of this is the entire soliloquy chapter which basically says "everything you just learned is completely useless".) Recommended.
N.B. I'm surprised this got a PC port, the controls are perfect for a touchscreen.
Incredible game, one of the few that you can't just watch a video and get the same experience. Short and sweet, genre hops from surrealism to comedy horror to psychological thriller for no good reason, it's great. Puzzles are all very fair, although they lean on the easy side of things, so don't expect a brain test, and don't expect looking up walkthroughs. Murder, murder, murder, murder, murder, murder, beans, recommended!
A virus that's actually a game is a novel concept, but the novelty quickly wears off. Gameplay is tedious and plot is incomprehensible. Not recommended.
