The Dream Machine (it's an adventure game)
It's pretty nice. Think Grim Fandango meets Wallace and Gromit or something.
There’s nothing else out there that looks like this game, and there’s precious little out there that plays like it. It’s a real treat. - RockPaperShotgun
this game is gay I don't even know what I'm trying to do
- SHODANFreeman
Play it here
There’s nothing else out there that looks like this game, and there’s precious little out there that plays like it. It’s a real treat. - RockPaperShotgun
this game is gay I don't even know what I'm trying to do
- SHODANFreeman
Play it here
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lmao, no. It's not underrated enough
I love the art style. I love the story so far. I love the atmosphere. I want to see how it ends. I just hope they're able to make their deadlines for releases of the next three chapters.
Interesting characters, thoughts and dialogues, puzzle design so far is good but also not very good as well. The game just wins on the adult aspect, the style and the atmosphere. I'm very happy that thanks to the different development technologies and the digital distribution small indies get their chances and come up with such great adventures.
In my opinion this and other games also illustrate how TTG is wasting all their ressources others could only dream of and somehow manage to come up with worse games with each release.
Anyway back to the game, if you can get over the fact that you have to play it online, i recommend buying it, it's a great experience and also illustrates a better episodic gaming. The game is cheaper (€14) than a TTG season but also offers less content/playing time compared to pre BTTF episodes.
So far a 9/10.
I'll likely wait for a downloadable copy of the rest of the game, though. I don't much care for how uneven the performance is in the browser.
But honestly it worked perfectly in the browser for me. I had zero glitches, you get an account, login with it, it gets streamed in the background, save&load your games, it just works.
For this price and the quality experience i didn't want to miss it right now as well as i wanted to support them. The inventory is minimalistic but honestly it worked better than what BTTF offered and it gets the job done. The story/characters evolve and the atmosphere is brilliant.
The best adventure since Machinarium.
Thanks @JedExodus for bringing it up and @New Zealand for not beeing involved.
And if anyone's stuck on the circuit breaker puzzle, here's a hint:
Fair points. Maybe I'll nab it earlier anyway, since letting the plot simmer in my head for awhile has made me somewhat anxious to find out where they're going with this. I've certainly spent a lot more on a lot less deserving.
One nice thing about it being distributed the way it is: it makes piracy pretty much impossible.
But i understand this, i also hestitated to buy the game due to the online only version but as i was playing the game i completely forgot about it and i expect them to put the files on their servers at some point when things cooled down anyway, may it be for the customers or a bundle, who knows.
It just doesn't make sense to complain about TTG all the time and then when something better/different shows up not to support it, so i hit the purchase button and i haven't regret it. The only problem is that i'm now excited for chapter 3. :O)
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If you haven't played it already, there's a puzzle in Chapter 2 that had me jumping with joy as I grabbed a pen and paper as I realised the solution.
I was going to save it to play on a long flight... guess not.
Looks beautiful though - I love the handmade quality. Will definitely check it out.
I had a hard time figuring out how to open up the safe. And this was a good puzzle in my opinion, i enjoyed it a lot.
@puzzlebox
Yep it sadly isn't optimal for such situations, although i'm not sure if you can stream upfront a whole chapter to axe downloads during gameplay but in reality chances are big that something will go wrong, Murphy's law.
So, how far art thou?
I loved everything about it, it's tone, it's art, the puzzles, everything. I don't think i've played an adventure game that excited me this much since The Longest Journey.
I could wax lyrical about it all day, but I gotta go pretty myself up for work.
If we're the demographic that Telltale's aiming for then they should play this thing and take a few notes, if not then bull on with things the way they're doing them. It seems to be working for them so far to say the least
I think they've told me already that at least i'm not part of the TTG demographics so i doubt it, not unless there will be some more serious revolution at TTG. What otherwise was stopping them until now?
In my opinion this sounds like that at some point you'll see it offline as well. Personally i can life with a business model like that it's online for a hot anti piracy/maturing phase and after that available as a download, most of the time.
They are hoping to release chapter 3 by the end of march with a development time of roughly three months for each release.
If the next episode/chapter's March/April It shouldn't be too bad a wait at all
Kaptain Brawe was good already but The Dream Machine is very good.
Btw have you heard about Gemini Rue? It sounds good from the story. Although i don't mind simple graphics at all, i dislike the style of it but if the rest is as convincing as they say...
The puzzles weren't particularly clever or fun, and the characters were generally not very interesting. The atmosphere reminded me a bit of Dreamweb, which is a game I love. The Dream Machine isn't quite as dark though. I would like to play more of it eventually, but right I just started playing Machinarium for the first time. What a charming game that is.
And I'm really looking forward to trying out Gemini Rue. It looks like a mix between Beneath a Steel Sky and Flashback.
Uhm you can buy/play chapter 1 and 2 right now and i would be surprised if you don't get the offline version once one might be ready then as well, everything else just doesn't make sense. But you're free not to like/buy it, i just was confused by what you wrote.
Another thing, did anyone play 999? I just sneaked a bit into a video of it and i'm not sure if i like it or not. I guess i do have some problems beeing fond of the reading and interacting switch.
On sale as in, when there's a deal for it at a reduced price.
I agree, it's a little bit hidden as it's only on their front page. Somehow they really don't want you to know.
In fairness, it's still a bit of an asking price for something that you don't know for certain will get finished. It looks prohibitvely expensive to make with low returns
That's a lot for you, for a non mainstream hand crafted game of this quality in a non mainstream genre? We definately have different opinions on what's expensive.
Just that there's no certainty in it being finished so some people might wanna hold on to their money and sit tight