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Impossible to launch on Steam as of 2024

Amazing co-op game! We couldn't get enough!

A great mix of two-player puzzles, with a fun spy story and pretty visuals.

It's a must play for any duo! And we can't wait for the next DLC!

Amazing concept with a great story and great soundtrack, but with an awful, awful gameplay that just doesn't want to serve the story, making it an overall very frustrating experience.

A short and brilliant introspection on creativity and social interaction.

In The Beginner's Guide, you get to follow the story and train of thought of a man who desperately tries to help a friend, only to realise that not all who wander are lost, and that hell is paved with good intentions.

I've always been a huge fan of story telling in video games, and The Beginner's Guide has just set itself as a monument in the genre: It's profound, intimate, wise, and truthful. You share the narrator's every word and thought, following closely on his confidence, anger, disbelief, and eventually acceptance of what he did. A truly magnificent essay on a mistake we all made at some point in our life, and that will hit home for any creator out there.

It's short, and do not expect any form of gameplay besides walking and listening. Is the story even true? Probably not, but The Beginner's Guide will still teach you one of the most beautiful lessons there is: Learn to let go.

The story is quite confusing, the intentions of your character not very clear, and the voice acting is, to be honest, not that convincing.

But when the narrator isn't talking? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this game is breath-taking. The visuals are absolutely STUNNING and the soundtrack is simply the best video game soundtrack I have ever listened to. The BEST. I could've stayed forever listening to the main theme while gazing at the skies. It really is very easy to lose yourself in those grand, soothing and colourful sceneries.

The puzzles themselves are nice. Far from being difficult, they mostly involve a lot of walking which gives you the occasion to admire the landscapes, so it was perfectly fine to me. Their only flaw would be how little they relate to the overall story and are just an excuse to delay the storytelling.

In the end, if you can put up with a failed try at a deep and cynical introspection of a tortured man, and want in on a game that will make your ears and retinas orgasm, you can give a shot to Mind: Path to Thalamus, and you won't be disapointed.

You can hardly be more minimalist than Thomas Was Alone, and yet those rectangles had a better character design and development than any other game out there. It is literally impossible to not grow attached to Thomas and his friend as they go on their quest for freedom.

The story is simple, driven at first by Thomas' observations, until it turns incredibly inspiring when you realise the huge social and philosophical background that surrounds the existence of those unseemingly heroic rectangles, and the selfless journey they are on.

Delivered with an amazingly sweet soundtrack by David Housden and minimal graphism that focus on what's most important (Who you are, where you are, where you go), the game is short enough and not too difficult to stay inspirational and compelling for the entirety of the adventure.

Great characters, great story, great music. Literaly everything I look for in a game. I couldn't recommend it enough: play it as soon as you can.

An experimental video game which, to me, is a good glimpse on what the future of video games could look like.

The game is full of new and interesting ideas. Don't get too hyped though: the visuals are subpar, the storytelling terrible, and the gameplay heavily relies on thinking outside the box, which can be very frustrating (Keep a walkthrough video open somewhere, you'll very probably need it at some point or another).

That said, it's free, it's short, and some mechanisms used by Creability are very clever (e.g the keyboard interactions), which is why I would recommend it.

Not ALL the ideas are great, far from it, but the developpers tried (and succeeded) to make something different that challenges the traditionnal video games tropes, something we'll never have too much of.

What videogames are all about: Telling stories.

Beautiful. Moving. Inspiring.

Starbreeze Studios created a magnificent work of art; a simple yet stirring story, driven by an innovative and most efficient gameplay (pad will be mandatory), and delivered with the most stunning artistic direction I've ever seen in years. Moutains, glacier, forest... The journey will take you through many landscapes, all of them with their distinct powerful ambiences and splendid lights which make them simply mindblowing. Every time you'll think you've found your favourite part, the next will take your breath away (Don't hesitate to sit on the benches anytime you find them, the views they offer are sublime).

Emotional and visually flawless, Brothers A Tale of Two Sons proves that even the most basic mechanics can tell the most touching story.

Definitely a true masterpiece.

8'110 backers. $248'358 pledged out of $200'000 goal. Delayed 5 months.

All of that for 119 minutes of not even actual gameplay, since Steam counted the time I spent in the settings.

Among The Sleep is a huge disapointment. Not only delivering 2 mere hours of entertainment after so much hype and tease is Ubisoft-level douchebaggery, but the game itself doesn't make it up for it.

Animations are stiff and clunky, lots of graphic bugs and glitches, textures are low res, particle effects are cheap, audio samples are butchered, the very few objectives present are basic, the maps couldn't be more linear...

One can see the good ideas Krillbite had. The environments are detailed, the layouts carefully crafted to make you feel oppresed and vulnerable to the darkness. But because the whole game is poorly realised, it just doesn't work. Instead of tension, you feel boredom. Instead of fear, annoyance. And worst: Instead of compassion, the only though that crosses your mind is "Thank God it's over".

Clearly Krillbite failed to deliver what the trailer and the demo promised. And after all the means and time they had, I have a hard time understanding how.

I do not recommend Among The Sleep because I wouldn't recommend any $18 game that would only last 2 hours, but if one day you can catch it for free or, let's say, a couple of bucks, going through ATS might be worth the (very short) time to explore the mechanics Krillbite intended to use, and the original take on survival horror that made ATS so appealing in the first place.