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Posted February 27, 2017
Crank the mystery up to eleven.

<span class="bold">Stories Untold</span>, a spooky adventure about things that are stranger than interactive fiction, is now available, DRM-free on GOG.com with a 15% launch discount!

Game series get cancelled all the time. But something surrounding the cancellation of Stories Untold makes you uneasy. It's not just the remastered original episode, "The House Abandon". It's also the other stuff you found in that mysterious tape, which claims to be a compilation of scenes from the ill-fated text adventure series.

The 15% discount lasts until March 7, 4PM UTC.


https://www.youtube.com/embed/SokHO_XlMnk
Post edited February 27, 2017 by maladr0Id
Posted February 27, 2017
Looks very retro, wishlisted.
Posted February 27, 2017
I'm not sure I get the concept. It's an aventure game with an adventure game within the adventure game, with the adventure game within the adventure game playing a role in the plot of the adventure game ?

Or do I get it wrong ?
Posted February 27, 2017
I'm sure the title card's resemblence to Stranger Things is entirely accidental.
Posted February 27, 2017
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Telika: I'm not sure I get the concept. It's an aventure game with an adventure game within the adventure game, with the adventure game within the adventure game playing a role in the plot of the adventure game ?

Or do I get it wrong ?
What I understood is, that this is a desk simulator where you play a collection of 4 textadventures on a simulated retro computer. ^^
Post edited February 27, 2017 by Silverhawk170485
Posted February 27, 2017
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Breja: I'm sure the title card's resemblence to Stranger Things is entirely accidental.
Intentional.

http://www.pcgamer.com/stories-untold-is-an-incoming-stranger-things-a-like-narrative-game-series/

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Oh, it mentions it on the GOG gamecard page too:

The Stories Untold poster was created by Kyle Lambert who also designed the same for the Netflix series Stranger Things.
Post edited February 27, 2017 by korell
Posted February 27, 2017
wow, I have no real idea what this game is - that preview is empty

the game page is empty

are they trying to sell the game or just look cool?

my understanding:

"we had some ideas for a game series and never were able to do it / get it funded and so this is a crap-half-assed attempt to show what we wanted to do but really we just want some money back from our failed attempts to make a game and came up with this"
Posted February 27, 2017
Color me confused on what this title really is.
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drealmer7: wow, I have no real idea what this game is - that preview is empty

the game page is empty

are they trying to sell the game or just look cool?

my understanding:

"we had some ideas for a game series and never were able to do it / get it funded and so this is a crap-half-assed attempt to show what we wanted to do but really we just want some money back from our failed attempts to make a game and came up with this"
That notion isn't dispelled one bit when the game card talks about the designers more than it plugs the game itself.
Posted February 27, 2017
The screenshots and even the video do a terrible job of conveying what the game actually is.
But it definitely looks very.. niche.
Posted February 27, 2017
low rated
*yuck*

After watching the trailer i still have no idea what kind of "game" this is supposed to be. A walking simulator where you can enter text in those 4 "adventures" ??? O.o

Anyway, this hipster crap goes straight to my blacklist. :D
Posted February 27, 2017
Devolver Digital ? Netflix ? = no buy
Posted February 27, 2017
So it's a regionally priced series?

Thank you Devolver... :/
Posted February 27, 2017
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HereForTheBeer: That notion isn't dispelled one bit when the game card talks about the designers more than it plugs the game itself.
I read it and immediately thought about those logic puzzles they used to give us in school, the ones where you have to try to use a grid to figure out the answer (like this one). Only in this case, they intentionally left out a number of critical items, like why Lee and the motorcycle have any bearing on the game. ;)

It seems like it's going for a mix of Pony Island, TIS-100 and The Guest by way of Stranger Things, but I'll wait for reviews to see if it's too retro-totally-radical-80s for its own good.
Posted February 27, 2017
There must be something seriously wrong with a game when the game card spends only 2 lines talking about the game, but more than 6 lines giving completely irrelevant details about the people who made it.
Posted February 27, 2017
This is the only review I could find yet for the game: Gamespew review.
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