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Posted March 18, 2016
Home alone(?)



<span class="bold">Obscuritas</span>, a haunting horror adventure where you explore a foreboding mansion filled with your nightmares, is now available DRM-free on GOG.com with a 10% launch discount.

Good horror stories prey on our fear of the unknown. The truly great ones, however, confront us with what we already fear but are too scared to admit. Sarah is about to face all her personal nightmares in a desperate attempt to retain her sanity and not succumb to crippling horror.

Her great-uncle has passed away and now Sarah finds herself in an old country house, eager to check out her mysterious inheritance. But her newly-acquired property comes with some undesirable remains of the past which will need something more drastic than a thorough dusting to get rid of. Is she going mad, or is the mansion slowly turning against her, bringing her most horrible fears to life? It's almost as though the place actually recognises her mental state and constantly assaults her mind, plunging her into a gallery of obscure realities. Sarah must keep her wits about her as best she can in order to stay alive and solve the puzzles creeping behind every haunted corner.



Navigate a mansion's sinister past as you enter the twisted world of <span class="bold">Obscuritas</span>, DRM-free on GOG.com. The 10% launch discount will last until March 25, 1:59 PM GMT.
Posted March 18, 2016
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tinyE: XD

We need that as an official genre: Walking Simulators.

Love it. XD
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huan: I agree, it has nice sound to it as a genre. But I don't know too many representatives to be worth it's own category. Definitely Solus Project, and now maybe this one. All the Shelter/Paws games? Never played one of them. Even Waking mars probably doesn't qualify, it's not first perspective walking simulator. Maybe we need subgenres then: TPPWS and FPPWS.
Dear Esther, Stanley Parable, Amnesia Machine for Pigs etc.
Posted March 18, 2016
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huan: I agree, it has nice sound to it as a genre. But I don't know too many representatives to be worth it's own category. Definitely Solus Project, and now maybe this one. All the Shelter/Paws games? Never played one of them. Even Waking mars probably doesn't qualify, it's not first perspective walking simulator. Maybe we need subgenres then: TPPWS and FPPWS.
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omega64: Dear Esther, Stanley Parable, Amnesia Machine for Pigs etc.
You can add Kholat and Vanishing of Ethan Carter to the list. ( Both are actually good games, though, and the latter also has some puzzles and stuff. )
Posted March 18, 2016
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inc09nito: I may be wrong , but it looks like another walking simulator. At least I hope the puzzles are good.
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tinyE: XD We need that as an official genre: Walking Simulators.
Love it. XD
Err.. tinyE, is this really the first time you've heard that term? O_o
Post edited March 18, 2016 by phaolo
Posted March 18, 2016
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omega64: Dear Esther, Stanley Parable, Amnesia Machine for Pigs etc.
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CharlesGrey: You can add Kholat and Vanishing of Ethan Carter to the list. ( Both are actually good games, though, and the latter also has some puzzles and stuff. )
Agreed, Dear Esther and MFP are awful though.
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inc09nito: I may be wrong , but it looks like another walking simulator. At least I hope the puzzles are good.
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tinyE: XD

We need that as an official genre: Walking Simulators.

Love it. XD
It already is. :P
Post edited March 18, 2016 by omega64
Posted March 18, 2016
I knew spending the last ten years locked in a bomb shelter was going to end up biting me in the ass.
Posted March 18, 2016
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tinyE: I knew spending the last ten years locked in a bomb shelter was going to end up biting me in the ass.
Which one?
Posted March 18, 2016
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tinyE: XD

We need that as an official genre: Walking Simulators.

Love it. XD
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huan: I agree, it has nice sound to it as a genre. But I don't know too many representatives to be worth it's own category. Definitely Solus Project, and now maybe this one. All the Shelter/Paws games? Never played one of them. Even Waking mars probably doesn't qualify, it's not first perspective walking simulator. Maybe we need subgenres then: TPPWS and FPPWS.
Waking Mars definitely doesn't qualify. I played it through. It's a "platformer" with heavy emphasis on logic/puzzles.
Posted March 18, 2016
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CharlesGrey: You can add Kholat and Vanishing of Ethan Carter to the list. ( Both are actually good games, though, and the latter also has some puzzles and stuff. )
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omega64: Agreed, Dear Esther and MFP are awful though.
I wouldn't call Machine for Pigs an awful game, but yeah... It was kinda lame.
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tinyE: I knew spending the last ten years locked in a bomb shelter was going to end up biting me in the ass.
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Yezemin: Which one?
*claps* ... Well played.

I wonder what it's like to get your ass bitten by an ass.
Post edited March 18, 2016 by CharlesGrey
Posted March 18, 2016
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omega64: Agreed, Dear Esther and MFP are awful though.
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CharlesGrey: I wouldn't call Machine for Pigs an awful game, but yeah... It was kinda lame.
It is if you struggle through and get stuck in the church anyway. (An required object didn't spawn)
I'm not restarting that game. >_<
Posted March 18, 2016
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huan: I agree, it has nice sound to it as a genre. But I don't know too many representatives to be worth it's own category. Definitely Solus Project, and now maybe this one. All the Shelter/Paws games? Never played one of them. Even Waking mars probably doesn't qualify, it's not first perspective walking simulator. Maybe we need subgenres then: TPPWS and FPPWS.
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omega64: Dear Esther, Stanley Parable, Amnesia Machine for Pigs etc.
I think there is a misunderstanding here: While I believe the term "Walking Sim" is awful (just "Interactive Story" or "Exploration" is better), I understand what type of game it describes; a game where a story is told through narration (or through the environment if there is no narrator) and there is slim to none gameplay mechanics or tasks to be done (eg puzzles, shooting, inventory etc.). Or something close to this description.

Amnesia & Machine for Pigs definitely doesn't fit in this category since they are survival horror adventure games. The fact that they don't contain guns & shooting does not make them Walking Sims. On the other hand, Dear Esther is a perfect candidate for the Walking Sim tag.
Posted March 18, 2016
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CharlesGrey: I wouldn't call Machine for Pigs an awful game, but yeah... It was kinda lame.
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omega64: It is if you struggle through and get stuck in the church anyway. (An required object didn't spawn)
I'm not restarting that game. >_<
That linearity... hurt so much. And lack of interactivity. The only thing that remains as a gameplay element is ... well, walking.
Posted March 18, 2016
Another overpriced walking simulator with excessive hardware requirements and regional pricing as "icing on the cake".

NO THANKS! I'll pass. :D
Posted March 18, 2016
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omega64: Dear Esther, Stanley Parable, Amnesia Machine for Pigs etc.
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Vythonaut: I think there is a misunderstanding here: While I believe the term "Walking Sim" is awful (just "Interactive Story" or "Exploration" is better), I understand what type of game it describes; a game where a story is told through narration (or through the environment if there is no narrator) and there is slim to none gameplay mechanics or tasks to be done (eg puzzles, shooting, inventory etc.). Or something close to this description.

Amnesia & Machine for Pigs definitely doesn't fit in this category since they are survival horror adventure games. The fact that they don't contain guns & shooting does not make them Walking Sims. On the other hand, Dear Esther is a perfect candidate for the Walking Sim tag.
I agree on the Original Amnesia.
Seeing as it's barely possible to even get killed in MFP it's very close to Walking Sim though.
Posted March 18, 2016
Any reviews yet?

This or Oxenfree?
Posted March 18, 2016
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omega64: It is if you struggle through and get stuck in the church anyway. (An required object didn't spawn)
I'm not restarting that game. >_<
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inc09nito: That linearity... hurt so much. And lack of interactivity. The only thing that remains as a gameplay element is ... well, walking.
Awful, just awful.
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