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A Raven Monologue is beautiful short allegorical tale, open to interpretation, of a humanoid raven and his interaction with other humans in a town.

Depression Quest is a beautiful and wise piece of interactive fiction which main theme is the exploration of clinical depression. We play a 20 years old man who have got a depression, though he isn't self-conscious about it in the start of the journey were we, the player, join him in the opening of the game. This would probably have stroked me as more silly if I had not myself in recent times had a weak depression. An acquaintance of mine pointed out that I was not okay, she might have questioned whether I was depressed - I can't recall, I thought she was silly. Most of all just to spite her I tried to take an online test for gauging depression, it indicated I had a weak depression. I found another it stated I had a weak or moderate depression. Another still that I had a weak depression ... She'd obviously hacked the internet! A while later on I went to see my doctor and their test said I had a weak depression too.

Anyhow. The psychology portrayed in this "game" is dominated, to put it in a black and white framework, by natural science and social science, with all their strengths and weaknesses. I.e. it's, among things, the personal clueless and naive ♥♥♥♥♥ of the pharmaceutical industry (hyperbole)--O why hello Capitalism dear! My sweet ever-mutating friend, how come you're still only level 9?! Have you no balls? And do stop sulking already about the Chinese outwitting your parents for a while ...--Albeit there's of course also loads of noble and lovely aspects to the discourse that dominates western psychology. It's just gonna have a tough and problematic time when for instance transhumanism hits humanity hard in the near future. Though naturally it won't stand alone, thus the sparkling multifaceted stars that is humanity shines brighter than ever before! But it could get very problematic indeed. "It's the best of times and it is the worst of times." ...

I've played through one path in the game and I've been afking some, it took around 1.8 hour.

Classic game by Black Isle Studios.

Absolutely gorgeous horror exploration game that explores an insane asylum in 1930s and how the mentally ill where treated or mistreated.

On a side note I thought electroshock therapy had been left behind in the West due to its possibly memory loss side effect, not to mention its barbaric nature in and of itself. But in my country Denmark it is still practiced even if it is called Electroconvulsive therapy. Sure just break my yolo meter.

Glorious fighting game.

Promising and glorious indie sci-fi game. Pulp but with a soul. (I haven't finished the game yet).

Cradle er et uafhængigt Ukrainsk spekulativ dystopisk Science Fiction computerspil lidt i samme boldgade som Stanisław Lem's bog Solaris i forhold til det spekulative felt. Spillets setting tager udgangspunkt i året 2076 hvor menneskeheden er ved at komme på fode igen efter det røg ind i en ny mørk middelalder i 2040erne, i kraft af at menneskeheden legede gud med deres nyfundne teknologiske virkemidler før de var modne til det.

I den forstand er spillet en advarsel, eller et oplysningsmedium, til at tag, for eksempel, Jung seriøst når han udpegede det problematiske i den eksponentiel voksende teknologiske udvikling i kontrast til udviklingen indenfor det etiske felt, samt i henhold til de forskellige samfundsinstitutioner og sfærer der sikre, så vidt det er muligt, sunde og harmoniske samfundsstrukturer.

Spilet er et Første Persons udforsknings spil med mere eller mindre klassiske puslespilselementer og nogle få platform sekvenser der simulerer et computerprogram.
Spillet udspiller sig i hovedpersonens yurt, på den mongolske slette og i en nærtliggende forladt forlystelsespark. Hovedpersonen bor alene i hans forholdsvis primitive hytte på bunden af magtstrukturen i hans samfundsorden, hvor han blandt andet lever af at finde og sælge en bestemt type blomster. Menneskeheden bruger til at få unikke kunstige DNA-strukturer der bliver brugt i den teknologiske udvikling af mennesket. Hans familie der er død var et simpelt folk der levede efter ny-buddhistiske retningslinjer. I starten af spillet har han fundet en robotpige han vækker til "live", et tidligere menneske der nu kun kan overleve i en kunstig robot krop uden ben, denne bevidsthed kommer fra de højre lag i samfundet og har adgang til mere viden der normalt er gemt væk fra personer som hovedpersonen men som han igennem spillets gang for indblik i.

+ Interesting premise
+- combat, the pacing of the narrative etc.
- Especially boring visual puzzles that killed it for me

Game refunded.

Silly, anachronistic and nonsensical setting that breaks verisimilitude on so many levels it is not even funny (Hyperbole). Meh narrative structure and characters. The soundscape is good even brilliant in some regards but this exploration game is just forgettable as a whole.

Edit: I thought I'd love this game, but I was not its target audience - the jokes on me. I still find the game silly obviously.

The Lion's Song is a beautiful Point & Click Visual Novel with no real Puzzles.

The game mainly takes place in Austria in the city of Vienna some time before the First World War, overall the game goes for a realistic vibe with creative artistic touches--and in so doing break with the stale humdrum of the average adventure game, were the genre has been stuck since its silly inception--albeit, it for instance portrays Freud as being more inane than he was.

We mainly follow a female violinist, a male portrait painter, a female University mathematician and humans related to these three as well as a journalist. We get to choose the main casts life choices, be they small or more significant as we're taken through a beautifully structured narrative, which is rather warm and profound in its simplicity and humane relevance.