Oh! Thanks. My saved game loaded but the text field to search is stuck and I cannot change it. I'll delete the save data but maybe the bug report helps :)
Okey, loaded the game again and it worked and damn I lost so much time to it amazing game! I'm stuck at the last 8 blood relatives. The numbers shown in the magnifying glasses are so deeply confused. Can you give me a hint? :S
This feels like a next step in the deduction-style genre. It has a bunch of really neat tricks that separate it from all the games that came before (Her Story and Obra Dinn feel like the closest comparisons).
If you are interested in neat story telling and a few deductive jumps, then you will enjoy this.
It took me around 8-9 hours to play through, and I'm lucky I found this in the morning, so it was only my day that was sunk, not my sleep.
I don't know how I got here. I was just idly surfing the web before going to sleep and somehow randomly stumbled upon this game from google search. I haven't thought about playing a video game in months but I checked it out and got sucked in. It was very fun.
Thought I'd dig up my old account for this website to say thanks for the experience! I would comment about what I liked about the game but truth be told, completing this game kept me up until 4AM and all my brain cells are gone and I need to sleep now to work tomorrow so goodnight.
Minor feedback: I found it hard to scroll when assigning names/jobs to the family tree, and would've liked the option to type it in (similar to the search bar in the full list of names).
A steady drip of information keeps your mind turning over as you attempt to accurately identify the members of the Roottree dynasty by name, face, and profession.
For me, it rewarded thinking in a satisfying way, and had plenty of 'ooooooh i feel smart' moments.
Should be noted that if you don't want to read, it's probably not for you - there's a lot of reading.
I did some beta testing for this game, it's great. A LOT of high quality gameplay for a free game, definitely worth checking out if you like games like family trees, Return of the Obra Dinn, or games with computers inside of them.
I played an early version of this, and loved it. Since then, a lot of bells and whistles have been added that make it an even more enjoyable experience. As others have pointed out, if you're a fan of Return of the Obra Dinn, then this game is for you. It's very much along the same lines, with a lot of sleuthing and mystery-solving packed into an interesting story. Try it out!
I highly recommend this game to fans of games like Her Story and Obra Dinn, where you sift through huge volumes data to sleuth out the truth. It's got an expansive catalogue of in-universe content to explore, and a ton of UI/UX systems in place to prevent the player from getting inexorably stuck. Voice Acting/Music/Aesthetics are crisp and contribute positively to the play experience, and overall I'm really glad I got the chance to play it!
(Note: This recorded version of the game is pretty different from the final game, lots of UI improvements and some script/clue changes, but I thought maybe someone might enjoying seeing the ways it changed in development)
This scratches a very similar itch to Obra Dinn. As much as I enjoyed that game, the backtracking to different floors to dive through layers of memories was a bit tedious. This does not have that issue. It's a nice clean family tree, and an inventory full of documents (with notifiers, to tell you when you've followed all paths in said document.)
I absolutely left my house after playing this for an hour or two, and thought about the connections I was struggling with while away from my pc.
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There's no Rhose Rottree in the dropdown for me, and I'm stuck at the Roottree Sisters section :(
keep searching. That's not her birthname :)
Oh! Thanks. My saved game loaded but the text field to search is stuck and I cannot change it. I'll delete the save data but maybe the bug report helps :)
Can you get me more detail on this bug? When you say the text field to search is stuck, what do you mean? On the computer? It won't let you edit it?
Yeah it was filled with my last search and didn't let me edit it at all
Okey, loaded the game again and it worked and damn I lost so much time to it amazing game! I'm stuck at the last 8 blood relatives. The numbers shown in the magnifying glasses are so deeply confused. Can you give me a hint? :S
This feels like a next step in the deduction-style genre. It has a bunch of really neat tricks that separate it from all the games that came before (Her Story and Obra Dinn feel like the closest comparisons).
If you are interested in neat story telling and a few deductive jumps, then you will enjoy this.
It took me around 8-9 hours to play through, and I'm lucky I found this in the morning, so it was only my day that was sunk, not my sleep.
I don't know how I got here. I was just idly surfing the web before going to sleep and somehow randomly stumbled upon this game from google search. I haven't thought about playing a video game in months but I checked it out and got sucked in. It was very fun.
Thought I'd dig up my old account for this website to say thanks for the experience! I would comment about what I liked about the game but truth be told, completing this game kept me up until 4AM and all my brain cells are gone and I need to sleep now to work tomorrow so goodnight.
Minor feedback: I found it hard to scroll when assigning names/jobs to the family tree, and would've liked the option to type it in (similar to the search bar in the full list of names).
A steady drip of information keeps your mind turning over as you attempt to accurately identify the members of the Roottree dynasty by name, face, and profession.
For me, it rewarded thinking in a satisfying way, and had plenty of 'ooooooh i feel smart' moments.
Should be noted that if you don't want to read, it's probably not for you - there's a lot of reading.
Excellent game.
I did some beta testing for this game, it's great. A LOT of high quality gameplay for a free game, definitely worth checking out if you like games like family trees, Return of the Obra Dinn, or games with computers inside of them.
I played an early version of this, and loved it. Since then, a lot of bells and whistles have been added that make it an even more enjoyable experience. As others have pointed out, if you're a fan of Return of the Obra Dinn, then this game is for you. It's very much along the same lines, with a lot of sleuthing and mystery-solving packed into an interesting story. Try it out!
Disclaimer: I beta-tested this game
I highly recommend this game to fans of games like Her Story and Obra Dinn, where you sift through huge volumes data to sleuth out the truth. It's got an expansive catalogue of in-universe content to explore, and a ton of UI/UX systems in place to prevent the player from getting inexorably stuck. Voice Acting/Music/Aesthetics are crisp and contribute positively to the play experience, and overall I'm really glad I got the chance to play it!
(Note: This recorded version of the game is pretty different from the final game, lots of UI improvements and some script/clue changes, but I thought maybe someone might enjoying seeing the ways it changed in development)Disclaimer: I beta-tested this game
This scratches a very similar itch to Obra Dinn.
As much as I enjoyed that game, the backtracking to different floors to dive through layers of memories was a bit tedious.
This does not have that issue.
It's a nice clean family tree, and an inventory full of documents (with notifiers, to tell you when you've followed all paths in said document.)
I absolutely left my house after playing this for an hour or two, and thought about the connections I was struggling with while away from my pc.
Very worth your time.