Should I be conscious after working all night and morning to get our Amare / Otome visual novel “Women of Xal” officially available on Steam after it left Early Access and entered into the big girl pool of Full Releases? Probably not. But let’s just give this one last go. Shall we?
Follow Xjena as she begins her climb up the dangerous political ladder against other women eying the same, powerful position of Matriarch. Help those who need it immediately, or focus on the future and potentially help a wider range of people. The path is yours to walk. Or chuck her into a tragic death run. Players gonna play.
Join Xjena on a 10 hour story with countless branching paths and ways to complete each individual day. No two playthroughs are the same, and your friends may have very different experiences with the characters than you do!
Choices are not binary, and one good deed does not wash out the bad, nor the bad the good.
Who let me be in charge of how many choices you get in this game? Apparently there’s over 600 menu choices?
Xjena has just as much a personality as you, so she interacts with the world not as a silent protagonist, but a woman with plenty agency.
The world and its characters will not revolve around Xjena or her schedule. It’s up to the player to be involved in their lives.
In a stunt we’ll probably, hopefully never do again, you can date/befriend 12 full “Romance/Friend” routes that are NOT blocked!
That means you can romance multiple people in one playthrough without worrying about being locked out from someone. Why?
Because romanceable characters interact with each other due to an incredibly intricate affection system that allows and encourage polyamorous options.
^ End me.
Romance options can turn into enemy options for certain playthroughs… and it can uh, Go Places. Like one of them killing Xjena real early.
140 minute soundtrack with familiar Jazzy vibes, niche ambiance and synth-heavy tracks, and genres I’m pretty sure the composer (see: me) made up.
Over 100 special illustrations for important scenes and romantic/platonic moments. See the 4th bullet point for this segment.
The writer for this description page is also the head and main writer for the game’s script. This is either a bane or a boon, depending on the reader.
Jump into the lore today! The water is fine. I hear it’s a bit deep, but Xjena is here to make your journey into Xal as seamless as possible! Solve the mysteries, make your new friends smile, and go on a journey that will stick with you for a long, long time. Go to Steam for more information and to purchase the game!
all video games should have a “I’m shit at video games but I’m curious about the story and I don’t want to watch a let’s play” mode
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I made this post because I am disabled and no matter how much I practice there are some games I will never be able to play because I physically cannot move my fingers the way you have to and the responses to this post from other disabled people, people who grew up unable to play video games, and people who just aren’t very good at them has been extremely enthusiastically positive, while people who apparently can’t conceive of the idea that some people will never be good at gaming condescendingly comment, tag or send me asks telling me to try easy mode or to get good despite the fact that the feature I’m describing already exists in some games and mods. if you’re part of the latter group, consider that some of us can not ever be good at video games and we still deserve to be able to participate and have fun
Ok, real talk, if you play PC games I use a program called Wemod that has settings for almost every game ever and you can change them to suit your needs
Unlimited health? one hit kill? unlimited items?
They can’t mod multiplayer games, but every genre of game imaginable is on Wemod so I use it for everything from stardew valley, subnautica, hades, farming sim and more!
It mods the games to your level of ease without needing to mess with any files or get deep into webpages for mods yourself
It is a life changer
FYI ⬆️⬆️⬆️
Only passing along as the only games I play are on my phone.
Get an older sibling and have them play the game and you watch
One, this is older siblings who watch younger siblings play erasure, two that’s not the point. People deserve to enjoy the experience of playing a game for themselves. Watching someone play is fun. Playing yourself is a different kind of fun.
There are so many reasons why someone wouldn’t want to be challenged by a game, and it’s ridiculous that people can’t fathom someone requiring a different gameplay than themselves.
Back in the dark ages when I was a kid and we got our first computer, my dad noticed that I was sad because I wanted to play computer games like him, so he would let me play his games in god mode. Should a five year old have been playing Ultimate Doom? Absolutely not. Did I enjoy the shit out of it, particularly the part where I couldn’t die and could just wander around aimlessly machine gunning demons to death with no real goal in mind? Hell yes.
Also, no one should have to explain the reason they want to play the game in god mode.
That is absolutely none of your business, if someone wants to play the game with max items, weapons, armor, money etc., whatever reason they’re playing that way for. YOU, the anon on the internet have no business knowing or shitting on how they play. It’s THEIR game, and THEIR gameplay experience. and I hope OP was able to play their game the way they wanted to without being stymied by the games mechanics.
Can I Play That? is a fantastic resource for fellow disabled folks who want to play video games, as well as non-disabled video game devs who want to make their games more accessible. I highly recommend checking it out!
well, since buildtober has ran headfirst out of the window, here’s those final screenshots of my library that i forgot to post. you can actually see the ceiling i spent so long on in these!
If you play computer games, I recommend you to try the game “Black Book” by Russian game studio “Morteshka”. The game was released a couple of days ago. It’s based on real Russian folklore of Perm region (and not just on tales about poor old Baba Yaga who for some reason always is evil in western interpretations :).
The game is about a Russian peasant girl who becomes a witch for the sake of saving her lover. In the game you will meet various Slavic spirits, talk with them, fight them and/or take them into service. The genre is a RPG/visual novel/card game (fights in the form of a card game).
Flaws:
1.
The developers did not have a big budget. So that is why graphics don’t exist (models are funny). Still far landscapes are pleasant and atmospheric.
2. Some of the English-speaking gamers in Steam are talking that it’s difficult to understand and follow all the lore in the game. But still they like it so just be ready for tons of text about folklore, believes, terminology, religion stuff and etc.
Merits:
1. There are English subs and dubs (but I recommend Russian voices).
2. The game is based on the Russian folklore and a bit of Finno-Ugric (since Perm Region is also a home for Finno-Ugric people). There is a lot of information. If you interested in Russian folklore you MUST play it :)
3. It’s interesting and atmospheric. And that’s not just my opinion :)
4. You can meet demons who possess samovars, speaking demon-cats, depressed demons who is sad because their masters forgot them, demons who want to bring progress to common people, demons who torture sinners… and you can play with all of them in the card game (well most of them). You can help common people or curse them. You can befriend a soldier with pyrophobia, a cat-domovoi, a speaking head… Why yall still don’t play it?
Sometimes a family is a lost adventurer who has no choice but to worship an old and unforgivingly cruel god, a dimension hopping catboy, an immortal creeper, a gun-toting cyberpunk zombie smashing twink, and a shoujo protag stuck in a mutant apocalypse.
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