Way Walkers: University

Interesting read, but unbalanced. Like most of these games you make certain decisions in the beginning of the game, choices in this one about what kind of Path you want to walk. I chose the one most interesting to me (social / love) and for the rest of the game, not a single choice came up where that was an option to choose. Most of the available choices seemed to revolve around persuasion, fighting (or using magic to fight) or being creative. During the game you are also asked to join a club and are told you will suffer later in your career if you dont make friends in one of them. Again unfortunately the club activities are based on attributes that didnt fit my character. Creativity, Fighting, and Magic/Knowledge (not the actual club names or activities, just the Pathes they would fall under). You end up having to go check them out even if you realize none of them are a good fit for you,... with results that made me frown when I was honest and said I wasnt really interested in t...

Waywalkers University isn't a bad game in the sense that it isn't enjoyable or isn't well done. It's written well, with artistry suited for a choose-your-own-adventure, or CYOA, game. However, this is hardly a good CYOA game by modern standards of CYOA games. Imagine an old Bioware game with the option for romance: You cannot romance a character unless you agree with every single value the romantic interest holds. Your character is expected to emulate the romantic interest that you wish your character to court. The argument for this is the high cost of crafting the assets for different paths, of course, but whether that argument holds any water is irrelevant here. A text-based CYOA game's only assets are essentially code and readable text. There is little excuse for how much the authors push your MC into having a certain personality when choosing to develop certain relationships. The only excuses are a lack of creativity and a closed, narrow mind. The times my MC would impudently roll...

Way too short and with an abrubt ending without any kind of feeling of achievement. Apparently the game is just the first part in a long series, something that isn't clear either from the title, or from the description.

A quite old game that was added pretty recently to Steam, alongside a brand new DLC. I've only discovered the game with the Steam release, and I've been able to play now. It's a very interesting spin on the "magic school" formula. You don't have your usual story set nowadays in our world, with a main character that is thought to be a normal human until they discover they're more than that. I don't have anything against that, but it's nice to see something different. It's a pretty original story with a lot of cool concept, and part of a much bigger universe (the author also writes "regular" books). This is the first part of a trilogy, and the second part is out too, but the third one will take some more time, apparently. I'm writing this review before playing the second part. If you want my updated opinions after playing book 2, please check out the review I'll write on it's page. [b]PROs - Story, world and characters:[/b] That's the basis, and it's good! Worldbuilding is great an...

This is one of the best create your own novel adventure games out there! J. Leigh is an incredible novelist and it is a true pleasure to dive into her world of Way Walkers! With it's own rich lore and interesting characters, you'll keep playing over and over again to see what results you can get. I have been playing this game since it first came out and I am excited and enthralled that the halloween dlc came out and am excited to find out what excitement is in store for chapter 3! If you love create your own adventure stories then this is the game for you!

Not worth the money honestly. A very short game, well written I will admit but I could have finished this in an hour and a half if I wasn't distracted. Very good lore and world-building, but I can't recommend for anything more than 2 bucks.

This is a guarded "Yes" for me. This is another "magical school" type of game, but the world is interesting as are the classes. There's an intriguing mystery that, unfortunately, just begins to unfold when the game ends. Therein lies the problem: This is not a complete story. There is no real conclusion to anything (other than your current school term). Worse, it feels like I barely got to do anything before the game ended. I've played many, many COG and Hosted Games, and don't remember one that felt this short. I know Choice of Games recently raised their prices and can't remember if they also raised prices on Hosted Games. If so, they should not raised the price on this game because the story isn't complete. There's a part 2 and I read on Choice of Games forums a Part 3. How many "chapters' must we have before coming to a conclusion? So, yes. It was fun. I liked the story. I liked it so much that I shelled out the money for Part 2. But buyers should be aware the story does not co...

I remember when this first came out way back when as a phone game, always was my favorite out of all the games of this style. Very happy to see it available on steam

I played this game on my phone a few years ago. One of my favorites, just behind Tin Star. I'm really impressed the writer bothered to add a dlc for this game, and honestly, i can't wait for the 3rd game