The Quiet Apocalypse

I wanted to like this game. I really did. It starts out with a scale of landscape that is rare, giving a sense to size of the great wilds. The decent points of interest along the earlier story are paced well enough to tolerate. After a while, the story itself kicks up suddenly (and somewhat out of left field) with enough hook to forgive the increasingly long treks of boring nothing. However, there is so much jank in this game, that it only took a rather large iron straw to break the camel's back. From the flashlight having to be manually reloaded if reading a document to ladders killing you if you down crawl down them and finally, and this is a big one, save points only happening in the incredibly rare buildings with no option to manually save. This is what killed it for me. The portion between Red Hell checkpoint and the next stop is an unforgivably long walk of nothing, with nothing to see, nothing to do, and like me if you slip on a hill that isn't obviously dangerous and fall t...

You know, I didn't know what to expect, but this is a very nice little game! It is basically a walking simulator with no fighting, but it has an interesting and mysterious story about a worldwide catastrophe. PROS. The story pulled me in, always wanting to know more. Little by little, the story is revealed in letters found in abandoned buildings. The graphics are great -- not over-the-top, but very realistic with lots of fine detail and interesting clutter in the buildings. One of the most unusual things is the size of the world -- 154 sq miles! That's huge -- larger than Ghost Recon (105 sq mi), Witcher 3 (84 sq mi), WoW (80 sq mi), GTA V (49 sq mi), Red Dead 2 (29 sq mi), and far larger than Skyrim (15 sq mi). CONS. There's only one: the settings say there is a keybind for Run, but it doesn't work -- you can only walk. Dev, please fix this! Even though it takes a bit too much time getting from one objective to another, I can still live with it. After all, it is a walking simula...

The Quiet Apocalypse is more than a walking simulator... it is 'find your way across the wilderness with a compass' simulator and it does a good job of capturing a sense of orienteering. Your direction may be SE, but if there is a mountain or cliff in the way, you have to choose a safe path around and then readjust your bearings once you've cleared the obstacle. Climbing to a hill top and scanning for landmarks (such as radio towers) is also helpful. On steep slopes, moving diagonally is much safer than facing downhill at a run. So, there is a sense of planning your route which I enjoyed. You begin your journey with a note from your father that has instructions on how to follow him. You move from one way-point to the next, finding notes from your father along the way. You also build a story of what happened to the people and the world through other notes that are lying about. At first, the level of instructions for each quest seemed excessive. But, this is to get you into the swing of...

Alright. [i]The Quiet Apocalypse[/i] is done and dusted. I really enjoyed this game. It is the epitome of a walking simulator, which I generally enjoy, and it's the type of game that really has you thinking about it after you wrap it up. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3252553208 This is a game that's all about the story and the journey to uncover the various pieces that make the whole picture clear. I will say that this is also obviously a product of living through COVID, even if it possibly didn't begin development that way. Not really sure how far back this was being written, but yeah. The story is multi-faceted, where there are a few distinct storylines that all come together to provide a very nuanced tale of impending manmade or human influenced doom being preempted by a naturally occurring extinction event. Which was really, really cool. I found myself easily picturing and hearing the people being described in or actually writing the notes that convey th...

This is a really interesting game and I am definitely enjoying exploring the world! I had no issues with the game speed. Please relax and enjoy. I had a small issue with my save file, and dev sorted it out for me almost immediately. Weather system is particularly nice, with realistic clouds and gaps in clouds seeing through to stars etc.

I didn't find this game fun. I played for 4 hours to see if it would get better and have given up. don't wait that long!

I love the visuals of this game. It is nice to look at and the story is interesting and disturbing enough to the point I have played. I realize they added a run feature, but it is not very fast; more like a fast walk. The destinations, in my opinion, are spaced too far apart. It took me 20 minutes to reach the desert from the forest with absolutely nothing interesting going on in that time. That is honestly the only complaint I have. It really is unappealing to fall and die or crash and be set back 20 minutes of walking to get back to where you were.

It appears this game is far from market ready. 1. Quests being completed before all necessary objectives are achieved. 2. Very long distances to walk without anything to interact with, boring and makes your thumb tired. 3. Very few objects to interact with 4. Some of the objects you can interact with are very cumbersome and your success is luck, not skill 5. The story line is boring and cumbersome. Yet it's necessary to read full pages just in case it holds a clue 6. Only holds two saved games. Impossible to go back 3 or 4 steps. You have to start the game over 7. Not even 1/4th of the way through the game, it crashed. Neither saved games work. I'd have to start from the beginning. The game wasn't near exciting enough to even care how it ends. I'm done with it. I seriously don't recommend this game at all

I try to never give a bad review on a game but this one is just senseless, if like me I play a game sporadically I need reminders of where to go and what to do this game I found myself lost and confused as from one day to the next there are no reminders what I'm searching for so I ended up walking blindly until I just gave up trying it has nice scenery but it has no point, sorry I can't recommend this one!

First of all, I don’t understand why the large map is one of the advertised things of this game, when most of it is just empty and not particularly good looking. After walking all over the map for 8+ hours now, the map is mainly boring and ugly. At first the point of interest are fairly “close” together, meaning you are only walking a few minutes to get from point A to point B. Eventually these distances grow significantly until you are walking 20-30 minutes (or more of you get lost). If it was at least possible to move quickly through this emptiness but, no. You can “run” but it only makes you ever so slightly faster, it is just a pain. You also randomly stop running sometimes. The path you take in this game is badly designed. Not only are some of the locations way too far apart, often you are tasked with climbing a mountain but in order to do that you have to walk around it because you can only go up from the backside, adding more distance you have to cross. Or you have ...