Gray Eyes of Death

I suggest that the author plays a couple of this type of games first to get a general idea of the concept. Have a look at e.g. Zombie Exodus. In this "interactive novel" here I got to choose whether I wear blue trousers or skinny jeans and that is pretty much all I can do during hundreds of screens. Next, next, next, next, next... Clicking on the NEXT button seems to be the only interaction here. Wow, I unlocked several achievments by clicking NEXT a couple of times. Hey what about if you let me decide how I want the story to go? This is garbage.

I wish I'd held back a few days on this one to see some reviews but was pretty excited at the prospect of another Zombie Exodus type game. Sadly it's absolutely nowhere near as good quality. The interaction is very basic - I read about five pages, realised I hadn't made any decisions in a while and then clicked through NEXT just to see how many more it took before I'd be prompted for something again. Another four pages! Nine pages without a choice really isn't an interactive novel, its just an ebook. Coupled with this the main two characters are hugely annoying at the beginning. I know they're meant to be that way because they're teenagers but I'm not really up for that when one of those characters is meant to be me. Your friend at the beginning makes some really awful choices and you barely get to disagree with them, if at all. The writing itself isn't really strong enough either to float the entire story without choices. If it had been I might not have actually noticed the lack...

Calling this 'interactive' is stretching the word to the breaking point.

I jumped the gun with my early impressions this game is cartoonish with its virtue signalling, If you play as a male character & your survivor friend is female then they drag you out of EVERY dangerous situation, you have little control over the narrative of the game except for what turns out to be very minor choices. Hell she even calls you her sidekick at one point. Your character is basically a weakling who has to be led by the hand by the strong wahmen to get you out of everything.

Most characters were well made with credible personality and i'd say half the choice were relevant/suitable all the while the pacing isn't bad. BUT -the way the story push you in the direction of Callum is a big turn off : Seriously, in the stats he was despising me and almost killed me(and there's too many time where he made the situation dire by his stupidity/ dangerous behavior) but the game tried to force a romance out of it.. -Many thing are wrong and/or stupid within the story and how it unfold (i obviously don' ask for a "realist" zombie game, but at last don't make the character a bunch of moron to help the scenario) -the lack of polish : many time the game used the wrong words like He instead of She, also some long dead characters appeared from nowhere as if they were alive and finally there are a lot of grammar and syntax error. Overall i didn't had a bad time, or better said the positive overweight the negative, but the author should really reflect on the mistake in...

To be honest if Steam had a neutral vote option I would give it as there are flaws that really drag it down but there is enough stuff I like that bumps it up to positive, if barely. I rather liked the best friend (if I ignored he/she undergoing spontaneous sex changes) and Angel, I thought both were done rather well, I also thought the diary was something of a nice touch. Also I felt that the descriptions of the bodies, the scenes, and overall environment were all very well done. However, as other reviews have noted, there wasn't as many game changing decisions as one would like, or decisions at all, as I found myself clicking next for several long pages with your character doing things and having discussions before hitting a decision which could range from "do I side with my best friend or Callum in their usual spat?" to "what clothes do I wear?" Not to say there wasn't good stuff in some of that, there definitely was, but there could have been more. There could have also been meanin...

I really wanted to enjoy this one. The story was interesting, and it was of a nice length. Many of the main characters were unique and relatively interesting, especially Killian. However, there seemed to be very few choices, with many of them being about what clothes your character selected (added a bit of flavor to your character, but little else). So it felt more like reading a book than playing a game. I also felt that the main character was a bit bland, as I tried to play her as rebellious but ended up feeling like she went with the flow or faded into the background in most of the scenes. There were also typos, issues with the story populating the main character's gender/clothing wrong at times, and some scene descriptions that were a bit confusing. Overall, I would love to see more from this author because I enjoyed the story so much. But the problems with this game were a bit too much for me, so I only played it once.