Cahors Sunset

I bought this game and wish I hadn't. I knew that it would be a rudimentary interface, answer multiple choice questions to affect your character's destiny, etc. And the premise is very interesting: play out the life of an elderly Frenchman and try to help him stay alive as long as he can, etc. But the game doesn't really value life, and takes a denigrating and condescending stance toward older people. I myself am 66 years of age, so I noticed that the game just seems to have this one-dimensional view of an older person living in humble circumstances. I go along with tracking the character's mood and other attributes, but there were just too many instances of the character stepping in dog feces, having a bird defecate on his head, being made fun of by younger people, etc. Three or four years into the character's game life, he is about 68 years old, and a screen pops up asking 'just how long can one live and have life still worth living?' or words to that effect. Since I myself am 66, i...

I have a review for this game, but I'm going to type a wall of text here in hopes that you can't see my review. Because I think there's a major point to this game that you can't ever have someone tell you about. I think you have to experience it.. I think you have to feel it. If you can come to that point on your own, it's a beautiful and amazingly well designed game for a very low price. The problem is, in my review I'm going to spoil what I believe the "secret" point of this game is. I know some of you will click it anyways and miss out. But I'm challenging you. Is $2 really so much to pay to believe in another human being? Just please. Trust me. Don't read the rest of this review until after you've at least played through the game once on your own. For those of you that insist on seeing it now, or for those of you who have played through once and are back now to read this, here is my review: This game is magnificent. It's not amazing as far as gameplay, sound, graphics.. No....

[b]"Old age is just a record of one's whole life." - Muhammad Ali[/b] Boy, wasn't that accurate and... depressing... in the right way, I guess. Okay, give me a moment to arrange an actual review from the crippling strike of empathy that I just took to my guts. [i]Cahors Sunset[/i] is a unique mini game that invites you to become an elderly French man named Valentin Puget. You live and recount your life's tale, alongside witnessing many political changes of France's own history. Your main goal is to keep the old man alive as long as possible by making everyday choices like either drinking a fine wine, or simply visiting your doctor. You have to keep an eye on his social, financial, psychological and physical abilities to present a well balanced life. As months pass and the old man ages even more, he suffers certain ailments and penalties to all his stats. Every single thing that you choose to do carry both positive and negative consequences on different assets. Also, you are the objec...

Cahors Sunset is an interactive story board with a choice of three decisions each month of a sixty odd year old man; each desision you make affects various arrtibutes such as happiness weight, anxiety, social life etc. The aim of the game is to keep your man alive as long as possible by keeping these attributs well balanced. I reckon the game a life of several play throughs before it becomes a little boring. I've played for about 2.7 hours so far and have enjoyed it somewhat, but can't see me playing it much except maybe for the odd five minures as a filler between other games. It was only £1.35, so for the time I enjoyed it was worth the money. If you want something different I will recommend it, but if you don't like text based adventures don't bother. :) The game could have had much more replayability if there had been more than one character to play through. Maybe the developer will add more in the future. If you are into online score tables you...

TL;DR: The game is a random number generator dependent upon RNG. So long as you keep attributes at a stable level (sometimes dependent upon a lot of luck) you'll survive. The payoff is unrewarding. The game has potential to be more than what it is. Purchase reason: Game appeared in the new releases of Steam. The description piqued my interest. There aren't many games on the platform that appear to have this type of background. Further, my partner adores French culture and history so that helped the purchase decision. Install note: Be forewarned that the game will attempt to install Adobe Air when you try and start the game for the first time. Initial reaction: The concept plays out a little too simply - You make a single choice for the month (they can be very simple things that would be a common occurrence in everyday life such as attending a sports contest). There doesn't appear to be nearly as much substance in the game as what there could be. In game music: It's pleasant enough...

It's times like this that I wish my curiosity had not gotten the better of me. Cahors Sunset is served to you as a series of questions after a dialogue of what has most recently happened to effect his life. The game allows you to control the decisions of an old French man. Every action you take has an effect on your character and not all choices are good; many contain unwanted side effects, mainly dropping his mood(when it came to choices I would pick). The idea is to balance the positive and negative effects of each action you take and the impacts they have on the old man's health... However, unlike quite a few other visual novels, or choice driven story games, I find this flat and really not compelling enough to want to sit there for a solid 3 to 5 hours just clicking various text boxes. Though this novel had the chance to be something great, I feel as though it fails to reach the level it could. I can admire what they were trying to achieve by making this a fully choice driven st...

Just got this.. Obviously havent played long. But Ill tell you this.. The longer I live, the more I get involved in the story. Its short and sweet.. Not an obscene amount of text. Very quirky, historical, and yet whimsical and refreshing. For less than 2 dollars, I can't ask for more. Chosing what a 60yr old man does in his life doesn't sound like much fun at first... But Im enjoying it. "You stepped in dog feces" -3 mood 9/10 so far and thats only because I haven't been able to tell any youths to get off my lawn.

Wow, this caught me off guard and really got me emotional thinking about my own life and my father and his passing. A great insight into out own mortality.

Hm. Well, I don't know what to say, really. Cahors Sunset does contain a nice idea at the core, but, this is not enough to sell the game to me. As a matter of fact, it's boring to me. And it's incredibly... how do I phrase it? It's just not a good game. The random events seem to be bad for the protagonist in 90% of the cases. And the nice background photos do nothing, since the decision cards cover up about half of the screen. So, in essence... I don't even think that 1,99€ are worth it. I would have expected a little more. And that is sad.

Well, I really don’t know what to think about this thing. Cahors Sunset is not really bad. Basically, it has a very neat idea. Manoeuvre through the life of an old, depressed man by making very basic choices that affect more or less the basic conditions of his life. All that with a great look and horrible music. It could be a great thing if you are in this kind of games, as I am usually. I find the Narration most of all good: While the life goes on and you learn, what month after month in France, the home country of the old man, you learn also all his biography until the point of departure of the game. That is interesting in terms of storytelling as well as in terms of telling history. But what bothers me extremely is that the game looks and feels over all unfinished. After half an hour (half the time it took me to finish it with the age of 73 years) it feels very repetitive. Your possible choices as well as the random events repeat again and again. Also, I felt disappointed, bec...