Crudelis

[b]“The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.” ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, [i]Frankenstein[/i][/b] [i]Crudelis[/i] is the only game from Whiskey Jack Games so far, an RPGMaker game with a non-linear world of its own. The game bears careful elaboration of various independent plotlines and 12 probable endings, yet you'll only have an hour to solve any of its mysteries. It is a short little adventure which may appreciate your attention. It's year 1896, and our world bears a setting dominated by the marks of industrial revolution. Henry Shackleton, a scientist with some local renown and little monetary accommodations has been working on a mysterious machine. As he was about to make the final experiment, a band of petty criminals break into his house. As surprised as Henry himself, bandits panic and one of them stab Henry during the affray. Slowly bleeding, Henry crawls into his mac...

I don’t really write a lot of reviews, but I’ve just finished this game and found that it warranted one. PRO: + Replayability. I think I’ve done around 10 playthroughs. It would probably have been more, but I cheated and looked up some answers on the forum. + Choices matter. Say one wrong to word to anyone and you might have missed the opportunity to unravel what really happened. + Non-linear. You can do whatever you feel like doing within the 1 hour you’re alive. + Minimap to never get lost. NEUTRAL: +/- Because it’s non-linear, the plot can be a bit confusing depending on what route you’re on. The twist at the “canon ending” can also come out of nowhere because of this. +/- You have to play it with your mouse. If you don't use your mouse, you'll miss a lot of objects and some doors will not open anyway. (I'm used to only using my keyboard when playing rpg maker games.) CON: - Character sprites style are mismatched. There’s three (or even four to the well-trained ...

I think, the game is not replayable. I experienced just one ending which is running with a baloon. I really do not wonder about other endings, because I have half-guesses about others. There is open-town map which has steampunk atmosphere. I love everything about Steampunk, but I do not like the town. I think is not exactly Steampunk. I like the soundtracks, so I took the 'original soundtrack'. The soundtracks based piano like other RPGMaker games, not so specially. Dialogues with NPCs are incredible linear and boring. However some are interesting like [spoiler] The lecture (I did not listen it. But if I try again later, I will do.) [/spoiler] 6/10

An excellent [i]RPG Maker[/i] adventure game. High replay value. Many endings, each deserving a partially or totally different playthrough. A gold nugget, especially for achievement hunters looking for challenge. Nice music, very appropriate. Last but not least, a very good and captivating story. Do not hesitate to buy and give it a try !!

Super cool setting and really fun puzzle solver! Loads of replay ability also! Do I recommend this game? Yes!

I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand—the hand I worked with, played games with, and used to carry my children to bed—the hand I desperately needed to ensure I could continue providing. Upon learning the severity of the self-inflicted damage, I became almost suicidal. Keep in mind that just a few months before this, I was the happiest man, with no history of depression or anxiety. I had never experienced anger outbursts, nor was I the type to break down and cry, but I was in a tough situation that truly prevented me from seeing the light on the other side. With nothing better to do, I looked for a game I could pla...

RPG Maker strikes again! Crudelis is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction. As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the intention of RPG Maker is to make demos and small games to pass around friends, and shouldn't be used for "professional" game development. Like most RPG Maker shovelware and asset flips, the game features extremely low quality copy + pasted 2D retro pixel art, looks awful, and has even worse gameplay. RPG Maker i...

This game is amazing! I lived every second. Got stuck twice and don't like time pressure but other than that a really nice little game. Investigate your own murder, explore a little town, meet lots of people, do a few side quests... This needs more reviews and players asap!

[h2]Crudelis[/h2] Has a total of [b]6[/b] trading cards.

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