Alone

"Alone" is not just a survival game, but a cryptic puzzle with unobvious rules: the real goal of this game is to understand all of the mechanics and principles it's based on. And it seems like it is a developer's concept, because "Alone" quickly introduces you to the principles of interaction with the world in animated "walking" mode but tells you nothing about it text-based strategic mode, on which the survival is actually based. It's up to you to find out what the each of the options means and how to use it. For example, the game won't tell you that the first thing you need to do after you found some firewood (tree branches that lies on the road) is to press "Add fuel" option to put it in a campfire - it affects you character's body temperature. If the campfire dies away you need to create it again with the same "Add fuel" button. It's one of the basic rules of the game, but to find I had to spent ten or twenty minutes of gameplay with obligatory "Frozen to death" game over screen p...

For such a cheaply priced game it's very much worth the price and shows quite a bit of talent on the part of the developer. I'll do some positives and negatives (overall I do love the game) [b]Positives[/b] + Great concept the idea of being the sole survivor of a plane crash and having to stumble your way through the game + Will likely take 2 hours or about that to finish your first play through with harder modes available. + Great visual feedback with things like blood splatter to show injury an even a visual depiction of your character getting hypothermia to allow you to act before they potentially die. + Extremely tense this is closer to a rouge like game as one death and you start again, luckily each time you'll be a bit better knowing more what to do. + Very much a game that rewards exploration but does have more going on + Quite extensive options menu (for the price) with Fahrenheit or Centigrade (Celsius) and WASD or Arrow controls [b]Negatives[/b] - Other than achievemen...

In its current state it's a definite NO for me. It's a very simple game but it's extremely unclear what certain items and upgrades actually do. The game is completely unforgiving to the player who doesn't understand what exactly they're supposed to do, but there is no HELP page or anything except for a briefly shown overlay of the controls. The gameplay is tedious as all hell. It consists of walking slowly from one side of the screen to the other. Discovering new areas seems to be random which makes it even more painful. I appreciate pixel graphics, but it's not very well done here at all. In many cases it's difficult to distinguish what something is... but most of all it's, well... very ugly. The survival mechanics make very little sense. There is way too much abstraction: you can basically use berries in construction or use firewood as food. Leather is extremely important but hard to come by, since it's also randomly placed. You can only warm up by adding firewood, forcing you to s...

I'm not really into survival games, but I like pixel art. What's a guy to do? I downloaded this and dinked around for a few minutes. There isn't any tutorial to speak of, so it took me a bit of dying really quickly to realize that, although the game SEEMS to be interface driven at first (as in, when you're in camp, you have menu choices to hunt, gather, etc), that's a quick way to freezing to death. You're meant to leave camp and wander the overland map, which is how you get the most wood (necessary for building a fire and keeping up your core temperature) and, secondarily, for crafting upgrades. You'll move between campsites and pick up some important upgrades along the way, such as a trap for catching animals. Then, in camp, you choose options to eat, sleep, craft, and hunt (I suspect once you get an actual weapon you can also hunt in the overland map, as you'll see squirrels, foxes and wolves out there). There's no story arc and no goal other than to survive as long as you can. I...

For 50 cent, very nice :) https://youtu.be/ui_O7TFgOHM

I'm not sure what everyones problem is. It's fun, short, and for the most part has a cozy pace to it. The only complaint I really have about it is the character kinda waddles sometimes. Also the random encounters sometimes are too random and can kill you. I bought it for a dollar. It's money reasonably spent.

This game is a lot more than meets the eye. It seems like a simple pixel game, but I really enjoyed how it told a survival story and how well it balanced its survival elements. The graphics can be a little difficult sometimes, but the actual survival aspect is well done and quite enjoyable. Read my full review here: https://www.janneke.photos/review_alone

Brought this game just to launch it when ever I feel alone and just leave it running till the feeling passes 10/10

i mean, this game isnt that special , but atleast it is cheap . the story is as simple as it can be. you are some girl who survived a plane crash in siberia and needs to survive alone , so you gather wood , food , leather etc to go and survive and craft different items. i played for a few hours before getti9ng eye strain from the overuse of white pixels to emphasize the falling snow. also, this is actually a good idea for a game but it is weighed down by the mediocre pixal art visuals and lack of any complex gameplay. my reccomendation? buy it a steam sale if you are scared of wasting 99 cents and if you dont like what you see just refund it. I hope the developer gets the guts to improve on this idea in the near future so i will give a few tips, fix the gameplay and visuals, perhaps add some sort of hunting mechanics for hunting like setting up the trap or aimming the bow, punching the animals etc. anouther thing would be to a wider variety of music than simply just a looping trac...

Meh