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• gamedeal user

  Feb 22, 2022

  I strongly recommend this VN! Pleasing art, engaging story, immersive music, and multiple character routes. This VN has it all. If you're looking for a post-apocalyptic survival with tense atmosphere, psychological horror elements, and puzzle solving (or anything that has the name "Zero Escape"), you'll enjoy what this VN has to offer. Talking about the music in particular, I got vibes from both Corpse Party and I Walk Among Zombies. It could just be a coincidence, but I wouldn't be surprised if one (or multiple) of the music directors involved in this game also worked for either of those two games.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 7, 2023

  The plot seems interesting enough, but the puzzles themselves are legitimately breaking me. The developers would've fit right in with 80s era Sierra adventure games like King's Quest just in terms of how utterly moon brained some of the solutions are. Doesn't help that all the text you see in the puzzles or illustrations is in Cyrillic either. I'm going to power through it as a point of pride, but I honestly wish I had never started in the first place.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 17, 2020

  This is a puzzle escape game where you have to investigate your surroundings. So far so good will update later. Midpoint update I like the how characters draw you into the mysterious story. The art does justice to the girls. The hint system works well but one or two of the puzzles are very hard to decipher. Update I have played the final chapter. It was well worth playing. I liked the ending.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 31, 2020

  If you enjoy plot based (NOT romance based) VNs and adventure games whose puzzles can get to ridiculous levels of difficulty and "logic", then yes, this was a fun game. Honestly, anyone sane playing this is doing it while staring at a translated walkthrough, and I have intense pity for the people who had to play the original Japanese version and try to figure all this out in the first place. Each character has her own problems and her own arc, and they don't really bond as a team or share their information with each other until the very end, so don't go in hoping for a lot of cute hand-holding moments or found-family feels. On the other hand, if girls rescuing each other from imminent doom (and sometimes failing to do so, and sometimes turning on each other) is your jam, there's definitely that.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 20, 2021

  I bought this because I loved the Nonary games (999, Virtue's Last Reward and Zero Time Dilemma) and the Danganronpa trilogy, and was looking for something similar - a crazy and violent anime visual novel interrupted by puzzle / escape room like sequences. This game indeed does scratch that itch, and I really don't consider it to be bad at all.... But Steam only allows for a thumbs up or down, and my thumb goes down because it's just nowhere near as good as the aforementioned games are and I couldn't help but be disappointed. Disappointed by the story (which is not terrible, it's just okay - 4 out of 10 in my book) and especially by the puzzles. A couple of the puzzles are well designed and really enjoyable too solve, but many are tedious (you know these kind of puzzles where you've figured out the solution conceptually, but need forever to figure out how exactly the game expects you to put this solution into practice? You'll find plenty of those in here...). A handful of puzzles are also illogical and make almost no sense to me, even after looking up the solution, and worse: two puzzles are solvable but *outrageously* difficult and thus just feel completely out of place - they are in a completely different league than all other puzzles in the game and will take forever to solve for the average casual gamer (and looking up solutions online isn't easy, this game isn't very popular apparently, and I could only find a walkthrough in chinese that's not easy too understand in the google-translated English version, and Videos on YT). If you are in a similar spot as I was and have played through all other games in this niche (i.e. Anime Visual Novel with Puzzle sequences) and this game is on sale, I'd recommend it, but there are certainly far better games in this category out there...
• gamedeal user

  May 10, 2021

  Abyss of the Sacrifice is a visual novel with playable adventure game "escape room" segments. There are no choices in the VN or adventure segments, so you get different endings by playing various chapters in different orders (characters will make decisions based on what they know from previous chapters for example). This is an interesting idea but it does make the game feel kind of fragmented and weird, as most chapters are their own separate vignettes with a self-contained story arc, so it's kind of like "the girls are looking for food" and then you click the next one and "the girls are trying to turn the power on". Also character deaths aren't as devastating as they could be because due to the fragmented set-up they're not usually mentioned much if they're not present until the endings. The art and music are both fine, basic but they do the job. The text is in an awful font that is very hard to read, and for some reason there isn't an indication of who is speaking (or even if they are saying the lines aloud) aside from the voice acting so if you are hard of hearing you may be SOL with this one. Gameplay in the adventure segments is, frankly, bad. Some of the puzzles are fun but a lot of them are very obscure, and sometimes the hints are just like "good luck, lol" so you're stuck looking at a Japanese wiki with google translate trying to get through them. Inventory management is terrible with way too much clicking (to use an item you click the button that opens the item wheel, click on the item, then click "use", then click on whatever you wanted to use it on) and you can only combine items in the order that the game has decided is allowed, so "bottle+kettle" works but "kettle+bottle" won't. This means that nearly every puzzle segment brings the plot to a screeching halt while you plod slowly around trying to solve complex math puzzles (or pick up the flashlight by sticking some duct tape to a stick, which is a real puzzle). Speaking of the plot, it is a bit of a mess. It starts out interesting and I liked parts of it, but it goes off on some weird tangents (the like 3 minutes that [spoiler]xenomorphs[/spoiler] are present despite not being mentioned on any other occasion, a section about a virus that just sort of peters out) and the sci-fi nonsense comes at you hard and fast after a certain point. It seemed like whatever sci-fi concept was a convenient explanation for what was going on would just be introduced for that part and then dropped. If it's on sale and you really like escape games maybe, but I couldn't recommend it at full price.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 20, 2021

  When playing this game, my opinions were all over the place. First, all of the characters are easily hateable. That's not to say they don't have good points, but it's hard to say I really liked any of them. In some ways that's part of the story. Speaking of the story, most aspects of what's going on makes absolutely zero sense, which threw me off for large portions of the game - however, they explain most of that satisfactorily at the end, so I did feel better about that. The exception would be the puzzles themselves; in a game like zero escape, the puzzles were explained in the context of the world and thus made sense, but here there is no reason for any puzzle to be a puzzle in the first place or to be set up the way that it is. Furthermore, the difficulty ranged from stupid easy to impossible without a walkthrough. Look, I have a PhD in physics, I can understand complicated maths and quantum mechanics, but even with walkthrough answers I STILL have no idea how to solve some of these - they're way too abstract and esoteric. The story itself is quite mysterious and interesting, and as I was playing the true route I was leaning towards giving this game a thumbs up because I enjoyed the story despite my earlier complaints. But then it ended suddenly and abruptly in an unsatisfactory way, so I decided on thumbs down. Sorry, this game came close to a like, but I couldn't recommend this to someone, the faults are too frustrating.