Sentences with phrase «walking simulator games»

In one of the best walking simulator games, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, you'll explore a vastly detailed yet eerily creepy rural setting as a paranormal investigator tasked with finding out what happened to Ethan Carter, the horror - adventure video game was specifically designed to never hold your hand making it a little difficult at times to solve some of the puzzles, but much like a Dark Souls the sense of accomplishment is what you should play this walking simulator for.

Not exact matches

Many narrative - driven games today are criticized for being nothing more than «walking simulators».

I don't like games that are pretty much just walking simulators with a little bit of combat thrown into the mix like Assassin's Creed.

Indie games have helped to revive the story - based adventure genre, whether through combat - free «walking simulators» like Dear Esther, puzzling open worlds as in The Witness, or evocative movielike experiences such as Journey.

The game was labelled a «walking simulator» due to the bare bones investigation and traversal around the game's luscious and outstanding vistas.

You wouldn't want to face another player in a horror game, point and click adventure, or walking simulator, for example.

It's been four years since Fullbright created waves in the gaming industry with Gone Home, a light adventure, or «walking simulator,» that divided gamers on what defines a game.

As, «Well I know I want to explore sound,» but I didn't let myself decide anything else about it until quite near the end, so I wasn't sure if it was going to be more of a story, more of a game, just a wandering around, what they call a «going for a walk» simulator.

Get Even is part walking simulator, part military stealth game.

Initially, Aporia seems to fit into the walking - simulator genre, a game based primarily around the exploration of a fallen civilisation, but it doesn't take long before you're solving puzzles and even dealing with an enemy that floats around like the much angrier version of Casper the Friendly Ghost.

Although at first glance it's easy to toss Dream into the pile of fairy generic, so - called «walking simulators» clones that pervade Steam at the moment the game fights to be free of that label by tossing in a jump button which proves mostly pointless and puzzles.

Other than that it's a walk - and - talk simulator like Naughty Dog games were for years (not saying it's bad, it's just nothing special anymore and some people will certainly find it bad for replayability).

But than again almost every game ever made is a walking simulator.

we need more games like this, and i don't mean walking simulators in hell but games with grotesque and taboo themes and images, i hate sjw bullshits

But has it been worth the wait for this «walking simulator» styled horror adventure game, or are we in for a disappointing ride?

A narrative - driven game, the is another major game that can best be described as a «walking simulator.»

Although backtracking is never an enjoyable task in any game, it's nice to see a game so similar to many «walking simulators» given an open - world setting rather than tie players to a strictly linear path — and it's not like you don't have an impeccable view to gaze upon whilst you wander.

Though Lake Ridden, a new first - person puzzle game partially created by a former Minecraft developer, specifically states on its steam page that it is not a walking simulator, it's certainly in the same vein.

Although the lack of directive and stuff to do in the first 15 minutes of the game did make it feel like a walking simulator.

It's fair to say that Hellblade is more an experience than it is a gamer's game — and I know that's going to earn it some mixed reactions along with accusations of being a «walking simulator» — but in existing as what it is, it crafts a story that simply couldn't be told in any other way.

This meant that the game overall has this sense of having less gameplay, and for some players this meant the game slipped into walking simulator territory.

It's been four years since Fullbright created waves in the gaming industry with Gone Home, a light adventure, or «walking simulator,» that divided gamers on what defines a game.

I realised a while back that narrative - based games, «walking simulators», are starting to turn into one my all time favourite genres.

The term «walking simulator» has been tossed around for certain types of games and I guess Gone Home fits into that category.

Since then, Dear Esther has become a seminal title for some players and helped kick off a wave of «walking simulator» games.

The experience is quite cinematic, but lies comfortably between an action game and a walking simulator.

If you aren't someone who enjoys or otherwise appreciates the so - called «Walking simulators» or non-traditional games that aim to deliver something a little different from the norm, such as the developer's previous work in The Stanley Parable, then it is best to step away now — this isn't the game for you, and there's nothing wrong with that.

So, this is a game all about the story and thus it falls largely into the once much - maligned walking simulator category, albeit with some nice puzzling to go along with it, but we'll come back to those later.

The growing trend of walking simulators, as they've become known within the gaming community, has led to a surge of horrible horror games that are barely worth the time it takes to sigh in their general direction.

If you have no problem with «walking simulators» or games that attempt to do something different then it's worth your time and your money.

Doors of Silence — the prologue is the 1st game in an episodic series that aims to make for an immersive scarefest with a few different styles of gameplay that keeps this from being just another walking simulator.

When you combine these elements with the easy puzzles, the game begins to feel a bit like a walking simulator.

Sometimes flying under the tongue - in - cheek banner of «walking simulators,» games like Shape of the World don't actually simulate walking, but do present relaxing and surreal environments that beckon you to travel.

However, unlike a good walking simulator, this game doesn't have an engaging story to compensate for the lack of challenge or tactile gameplay.

The game received very little praise, being called an interactive movie, a tired concept, a walking simulator, and too short.

Yes, many gamers today would call it a «walking simulator» but I find that it was more of an interactive movie that you would see at Toronto Sundance Film Festival.

VR seems particularly well designed for walking simulators and I have enjoyed some in the past, so jumping into a game like this on VR should improve the experience considerably.

Gone Home (2013): One of the pioneering walking simulators / environmental exploration games showed that you could tell a strong story without any characters — just the evidence of their presence.

When I included Lake Ridden in our list of «50 indie games to get excited about in 2018» earlier in the year, I described it as «walking simulator».

The Trail can best be described as a «walking simulator»; yes, that can be associated with low - quality games, but this game goes quite a bit beyond just being your average, every day walking sim.

Perhaps most excitingly, it's now that we start to see whole genres and styles largely associated with the indie market either flourish or come into existence, not least the «walking simulator» — games primarily about exploring a space and a story through environmental detail and voiceover.

As far as horror games it's pretty tame it would be what the kids these days call «walking simulator» if it wasn't for the occasional enemy.

Surprisingly, Ovosonico didn't create a walking simulator, when it comes to gameplay, Last Day of June is actually a very easy adventure game.

Despite universal coverage across the board by the usual group of gaming websites, the incredibly niche and arty walking - simulator Where The Water Tastes Like Wine has somehow not resonated with gamers.

And while grinding is part of playing a game like this — unlocking tracks, cars, upgrades at a regular pace is ingrained in racing simulators — there's a fine line that Forza Motorspot 7 doesn't seem to be walking for a lot of players.

Like so much else in games, the walking simulator is not a new phenomenon, and its roots can be traced back to the 1980s.

If you did enjoy those games however, then you're in for a treat, because Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is up there with some of the best «walking simulators» around.

As regular readers may know, I'm a big fan of narrative - focused games, sometimes pejoratively referred to as «walking simulators».

Also unlike most walking simulators, this game invites you to be an active participant instead of a casual observer — by choosing which stories to share and who to share them to, you're able to shape how they grow and how they ultimately end up.

Racing gamers label such games as «Sim - cades», a portmanteau of «simulator» and «arcade» - not so technically mind - boggling as truly accurate driving sims like iRacing or Assetto Corsa but not a walk in the park to play either like the Need For Speed series of games or Ridge Racer.