Photographs - Puzzle Stories 12+
What would you do?
EightyEight Games LTD
Designed for iPad
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- $4.99
Screenshots
Description
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I think you should play Photographs.
I tried to make it a little bit different from most games. It sort of mixes puzzle and narrative in a ( hopefully ) interesting way. You might get stuck on some puzzles, but you should never not know what you need to do to proceed.
So what do you actually do? Well, you search around and solve puzzles, and as you do so you'll be developing a scene in front of you and hearing a story. I want to the story to really stand out, so the game has got really beautiful pixel art and top notch music, combined with gameplay and narrative beats that individually would do a pretty good job of telling that story, but come together to really make something special.
It's a pretty short game too. I would say about three hours. There are loads of games these days and who has time to play them all? I've tried to keep things as condensed as possible rather than add filler, to be as respectful for your time as I can be.
Each story is in a different setting and has completely different gameplay mechanics. It ended up being a LOT of work, but It's kind of necessary: The gameplay itself has a hand in telling the story, so what works for one tale wouldn't work for another.
I don't think there's anything else like it out there, so if nothing else, It should give you a unique experience.
So yeah. That's my pitch, If that sounds interesting to you, give it a shot!
What’s New
Version 1.1.1346
- Added Hints and Skips
- Bug fixes: Fixed lots of them
Ratings and Reviews
Disappointing
Bought this game eagerly bc of how good 1000000 and ymbab were. Graphics nice and stories somewhat touching.. but overall once you get a sense of the type of stories they become just too sparse and too predictably sad. The ending doesnt do nearly enough to pull it together and at that point feels like a slog, which isnt helped at all by how slowly the epilogue plays. Id like to have seen the other endings but to be honest i wasnt even that interested anymore.
A couple of the puzzle series were good, a couple were okay, and one (newspaper) was really frustrating and the answers seemed like brute force/process of elimination was rewarded over actual puzzle solving.
Disappointing
Advertised as beautiful pixel stories... mostly overwrought and ugly. Especially the puzzles where you can tell no care was taken to align the pixel sizes from one layer to the next. It’s a problem throughout - this retro aesthetic really marred by not being able to commit to it. My eyes start naturally squinting at it, like parts are blurry. Puzzles don’t feel rewarding or challenging, just like they were thrown in so the game would be longer.
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Information
- Seller
- EightyEight Games LTD
- Size
- 174.6 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 9.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Copyright
- © EightyEight Games 2012-2019
- Price
- $4.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.