Разработчик: Moonshark, Inc.
Описание
Story
The Budds, a dysfunctional family of misfits and eccentrics, have brought their own abysmal possessions into your humble abode and stifled your power. Each level is a playground for scares where players earn fear to take back control of the room. If you want free reign over your mansion once again, you must drive the Budds mad with fear using only your imagination and their hideous belongings.
History
What started as a Lego prototype that The Odd Gentlemen and Neil Gaiman played together one afternoon, soon became a unique collaboration to tell a story through a nonlinear puzzle/adventure game hybrid, where the player learns about the characters and world through their observations and discovery. First launched on the website , Wayward Manor has been slowly unveiling its story and world to a whole new audience. Wayward Manor is Neil Gaiman’s first foray into video games.
Features
● Discover 9 quirky inhabitants each with their own desires, fears, and anxieties.
● Possess ghastly furnishings to manipulate the Budds into dire consequences.
● Level up as you absorb fear to take control of each room
● Pleasantly dark tone reminiscent of old Hollywood whodunit mysteries.
● Five floors, each filled with new items to posses and new ways to terrify.
● Find secret scares and multiple solutions to every puzzle
● Musically themed characters each represented by their own instrument.
● A story crafted and narrated by Neil Gaiman
● Featuring art from the Eisner award winning artist Chuck BB
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS: XP
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2Ghz+ or better
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 256 MB Video Card
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
Mac
- OS: 10.6
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2Ghz+ or better
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 256 MB Video Card
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Sound Card: Mac compatible sound card
Отзывы пользователей
It's fun game and dialogues are hilarious. Character designs are unlikable and ugly though.
Wow this is terrible. I am such a huge Neil Gaiman fan that even when I read other reviews marking this as terrible I bought it anyway. I'm not sure what happened here. How did they make such an insufferable game? I made it through exactly 17 painful minutes of repeatedly clicking on the same highlighted ghostable items in a room listening to the same annoying sound effects over and over in order to slowly fill up a scare bar made of skulls so that it would beat that level before utterly giving up on this game. I wish steam had a refund policy. This could have been a sandwich or a terry pratchett novel. I wasted this $10. Don't do like I did. You could just open a screenshot of the game, put on a halloween music playlist, and click on one spot of the image for 10 minutes and imagine yourself to have beat that level instead of playing this game. It would be as interesting and less annoying.
Normally I devour the works of Neil Gaiman like an Osedax worm devouring a whale carcass; but this game was a huge disappointment to me. The story seems like it could have been really interesting...such a shame that it was completely eclipsed by the soul-crushing monotony of the gameplay. So much repetitive clicking. I appreciated the tone of the game - very ooky-spooky and therefore right up my alley. Overall I think I'd have preferred that Gaiman stuck to his wheelhouse and wrote this as a novella, graphic novel or similar.
Wife really likes this game. GOOOD!
I was disappointed enough with this game that I just stopped playing. The concept is cute, and the art is lovely, but the actual gameplay is dull, and it's rather buggy still. Honestly, I bought it because Gaiman's name is attached to it, and I'm finding myself regretful
I've been reading some bad reviews of this game, I think written by people who expected something different from what they got. It's a relatively short but cute, enjoyable point-and-click puzzle game. You play a ghost, who can make items in his house move in order to scare the residents. By clicking the items in the right combinations and at the right times, you are able to construct elaborate scares that will eventually cause your unwelcome houseguests to leave. The puzzles are rarely that difficult, but they can be tricky if you don't use a little imagination. I especially enjoyed harassing the old man with a crossbow, making him shoot arrows into people's butts and set things on fire. It has an intro from Neil Gaiman and the art direction looks like something he would design, but don't buy this game solely on the Neil Gaiman name. Buy it if you like a clever family-friendly, puzzle game with some replay value and a unique art style.
When I started playing this game was a bit confusing, but after a while I found it very fun, I can play it with my granddaughter and share the scary moments, and we enjoy a lot to see the furniture all flying around the rooms.
The characters are funny, the game it´s easy to play, very well designed and the music is nice (but sometimes a llitle repetitive).
I definitely recomend it, hope I can see it for iPad, because I travel a lot with mine.
Good story, Neil Gaiman's writing is always a pleasure. As for the game the puzzels were to easy, the soundtrack was repetitive, and the objects you click on were either to close together (making you click one rather then the other) or not sensitive enough (ending up clicking on it several times). If I were a child I would probably have enjoyed this game more and found it more challenging but as an adult it was fairly boring. I would maybe recommend this for someone with a 10 year old.
its a very good game its simple and fun to play, the characters are funny and the music complements the game. i recommend this game, all the people in the family can played and its fun wathc how diferent everybody find the solution.
This belongs on tablet or phone. $9.99 is also a high price to pay for a little Neil Gaiman. Save yourself the $ and wait for it to go on sale or get released on mobile devices.
A lot of people seem to not like this game. I'm not exactly sure why. I like it.
Neil Gaiman does an excellent job with the short narrations. And the entire concept of an old house calling on a ghost to haunt the current annoying residents out is in no way a new concept but it is done well here.
The artwork is interesting. You won't see much like it. Now some are really hating it because they just can't seem to get why everything is so...well ugly. However, I see that it is all based on Victorian style cartooning, (please go look up Alice in Wonderland and look at the original artwork by John Tenniel, you'll see exactly what I'm referring to.) So its not supposed to look pretty by todays standards, its supposed to look the way it does and I find that its quite charming.
The puzzles; if your an adult or near adult then I imagine this game will be rather easy and will just become tedious to you. If however, you have children or if you are a child then the puzzles will be challenging but not too much so.
Now the Music, at first the music isn't the worst thing in the world but yes it does become very very irritating. The sound effects are very repetitve and will make you want to shut off the sound. At least they did with me.
Lastly, the bugs, yes there are some serious bugs. One is that the objects sometimes don't interact with the enviroment like they are supposed to. Sometimes the items at the end of the level when they are all flying around the room will indeed go through each other or through the walls. And yes sometimes the game will in a sense freeze up because the people wont run out of the room but rather just run around the room trying to get out and you will have to restart the level.
As it stands currently I'd give it 3 out of 5 stars. If they fixed some of the bugs, then maybe would consider raising it to a 4 out of 5.
Fun Fun and more Fun. Love the music and the art style. Very cute and entertaining. Seems like they fixed the bug issues. Looks bug free to me. Give it a try!
I LOVE Wayward Manor!! It's not hard to play and still very entertaining. I really like the music and the graphics. The story is original. I definitely recommend this game!!
To put it simply: I love this game.
It's very charming. It's extremely quirky. But what makes me love this game the most is that it's...fun.
Yes, it's fun. Simple, but fun. As I'm writing this, I'm only through the first chapter, but I can say this with certainty:
Wayward Manor has an interesting story, cute characters, and a unique direction of art. Put all of those things together into the gameplay style (Point & Click, Puzzler) and voilà: You have a fun game! (In my opinion)
After reading some reviews, I was wary. I could understand some of the points others were making and I went into the game worried about gameplay, graphics, and story; but I pleasently surprised.
There were a few bugs here and there, but it looks like the developer is taking care of them as they find them. This would explain not encountering some of the bugs others had previously mentioned. As time goes on, I am sure there will be little to none to speak of.
The graphics, although not up to the quality of some of the larger titles, has character and style. It was actually an enjoyable break from the drab color-palatte of larger games. And since this game is tagged as both indie and casual, I am to take into assumption that it isn't meant to rival a heavy-budgetted game and just live up to what it wants to be; fun. Intent aside, the rooms are fun and visually enjoyable, the characaters are amusing to watch, and the resolution seemed fine for whatever screen I played on.
The gameplay was simple, a point and click combination puzzle game that didn't have me frustrated by level 2 by some overly-complicated design. Even further in, the difficulty was raised, but feasable. The complexity came into the 'secret scares' which would be the achievements for this game.
The story felt a bit loose, but the quick cutscenes between the worlds as well as blurbs from stuffed animals/gargoyles/tutorial-like house narration helped keep you tethered to the story and who was involved. I didn't feel like it was a visual narration of one of Neil's books, which I can only assume others felt dissapointed by. All in all, the focus was more on the fun gameplay than bogging the player down with too much story.
As a over-all whole, I enjoyed the game. I even spent time trying to get all the secret scares, some of which took me a while to get, and some yet elude me.
TL;DR : It's a fun casual puzzle game with some character with a bonus of Neil Gaiman's narration.
This little puzzle game has its appeal. What I really enjoy is being able to get the achievements for the different levels AFTER I have gained all of the skulls. It doesn't make you start over the level from the beginning like other puzzle games. Anything that makes getting achievements easier is a good thing in my book.
I had a very fun charming afternoon with this game. Not sure what all the fuss is about or what people were expecting. But I found it to be a very enjoyable experience. Some of those secret scares are really challenging and rewarding. Also had no bug issues in the latest build.
Okies, this game isn't for everyone, it has a simple quirky nature to it which some peeps may find annoying or way too simple, but if you're a casual gamer who likes something a little different and not too fussed on fancy graphics or thrills, then this may be for you.
It's quirky, fun, simple, silly, easy and yes somewhat low budget, but it's alright in it's way. :)
About half way through the game and having a great time! Love the art direction and the puzzles are a lot of fun, I'll definitely go back to solve them in different ways. Ran into a few minor bugs, but nothing that stopped me from playing. Defintely worth it for the music alone.
I was really excited to play this on release but was extremely disappointed. I didn't realize you would be stuck in one room at a time per level trying to scare people by knocking down an item. I thought maybe you would get free roam throughout the house. I would not recommend this to anyone.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Moonshark, Inc. |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 17.01.2025 |
| Metacritic | 41 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 71% положительных (21) |