Разработчик: Ryan Javanshir
Описание
As the footage unfolds, it soon becomes clear that the bittersweet majesty of Blue Valley offers more than a forgotten tale of abandonment and that the person recording this footage is not alone in their journey.
Successfully Greenlit by the wonderful Steam community in just three weeks.
Controls:
WASD to move.
Mouse for camera input.
Left click to interact.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: 1.80GHz Processor
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Video Card with 2GB of VRAM
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Отзывы пользователей
Yes, I liked the game a lot and have played it through a couple of times. A relaxing walking simulator which was better the second time through. The enviroments were very well rendered, most notably the village ! Many of the buildings could be entered and searched. A really nice experience all around!
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I'd give this a "neutral" if I could. It was better than I expected, but still not great.
The game gave just enough of a mystery to keep me interested. Unfortunately that mystery is barely explained or expanded upon, aside from a lazy ending.
The music was great and very mood-setting. The mapping was fairly well done, though there's a bit too much copy+paste in places.
There's no options menu (lol?) so hopefully the sensitivity works for your setup. It takes about 30 minutes to beat.
If you love walking simulators like me, it's worth getting on sale.
It's been years since I played this and I don't remember all of it, but what I do remember is that I didn't regret buying it in sale at all, because I quite liked this short, stylish, nice looking experience in found-footage atmosphere. Therefore I'm quite surprised it got "mixed" reviews as it imo pretty obviously states what you're in for, so if you like the general idea/aesthetic than give this a shot for a few bucks.
I'm not sure from whence I received this game, whether as a gift, a bundle or some sale long ago, but after finding time to play it years later, I'm deeply underwhelmed when I compare it to it's contemporaries. While the music is haunting and beautiful, the lack of things like voice acting, sound effects or other sound design niceties ultimately detract from the storytelling and immersion.
A look at the credits will however tell you that the game was made by a family of 3 people, a true indie experience if there was one. However the game simply feels like a first draft, and a second pass to shore up the shortcomings would've gone a long ways to soften the impression of the game, especially as it only clocks in at about 30 minutes, assuming one doesn't get stuck near the end by missing one of the relics or misunderstanding an environmental cue.
As mentioned previously it was only 30 minutes so no longer than a mediocre episode of television, but unfortunately it's not worth recommending given the price point and lack of polish.
No option to invert Y-axis and does not work with Polynomial or Sakasa.
A couple years ago the developer promised an update to remedy this and it never happened.
I enjoyed the experience Into Blue Valley crafts, however the game takes all of about a half an hour to see everything, ends abruptly (the game just closes at the end? No credits or anything, just back to desktop?) and at 4.99$ that is quite a costly, brief experience. **EDIT** Changed to "Recommended" after coming back to the game and remembering it being quite an immersive, albeit short experience.
Into Blue Valley is an immersive, at-times spooky / at-times relaxing, VERY brief (30 min maybe??) experience. The game does a good job of crafting an immersive environment via its weather effects (snow / wind breezing throughout the outdoor areas..) and its orchestral music is very well-done and fitting to the enviroments. The gameplay itself is nothing revolutionary for the Walking Simulator genre, you slowly plod your way along to read various notes scattered throughout the desolate city, search for a handful of items to be "used" (placed) at a later location near the game's finale, while occassionally seeing creepy, dark silhouettes of figures in the distance who will always disappear before you get too close to them with the same "flash of white" effect. This is cool and unsettling the first several times it happens, but as the game reaches its climax it begins to do the same effect every few steps, and with each repeated use of the same shtick it begins to lessen the impact of each time it's used.
Into Blue Valley isn't a bad game per se, it effectively crafts a range of player reactions during its brief storyline ranging from introspection to unsettled via its foreboding atmosphere, and (if you are familiar with the slower pace of Walking Simulator games) you will likely want to see it through to its end to unravel more of its ambiguous, surreal setting. Unfortunately, its price of 4.99$ seems very high considering what little content it offers. I would recommend Into Blue Valley to Walking Simulator enthusiasts, and people who don't mind short but memorable experiences, but at a sparse 30 minutes to see nearly all of the experience, you may be better off seeking out another game or waiting until this is on sale.
Into Bug Valley..... crashes after the first ~20 minutes- fixing cache doesn't help. Waste of money.....
If you easily get motion sickness this game is just not for you.
This game is an example of lazy developers.
The audio is terribly optimized, extremely loud and the developer doesn't seem to understand how to level sounds differently.
Some sounds are very low, some are deafening.
The game plays in windowed mode and if you have 2 monitors it will launch in the middle of both screens.
Objects in the games are poorly made and poorly placed in the game.
Tons of objects, like trees, are above the ground, tons of objects lack collision models, making it so you can walk through a bunch of stuff.
The game has terrible performance, and the game isn't even that good-looking yet it suffers from FPS problems and stuttering.
The game has a bunch of small things on the ground that stops you from moving forward, typical bugs like that.
This game would greatly benefit from voice acting, it doesn't have any.
The game does have some things I found neat and would like to see in a properly made game, like the found footage style of gameplay sounded really fun but it's terribly done in the game.
This game doesn't deserve your attention.
It hasn't received 1 bug fix since launch, it is extremely overpriced for the small amount of content you're getting, coupled with all the bugs and just terribly lazy development makes this game terrible and not worth your time or money at any price point.
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Into Blue Valley gives a nice and interesting concept with mystery and horror themes
but it is really short and has a little bug like getting struck,game crash etc.
Not recommmend buying it on full prices. Wait for sale.
7/10
I wanted so badly to recommend this game. It's got a really cool concept and set up, the world design and music are fantastic, but there's a few significant drawbacks:
- Really limited interface and front-end options - no option to adjust mouse sensitivity or reverse y-axis
- Movement feels like it's frequently having trouble getting around terrain, even if you don't get completely stuck
- Very short (play through for me was 25 minutes, and I took my time)
Devs, if you're listening, the reviews are full of (mostly) wonderful advice to improve this game. With a little more polish and a lower price, this would be recommended for sure. Please keep creating because you're so close to making a hit!
What is Into Blue Valley?
Genre: first person exploration with mystery and horror elements (kind of)
Setting: abandoned winter village hiding a secret
Difficulty: 1/10 --> walk and collect items. nothing challenging at all
Length: 20 to 60 minutes for a single playthrough
Mode: singleplayer campaign
The positive aspects:
- graphics are nice (freezing camera lens) and strenghten ...
- ... the game's atmosphere which is generally creepy
- beautiful soundtrack
The negative aspects:
- flat story. At the end, open questions are left unanswered, no explanation why the protagonist is there, does what he does there, is looking for there at all
- very short
- no challenge, which would be ok if you could immerse into the story deeply. but you can't because there is none, so it's a minus
Result (and summary for those who have no time reading):
Into Blue Valley is short, it lacks challenge and content, and there is no deep story. You do not miss anything not buying this game. Maybe worth a tryout at sales time, but not for the regular price.
Well, this one in a long line of "Walking Simulators" available on Steam. I enjoy the genre here and there so I thought I would check it out.
Visually, it's pretty cool. The soft shades and blue tint make for an interesting and compelling visual adventure. The "found footage" motif, if you will, was decent, although I did find the camera rolls to be unnecessary. I feel there are better ways to accomplish film degradation as a visual technique in a game. It just is sort of annoying and mildly dizzying, and so not really effective.
The music is pretty nice. Works to push forward the atmosphere of the game, which is desolation ond mystery.
The story itself is sparse told via notes found along the way while the people who now have the tape also comment from time to time. I found those comments to be sort of immersion breaking. They dont really add to the experience and are kind of distracting. They also seem a bit childish in a way, which also takes away from the intended experience IMO.
Also, the ending really didnt make much sense at all to me, even having read the notes. I'm not sure exactly what was really going on there. I could guess and say that sacrifice would save the town, but I dont really know since there is no real conclusion other than the fact that somebody from the town passed the tape along to the kids watching and commenting on it.
Anyway, the actual journey is cool enough. It looks and sounds good with a decent if sparse story.
Technically, it has definite clipping issues. At one point I even got stuck on a stairwell and had to leave the game and come back. Fortunately, the save system is user controlled, and so I was able to re-enter the game at the same point, but without being stuck.
For a buck or two, I would say it is worth checking out. It only took me 31 minutes to play through though, so YMMV. I'm going to give this a positive rating, but only by the slimmest of margins. My rating for this would be about 5.25 out of 10. The visual and audio experience pushes this into positive territory for me, but the rest of the game is sub par at best. Check it out, but dont pay too much for it.
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I knew that this is very short and that it will be nothing special at all, but also in technical matters this game is very flawed.
1. In this short play time I accidentally clipped through objects and got stuck several times.
2. The camera is moving up and down all the time if there are just tiny stones on the ground. This made me feel sick and it seemed laggy although it wasn't.
3. Rocks are slightly transparent.
4. Heavy performance drop in a scene shortly before the end
5.Also, I might be picky, but the wells are just placed flat on the ground so there is no actual deep hole to see.
One good thing is, it didn't crash.
Apart from that I had problems with the controller support, but that's just a usual Unity thing and I knew how tro fix that.
I'd like to start by pointing out that the official game description is entirely honest and clear, you know. This game actually is a game that entirely focuses on the themes of mystery and curiosity. And it does them if not perfect justice, at least a great service. The audio, the visuals, the presentation are impeccable and are exactly what I'd want from such a game. But here's the thing, I love the genre of mystery and those themes and so for me it was something I've long yearned for. Something that focuses specifically on evoking the sense of mystery. There's no real horror here, there's no real investigation either. There is no grand story either (as far as I'm aware), true to its theme the game gives you a very much intentionally vague and 'unfinished' narrative. If you come expecting any of those things, or indeed any other things you're likely to be disappointed. Heck, you might be disappointed even if you come expecting a great mystery game. It's not the best mystery game possible. But it's pretty damn pleasant. And considering I can't even think of any single game that gives mystery the first priority to this extent on Steam, heck yes, I can recommend this to anybody else who values the feeling of mystery. It's a very pleasant very short very focused very atmospheric experience. If all that is worth the price or not is obviously up to you.
A poor attempt at an atmospheric walking simulator. It feels half finished and unpolished .
The Oculus Rift experience was very poor mostly due to the game failing to achieve 75fps even on low quality settings (with a GTX780).
Not worth it.
This game..... Its an exploration game so there is the old roam and find. The text narrators help with some of the directions on what to do but not all. Its a short game, less then 1 hr game on the first play through. The mood and environment is good. The worst part about the game is the stobes, rolling camera and flashes. It actually made me a little queezy and I normally dont get like that with games. Its probably not worth the $9.99 Price tag. $3.99 or lower would be the sweet spot I think.
Into the Blue is a neet little game you can play for 30 to 60 min.
For an Indiegame it looks pretty decent.
Now I thought it would be like an open World exploration-game, where you can do whatever the hellll you want to do,
but it didn't turn out that way.
In fact it was pretty strict forward lettting you almost give none of the choices to you.
of course, you can leave the road you are supposed to walk, but it doesn't get you anywhere or it just loops ya back.
the Game is Fun for the moment, but If you get stuck at some point, it gets almost unenjoyable.
Personally I enjoyed that one Hour I played it, but it was not worth it the 10€ I have put into this, meaning i won't give it a positive Feedback.
Date: 12/26/2014
In this game's current state, and for the price ($9-$10), I cannot recommend it.
However, that being said I don't think this game is horrible.
First I want to start with the good things:
- It was very pretty
- Interesting idea to do a game in a "found footage" format
- Music was relaxing and interesting in the situation
- It was creepy, but not scary. Never tired to scare you to try and add "shock value"
Now I want to point out some of the issues I saw:
- Some trees not fully placed into the ground, they kinda float above it, this is actually visible on the path you are supposed to walk on. This applies to other objects in game as well such as tables. Go over the level with a fine toothed comb if you know what I mean.
- Some objects were missing collision models, allowing me to walk into them. (tables, trees, signs etc.)
- Audio transitions could be a bit smoother. Lower the wind volume in that blacksmith's house, it was killing my headphones.
- Knowing you used Unity, did you happen to use a "capsule" or "pill" collision for your player? If so then you may need to look into that, because I found myself slipping down stairs when standing still. That was my first clue to this. Try to not use Unity's default anything for your production games. They tend to not hold up well.
- Don't settle for "good enough" or "yeah they can get through that," really think like a brand new player who's never seen your game! They don't know that a little rock might stop them from walking forward and they need to finagle their way around it. Try and fix all the things that stop you from walking forward, even if it only clips you for a moment, make it smooth.
- Double check your invisible walls in between some of the fences on the path, because one I could walk right past and walk vertically almost to the top of the cliff face, broke the illusion for me.
- Try not to guide the player so much with the narration, nice idea to have people "watching" the player, but having them reveal things like where obtainable objects are takes the game out of the game for me.
- I could sort of figure out the story, but things felt a bit too scattered to really understand what's going on. Most of the time I just walked blindly until I found an item or something to read.
- I can clearly see trees and other items "pop" into existence due to the way Unity handles view distance, I'd look into this, it broke the immersion of the game a huge amount for me.
These are just things I would fix if I were on the development team for this game. I'm giving this review mostly to help out the developers, seeing as this is their first title I'm impressed with it. If you were to patch up the few issues listed above, I think I could recommend it to a few friends.
Title: Into Blue Valley
Developer: Kuchalu
Category: Walk-em-Up
Rating: NA (Not Rated)
Price: $10
Introduction:
Into Blue Valley is a First Person Walk-em-Up shown through the eyes of a video camera. The whole idea behind this is you controlling video footage; and this works well (most of the time), to
give a exotic game which shows that not all games need to be fast paced action or a gigantic world and can just be something to relax to but at the same time be creeped out.
Gameplay:
As the whole world is seen through a video camera and this is sent in somewhat olden times this game tries to make it as realistic as possible. And does it well. The world is a blue-ish feel of
a 70's camera. That means it does take some getting used to with movement but once you do get used to it you get a real feel of the environment. Now the actual gameplay as stated by the genre
is mainly walking. Don't expect any action sequences or choices. Just plain walking. The main objective of this game is to walk around and collect these magical objects scattered around this world.
Luckily this world looks beautiful, not beautiful as in graphics but how much this world captures the feel of the game. Relaxing yet creepy. I love the world and as this is a
walk-em-up it has to have a good world. And it does. The magical objects are found either outside in its beautiful environment or in houses which you can only enter a few ones chosen by the game.
I found this dissapointing as these houses were small and generic and had no use except for keeping the objects and these notes which were nothing to ride home about. Even with this setback the
gameplay was what a normal walk-em-up is: collecting stuff in its world. Luckily the world is wonderfully crafted so I had no problem doing that.
Controls & Smoothness:
The controls are simple but what I found was the camera was a little sensitive but there was no option to change this! Actually, there were not alot of options; other than changing graphic
settings, controls and resolution there was nothing else you could costumise. Which I think will be dissapointing to anybody who played differently (such as inverted mouse; etc). Luckily I
got used to the camera. I which I could say the same about the smoothness though, most parts were fine though some bumpy parts which you had to walk on were glitchy invisible walls to stop
from walking. I found this annoying as it stopped the feel of a game that your meant to walk in! Some of the invisible walls were so bad that I had to restart the game cause I just got stuck.
My advice would be to stick to the paths.
Music & Sound:
The music is your generic mysterious music with the piano and occasional guitar strums. But what I liked the most were the sound effects. They were generic also but input very well so
it made the game more creepy.
Story:
The story (without recking anything) is as follows: These two friends, brothers, I don't know watch some type one of them has found. He plays it so he can show his friend, brother,
I don't know. Anyway as you play the game these people talk and their talk is quite helpful and tells you when your on track or not which is good and can stop the walking around not
knowing what to do frustration which can happen alot in walk-em-ups. But it doesn't stop it completely (trust me, I've been there). While the talk is great it is text. I would've loved them
actually talking.
Conclusion:
This game tries to set out and do something different (like lots of Indie games do). Luckily, this one worked in the most part and made a solid game. This game is about an hour which
when I first saw this thought this was really bad as I payed $10 and has no replay value. But, if they had kept it going any longer it would have gotten repetitive so the 1 hour length
was perfect. This game is great.
The Good:
+ Something Different
+ Gives a Great Atmosphere
+ A Great World to Explore
+ Good Narration
The Bad:
- Generic Houses
- Not Much Options
- Invisible Walls & and Some Glitchy Walking
- Generic Music & Sound
- No Replay Value
8.8/10 (Great)
Rating Scale: (Must get a 6.5 or above to be recommended)
0-0.9: The Worst Piece of Shit Ever
1-1.9: Absolutely Terrible
2-2.9: Shit
3-3.9: Poor
4-4.9: Bad
5-5.9: Meh
6-6.9: Okay
7-7.9: Good
8-8.9: Great
9-9.9: Excellent
10: Masterpiece
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Have been long anticipating this release as I do know personally the small team that has been behind it's development. First of all can I say a big well done on coming this far and persevering with this project, it's always refreshing to see new ideas come to the table and indie developers giving their spin on story telling or just pure gameplay at its core.
Into Blue Valley shows off one hell of a creative landscape and perspective which will have you building up your own suspense and in some cases have your eyes playing tricks on you. The atmoshpere is completely hammered home through its fantastic soundtrack to really give that lost wanderer feel.
The story is text based so prepare to read a little but manages to cover different styles of writing that you'd probaly find lying around... It is not a film award winning script but manages to do the job.
Honestly don't expect the longest amount of gameplay from Into Blue Valley however do keep in mind that this is a first for the developer (that consists of one coder might I add!) and that the magic is really in taking it in a slow pace allowing yourself to immerse a little! This immersion will be pushed a little further by an Occulus Rift version (free of charge) which is a bonus that I'd be willing to try out and does help to justify the game's price. I really will be trying this to see if my eyes end up tricking me even more.
Overall a good effort and would be interested in seeing where the developers go in the future.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Ryan Javanshir |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 19.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 49% положительных (39) |