Разработчик: Tayanna Studios
Описание
One day he decided to take a vacation abroad. He arrives at a small, quiet coastal town where tourists are sparse and everybody knows each other. It's only when he notices people are going missing and all the signs point to a dark, mysterious island out to sea that he decides to team up with local journalist Michelle and terrified-yet-adventure-seeking waiter Glenn to go and investigate.
What secrets does the island hold? What are the locals hiding? And what's causing those blood-curdling screams that seem to be coming from that mysterious island in the dead of night?
Calm Waters is a 2D classic point and click thriller/mystery/horror influenced by the likes of Lost and Twin Peaks.
Calm Waters features:
- Professional voice actors
- Full 1080p HD 2D pre-rendered backgrounds
- Intriguing characters
- An immersive story full of twists and turns
- An atmospheric soundtrack
Apart from the voice actors and music, the entire game was created by myself over the space of 6 years.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7+
- Processor: 2.0GHz Dual Core
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce FX and up, Radeon 9500 and up, Intel 9xx
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card
- Additional Notes: Game offers multiple resolutions for faster/smoother gameplay.
Mac
- OS: Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or later
- Processor: Intel Core Duo
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce FX and up, Radeon 9500 and up, Intel 9xx
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Game offers multiple resolutions for faster/smoother gameplay.
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Processor: 2GHz Dual Core
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce FX and up, Radeon 9500 and up, Intel 9xx
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Game offers multiple resolutions for faster/smoother gameplay.
Отзывы пользователей
"Calm Waters: A Point and Click Adventure" is just what it says on the box, a point and click adventure game, ripping off the gameplay from ancient 1980's and 1990's point and clicks like Day of the Tentacle and The Secret of Monkey Island. This game is nowhere near as good as those.
It does work, it's not an asset flip, it is genuinely made, so those are some plusses here. There's even 4K support. The voice acting is pretty good, but I feel bad for the actors, because the story and dialogue is not.
The first thing that put me off here was the generally poor graphics. It's hard to tell if they were going for a retro pixel aesthetic, a pre-rendered low poly aesthetic, or trying to make the game look realistic without any ability to do so. None of those is an acceptable excuse for the poor visuals.
Gameplay itself is pretty plodding and clunky. It doesn't take what feels like half an hour to get from one side of the screen to another in Monkey Island. It does in this.
Despite not being in Steam Early Access (where this arguably belongs), the game is missing features and is apparently incomplete, with mention of additional chapters that never saw the light of day. Due to the lack of meaningful progress from the developer, it's unlikely the game will be completed at all, yet the developers reprehensively have their hand out for money for an incomplete game. This is a good reason for gamers to avoid this.
The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 7 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
"Calm Waters: A Point and Click Adventure" has the laughable price of around $5 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam.
I have failed in this game. Not getting past day 2 & after the altercation with the detective I've been unable to progress. I've tried every item in my inventory in every location but cannot progress so after starting 3 games & trying every way I can to move Pete on. I give up now finding the game frustrating & boring. So a waste of money with no nice puzzles to enjoy either. Worst point & click game I've played in ages. No hint tips either for frustrated players.
This game is very amateurish; Crappy character graphics, idiotic puzzle design, rather short, no hint system (and it would've been really necessary here!), Pixel hunting, lot of walking back and forth to find the next trigger, and animations are at bare minimum. Avoid.
It was a good Point and click Game. It wasn't super long but I'd say worth 5 dollars. Had decent Play ability and the Game has no problems at all and the Puzzles were not the hardest but they were not the easiest either. I won't recommend a Game unless it's worth it and while this Game is right on the borderline of being too much But again for 5 Buck's it's worth it.
pros
+ intriguing story about disappearances on mysterious island
+ likeable protagonists and two playable character
+ beautifully made pre rendered graphics
+ good ambient sound design and some atmospheric background musics
+ decent voice acting
+ easy and fun to solve puzzles
cons
- game is very short
- lack of a button which shows to hotspots
- lack of a quick travel map causes to go back and forth in some areas
- there are no steam achievements and cards
this is an decent old school and typical point and click game but it's very short. just buy on sale.
The graphics were awesome and the story line was good, but the game was too short. Getting from point A to B was usually straightforward, and there were only two "complex" puzzles that were difficult to figure out.
It's cool but has the stature of a demo. The graphics and gameplay mechanics are great. The storyline had so much potential but falls short aswell as the puzzles being slightly odd. Especially the final island puzzle it made no sense and I had to use a guide for the solution. A good little fun game but have played better for less money.
I'm a bit on the fence here. It's not very bad, but the storyline ends abruptly and makes little sense towards the end. But I suppose I'll give this a thumbs-up cause it's a nice little project, even if a bit rough around the edges.
not bad at all. 6/10
very amaturish, but that didn't bother me much. quite short.
I would buy their next game or sequel.
Nice little game. Bit too short in my opinion so not really worth the money if im honest. Not enough exploration and certainly not long enough to really get in to. Not really challenging but still a good little game
Wow. Thankfully I got it on sale. I feel bad since it was made by one person, but it was dumb. Pretty boring as well. Maybe it was my computer, but the audio worked fine until there were "blood curdling screams". I heard no screams at all. What cop lets you keep all of your belongings when you are locked up? What cop lets a male and female share a cell? I am glad it was super short, which is rare. Disregard my play time, I left it on while I watched Game of Thrones marathon.
First of all; Great game! The 2.5 3D was on-point (and-click!) Haha #adventuregameproblems!
I loved the characters! Usually I don't take interest in point and click characters because they are so cartoony and weird. THis really broke the normalcy and gave me a deeply submersive experience with REAL characters, that I couldn't help but love! The protaganist (I forgot his name) was really good at describing things! I thought at one point a yacht was a dinghy, boy was I wrong!
9/10 At times some of the voice actors were too good.
9.9/10.0 You could play this game for 10 hours and it would still be worth the 99 cents that you paid for it!
Thanks for the game guys, I'll donate to your kickstarter, next time you decide to have another go!
<3
More Peter and more Michelle please!!!
It was a short, yet nice point ´n´ click. Of course it wasn´t as brilliant as Broken Sword, SOMI and Co BUT there is most certainly potential to getting there and creating something as equally good. The characters could be a bit more witty. The voice acting was quite alright and the graphics good enough for my taste. The story lacked depth, but for the first game (if it was even your first) it was pretty good and had me interested in finding out what was going on on that island. Would definitely play a sequel, that is hopefully longer with an interesting story to go with it.
Keep up the good work!
This game began quite nicely with its opening narration, leading me to believe the story would be quite detailed, and intriguing. Once into the game, visiting locations, I found that there were few actions a player could do in order to progress the story, which in turn made the story rather undetailed. My meaning by this, is that there ended up being no story really at all. It was some guy goes on holiday to a strange, unpopular island, encounters odd behaviors of a few people, and finds a journal, later meets a monster, defeats monster easily, and closes out chatting with his future wife. The puzzles were quite simple, that in fact maybe only some under the age of 5 might not beable to perform. I felt sad, and let down after the game ended, but the price was almost nothing, so I'll tack it down to experience gained, little though that was as well.
The game was too simplistic. The characters weren't very well developed. You could pick up items that were pointless. There was a general lack of point and click, and puzzle solving. At other times you wandered around in frustation not sure what you were meant to do (no hints).
The storyline was weak and rushed.
The American accents (on a Greek island???) were weird and off putting (you could hear the northern British accents under them.
This was a rather short game. A bit annoying that you have to go back and forth with out being able to double click and get somewhere faster. I like point and click games, but this could have been longer and it would have been better with more areas to explore. On the other hand I only paid around $6 aud for this so you get what you pay for I guess.
Calm Waters is a fun and interesting game and runs smoothly with okay graphics. Although the game is relatively short (around 3-4 hours), this does not take away from its challenging nature and intriguing storyline. I would recommend this game as playing it through was an enjoyable experience!
MOre please. What I liked: beach, palm trees, beach setting, attractive, good looking guy, etc.
Play time: approx' 4 hours
and that includes waiting forever for the character to move from one side of the screen to the other because running / double click to the next screen were not programmed in.
If this game were a graduation project for whatever course, than I would gladly grade it with an A. For a commercial product which is being sold for ~11$, I feel that it's too underdeveloped in the sense that it feels more like the cliff notes version or the Demo version of a game rather than the game itself.
The story is nice, but definitely has the potential to be deepened, widened and extended.
The game world is as simple as they come, in my opinion oversimplified. Almost no redundant items to interact with, feedback on using items in a false manner is limited to few non item specific comebacks. It's all pretty linear and straight forward: go from A to B, from B to C and pick up D from E if you want to get to F.
All in all, it's worth the play, but I just can't recommend it for the price in which it's currently being sold.
This was a fun, albeit frustrating, 2 hours of gameplay. Music, graphics, interface- all pretty good.
Cool premise, does a great job of building suspense, and overall worth the cost and time to play. I would recommend it, so kindly forgive that the following list of criticism exceeds my compliments.
It lacks DEPTH. The few characters involved are very undeveloped, the dialogue options also seem irrelevant. The story's resolution is disappointing and shallow, and more than once, reaching dead-ends requires pixel-hunting or, more annoyingly, the repitition of a repeated, previously unsucessful action several times, without indication of a changed response, before you can progress with the game.
Overall, the technical aspects of the game deliver all that is expected, but without a very specific walkthrough you may get annoyed at the tedium of the very specific actions required to progress, often with an arbitrary time limit.
6/10 Would play more from this developer again.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Tayanna Studios |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 01.02.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 53% положительных (32) |