The Butterfly Sign

You are in a hospital affected by the terrorist attack; it is very noticeable according to environment. Around you there are hints and clues that can play a cruel joke with you throughout the investigation. Each detail is important, really each. It helps you to guess how you should act in this crime scene. Afterwards, you have to compare all the tips and clues to solve a complex problem. You need to understand how the person, which is in the scene of the crime, was killed. There is also one thing: making a lot of mistakes during the investigation you go back to the beginning of the game (like after-effects of the medicine which takes the protagonist to regain memory). In general, the main idea is that the protagonist is only witness of the terrorist attack, and with help of this medicine he recovers own memory. You can check graphics from the beginning of the game until the end, because both inside and outside all done very delicately. Also, throughout the game you will meet on your way tips that can help you understand how the game is built (how to move, where you should go and what you should do next). Another detail is that the transition to the next task will be closed until you have completely finished the previous one. It also makes the game more challenging.

This was a fun detective game. You have multiple modes you can play it in, and lots of achievments. However, some fo the achievments seem buggy. It's quick but if you want all the achievements you'll have to replay it up to 3 times depending. There's a prt 2 as well not included or marked as DLC, but rather as it's own game

Throw money out the window. Wont make much a difference.

Edit:
Just to be clear. On all my game in my library its a shame to have this one in it.
Half life 2 lost coast do a better job at showing nice scenary than this crap. I tried everything
to remove the lag. If it wasn't for that lag i could of finish in time to get a refund. It had sparkle of
something nice. But the first episode wasn't worth a penny for gameplay. You ain't going to find out
more about the progress youve done in the game if you do not get them all.

This will be a quick review. Why? Well, easy- this game has been seemingly abandoned by the developer and is an unfinished state (even considering Part Two being released early this year). That being said, the first chapter has a nice little ambience to it, decent music ... but there are downsides aside from being very very boring.

The voice acting is very bad. Movement is clumsy ... and the graphics look like stock assets from a development program.

Much better games out there for the same cost.

Avoid unless you manage to get as part of a bundle or free.

The chapters I played were awesome and really built up tension, I kept waiting for something to jump out at me. The scenery is absolutely beautiful and breathtaking and the music is lovely. Some of the controls are a bit confusing with the controller.

Well, in order to remotely enjoy the game, you definitely have to meet the system requirements or you may have a blurry walking experience like I did even at the lowest settings. I’m not all that tech savvy like many PC gamers, so I didn’t really understand even some of the basic requirements needed to play the game; however, when the price was at a big discount and my PC runs smoothly with big games like Fallout 4 and Hard Reset, I thought I can still run Butterfly Sign. I was totally wrong.

I won’t give a negative review based on my framerate problem throughout the game because that’s on me in the first place for not meeting the requirements, not the developers.

In technical side of things, there isn’t much that I found buggy or broken with the game.

I know that I have to rely on the keyboard and mouse because its partial controller support. It’s already stated in the description.

The loading screen needs to be changed with something “moving” like dot, dot, dot or a percentage load screen. Having a picture with just the word saying ‘loading’ just wouldn’t cut it because gamers may interpret this as “frozen” especially if it loads for more than two minutes.

The gameplay is simple with two types of puzzles, one transportation and the other field detective work. If you played many walking simulator games with mild puzzles, you can expect more of the same here. Reading clues help understand the narrative.

I wouldn’t go far to say as to “not recommend” the game because I don’t see many things broken but I would understand why gamers would be put-off by frame rate issues, simple gameplay and length of gameplay.

It does enough to be a passable game due its use of Unreal Engine 4. The videos and screenshots speak for themselves. If you have the technical specs for this game and enjoyed games similar to its genre, it is still worth giving this game a go. The asking price isn’t all that expensive.

Does not load past new game loading screen. Asked Steam for a refund. Many people having this problem apparently.

Rarely does one feel cheated out of $3 when it comes to buying a game (which was on an almost 50% discount), but Butterfly Sign was, in my opinion, not even worth the time I invested, much less the money.

The glaring problems are everywhere: bugs everywhere, even in the graphics settings menu, where most of the independent settings can be adjusted, but never actually are applied - automatically reverting afterwards. The optimization of the game is terrible - providing choppy movement and awful framerates, even on a very high-end machine with graphics settings reduced into the potato range. The controls are clunky and there is no option to reassign buttons - and if you choose to play with a controller, you'll find that text menus and puzzles still require you to put down the controller and use the mouse and keyboard.

The game itself is also very... limited and amateur: weak premise, poor dialog, puzzles that arent' "puzzling" and is way too linear and constrained in a setting that seems to imply you should wander and "detect"(cuz you are a detective). The cut scenes are very slow to load and persistently tear the player from the game, interrupt the moment, load the player into a new environment/moment and convolute the story.

To put a nail in the coffin, the whole of "chapter 1" lasts about 80 minutes... 40 minutes of which is spent wandering at a snail's pace down the path shown in fast motion the intro video on Steam. And just as you feel like something of a story is taking shape... the chapter/game is over. I literally felt absolutely dumped off and like I'd wasted time I'll never recover.

There is no chance I'll bother with any further chapters of this.

I played it because I was looking for an interesting detective game. I bought it on sale, which in hindsight was good, because I wouldn't pay full price for it (even though the full price is relatively cheap as well).
The game itself looks nice, but it's really nothing special. I felt like I've played lots of games with a similar story before and the puzzles seemed familiar as well. I won't buy the second episode.

The Butterfly Sign is pobably one of the most atmospheric and immersive videogames in whitch i played this year.
You have to piece together events from the past to determine what has happened.
The atmosphere, the exploration, the mystery, it all made for a really great adventure.
You navigate between very beautifully rendered scenes looking for clues, insightful information.
All in all, a very well designed, melancholy adventure, well worth my time!
I don't say this about games often, but I look forward to playing continue this one!

The very first thing you see when you get aquainted with a game is how beautiful it is. Game's built on Unreal engine 4 and the creators of it seem to have taken the maximum out of graphics engine - i was just astonished by how amazingly beautiful it is. The other side of all this beauty is the fact you are downloading 19Gb - yes, this is how much all this beauty takes space. If its ok while i'm home over a broadband connection, i'd not risk to download the game while travelling somewhere )
The story is no less intriguing - you are playing a first person detective game, exploring the depth of your mind by taking some experimental drug. Another great thing game promices a non-linear story, non-linear dialogues, non-linear timeline, where events take place both in past and in present - every component of a good game seems to be mixed thoroughly :)

I like this game as the scenery is amazing but the gameplay is very short, i was expecting more and it would of been nice if you could replay the epsiode with different choses giving different outcomes.

beautiful looking game but short on the gameplay. Hoping epsiode 2 brings a little bit more.

A graphically beautiful game and intriguing story. I really enjoyed playing this.

Some minor things that trigger me as a game dev:
- The music doesn't seem to follow the player, instead it emits from somewhere in the world, making it feel weird and makes it hard to get that really atmospheric feel that the game has a huge potential to do.
- The "shafts caster" on the sun isn't aligned with the one in the skybox. This feels weird.
- The intro might be a bit "boring" if you've played through it many times, as you don't really do anything else than walk. Also sprinting is disabled at some places, making it take even longer.

Otherwise it's a pretty neat game and I recommend playing it despite those minor imperfections.

Instead of giving this game a positive review, I'm giving it a mixed one.
As a fan of games of the genre I found it to be intriguing and atmospheric. For $5 it's pretty good value for money too, taking around and hour to beat with some optional achievements to go back for.
On the other hand the game takes up a whopping 19GB of storage and for a game that takes about an hour to complete, that is pretty baffling and suggests to me the developers didn't know how to zip their game up properly.
Another aspect that the game fails at, in my opinion, is story telling. It tells a forgetable yet convoluted plot, that I'm sure will be developed later in the subsequent episodes/chapters. The ending comes abruptly out of no where and left me scratching my head.
In terms of gameplay, aside from walking around and exploring, you have to piece together events from the past to determine what has happened, most of this consists of multiple choice questions which was pretty boring and tedious for the most part. The other main gameplay element were circuit board puzzles, their might have been 2 in total, where you align some diodes to make the current flow from A to B.
All in all the game has potential and I'm interested to see how the further chapters build on the foundation of the original entry, but if any of the things I mention put you off, you might want to wait until it drops in price. The developers have said they'll reduce the price of Chapter 1 when Chapter 2 drops later this month.
If these problems don't bother you too much and you can spare $5, then go ahead and check it out.

I'm glad to see very fast reaction of the developers. Someone says we need a skip button, and it was immediately added. Someone says about mistakes in German localization, and it took just a few moments to fix. A lot of gamemakers should learn how to do this. I would buy this game even for 50$, just to support the devs. Great work! Respect!

The game looked promising but I was disappinted. Even with the game set on amature [the easiest mode] the puzzels are timed. It means that if you do not solve them in time you have to start them all over again. This is unfair for those who want enjoy a relaxed playing.

I do like a good thriller or horror game like this so I decided I would purchase it, seen as it's only cheap. The first thing I will say is that the graphics are fantastic. If you play this at night, alone and with the sound on, you really get into it and it's pretty damn scary in places too! There are a lot of puzzles throughout which can be difficult in places but that makes it more worthwhile and gives you more of a sense of achievement.

I was happy that this game told a linear story without the immediate threat of an enemy. The puzzles are fun, not too difficult (I did have to look up the answer to one in gameplay video, but the rest were doable on my own without feeling too easy) and it builds a great atmosphere through well-done sounds. Very well, that fear in the atmosphere is transmitted by the graphics and music, with the help of special effects and plot, but not by suddenly jumping monsters.

Overall though, for the price this is one of the best detective experiences I've had the pleasure of playing . It's nothing ground-breaking or particularly unique, but it does everything mostly right and is a fun way to spend a late night. Great job to the devs, and I look forward to any new releases. I recommend “The Butterfly Sign” to wide audience, ringing from people who just want to have a good time to the true connoisseurs of detective art.

I`m not a big fan of detectives, but I liked this one. The plot is interesting, it's is really something new, but there are some small technical problems, that I hope will be fixed in update: no option for vsync or antialiasing and somethimes annoying blur on the screen. Anyway, it's a unique game. I`m looking forward to a second part!

When I saw the game, I assumed that this is a typical horror with elements of detective. But I don`t regret the money and took a chance. I`m very glad I did it, because this game is unusual. Difficult tasks, puzzles...It is the first game, that I`ve seen, with such gameplay structure.

I shall be brief. The optimization is not so good, I have to play on medium settings and 40 fps, while in gta5 I can get 50+ fps on my system. But I really have fun. Indeed, this game is cool with its little details and new idea. Original gameplay, sounds are well amde and the story seems to be intresting.