Разработчик: Mind's Eclipse Interactive, LLC
Описание
The Mind's Eclipse is a science-fiction visual novel featuring hand-drawn scenes in black and white, and emotional narrative-driven gameplay. Players will uncover the mystery of the Eclipse and its side-narratives by exploring, searching through logs and journals, and piecing together what happened to the CORE whilst searching for Jonathan's family.
The Game
- An interactive fiction in stark black and white, with morally gray characters
- With the help of a mysterious companion, explore a fallen utopia in search for your loved ones and uncover the mystery of the Eclipse
- Piece together what led to the CORE's fall from journals and chat logs
- No dating? No Problem. Every environment is interactive, pulling the player into a science fiction world worth exploring
- Beware COSy
The Mind’s Eclipse is a phenomenal visual novel that’ll pull you in and quickly ensnares you in its story, full of strange characters and stranger settings. You’ll be confronted with some very heavy and at times disturbing situations surrounding the concepts of morality, immortality and technology, all conveyed spectacularly in striking black and white in a wonderfully realized world rich with history. If you are at all a fan of classic hard science fiction, this should be a “must buy” for your collection. - IndieHangover
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: 1.8 GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD 4000 or higher
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Mac
- OS: OSX Yosemite or Later
- Processor: 1.8 Ghz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD 4000 or higher
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 16.04
- Processor: 1.8 Ghz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD 4000 or higher
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Additional Notes: The linux version has only been tested on Ubuntu 16.04
Отзывы пользователей
What a shame that at the time of this review, the game is no longer available for sale on Steam. Looks like you can buy it on itch though, so please do so there.
This is one of my favorite walking sims/visual novels of the past few years. Super well-written and interesting sci-fi story and characters. Multiple times while reading an email/text log/dialogue, I actually had to stop and ponder my own thoughts on the subject. Not many games ever compel me to do that.
A cute choice of words? This is a tragically gritty piece of sci-fi that is worth every 59 seconds out of 60. The story is not painfully obvious, while not forcing one to dive into every single phrase and detail to get a firm grasp of it. This game is text heavy as implied, beautifully drawn, uniquely presented and apart from some technical difficulties (the Start button starts the new game and needs a whole volley of clicks to go past. And there is no "Continue" button) can quite well be a 10/10.
Simply put, i love it.
Ever since i laid my eyes on its demo, covered by Markiplier
i wanted to get my hands on it and after these 2 years, i got to play.
I won't say much, but this is a story of a man's fanatic battle versus death,
with subtexts of betrayal, loss and death, overzealous devotion and sacrifice.
You are Johnathan Campbell, medical prophet, who basically runs a cult that believes
humans can ascend into a higher form, free of death and suffering called "The eclipse."
The myriad of textbooks collected will inform you of the key players of the game
and also provide interesting bits of story behind the world.
I do wonder how could some low-life working Joe's device has personal messages of you
and people close to you, but i'd digress.
I won't talk too much as the story is 60% of what this game offers.
The rest
is taken by the artstyle, which although simplistic and monochromic fits the settings
of a barren, dead world, with occasional gorgeous shots and emotional scenes. I'd say its simplicity does a nice job and
allows many key moments to stand out from the rest.
There is also a barely existent puzzle mechanic that most likely is trying not to make you
feel like a ghost, simply skulking through the abandoned streets, only capable of observing and processing information.
The story, again, is really well made, with some interesting ideas and a couple of very cool plot twists.
In the end
I love it, its worth it from the start to finish. I guess it slightly pricks at my hear that it follows the "Very last decision dictates the ending" trope. But you know what they say "Its the journey, not the destination."
If you're reading this far, I hope i persuaded you to give this one a shot.
Thank you
Sebastian Stag Agner
This is available for free on itch.io - go and download it there!
The Mind's Eclipse is an atmospheric sci-fi point-and-click VN - awakening in an abandoned city, you piece together its past from fragments of emails and logs you find, making for a highly effective mystery. The striking black-and-white artwork and electronic soundtrack really help to make this VN stand out.
Highly, highly recommended.
Please, no more terminals, no more datapads
Why random datapads have mails of other people??
And why aren't there any choices? If you are so close to making the story interactive, why not going all the way?
The Mind’s Eclipse is a great mix of visual novel and adventure game – it’s easy enough to follow and hard to get ‘stuck’, but it’s also got depth if you want to engage with it. There’s very few difficulty checks – no reading comprehension questions or complicated puzzles – but if you want to truly understand what’s happening, you need to pay attention. Most of the story is told through the game’s artwork and emails, and it’s up to you to piece together how different people feel about the Eclipse, and what they decide to do about it. The game’s atmosphere, set by the black and white art and soundtrack/soundscapes, is pleasant and quite varied for a short game.
8.5/10!
Oh man! What a pleasant surprise! This VN is mad good!!
Its beginnings aren’t terribly original—you awake in a decrepit hospital with no memories and with only an AI to help guide you out before the hospital loses oxygen. Everyone else you meet is dead. Everything is crumbling. Why?
Where the game goes after that is interesting, and tackles questions I see a decent amount in sci-fi about life without death in interesting ways. The writing is tight and punchy, and the rate at which information is revealed is the right one, with the right rhythm and pacing. Smaller substories end up feeding into the larger one in exactly the right way. Your AI companion, L, provides the perfect compliment to the dark tone by being a breath of fresh air, sharp and irreverent but never annoying.
This is one step shy of a point and click adventure game, and it’s rewarding navigating the world and exploring the map to find more information in the world and in messages you find. I loved the art style, and found that even though its loose, everything was easy to make out and navigate. The CGs in particular are great—there are several dozen of them, more than I’ve ever seen in a VN before, and they’re incredibly evocative. Major major kudos to the two women who made up the main art team!
I started and finished this in one day because I really wanted to find out what will come next, what will come after that, what else will I explore, and that’s a great feeling.
A long time ago, I watched markiplier play the demo, all this time later I finally played it, and I can say that I liked it.
The Mind's Eclipse is really freakin' good. It is much, much better than I expected. So many visual novels have a bit of a dating sim feel to them, shoehorned-in romance or "clever" references to present-day pop culture and events. Not this one. There's nothing funny. Nothing cute. The Mind's Eclipse is straight-up no apologies science fiction. The singularity is here and it's a clusterfuck. You walk around a moon base trying to figure out why.
The graphics are raw and uncompromising, like an indie comic book. The story... well it goes exactly where you would expect it to go, but it's told so well that it doesn't matter that this is a well-worn path. Nanotech. AI. The singularity. It hits all the classic notes you would expect from a solid cyberpunk novel. If you are even just a little bit into hard sci-fi, you owe it to yourself to get this game. Really great work.
A point'n'clicky visual novel which kept me hooked until the end.
Pros:
- Nice artworks
- Moody soundtrack
- Gloomy atmosphere
- Interesting story. Nothing groundbreaking, but worth the time.
- The surface of some existentialistic philosophy is touched here. Might be a bit bare bones if you're into that.
- No romances, no love interests
Cons:
- It lost some of its pacing and claustrophobic atmosphere and felt therefore a bit dragged out in the middle part
- Clicking on a hotspots a second time will trigger the initial events and dialogs, which became a chore from time to time. Don't click on a hotspot twice if you don't want to go through everything again.
I had a chance to play the demo of this at ECGC 2017, and was immediately sucked into this sci-fi futurepunk story. The art style for The Mind's Eclipse is a wonderful ink shaded world that appropriately sets the tone for the world. A fantastic visual novel.
Amazing story and characters! I really enjoyed this game.
On the gameplay side, it's a visual novel, so expect something simple that doesn't ask much from the player. Moving between rooms is a bit tedious, but fortunately it has almost no backtracking.
Congratulations to the developers!
Try the demo, and the full game has the same look, sound, and mechanics.
So, I really liked this game. I played it through in one sitting. It straddles the line between point and click (which I like) and a visual novel (which I don't), but I enjoyed reading all the very interesting text here. It gave me the same feeling as the cyberpunk that I saw in the late 80s, from rpgs, paperback novels, system shock logs, and obscure animes. This game has a compelling ambient soundtrack that pulls you into the stark, black and white scenes. What I really liked about the game was that clicking on objects was an opportunity to explore the scene further. There was no pixel-hunting or insane object combination puzzles in The Mind's Eclipse. There were no puzzles to solve. You could choose to advance without examining everything, but why skip the story? I am planning on playing the game again, just because the narriative details are so interesting and deep, that they can only be fully understood after learning the whole story.
Bottom line: great story, black and white visuals, good music (and MP3s files) although no voice acting, functioning on ubuntu linux, and yeah try the demo.
The Mind's Eclipse made me wrestle with the question: what kind of future should we hope for? Advances in biotechnology and computing power are advancing daily. I admit I'm excited by the possibilities of both. This game explores implications when the confluence of the two leads to another question: what is the value of death? You'll love this game if these questions, and the technology driving them, are of any interest to you.
[ + ] engaging sci-fi story
[ + ] nice style of graphics
[ + ] easy interface
[ - ] mostly linear gameplay
[ - ] inventory feature mostly useless gameplay-wise
my favorite quote: "The rabbit knew the noises and was afraid."
verdict: If you're into existential questions and visual novels, then you'll like this. 8/10
It's a classic text based adventure game setup: you wake up in an empty world, with no memory of who you are and what's happened to everyone else. You'll just have to play it to find out the rest!
A short but intense narrative experience with a great soundtrack and an old-school SF art direction.
It should please any lovers of the early stories from this literary genre with their notorious incorporation of moral and philosophical questions to their narrative core.
I started to play this game in the morning and just finished it. I took about 7 hours of slow paced gameplay. The game was a breath of fresh air among all the regular games and I didn't want to leave the game world.
One of the main reasons for buying The Mind's Eclipse was its graphics. As an artist myself I was quite excited to see that the game creators had chosen this kind of style for the game art. Not many developers would have had the courage to use such lively sketch-like style. But I think it works very well. Not everything has to always be super-polished. A looser style makes the game feel spirited.
The UI is simple and controls work well. At first I was expecting to be able to move to adjacent locations by clicking hotspots in the image, but that wasn't the case in most rooms. It was quite easy to navigate through the map too.
It was interesting to follow the story. There is a lot of dialogue and other messages to read. If you like that kind of story-telling, then you could enjoy the game. The amount of text isn't overwhelming and has been cut up into moderately sized chunks.
I wish the developer would make more similar games!
I just finish The Mind's Eclipse. This was a pretty interesting visual. A story about life, death, immortality (And the consequences of it), and choice. I really recommend you guys check it out. It's definitely worth your time & money. I give it a 8.8/10.
BTW L is bae. Love her character and her sarcastic personality.
disclaimer: not super far into the game, but looking forward to putting in a few morehours this weekend. also i love games with reading, such as
a few types of visual novels, and this one scratches the same itch, but I don't have a direct comparison to the couple I like. Great use of color contrast, has some intentionally visually jarring things like Danganronpa, occasionally need to do a Phoenix Wright-esque search through a scene for a fact or item to progress. That covers gameplay and visuals. Story wise? It really hooked me. There's a pretty interesting cyberpunktech world described, meshing really well with the art. I wanted to know more about the characters revelead in brain-jacking text logs. Map layout is pretty easy to remember, but when i did some medium unnessessary backtracking early on I wished you could skip rooms. It makes sense though because sometimes new flavor text or dialogue showed up.
[something about interface screw]
[goodbye]
i hope to god this is editable later
Great science fiction mystery with beautiful art and music.
I would love to live in a world like this in the right circumstances <3
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Mind's Eclipse Interactive, LLC |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 01.02.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 96% положительных (25) |