Разработчик: Killed Pixel Games
Описание
The Sun Falls Behind the Horizon.
You are the only survivor of a tragic plane crash into the extremely cold Siberian wilderness in 1983, Soviet Union. Soon after you have fled the crash site it hits you. You are all alone in the middle of nowhere. Now there are only two phrases in your mind: "How to stay warm?", and more importantly, "How to stay alive?".The game Alone consists of a camp menu, where you can manage your inventory, craft, go hunting etc. and an overworld where you can collect resources for your camp and find new and interesting locations. The game is a trial and error type of game and it also has a few puzzles to solve during the story.
Will you be rescued or will you starve to death? We will see...
Cool little game, quite a different experience.
-GPVReviews
Features
♦ Elegant, Minimalistic Pixel Art♦ Many Items to Find
♦ Over 2 Hours of Gameplay
♦ Achievements
♦ 2 Difficulties: Hard and Extreme
♦ Mostly Randomized Gameplay
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows Vista, or 7
- Processor: 1.5 GHz or faster processor
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1GB VRAM
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 130 MB available space
- OS *: Windows 8, or 10
- Processor: 2.0 GHz or faster processor
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: 2GB VRAM
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 130 MB available space
Отзывы пользователей
Meh
I'm not sure what everyones problem is.
It's fun, short, and for the most part has a cozy pace to it. The only complaint I really have about it is the character kinda waddles sometimes. Also the random encounters sometimes are too random and can kill you.
I bought it for a dollar. It's money reasonably spent.
This game is a lot more than meets the eye.
It seems like a simple pixel game, but I really enjoyed how it told a survival story and how well it balanced its survival elements. The graphics can be a little difficult sometimes, but the actual survival aspect is well done and quite enjoyable.
Read my full review here: https://www.janneke.photos/review_alone
Funny, little game, very hardcore. Only one but: Too much snow (I know pixels, but this is too much) - but a good little survival game!
I've player flashes with the same idea that are far more interesting Game needs works
Mano, num gostei.
Alone is a tough survival/adventure-puzzle game. You basically have 2 separate game modes: one where you walk across the screen looking for resources and items, and another menu-based mode where you can do things like hunt, craft, and sleep. This game is very challenging and offers almost no explicit guidance. You pretty much have no choice but to flail around trying to survive the harsh conditions. You'll die numerous times before you figure out even the basics of survival, but if you're willing to analyze what you did wrong, you will be able to improve with each subsequent run. There is a significant element of randomness to Alone that mostly manifests in what you will see while walking, or in events in the menu mode like avalanches. Usually the RNG isn't enough to completely ruin a run, but it is enough to compound mistakes (you can usually survive a fall into the frozen lake, but not if you forgot to get your body heat up before leaving camp, for instance). There are a lot of mysteries to the game because of its uncommunicative approach (I still don't know how to reliably trigger the final event for the ending, even after having beaten it once), but that is part of the fun of it. I appreciate the game for its unorthodox details. The intentionally simple graphics are also a nice touch, and even play into the game mechanics since one of the ways Alone gets more difficult the longer you go on is by visually impairing you with heavier snow fall.
I really like this game, it is one of my favorite sub-$1 games on Steam. It is an intriguing puzzle to solve and a satisfying game to win. I would say that it is perhaps not suited for the easily frustrated, but for everyone else, Alone gets a definite recommend from me.
For such a cheaply priced game it's very much worth the price and shows quite a bit of talent on the part of the developer.
I'll do some positives and negatives (overall I do love the game)
Positives
+ Great concept the idea of being the sole survivor of a plane crash and having to stumble your way through the game
+ Will likely take 2 hours or about that to finish your first play through with harder modes available.
+ Great visual feedback with things like blood splatter to show injury an even a visual depiction of your character getting hypothermia to allow you to act before they potentially die.
+ Extremely tense this is closer to a rouge like game as one death and you start again, luckily each time you'll be a bit better knowing more what to do.
+ Very much a game that rewards exploration but does have more going on
+ Quite extensive options menu (for the price) with Fahrenheit or Centigrade (Celsius) and WASD or Arrow controls
Negatives
- Other than achievements there is none of the other Steam integration features so no screenshots (at least screenshots didn't work for me)
- The game is a little iffy explaining mechanics E.G. while you can go out gathering you'll normally only get berries and some food, it's rare you'll get wood. The best way to get wood is to leave your camp and go through the scrolling area. Or the game saying your body temperature will drop when you sleep without explaining that if you build up your fire beyond a certain point your body temperature will go up after a sleep. Once you figure it out it's fine but it's a hump.
- RNG can and will screw you a lot. It's somewhat RNG when you'll get certain items from exploring and later in the game Avalanches are a major way you can get screwed. I can attest to a run of 5+ almost one after another leading to my losing. On top of that are random bears and the wolves that turn up in different areas later. I'd say this really is a game where you have to be ok with it totally screwing you over sometimes and this would be a negative for some.
- Could do with a little extra explanation on the option as to what for example Theatre mode does or what changes for Extreme difficulty
Overall
The game costs so little and seems such good quality with the faults being ones fairly easily overcome or with RNG it's kind of very subjective as to how much it impacts you I'd say for the price the faults and for the quality on display it's very easy to overlook those negative points and it makes for quite an enjoyable time.
"Alone" is not just a survival game, but a cryptic puzzle with unobvious rules: the real goal of this game is to understand all of the mechanics and principles it's based on. And it seems like it is a developer's concept, because "Alone" quickly introduces you to the principles of interaction with the world in animated "walking" mode but tells you nothing about it text-based strategic mode, on which the survival is actually based. It's up to you to find out what the each of the options means and how to use it.
For example, the game won't tell you that the first thing you need to do after you found some firewood (tree branches that lies on the road) is to press "Add fuel" option to put it in a campfire - it affects you character's body temperature. If the campfire dies away you need to create it again with the same "Add fuel" button. It's one of the basic rules of the game, but to find I had to spent ten or twenty minutes of gameplay with obligatory "Frozen to death" game over screen popping every three minutes.
The game won't tell you that "Hunting" and "Gathering" buttons can let you find food much faster than wandering around in a manual mode. On the other hand, only in manual mode you can find tools that will help you survive: for example, a kettle, a compass or a fishing rod (press the "Down" button on everything that seems unfamiliar or interesting to you - in that case you often can find new items).
The bear looks cute but "interaction" with it ends with an instant game-over. Meeting a wolf leaves you with a bleeding wound at least - and it's not obvious that if the wolf goes near you, you need either to stand still, or to drop some food to switch wolf's attention (also you can go to your campfire, and the threat will literally disappear). There are dozens of unobvious principles you need to uncover, but on the same time every mistake draws you closer to death.
The more you understand the rules of "Alone", the more enjoyable it gets - on the other hand, the frustration will never left you completely, because every accidental mistake may result in "game over" screen. For example, the level of frustration after character's death on 15th or 20th day (when you already found a lot of needful items and even upgraded some of them) is inexpressible.
It seems like a matter of chance how many wood will you find on your trip to the wilderness or if you will even find a food or needful items at all - that often makes the game too hard to bear, because there is no much room for player's actions when they have not enough resources to survive. On the other hand, maybe that was the clear message that the author wanted to state in this game: you cannot survive alone in Siberian Wilderness. You just cannot.
P.S.: I love games like that - that's why I can recommend you to play it, but only if you're ready for a hardcore puzzle with unobvious rules that punish you with "game overs" for every wrong choice. "Alone" is not an easy game, but it's enjoyable - at least, for me.
P.P.S.: When you will understand how to make your character survive on more or less stable basis, you will find that this game have a final quest: some "needless" items that you found earlier must be used in a specific places - that will result in SOS signal transmission to the rescue team. But to complete this quest you as a player need to have a lot of patience (and even turn to Google Translator to understand how to open the lock - there is a hint where the numbers are written in Russian words). It seems like "Alone" was made for the gamers who want to know about true-to-life hardships of surviving in the Russian snowy wilderness far away from civilization - it's almost impossible; on the other hand, this game really have an ending.
In its current state it's a definite NO for me. It's a very simple game but it's extremely unclear what certain items and upgrades actually do. The game is completely unforgiving to the player who doesn't understand what exactly they're supposed to do, but there is no HELP page or anything except for a briefly shown overlay of the controls.
The gameplay is tedious as all hell. It consists of walking slowly from one side of the screen to the other. Discovering new areas seems to be random which makes it even more painful. I appreciate pixel graphics, but it's not very well done here at all. In many cases it's difficult to distinguish what something is... but most of all it's, well... very ugly.
The survival mechanics make very little sense. There is way too much abstraction: you can basically use berries in construction or use firewood as food. Leather is extremely important but hard to come by, since it's also randomly placed. You can only warm up by adding firewood, forcing you to scavenge over and over again for twigs just to stay alive for a few more dice rolls for gathering and hunting.
And that's basically the game. If the dev doesn't have a graphics artist available, honestly I'd rather this be a text-based game with a bit more depth and some clarity as to what upgrades actually do. At its core, it might as well be a text based game, just with a tedious interactive graphical component on it.
It's dirt cheap and though I always like to support small devs, I wouldn't recommend it even if it was free...
I'm not really into survival games, but I like pixel art. What's a guy to do?
I downloaded this and dinked around for a few minutes. There isn't any tutorial to speak of, so it took me a bit of dying really quickly to realize that, although the game SEEMS to be interface driven at first (as in, when you're in camp, you have menu choices to hunt, gather, etc), that's a quick way to freezing to death. You're meant to leave camp and wander the overland map, which is how you get the most wood (necessary for building a fire and keeping up your core temperature) and, secondarily, for crafting upgrades. You'll move between campsites and pick up some important upgrades along the way, such as a trap for catching animals.
Then, in camp, you choose options to eat, sleep, craft, and hunt (I suspect once you get an actual weapon you can also hunt in the overland map, as you'll see squirrels, foxes and wolves out there).
There's no story arc and no goal other than to survive as long as you can. I didn't solve any puzzles alluded to in the description (though I'd say finding a way to gather oil leaking out of the crashed plane would be one).
One anomaly I found was what appeared to be someone sleeping in a dome tent, but I could find no way of interacting with them.
I did watch a playthrough of the Android game a negative review alleged this was a copy of -- it's not. Of COURSE you have to gather / hunt for food. Of COURSE you have to camp, sleep, and keep up your body temperature, overall health and not starve to death. Of COURSE you try to create weapons and improve the camp. That's how humans stay alive in a frozen wilderness survival situation. Other than these elements that would be in any thematically similar game, they're different games.
Anyway, at the $1 price point it's fine for some light gaming.
Brought this game just to launch it when ever I feel alone and just leave it running till the feeling passes 10/10
i mean, this game isnt that special , but atleast it is cheap . the story is as simple as it can be.
you are some girl who survived a plane crash in siberia and needs to survive alone , so you gather wood , food , leather etc to go and survive and craft different items. i played for a few hours before getti9ng eye strain from the overuse of white pixels to emphasize the falling snow.
also, this is actually a good idea for a game but it is weighed down by the mediocre pixal art visuals and lack of any complex gameplay. my reccomendation? buy it a steam sale if you are scared of wasting 99 cents and if you dont like what you see just refund it. I hope the developer gets the guts to improve on this idea in the near future so i will give a few tips, fix the gameplay and visuals, perhaps add some sort of hunting mechanics for hunting like setting up the trap or aimming the bow, punching the animals etc. anouther thing would be to a wider variety of music than simply just a looping track.
i vote it 63/100
For 50 cent, very nice :)
https://youtu.be/ui_O7TFgOHM
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Killed Pixel Games |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 20.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 71% положительных (14) |