Разработчик: Richard Whitelock
Описание
Discover and Create.
- A casual creators minimalistic slow game.
- Unique locations featuring bespoke and generative art.
- Satisfying interactions. Mine crystals, smash things and place items
- Create your own unique environmental vignette with discovered items.
- Discover and toy with rare magic stones.
- Day to night cycle with evolving weather.
- Relaxing ambient audioscape and music.
- Evocative campfires.
- Photography mode.
- Relaxing ambient audioscape and music.
- Throw Rocks Plant Trees.
Remake the World.
Starting from your home backyard venture out from site to site collecting precious gems, discovering rare artefacts, stones & books of an imagined world. Use the items you find to create a miniature scene of your own. The rocks and earth are your canvas. Make a photographic record with your film camera and move onwards.
All that is good must pass away
Embrace impermanence. Do good with what limited resources are available to you. Pause to look around at a scene you find, play around briefly and let the ambience play in the background, or stay a while and indulge in crafting a miniature world.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel i3
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia 750
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Current gaming PC or laptop highly recommended.
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel i7
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia 980ti
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Current gaming PC or laptop highly recommended.
Mac
- OS: macOS Sierra
- Processor: Intel i5
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Discrete nVidia or AMD GPU
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Recent 2015+ Mac with discrete Nvidia or AMD GPU reccomended.
- OS: macOS High Sierra
- Processor: Intel i7
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: Discrete nVidia or AMD GPU
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Recent 2015+ Mac with discrete Nvidia or AMD GPU reccomended.
Отзывы пользователей
I love any 'game' where I'm free to discover what I can do at my own pace and in my own time. Quiet as a Stone puts me in mind of something like Cloud Gardens, another favorite. Both titles aren't so much games as they are experiences which ask you to relax and take a deep breath, to be willing to indulge your creative side, and to simply spend some time in these beautiful little worlds.
This is such a serene experience, and somehow gives one the feeling that you're engaged in making art of some sort. It's peaceful, pretty, melancholy, and a wonderful way to get back to yourself and calm yourself after you've had a long day that maybe wasn't as good as it could have been.
I genuinely love this game a ton and I rec it to everyone I know. It's funny--there are apps out there like Calm or Headspace which are meant to relax you and get you in a meditative frame of mind, and they're okay for a lot of people, I'm not knocking them. Speaking just for myself, I'd much rather have an hour and a half or two spent in this world, leisurely rearranging my rocks and trees, planting grass, smashing and collecting my gems, looking at the fire, and taking some pretty pictures. The time and money imo is so much better spent.
Honest, I love it. It's tough to say anything else.
Pretty relaxing way to unwind with a glass of wine after a hard day at work. Interesting puzzle that are gentle on the mind.
Love the concept and the calm vibes, its very beautiful and relaxing! I do wish there were more variation in landscapes though, I imagine it gets same'y quite fast. Different climates and plants would have been fun! It is also much too dark, with no way to adjust the lighting up (as far as I can tell). Sometimes I cant see whats going on at all, its literally just pitch black, lol.
There are also some minor issues, like street lamps cant be picked up again once you place them.
Even at the cheap price, I simply can't recommend this game.
It looks really nice in the beginning, until you realize each scenery is pretty much the same. The exploration mechanics get boring really fast, you're forced to do a ton of mindless clicking and you only get a tiny amount of control over the area. The inability to save your game takes away whatever remaining joy this might have brought - you can't go back and admire your old areas or move on to new areas; you're forced to replay the same starting areas over and over again.
I love relaxing slow-paced games, but this just doesn't work.
A zen sandbox builder. Create a floating island landscape with a relaxing visual and audio ambiance, take pictures of your completed creation. There are no saving, and each instance is totally random. Some islands are 'meh' and don't have much to build with, but if you're lucky enough to find yourself with a grass stone (cutting down grass has random drops of building items) your palette is endless.
Think along the lines of an HD Etch-A-Sketch but random fantasy-themed elements.
As someone who enjoys nature, I was starting to get into this game. I knew it was minimalist and I have enjoyed uncovering the features and playable options one by one.
What is BEWILDERING to me is why the developer would not have some way to save progress. With Islanders for example, while you cannot save each game you can at least leave your current progress and resume later.
I think the developer somehow thinks that all players should have the mindset to sit down and play this game for a long time, designing something beautiful then start over.
Developer: I am not that user. I am a working family dad who needs to start/stop games because I have chunks of time to spend on a game... not hours. I love all things 'builder' in games. I absolutely -depend- on 'resuming' creative games where I work on a thing 30 min here/45 min there. I have a Cities Skylines save that has taken months 30-45 min at a time but looks AMAZING.
I like this game - however, while beautiful it is the ONLY game in recent memory that does not have any sort of save or at LEAST pause/continue. What were they thinking???!?!
Played it enough to say a few things
"Relaxing ambient soundscapes with satisfying interactions"
I totally agree with the devs on this, the feedback you get from destroying items in the game is just so satisfying
So, you should:
- BUY if you just wanna mess around and be creative(Like getting gems to place trees, stones etc, and just make a beautiful looking map)
[*]DONT BUY if you think that this is a game that has some kind of story og goal. (I mean its only 2,39 after all, so it's not that of a big deal)
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The game is well done and though super simple and even limited in the actual gameplay (can't save maps you've developed, no!real goal other than just clearing the landscape searching for magical stones). But despite the games limitations, it's easy gameplay and simplicity are actually addicting. Tried it for the first time today and when I'd stopped it was 3 hours later! LOL Only three downfalls I see are that you can't save maps, can't create a map from scratch, and there needs to be a gamma control as the game is predominently dark and its difficult to see the landscape clearly. Hopefully the developer will add some updates. I would definitely recommend this to anyone looking for a relaxing experience that only costs pennies.
It's ok. If you have nothing better to do and just want to waste a little creative time. No real satisfaction with the exception of a possible wallpaper background.
It does get a little boring after 30mins and controls are not straight forward. But it is ok.
Quiet as a Stone introduces an intriguing microcosmic creation tool prototype, embryonic in both design and content, with few compelling reasons to return more than once or twice.
Mow overgrowth on a dark and tiny floating island. Break glowing crystal shards into smaller gems to collect compulsively, up to a strict thousand. Sometimes watch them fall off the edge of the world helplessly. Duplicate and organize rocks, tree stumps, and a limited variety of ancient artefacts into an ephemeral diorama.
Activate specially powered stones to spawn a diversity of luminescent wisps and quickly dissipating effects. Enjoy the peaceful mood around the campfire and the relaxing ambiant soundtrack. Stay for a few seconds or an eternity, and eventually travel to a mystical new world to... start over.
Your play area is acceptably modest on each procedurally generated stage, though with not many props readily available. Beautifully unique and quite enjoyable at first, it is easy to expect more after just a few minutes of play, primarily a proper asset browser and easier access to more varied objects.
All items must be "found" through random drops before they can be inserted in the environment at will. With no indication of where or how to find new items, and often getting the same sturdy rock or ancient pillar time and again, customizing your vignette becomes an unnecessary grind.
Most playthroughs inevitably end up feeling similar, despite the subtle changes in finely detailed scenery and appreciable day, night and weather effects. Manipulated objects seamlessly blend into each other to create a natural-looking environment, with appealing starting (and unmovable) setups that hint at long lost civilizations once rich in culture and history.
These tiny worlds are rendered quite nicely and look fantastic but ultimately always remain largely grey. Different dynamic light sources bring some welcome warmth.
A photo mode lets you explore your creation with some additional visual effects options, before disappearing forever. Disheartening to start from scratch every single time.
This review might be more forgiving if this was an Early Access title. Lack of content gives limited appeal to this product in its current state. I nevertheless chose not to refund to support the developer with the hope they can improve the experience over time, and update this review's binary grading from red to blue.
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Major Pros:
- Create nature dioramas
Minor Pros:
- Nice background sound
- Interesting camera mode
Major Cons:
- Unattractive menus
- Lose items over the edge a lot
- No saving
Minor Cons:
- Odd control setup
[*]No previews in the creation menu
Recommendation
I enjoyed playing around with Quiet as a Stone and building several of my own dioramas. The game is open-ended and lets players build how they want with a random set of items. Unfortunately, players that put a lot of time into their projects will be disappointed by the lack of a save feature. I recommend Quiet as a Stone for players looking for a quick sandbox to mess around in, but players hoping to do big projects with less randomness will probably want to look elsewhere.
First few minutes this seems very interesting, then it becomes boring. You cannot save your progress so you start over every time you play. Very limited in what you can do and add to each scene, and each scene is almost the same as the last scene. Not much variety. Slow and boring from my point of view. Refund request lodged.
This is a beautiful experience worth the price and your time. Less of a game and more of a atmospheric toy. Fun to play when you don't feel like working at anything and just enjoying really satisfying feedback.
The ultimate study companion. I leave this game running in the background so the relaxing ambient audioscape and music can accompany me.
I think a lot of people misunderstand this game but I also love that it redefines what a video game can be.
Landscaping mandala. Brilliant.
This is such a good way to chill out.
For me it was all about being able to poke and prod at a little diorama to adjust it, take a photo, and move on. Each time finding the 'thing' about the location that felt right to me. Kinda like going for a wander through the woods and stumbling across a little secluded spot, or a view through the trees and enjoying it for what it is.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Richard Whitelock |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 19.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 82% положительных (17) |