Разработчик: Chaos Minds
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About the Game
"Forgiveness" is a series of 7 escape room adventures for Windows, Mac or Linux! Take the personality test and find out which sin you are guilty of - the room design, the environment and the trials you’ll go through on your escape to freedom will change accordingly!Two levels of challenge: Normal and Extreme. The normal difficulty has subtle hints and there is no time limit, but if you want to experience what real punishment is, try to face the challenge by yourself on Extreme mode, with the clock ticking and only 30 minutes left to escape each room!
You Are A Sinner
You have lived your life in sin and now you can’t escape the punishment of "God".You wake up, in an unfamiliar room where the enigmatic Dr. Benjamin Smith has trapped you to test your worthiness to stand his judgment ‒ The man believes himself a god and wants to bring his own form of justice to the world.
Will you be punished or will you earn Forgiveness?
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Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 or higher 64bit
- Processor: Intel Core i3 2.00 GHz or AMD equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 450 or higher with 1GB Memory
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 6 GB available space
Mac
- OS: Mac OS X 10.8+
- Processor: Intel Core i5 (2011 or newer)
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 / AMD Radeon HD 5750. OpenGL 3.2
- Storage: 6 GB available space
Linux
- OS: 64-bit OS
- Processor: Intel Core i3 2.00 GHz or AMD equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 450 or higher with 1GB Memory
- Storage: 6 GB available space
Отзывы пользователей
Fun puzzles and nice visuals
I enjoy Escape games; but I found the gameplay on this to be tedious. I didn't like that I could only hold one item at a time. I found mechanism to use one item on another to be problematic. I wasn't enjoying, so I quit and won't be coming back to it. Sorry that I spent my money on this one. I appreciate that others seemed to kike this one, but it wasn't for me.
A soft thumbs down. I would give it a "meh". This game sure had some potential but fell a bit short. Took me about 2 hours to complete everything, and each of the rooms took me 20 minutes or less to escape. I did struggle with a couple puzzles, but once I figured them out it was very obvious and easy, it was just me being blind. Not worth the full price, but okay when it's on sale. Would have been better if there were multiple rooms to complete for each sin and more to do than just press buttons and type in passwords, I wish we had to work more for it. Although the style was good and the rooms and items had great details, most of the rooms were just flat out boring.
Also a lot of bugs so I often had to restart the rooms.
I consider myself a novice at escape rooms, so I was curious if there were any enjoyable escape rooms to play on my pc.
There are two play modes to choose from: normal, which doesn't have a time limit and has sound cues when you find a clue; and extreme, which has a 30 minute time limit and no sound cues. To emulate a real life escape room experience, I played on extreme difficulty.
There's only one room per theme you play in (not counting the prologue room that has no timer), but there are 7 different themes to try based on the seven sins. What I do think is a good feature is that there's a lot of useless stuff you can pick up and carry with you, because that's exactly what I do in a real life escape room. I also think it's a nice touch to get a room assigned based on a personality test. I do think the game would do with an option to adjust the brightness.
The puzzles however, sometimes just don't make sense. Some specific thoughts per room:
PRIDE: Love the music and the look of the room, but it absolutely does not make sense to put a key in a television. I was searching like mad for a safe or a door. Things you'd actually use a key on.
LUST: I tried it thrice, but after placing the items in the correct order on the panel, nothing happens. It just won't trigger the next mechanic for me.
GLUTTONY: This one is actually the first one I did based on the personality test. Didn't even bother with the paths puzzle after a while and just guessed the right word.
GREED: I think this one had the best atmosphere.
SLOTH: I actually found this one to be the easiest and most intuitive one. The only problem is that I had to restart because I was unable to pick up the remote again to switch channels.
ENVY: I liked the look and the size of the room, I just don't understand the connection to the theme. I also misspelled the password with the gallery because the font and obscurity made the E look like an O.
WRATH: This one is where I reaaally wanted that brightness option. Had a hard time reading the numbers on the boxes.
Overall, it's not the most riveting gameplay, but the soundtrack and visuals at least are enjoyable and I paid 2,35 euros for it on Steam so it's all good.
EDIT: Okay so none of my achievements registered during my initial run, so I had to speedrun all of the rooms again. Gluttony was my first room, which I did through the personality test mode, and that one was the only one that registered my achievement. So I did the other six through the test and somehow that worked. ALSO; when I redid the Lust room... apparently the mechanic did get triggered after placing the objects on the panel, I just didn't SEE the chain next to the table. I don't even know what to say.
I am an escape room ENTHUSIAST, both real ones and game ones. Honestly I thought this game was fine, but each room was too short for me to say it's worth getting for $10. I don't know why so many comments complain that the puzzles solutions are too obscure; none of the puzzles in the game made me think "this makes no sense". I wouldn't recommend purchasing this game for the full price since I actually wish each room had more puzzles. There were only a handful of puzzles to figure out in each room before you could exit, so it was underwhelming for me
Pretty janky, full of bugs, and wasn't very fun. There are items clipping through things, typos (like "b;acl" instead of "black"), grammar mistakes (which is fine for an indie developer that might not be native English speaking), and the lighting often makes it extremely hard to see crucial items or markings properly in certain puzzles, no matter what settings I used. The puzzles were mostly not very hard, except for a few that I just didn't think were very interesting. Picked up items have to be just dropped wherever you happen to let go of them in order to pick up another object, so you have to spend time lining up your vision to place things straight down onto tables unless you just throw things onto the floor, which I often did as well. Maybe if you like these types of games more, but I didn't feel like this was a good experience.
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Control Scheme I Used:
Keyboard and Mouse. You have to use keyboard for certain parts, not sure if Gamepad is even supported.
I had to adjust the mouse sensitivity, and it would not remember my setting when I relaunched the game.
Cannot change key bindings as well. This might be good however because I'd hate for it to forget them and have to redo them the next time I play.
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Worth the current price (CDN$ 11.49)? On a super sale it might be fine if you just want an easy 100% game.
What I actually paid: $3.89
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Completionist Review:
DLC Achievements: No DLC
Rating: Easy if you beat every level.
Can be completed in one run: Yes
Chapter Select: You can play each level in any order you want.
Did I need/use a guide? No, but there is a hint system that often doesn't help at all.
Nothing extra to write here, no extra achievements other than just beating each level.
Quick and clever. Lighting could've been better, but that's probably me just being picky. The controls took about one chapter to get used to, but then it was smooth sailing to just enjoy solving the clever puzzles.
I bought this game for me and my girlfriend and it made the experience much better as we solved the puzzles in tandem, I dont think I would have enjoyed the game without a partner thou
So far only played easy mode and won't bother with hard mode as a lot is unsolvable in easy.
Pros:
Cheap?
Cons:
Most of the areas are glitchy and may take a couple of tries to do things.
A lot of areas don't work.
Graphics are not great.
Areas are so dark you can't see what you are doing and just guess.
On the fence over this one but I'm going to give it a thumbs down. It's not a HORRIBLE game but the game is visually dark, making it hard to see several things you NEED to see. Also ran across some bugs in it that prevented me from finishing levels. Puzzles were decent enough though.
This one is a good take on escape room genre from solo developer. Bought it in order to evaluate quality of content and learn on other people's mistakes since am interested in game development myself.
I see big light problems here with no influence on brightness ingame. Some of the puzzles were impossible to solve until brightness was adjusted on machine itself - you just could not see clues in complete darkness. Another problem is lack of notification that something happened. For example you placed all necessary objects on quest places and.... that's it. No sound, no visuals, you just go all around the room and try to understand if actually something happened.
Some of the rooms were good, not gonna lie, but some of them made me question if I want to further sped time on it.
Puzzles are mostly alike and more often than not connected to the alphabet. Could be more versatile.
All in all, I recommend trying it for yourself. If you adjust brightness you could have some fun with this game, especially if you like hard riddles, as some of them were pretty not obvious to crack. Be ready to face game play of around 2-3 hours. Probably too few hours for this price to my mind.
Oh man, I really wanted to love this game and it started out really strong and creepy (once I turned my brightness up so I could actually play) unfortunately there were too many leaps in logic to continue and as the rooms got "harder" it just meant slightly more arbitrary and broke every escape room rule imaginable (and not in a good way - reusing puzzles/info, the state of the object was important but yet movable, etc.) it's really not great... there are better options out there. Kudos to the graphics designers though - it's a gorgeous looking game.
Highly disappointed.
The game is very short (there are about 3 puzzles for each room) and they aren't even well realized.
There are games of this kind made much better.
I'm sorry to say that i wouldn't recommend Forgiveness even if it was free.
i liked the theme of this game but like some other players, I found the link to the Deadly sin sometimes lacking. Overall fun escape room game for a bit. I did encounter one glitch in Gluttony. The cans couldn't be seen. They started off correct when I didn't need them but when I did, they weren't centered.
The puzzles in this game, hurt my brain, but the pure satisfaction and enjoyment you get once you solve the puzzle is well worth it. I highly recommend this game to anyone looking to send a night working on their brain power...
OH AND IT'S CREEPY
Lovely puzzle game, and interesting concept
You could take a quiz and you'll be led to one of the 7 deadly sin rooms
Yes, the puzzles may be a bit hard.. but i dont understand whats the deal with people saying.. "THE CONTROLS ARE TERRIBLE"
Take those with a grain of salt.. I had no problems playing this game
I mean yeah this game is pretty short.. if you were smart and acing every puzzle they put in the game...
Were u expecting 10 hours on a puzzle game?
Cons/Disappointments/Nitpicks:
None
>Buy at full price?
Nah, buy this game on sale
After finishing all escape rooms, I cannot help but have no Forgiveness for this particular title. As a puzzle lover, I find it hard to justify this purchase, even at half price: all you get is two to three questionably-designed puzzles per room, a crummy hint system and extremely inconsistent references to each deadly sin - some rooms get it right; most not so much. If you want a properly themed puzzle game with intentional design choices, I urge you to skip this one because as it is, it fails to deliver its main proposition.
I absolutely loved this game! There were definitely area's that could have been improved but overall a GREAT game! I have done more than 10 escape rooms in person and yet there were some puzzles that were really difficult. Little did I know... My Co-Streamer and I were over thinking a lot of things, LOL!
Pro's:
-Great lengthy game for a great price!
-Loved the questions that place you in the sin room.
-Loved getting to play through all of the sins.
-Puzzles are challenging enough that you feel you worked your brain through some of the rooms, LOL.
-A great game to stream on Twitch and have the community chat and figure things out with you!
-The music in some of the rooms is really nice and atmospheric to listen to while playing.
Con's:
-The small white dot is hard to see at times so it's hard to see when you are able to grab items.
-Some rooms are not as intuitive... so you either walk in and get all the answers and not know where to place them or find all the "locks" but not know where to look for the "keys"
Highly recommend!
The game was fun, but extremely short. It took me about 2 hours on the dot to go through all of the rooms on extreme for my first playthrough. Each room is 2 -3 puzzles that are a little hard to follow sometimes and then you are done. I would have loved to have seen more complex puzzles or more puzzles that required more interaction than placing blocks, books, items etc.
Still, it was fun, but not worth the $10 for how short it is. For $5 I could recommend this but 10 seems too much for the little bit of content.
This game is really unforgivably hard! But in a good way, I love that its not an easy puzzle game, I enjoyed racking my brain against the different rooms (which btw there is more than 2 of, the negative review is mistaken, you have to go back to the main menu after the original sin you receive and select a different sin)
I'm not even done each of the rooms yet, just enjoyed it so much with my stream that I had to come leave a review!
I found this game by browsing the "psychological horror" tag on Steam while looking for indie horror games. This was NOT the right way to discover Forgiveness.
"Story mode" implies that there will be, well, a story. There truly isn't. You get some context for what's happening (you've gotten caught up in a Jigsaw type situation) and need to puzzle your way out of sin-themed rooms. The rooms themselves give some insight into the person Jigsawing you, but not much. Then you escape, get booted back to the main menu, with the option to try the six rooms you didn't get, and that's that. The little personality quiz at the start of the game is too perfunctory to really add anything to the experience, acting basically as a randomizer for which level you'll play after the prologue.
I think the game would have done better not trying to shoehorn in a story mode at all and just present the seven rooms free of context. (Of course we would have missed out on a delightful bit of voice acting had that been the case. The monologue at the start of story mode is truly delicious.)
So it's kind of a testament to the quality of this game that I went in hoping for a psychological horror story, ended up with an escape room game and still kind of loved it. The puzzles are meaty but fair. A few of them allow for some guesswork as well, so the game does not insist you do everything perfectly the way it intended. That's a trap a lot of puzzle games fall into, but in Forgiveness you are never stuck because you can't read the developers mind. There's room to squeak by with some educated guesses. It definitely earns the "difficult" tag, but seasoned adventure gamers shouldn't have too much trouble even in 30-minute extreme mode.
Unfortunately there were a few bugs that made some rooms impossible to solve, but once you know the solution you can quickly get back to the point you were before, and the developer is actively addressing the bugs.
It's a mixed bag, but I'm still recommending the game because it does what it sets out to do well enough, the puzzles are difficult but fair, and if it had been pitched to me as an escape room game and not a horror game I would have been a lot more enthusiastic about it.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Chaos Minds |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 16.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 65% положительных (86) |