This week your intrepid heroes click on folders, hunt for clues, and get reminded why the FMV genre died in the first place.
CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope
– Not sure if want
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies
Game: Daemon_9
Webzone: Daemon_9
Devel: Curio Productions
Engine: Chromium Embedded Framework
Price: £7.19 / US$ 9.99 / CA$11.49
Wazzat: Morgan Shane has disappeared, leaving a bloody trail of mayhem in her wake. But is she a monster or a victim of something far more sinister than the authorities are imagining? And the biggest question of all: Can you unravel the mystery before the same dark force that targeted Morgan finds you?
Mandatory Disclosure: Devs sent keys
Venn:
Does It Launch
- It launches, on the wrong monitor.
- If left on the non-primary display it locks HARD when attempting to launch the game tips page.
- Has a habit of not closing and only recorded my playtime from the first launch.
Performance @ 1080
- Works.
Graphics
- Ever seen T.V. show DesktopOS? That.
Control
- Click click click… wait.
- Can’t right-click to copy pasta?
Jordan:
Does It Launch
- Yerpo. It’s chrome
- Don’t shut down properly though
Performance @ 1080
- It’s a bunch of gifs and videos. In chrome
Graphics
- Very much a napkin drawing of “a desktop”
- The websites are kinda all over the place
- The FMV segments remind me of old streamed quicktime videos
Control
- Clickety clack, tippity tap
Pedro:
Does It Launch
- It has a nasty habit of leaving a “daemon” of sorts running in the background
- I don’t care about your ARG elements, you leave zombie processes doing who knows what running on my system, you’re going to lose a chair.
Performance @ 1080
- It certainly performs like you’d expect a haunted desktop to perform
Graphics
- Those are some pixely ass overlays you get
- Fullscreen on the UHD made the game render only the top left quarter
Control
- There’s some mouse clicking and, if you’re really advanced, some typing
QA Score:
Fedora:
Soulless:
Ubuntu:
Fun section:
Fun?:
- Venn:
- 7, 7 is the number of external websites this glorified art project requires to function.
- Your game is made using Chromium FFS.
- When (and there is and always will be a when) these sites go dark your game is busted.
- Bad design choice, Brad.
- That said, good choice shooting everything on a Canon VIXIA.
- Planning on picking up one myself.
- Daemon_9 it’s not a movie.. it’s not a game.. it’s something that belongs in portfolio of a year two film student, not the Steam Store.
- Ya see, kids, the only way you can pull off a FMV in 2018 is to be over the top camp.
- Mock why the genera was bad, not try and reproduce it.
- Honestly during the first 5 minutes of the game I was not sure if serious.
- Unfortunately it quickly became obvious Curio Productions chose the latter.
- Ladies and gentlemen if the CHAIRAQSITION, I tried… I really really tried but the only thing here is a collect the clues adventure game that occasionally fuc*s with your display and forces you to dig around external websites (you really should mention the game requires online connectivity) and copypasta.
- It’s not lazy, it’s not shovelware, it’s simply not fun.
- I’ve seen Windows ME Desktops more frightening than Daemon_9.
- Jordan
- This desktop looks a lot like really old Nautilus
- It trips me up. My keyboard shortcuts don’t work and I mad
- They give you a bunch of tools, some clues, and you gotta crawl through all of them, draw conclusions and poke at the game and corresponding websites
- I used to be pretty in to ARGs, but I was never really good at them
- This is kinda of a single player, limited scope ARG where you gotta solve the mystery about the thingy haunting your computer
- Because apparently there is a link between binary code and the paranormal, because we live in shadowrun
- I keep feeling I need to go full Charlie
- Pedro
- I don’t like detective games on the best of days.
- I don’t like ARGs on the best of days.
- I play video games for the experience they provide and, while the atmosphere here is certainly well done, I had to force myself to go through the links the game opened on my actual Chrome window.
- When Her Story came out, I was actually curious.
- Not curious enough to play it but certainly to watch a decent playthrough on Youtube.
- But the difference between Daemon_9 and Her Story go far beyond the poorly pixelated tit shots.
- Her Story was a self contained experience where everything you needed was in game.
- Here, the moment the dev stops paying for those URLs, the game becomes infeasible.
- If you’re playing outside the US, the spooky phone calls don’t work unless you sign up for an online US phone number.
- As much as I like the horror elements here, these games take a special kind of person to enjoy… and I’m not that kind of guy!
Fun Score:
Venn:
Jordan:
Pedro:
