Unlucky Seven

I couldn't get past the horrible controls and bugs that prevented me from progressing in the first 10 minutes. Tried pretty much everything to fix the issue to no avail.

Unlucky Seven is a boldly unconventional indie adventure that thrives on unpredictability, dark humor, and player-driven storytelling rather than traditional gameplay complexity. Developed by Puzzling Dream and published by SIG Publishing alongside Art Games Studio S.A., the game sets out to tell a strange, often uncomfortable story that blends horror, satire, science fiction, and absurdist comedy into a single narrative package. From the very beginning, it makes clear that it is not interested in playing things safe or following genre conventions, instead inviting players into a world where tone can shift abruptly and consequences are rarely predictable. The premise immediately establishes the game’s offbeat identity. What begins as a group of troubled friends skipping an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting to attend a birthday party quickly spirals into something far more disturbing when the celebration turns into a nightmare involving violence, grotesque revelations, and surreal twists. The story unfolds across multiple perspectives, with players stepping into the shoes of different characters as events escalate. This shifting viewpoint helps flesh out the group dynamic and reinforces…

You know how it goes, original project promised something, then the game went into development hell, then it changed direction, then publisher problems, yadda yadda yadda. The game itself is quite slow, basically a second rate point and click games with...incredibly weird voice acting, plot and characters. Like, during the latest chapters I was baffled at what was happening on the screen, hella weird.

bad controls, bad UI can't even exit game properly, bad repetitious game design, Mix a drink over and over after the first time it gets old, don't need a fetch quest every few seconds with corny jokes, the bad controls where you can't use analog and need to use the Dpad and even that is bad because you walk so slow and you need to complete a repititious action and walk back and grab the same item you can't grab to making a stupid walk back and forth. Nonsense waste of time. I'm curious where the story would go, but the gameplay is a waste of time, just make it a clip and get it over with. ♥♥♥♥ is torture.

Unfortunately I was only able to finish 3 chapters before I lost patience with all the bugs and game-crashing glitches, but the world building and storytelling in this game is honestly very good, the dialogues are natural, the artstyle is great. The MAJOR issue with this game are bugs and glitches, that make it impossible to procceed with some gameplay/programming features. And there is absolutely no auto-save or checkpoint function, so every time you experience a bug, you have to start a chapter from the beginning. This whole game is rather slow-paced, which is nice and relaxing in the FIRST playthrough, but it's unbearable when you have to reload a chapter and watch all scenes once again...

This game felt like a fever dream. I played it a long time ago, but even then I wasn't sure what I even played, what the story was about, what even was going on or what happened at the end... Oh right there was no proper ending, they sold an unfinished game.