Soulflow

This detective game has a striking black-and-white art style, but the gameplay is a total slog. Moving your character feels like wading through quicksand, and the investigation mechanics are too messy to care about solving the murders. You'll spend more time fighting clunky menus and slow animations than actually playing.

0.5 hours to get Ending 1, and after getting there I still have no idea what's going on, or what the tutorial means by "be in the right body". I tried a bit further, but couldn't slog through it long enough to see what the other endings are. The controls are painful. It feels like you're walking through quicksand all the time. If this is after the "MAJOR UPDATE Walking Speed Increase!" I can't imagine how anyone tolerated playing it before. The lengthy text in every character's info takes so much time to read, and the time passes so fast, that if you're trying to understand things on the first go the days will just skip right past you. Whether this *actually* matters or not I'm not sure, but it seems to since it's a murder mystery game. You have notes with a checklist to get you started in the game and tell you what to do next... but if you happen to skip one of the early ones, it won't check the box nor spawn the later ones, even though you're doing the same things and getting all of the information, so then to get the next hint and records you need to go back and do it all again from the start. The atmosphere of the game is great. Music and lighting and color palette, and sil…

Positive. Get on sale as only 1 chapter. Having a long backlist makes me drawn to games like this - looks like there will be a second chapter (assuming as a new purchase) I have enjoyed games such as Twelve Minutes and the Sexy Brutale - although this is barebones compared to those two. Got both endings and most achievements in 1 hour play time. Humans walk slow which may be the point but annoying, dog go fast and can jump if you need to get from one street to another - cant tell time while with dog only with human.

While the concept is interesting, it fails to deliver. You do not have to find any mysterious killer - you have to be in the body of the person who will be killed at the end of the day, which does not even require much thinking, as there are so few characters that I got it on my second try, with the first one being basically self-imposed tutorial. The game is clearly unfinished, badly translated and slow.

Un juego que es extremadamente lento y confuso, y que aún así me lo he pasado 2 veces en menos de 30 minutos. Y una de ellas, literalmente no haciendo nada, sólo esperando a que pasara el día y ocurriera un hecho concreto. Entiendo que por 2.39 € no me pueden dar un juego largo y complejo, pero esto es excesivo. No vale la compra ni regalado.

The story is quite brief, leaving little room for deeper exploration. The movement can feel a bit janky at times. There are several bugs that interrupt gameplay. One of the achievements has been broken for a very long time now, making it impossible to unlock (a dev? has addressed this but nothing has come from it). The game seems to have been abandoned by the developers, leaving these issues unresolved. The music is quite nice though. The game had a lot more potential that was never fully realized.