

Return NULL - Episode 1
Michael Lückgen · April 2, 2015 · Interactive Fiction, Indie, Comic Book, Great Soundtrack, Point & Click
Return NULL - Episode 1 is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.
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Return NULL - Episode 1 costs $1.09 in the United States and $1.09 in Georgia (USD) right now.
| Region | Best price | Official store | Key shop | Stores |
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| $1.09 −73% | $1.09 | — | 1 | |
| $1.09 −73% | $1.09 | — | 1 |
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Return NULL - Episode 1 price
Return NULL - Episode 1 is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.
About Return NULL - Episode 1
In a distant dystopian society under a heavy and oppressive militaristic force you find yourself in the shoes of Jack Drebin. Long time Local Security Force member. Husband. Soon to be father. You go about your business day-in and day-out working hard to keep the city streets safe. Then as fate would have it, your day to day life is thrown into chaos during a routine search and seizure on a suspected terrorist...Return NULL: Episode 1 is the first in a 3 part Point-and-Click Adventure series. Done in an indie European comic art style, players will examine their environments for clues, carry on dynamic conversations, collect items and solve logical environmental puzzles to advance through the twisting narrative. When the action gets hot, Return NULL incorporates a real-time duck and cover shoot out mechanic that elevates the tension and puts the player in immediate danger.
FEATURES- 10 unique characters, each with different emotional dialogue portraits
- 14 interactive hand drawn locations
- Unique indie European comic art style
- 7 original composed music tracks that set the mood and tone of each scene
- Innovative, Real-Time Gunplay mechanic
Return NULL - Episode 1 — game info
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
- Player modes
- Single-player
- PC Game Pass
- Not included
DLC & expansions
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
⠀7 found this helpful
Игра 'Return NULL - Episode 1' — это настоящий подарок для ценителей атмосферных хорроров с глубоким сюжетом. С первых минут погружаешься в мрачный, детективный мир, где каждый шорох и каждая тень играют свою роль. Разработчики смогли создать по-настоящему гнетущую атмосферу, которая держит в напряжении до самого конца. Проработанный сюжет, полный загадок и неожиданных поворотов, заставляет постоянно размышлять и строить теории. Персонажи, хоть и немногословны, обладают своей харизмой и вызывают искреннее сопереживание. Графика и звуковое сопровождение работают в унисон, усиливая эффект присутствия и саспенс. Игра не пытается напугать скримерами, она играет на нервах, медленно подкрадываясь и заставляя чувствовать себя уязвимым. Это тот случай, когда каждая деталь имеет значение. Однозначно рекомендую всем, кто ищет не просто игру, а настоящее интерактивное переживание.1 found this helpful
[h1][b]Not Recommended[/b][/h1]1 found this helpful
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"Return NULL - Episode 1" is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "Return NULL". Return NULL is an abandoned series of point and click adventures set in a familiar dystopian society under oppressive rule. You play as Jack Drebin, a security force member whose predictable life is thrown into disarray. The player clicks through environments, engages in dialogue, collects items, and solves puzzles, occasionally participating in rudimentary shooting sections. At least that's how the developer presents it. The developer deceptively pushes this as a free product but the actual intent is to get people to buy the other chapters through ovepriced DLC. Except nobody wanted to because the quality was way too low, so the developer gave up and stopped making chapters like 10 years ago. This is just unfinished pollution and advertising on the Steam store, and has no merit aa a full game. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not Return NULL, it's just an advertisment for it, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them…
Unpolished, short choose-your-own-adventure game with no voiceovers, irritatingly loud music and severely underdeveloped story progression
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