A Shade Darker Than Gray

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+ somewhat appealing art and character design + collectibles are alright - not enjoyable - too many typos - too depressing - I don't see the point in this

A short, introspective game on bullying and how people are treated. Got all the endings too. 6/10

I think the art in the game is interesting. I thought the lack of audio other than occasional white noise was a nice choice. The story was, however, unbearable. It read like a fanfic with no string of logical events. It was just back to back to back to back of doing something, an realistic reaction by NPC's, and then somehow an even more unrealistic reaction to follow. I get that its a game based in an e-ink world, but you can only suspend disbelief for so long. Personal pet peeve: I find the varyingly correct and incorrect grammar to be off-putting. Hardly a game breaking facet, but still irritating.

"A Shade Darker Than Gray" is an e-book (but with a bit of walking so wow, we escape the "e-book" boilerplate I have to use every time some author gets confused and thinks Steam is Harper Collins or something). It's short, it's bad, and wow, the graphics are remarkable...y awful. What do you do in the game? Walk around a bit and get exposed to some really pretentious high school goth poetry equivalent writing. So, it's hard to describe this as a game, the focus of the product is more like that of an e-book/visual novel, there's only minor, shallow and uninteresting gameplay elements. The crux of this is to push some very low quality, badly done fan-fiction tier writing, where we see once more a developer fail to understand the importance of "Show, don't tell", and for whatever reason, weren't able to convey their narrative through gameplay, giving us endless lines of badly written e-book text instead. My gaming rig is not a kindle. The game is quite short, and can be run through in just 15 minutes. The lack of content here makes it hard to suggest it's worth spending the time to add to your library and download. And when the best thing you can say about a game is there's …

Yeah, no! I like a game that is wildly different than others, disturbing, and even has questionable "art", but this one just doesn't play well