All the Delicate Duplicates
Mez Breeze · 2017 · Indie, Walking Simulator, Nonlinear, Experimental, Story Rich
PC
Mostly Positive78% · 45
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About All the Delicate Duplicates
All The Delicate Duplicates is a short, experimental single player first-person narrative game.
John, a computer engineer and single father, inherits a collection of arcane objects from Mo, his mysterious relative. Over time, John and his daughter Charlotte begin to realise that these objects have unusual physical properties – and that the more they are exposed to them, the more their reality and memories appear to change.
All The Delicate Duplicates contains minimal strobe-like effects, minimal to moderate profanity, potentially creepy psychological concepts and themes.
Story
John, a computer engineer and single father, inherits a collection of arcane objects from Mo, his mysterious relative. Over time, John and his daughter Charlotte begin to realise that these objects have unusual physical properties – and that the more they are exposed to them, the more their reality and memories appear to change.
Features
- Part game part reading experience with multiple interpretations.
- Non-linear narrative that pieces together through interactive discoveries in the game world and a text-based backstory.
- Surreal domestic environments spread across different timelines with open exploration.
- Mezangelle: a poetic language created by Mez Breeze that stacks layers of meanings into single phrases.
Warnings
All The Delicate Duplicates contains minimal strobe-like effects, minimal to moderate profanity, potentially creepy psychological concepts and themes.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players are sharply divided on this game. Some appreciate its psychological storytelling, atmospheric presentation, and exploration of mental illness through environmental narrative and fragmented clues, finding it thought-provoking despite its intentional confusion. However, many others criticize it as lacking substantial gameplay—consisting only of walking and picking up items—and feel the narrative is pretentious, nonsensical, or relies too heavily on cryptic text scattered throughout, with the short runtime (around 10 minutes for some) not justifying its price.
I thought for sure I would disagree with the negative reviews on this game, but sadly, I agree with them. It is not much of a game at all. It feels like it was just thrown together without any real story or gameplay. I think it had potential to be good, but it is not worth the time nor the money. By the way, I finished this game in like 10 minutes. Not cool for the price.7 found this helpful
If you're expecting a story rich game, do not buy this. Gameplay consist solely of just walking around and picking up items to look at them. It feels like project from a student thrown together in a few weekends with the intent to try and make the game deep or something, it feels more like /r/Im14AndThisIsDeep because it contains more or less nothing. It is just trying to use already existing tropes here and there to make you think "omg... wow.... this is so deep" when in fact it is not, it is nonsensical garbage made up and it doesn't mean anything, with dumb graphical effects to make you feel as if it is such a trippy and 'woah' game. Think Dear Esther, which is made by students just huffing their own farts but at least they [i]tried[/i] to achieve something, but without any story at all and instead occasionally some trope happens, you can just imagine the students faces: https://i.imgur.com/gSa3rdX.png - "They just don't get it" while huffing their own farts. The positive reviews are almost giving me 2nd-hand embarrassment. People are acting as if this is some amazing "WOW" game and being blown away by simple, garbage 'psychedelic' effects. Any person that is fully develope…5 found this helpful
Pick your truth: * This is a tale of communicable mental illness. [spoiler]A husband has his wife committed, then slowly goes insane (with guilt?).[/spoiler] Pros: * Awesome story and portrayal of altered perceptions. * Much of the more confusing pieces are in random text, which you have to manually sort out. Cons: * Confusing story and random scrawlings, which make you think. * This is a confusing ride, full of lies and half-truths. [spoiler]The wife worked for a cult-y company, and her husband ill-advisedly read her work then went nuts.[/spoiler] Pros: * Awesome story and portrayal of altered perceptions. * Confusing story and random scrawlings, which make you think. Cons: * Much of the more confusing pieces are in random text, which you have to manually sort out. [spoiler]ROT-13 for teh win:[/spoiler] Gurer'f yvrf, unys yvrf, naq qnzarq puvpxra genpxf npebff gur zvaq juvpu yrnq gb envaqebc ubefrurnq oyvmmneq jbeqf naq ragvpr gur vaabprag vagb orvat fgnyxrq ol navzngr purff cvrprf bs RIVY! (gur pbashfvat znqarff bs juvpu, vapvqragnyyl, nyfb znxrf vg rnfl gb zvf-ernq gur fho-cybg naq oryvrir gung vg'f zreryl nobhg enzcntvat obggyrf shyy bs Xyrvaarff naq xvggr--- [h]fgbc[/h] gu…4 found this helpful
This game is a psychological drama about a single father and his daughter (the Sykes)—or is it a [b]sci-fi[/b] drama about a single father and his daughter?—in which a set of peculiar objects, inherited from an “Aunt Mo“, play an important role. It’s also the only game I’ve played so far that isn’t vilifying its possibly schizo.typal[affective][phrenic] character. The main mechanic is you walking around in the Sykes househould at different times, looking at their belongings, reading notes and journals, etc... One could compare it a bit to Gone Home, but with a dreamlike twist to it. The ramifications of what you learn, as you progress, might be more than your human mind can comprehend, but you will have to deal with it. There is also an extra play mode to discover. The story has many layers and it might take a few playthroughs to get a sufficient understanding of what actually happened. The game world is a bit like a crime scene, but there’s no crime nor a victim, just pieces of a complex puzzle. Aunt Mo’s texts are, although written in English, pretty hard to read, but they are apparently compressed using Mezangelle, a machine/natural hybrid invented by Mez Breeze. This pseudo…2 found this helpful
Visually beautiful game!
Good story
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