Déjà-vu (2022)

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"Déjà-vu" is not a game. Games contain meaningful gamelike interaction and game loops, which are absent in this "art experience". Instead of being a game, "Déjà-vu" is a software application that presents a poorly made art exhibition. This garbage is a selection of crap sound samples from "Sound artists" who can't get jobs, and thus $100 garbage publication via Steam Direct. If you ever wanted a valid reason why Valve needs to bring QA back to Steam, this is it. This kind of store pollution happens when a failed art student gets rejected by all the real galleries will host their work, so they dump it on Steam Direct for a hundred bucks so they can pretend they're real, published artists. I don't believe Steam was intened to be a coping mechanism for art school dropouts. While games are certainly capable of being art, art is where the pinnacle of creativity meets the pinnacle of craftsmanship... and this art school dropout stuff has neither. And importantly for us gamers, this isn't a game. For those unfamiliar with what actually makes something a game, a "game loop" describes the interaction and feedback a gamer has when playing a game. An obvious example of a game loop wou…

Maybe this would work on the world's beefiest computer, but not on mine. All it does is take up 25 gigs of my hard drive. Probably don't bother with this one.

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Excellent experience, I had an awesome time! Overall a very good display of audio experiences and spatialization, coupled with very soft and smooth visuals. Loved that we're also given some context about each piece and composer. On the flip side, I wished there was some options to tweak the quality settings. I speak french so I don't mind, but there probably shouldn't be some english translations too. Cheers!

[h1]Before I played Déjà-vu, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]