Drizzlepath: Deja Vu

The fragility and circles of memory as well as the paradoxical beauty and strength of the mind. I don't know if it was intentional but the middle path spoken about in the second game felt ever present.

I LOVE this creator's walking sims. So atmospheric, beautiful music. Of course it won't be for you if you don't like a walking sim. There isn't any fighting or shooting, not even collecting. This is an opportunity to wander through TB's imagined world. If you want a gentle escape this is the one to indulge in.

This is one was quite OK. Shorter than most of the others but I still enjoyed it.

[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/43083373/]Clever games curator review: 5/10[/url] This is a pure walking simulator. So much so that the only controls are for movement and to control the camera. This might still feel a bit like a game if there was any choice in where to go or what to look at, but no. The environments, while they appear to be wide open nature vistas, really consist of an extremely linear, moderately disguised corridor. Occasionally there is a moment of misdirection where it seems like the corridor might go to the left, but really it turns out it goes to the right, or vice versa. There are roughly two levels. One wooded and rocky, threading thru some mountains. And then another through a snowdrift filled canyon. Both demonstrate the technical powers of the Unreal Engine V4(?), and look good. I do not think that they were generated purely at random, however there is that sense of sameness that comes from using tools to populate scenes with random geometry and objects. If there had been any kind of gameplay at all, I would say these environments were top notch. But with nothing to do other than look at them I got bored before the game came to its relatively…

I consider myself to have a very high tolerance for narrative adventure games (walking simulators). This game was recommended to me as a great example of one of those, and I regret to say that I think this helped me realize the limits of that tolerance. To me, the best Walking Simulators out there are games that place you in an environment that you want to explore as you witness a story unfold with characters that you care about. Initially, I wondered if my distaste for this game was coming from the fact that the environments are so big and spread out when so many of my favorite walking simulators take place is more limited, claustrophobic settings. After finishing this game, though, I realized that this is simply not the case. Drizzlepath: Deja Vu has the appearance of a walking simulator but, upon closer inspection, it lacks all of the things that make the genre interesting. Throughout the entire short runtime I was begging for the game to just give me something to do. Anything. Let me jump. Let me pick things up and look at them. Something. Anything. This game lacks characters, a story, and any kind of interactive elements. The environments are pretty, sure, but they are not …

An enjoyable true walking simulator on the nature of existence - short (less than 1 hour, the other 4+ hours were spent trying to get it to work on my older machine.) I rather liked that it was so short - IMHO Dear Ester overran its welcome. But if you don't like walking sims avoid and/or minor league existential philosophy or it you have an AMD GPU I would avoid - see below. [original review: Tried this on 2 different machines - unstable on both. Wish there was a meh option, but there isn't so getting a downvote. If you have an AMD box especially an older AMD GPU (5700 in my case), I would avoid.]