Gamebook Edgar A. Poe: The Oval Portrait
The Midworld · 2022 · Exploration, Interactive Fiction, Visual Novel, Psychological Horror, Story Rich
PC
Mostly Positive76% · 59 📉 Recent reviews down 65%
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About Gamebook Edgar A. Poe: The Oval Portrait
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Put on your headphones, close your eyes and watch the story in your imagination...
The wisdom that we get from the “already told” stories makes us deeply feel that we cannot hide from the inevitable (*).
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Play the role intended for you by the master Edgar Allan Poe. and uncover the dark secret behind the portrait of a muse.
Make choices and follow the illustrative sounds and music.
Experience the story as realistically as your imagination allows you to.
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We strongly recommend using headphones for the full 3d audio environment experience.
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Enjoy the Gamebook in your favorite armchair or while traveling. Just run your Gamebook on any laptop/PC. No Internet access is required when installed. Using headphones is strongly recommended. Once you start playing, you don't even need to look at the screen. You will see what you hear through imagination.
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Audio-active production is free, expected adventure time is 30 minutes.
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(*) Inspired by: Umberto Eco “I nuovi mezzi di comunicazione e il destino del libro”.
Put on your headphones, close your eyes and watch the story in your imagination...
The wisdom that we get from the “already told” stories makes us deeply feel that we cannot hide from the inevitable (*).
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https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1992120/extras/header_2_en.jpg
Be an active participant in a story true to the original.
Play the role intended for you by the master Edgar Allan Poe. and uncover the dark secret behind the portrait of a muse.
The show must go on... in the right way.
Make choices and follow the illustrative sounds and music.
Images arise and disappear in the fumes of the gothic atmosphere.
Experience the story as realistically as your imagination allows you to.
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https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1992120/extras/header_3_en.jpg
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1992120/extras/mode_1.jpg
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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀You decide when to unfold the rest of the story.
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https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1992120/extras/mode_2.jpg
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https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1992120/extras/dzwiek_3d_en.jpg
We strongly recommend using headphones for the full 3d audio environment experience.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1992120/extras/header_forms_en.jpg
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1992120/extras/forms.png
Enjoy the Gamebook in your favorite armchair or while traveling. Just run your Gamebook on any laptop/PC. No Internet access is required when installed. Using headphones is strongly recommended. Once you start playing, you don't even need to look at the screen. You will see what you hear through imagination.
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https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1992120/extras/divider.jpg
Audio-active production is free, expected adventure time is 30 minutes.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1992120/extras/divider.jpg
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https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1992120/extras/header_4_en.jpg
(*) Inspired by: Umberto Eco “I nuovi mezzi di comunicazione e il destino del libro”.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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Great music and short audiobook. Can be completed in half an hour. 1 full hour for acquiring all achievements.2 found this helpful
It's free and has some achievements. A normal audiobook is probably a better way to experience Poe's work, but this is acceptable.
I just couldn't continue. I love E.A. Poe but this did not lend anything to, and in fact took away from, my enjoyment of the story. Hearing only what is spoken or thought with no world-building beyond the clopping of hooves, sounds of scuffle, etc removed details my mind could have worked off of, not to mention the confusion of when to tap the space bar (and having to at all), the random notes of 'cut scene', and all the mispronunciations. I was excited to find this and highly disappointed.
Gamebook Edgar A. Poe: The Oval Portrait is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game. Departing from the usual garbage e-book/visual novel non-game fan-fiction spam that infests Steam, this one is an audiobook. That changes... uh... nothing. Audiobooks aren't games, either. Visual novels/e-books are tedious at best... imagine the best novel you ever read, be that Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy or 2001: A Space Odyssey or Twilight (if you have terrible taste in literature), but then translate that to a format where the words dribble out and you have to click your mouse every time you wanted to read the next sentence, instead of just turning the pages. You'd think it was garbage. Now imagine that exper…
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