Harrowed Ground

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I was interested in it for a while, the writing is odd but has a lot of personality to it, as does the art style. I really like the design of the characters so far. However I can't in good conscience recommend this. The lockpicking minigame is poorly explained and thus seemingly impossible, there's no save function that I could see and the worst part is this seems to have been abandoned shortly after release with no signs of life on the developer's side. My antivirus also freaked out at first, but it seems to have been a false positive. I still don't like that it triggered anything though. Anyway, it's a real shame that this didn't become something great, I think there was potential here.

"Harrowed Ground" is more e-book than actual game, although there are some mini puzzles and stuff... it's still more correct to treat this like a book than a game. So we will. Refreshingly, this high school anime club dropout fan-fiction is not in fact all about the author and his imaginary girlfriend (it's sad but true, most e-books on Steam follow this narrative). Instead, we're in the ancient age of bronze and we're planning a heist. It feels like someone played too much Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and decided to make an e-book fan-fiction about it. And that's mostly why this was a complete and utter failure on Steam Direct. What do you do in the game? Read the cringely bad writing, click through some mini-puzzles that make the puzzle section at the back of the newspaper look like GTA:V. It seems this was abandoned by the devs 2 years and 2 months ago. It will stay incomplete forever. These unfinished, abandoned game attempts just clog the storefront and make it difficult for players to find honest, fully developed games. There's an overwhelming amount of mediocre Visual Novel/E-book style cutscenes in this game. The developers failed one of the most basic, …