Hauma - A Detective Noir Story - Prologue

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The prologue to Hauma - A Detective Noir Story had me hooked pretty much from the start. I love the comic book visuals and the game had some good voice acting to boot. There are certain “puzzles” to solve in order to progress. I use the word mostly due to lack of a better one. It’s really just finding certain items you need or discovering clues through dialogue that you can use on another person to further things. It’s not difficult but it does add an extra element so the game isn’t strictly a visual novel and it does all make logical sense which I appreciate. The music is also well done. I played the prologue on Linux using Proton. It never crashed and I didn’t notice any bugs or spelling errors. There is no menu at all and no options. The prologue also didn’t seem to have a save system. Hopefully these things change for the full game. Performance was great even on Intel onboard graphics. Despite not having a v-sync option the game respected my refresh rate. Game Engine: Godot Graphics API: OpenGL Disk Space Used: 456 MB GPU Usage: 36-89 % CPU Usage: 5-12 % System RAM Usage: 4.5-4.7 GB Frame Rate: 100-165 FPS If you enjoy visual novels or light puzzle games I would sugges…

"Hauma - A Detective Noir Story - Prologue" 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. Worse, this isn't even a complete e-book, it's just an advertisement for an e-book, and the e-book itself is a nauseating high school fan-fiction about the authors imaginary girlfriend, who is also a detective. It's great when high school students have such vivid imaginations about their girlfriends. It's not great when they write themselves into garbage fan-fictions with their girlfriends and publish them on Steam Direct. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game libra…

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Interesting enough introduction to a visual novel. The comic book style works well and the voice acting isn't bad. Not much to do but click through all of the clues and pay attention to the details.

I love the story & the excitement building around the story as it escalates to another level of hype & suspense. Well done! Hope the entire game follows thru the same level of excitement, if not, better.