Hearing

Dark blue is valid.

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Headphones is a walking simulator with a twist: The game is unplayable unless you plug some headphones in. There's an artsy justification for this which doesn't match the generally poor quality of the game. Experimental art doesn't belong in the same place as actual video games, but presumably the developers got kicked out of art school and the local community art gallery took out a restraining order. Valve, on the other hand, has no quality control, and so here we are. Anyway... I can't think of anyone I'd recommend this to.

This game is a Troll *Spoiler* The game calls itself "Hearing." Tells you to collect blue balls that emit a sound and no other balls. Advertises that you can play with your eyes closed ( X Doubt. ) After Collecting Balls, receive bad ending for collecting the "wrong type of blue ball." The game costs $1, I'd rather pay another $1 to not have to not play for the "good" ending.

This game is... bizarre? The sole objective is to find 10 little blue balls by listening for them. It was pretty easy for me but that’s literally all the game is. Occasionally, I saw what looked like a monster or some kind of creature and thought, maybe something interesting is about to happen! But no. It’s just a barren clearing full of rocks where you wander around collecting balls. And then came the kicker: after finding the 10th ball, the game congratulated me... only to say that one of the balls was actually "dark blue," and clearly I hadn’t been listening to instructions so I was to be liquidated. Yep. They killed me. Game over. Weird experience. Boring in places, but with glimpses of potential. I really feel like this should’ve been a free game, though, to be fair, it’s only $1. So if you’re curious, at least it won’t break the bank.

I only played some mins of this and found 4 blue balls. It was quite boring. The noise to find the balls gave me a crashing headache! I won't even finish this as it is too tedious. 4 out of 10 for me.