Night Spasm
Gideon Moes · 2020 · Indie, RPG, Strategy, Adventure, Action
PC
Mostly Positive75% · 20
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About Night Spasm
This is an ongoing project and the DEMO of a multi-chapter game. Chapter 1 is complete, but the content is subject to change until the release of Chapter 2! WELCOME TO THE ISLAND! Inspired by beloved lore-rich RPGs like Undertale and Skyrim (and a somewhat ironic parody of old RPG Maker games), Night Spasm is a silly yet saddening meta-narrative adventure game where free will is both your friend and greatest enemy. From the characters you befriend to the quests you decide NOT to complete, the game tracks and remembers your every choice, adjusting the storyline based on your real-world beliefs.In Night Spasm, your curiosity and perseverance determine your freedom of choice, for better or for worse. The more you strive to understand the game's world, the more choices you can make... But with each distraction comes a journey down the rabbit hole, your desire for answers something enemies are quick to exploit. Will you let the enemy hinder your freedom? Or will you suppress your beliefs and let them dictate what little control you start with?"OUR STORY BEGINS WITH A DOOMED NARRATIVE..."Following the adventure of Theodore, Vander, and Evana, you must control the lives of those around you to save the world... or ruin it further, if you so choose.Every choice you make must be made through someone else, and the closer your beliefs align with the character, the more control you have over them. That's not to say some characters are more obedient or rebellious than others, but with the right balance of freedom and control, you can convince the characters to do just about anything... For they cannot tell the difference between your influence and their own thoughts.In the grand scheme of things, your wishes are their commands. After all, the characters behind your screen are just puppets designed for your entertainment, right?......Right?
"THERE'S MORE TO DO THAN MEETS THE EYE..."
For more information about the game, visit nightspasm.com and join our Discord Server!
"THERE'S MORE TO DO THAN MEETS THE EYE..."
- Explore strange locations and societies in an open-world environment to expand your colony, make alliances, recruit party members, scavenge items, and more.
- Decide friend versus foe in a hectic turn-based combat system where every kill counts, each death affecting your timeline in various ways.
- Interact with your recruits to raise their stats, prepare them for battle, and learn more about their lives back home.
- Force a character to fall in love only to break them up in an attempt to pursue a maniacal mastermind using nuclear sludge to assassinate an alcoholic king? Apparently, that's something you can do.
"A WORLD FILLED WITH TRIALS OF THE SOUL... AND POORLY-TIMED JOKES."Night Spasm isn't just a game... It's less than that: A game where you're not the hero or the villain, but merely an influence of good and evil. Without you, there is no "game", but rather, a lifeless relic frozen in time, patiently awaiting the day someone comes not to "win" or "have fun", a story that truly begins the day you abandon it. Or, you know, maybe it is just a game in the end... but who's to say for sure until certain mysteries unveil themselves?Through the game's characters, lore, world, and the choices you make, there is much to learn from. Will you take the role of storyteller and change the storyline to your liking? Or will the vessels be the ones with something to say for once?LET'S FIND OUT, SHALL WE?Chapter 1 is free to play, and Chapter 2 is in development! Chapter 1 includes hundreds of unique choices to make with rougelike elements and infinite replayability. Whether you're new to the psychological-adventure genre or a total RPG fanatic, there's an adventure calling your name... and perhaps, with an extra bit of curiosity by your side, a way of breaking the very rules bound behind your screen... THANK YOU FOR CHECKING OUT THE NIGHT SPASM STORE PAGE!
For more information about the game, visit nightspasm.com and join our Discord Server!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
⠀9 found this helpful
Игра Night Spasm — это, пожалуй, один из самых странных и запоминающихся инди-хорроров, в которые я когда-либо играл. Атмосфера безумия тут густая, как кисель, буквально пропитывает каждый пиксель. Графика нарочито пиксельная, но именно это придает происходящему еще больший эффект крипоты. Сюжет… ну, сюжет тут есть, но его нужно интерпретировать. Кажется, мы играем за человека, которого преследуют жуткие ночные кошмары, и пытаемся в них выжить, разгадывая странные головоломки и убегая от гротескных монстров. Геймплей довольно простой, но хардкорный. Умереть можно очень легко, и часто не понятно, что вообще нужно делать. Но именно это ощущение беспомощности и непредсказуемости делает Night Spasm таким захватывающим. Звуковое сопровождение просто выше всяких похвал – жуткие шорохи, скрипы и музыкальное сопровождение идеально подчеркивают атмосферу ужаса. Эта игра точно не для всех. Она странная, непонятная и порой откровенно пугающая. Но если вам нравится инди-хоррор с уклоном в сюрреализм и вы готовы к необычному опыту, то Night Spasm определенно стоит попробовать. 8 из 10.1 found this helpful
Very fun game with a banger soundtrack, I highly recommend that you play this game.1 found this helpful
I thought I was a gamer before I played this game, BUT BOI WAS I WRONG. I think its safe to say this game made me a gamer. The dialogue isn't boring, the characters are funny, and the soundtrack... moans. 10/101 found this helpful
RPG Maker strikes again! "Night Spasm" is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction. This is your usual high school anime club dropout fan-fiction cringe fest but at least the developer forgot to include his imaginary girlfriend in this one. There's some garbage claptrap story about pilots crashlanding in a fantasy world, but this RPG Maker asset flip fan-fiction isn't even a complete game, the developer was going to charge money for Chapter 2 (which is where the imaginary girlfriend/waifu would be, I guess). Anyway, on par with every other RPG Maker asset flip on Steam: A godawfully badly written and badly designed cringefest fan-fiction written just below junior high schooler level. As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking …
Doesn't work. I keep getting an anti-piracy message when I try to play the game. Tried multiple times. I'm out. 17/4/2024 update: Game is now playable, but... it's not fun. It feels like it takes ages to get anywhere. There are consumable items to give a temporary movement speed boost, but unless the movement speed as-is is important to something, I'd suggest ditching the items and just increasing the movement speed. Harvesting resources like trees is clunky and feels bad. Currently I have to open the menu, change equipment to the axe (for example), close the menu, cut the tree, open the menu again, change equipment back, and close the menu again. I suggest just requiring the player have the appropriate tool in their inventory, rather than needing it equipped. I thought the crafting room and kitchen in the base would have more happening in them, like maybe I could set colonists to work on making things, but so far this doesn't seem to be the case. The rooms don't really feel useful beyond collecting resources or repairing items. Finally, please get a proof reader.
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