Reflections
Broken Window Studios · 2015 · Indie, Adventure, Early Access, First-Person, Experimental
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About Reflections
What is Reflections?
Reflections is a real-world adventure game where every action you take has meaningful consequences that radically shape the experience. The game takes a new approach to story, where everything you do can be woven into a narrative that drastically changes, thanks to our Storyteller engine. Each action you take is punctuated by flushing the black and white environment with color, illustrating your progress and providing clues to what your future might hold.
- You create the story - The powerful Storyteller engine watches everything you do and changes the experience to suit.
- Three Acts - Experience various moments in your life which differ radically based on what you choose to do.
- Dynamic progression - time passes as you play, changing the opportunites and events that unfold
- Full environment interactivity - If you want to do it, you probably can. Reflections isn't about sitting and watching. Everything has its use.
- AI that responds to you - Multiple characters and creatures to build relationships with, relationships that may last your whole life
- Beautiful environments - stark black and white environments that slowly get filled with color by your actions
- Fully supports the Oculus Rift
The Setting
In Reflections, you are getting ready to leave home and start your life as an adult. You have to put things in order and get ready to leave by the end of the day. To do so, you can tidy up your business, help build relationships, or just go exploring. From there, it's up to you; the entire course of the game is based on the actions you take.
About the Storyteller
Reflections uses a unique Storyteller engine, that allows anything that happens to feed into the narrative. Rather than picking story options, everything you do is part of the story. How you choose to spend your time matters; the Storyteller shapes your future out of everything, no matter how big or small. A complex system under the hood determines how actions affect your story, and makes hundreds of changes to accomodate. These changes can be as small as an item that reappears later in your life after it was used, or as big as an entirely new landscape to explore based on your larger choices. Our goal is to custom tailer an experience that you can relate to, which feels like something that you made happen.
Virtual Reality
Like everything Broken Window Studios develops, the game fully supports the use of the Oculus Rift. We're also looking into additional options for immersive controls, and will keep everyone updated as finalize our feature set.
Tobii EyeX Eye-Tracking Controller
Reflections also supports eye-tracking technology! With Tobii EyeX, you can use eye tracking to control object selection, extend your camera's field of view, and engage in more immersive character interactions that incorporate eye contact. Reflections deals with a lot of human-scale interactions, and we are glad to provide a new level of depth to those interactions by incorporating Tobii eye tracking.
For more information about the Tobii EyeX, please see http://www.tobii.com/xperience/
We are interested to know what you think of the Tobii integration and are looking to get your feedback during our Early Access period. Please let us know what you think!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
This Early Access game was abandoned by its developer years ago and remains largely underdeveloped, making it a risky purchase despite its initially promising concept about life choices and priorities. While a few players appreciated the focused narrative and solid core idea, most criticize the lack of content, technical issues including performance problems and motion sickness-inducing visuals, collision bugs, and general lack of polish. The overwhelming consensus is that buyers should avoid it given the permanent abandonment and minimal amount of actual game to experience.
[h1] Looks kinda promising but, it was never finished. [/h1]10 found this helpful
I bought this many years ago not long after the Early Access release, the dev seemed active, premise of the game looked very interesting... and then abandoned, about a year after Early Access release in 2015. At the moment it is in the very, very early stages of development. Don't buy this even if you understand it is Early Access abandonware but you still want to check out what there is, because there isn't anything, it is barely developed on. [h1]Curator page[/h1] [i]If you liked this review or otherwise found it helpful in deciding whether or not to buy this game, feel free to follow [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/29162366/]my Curator page[/url].[/i]6 found this helpful
I quite enjoyed my time with this. I know a lot of people are complaining that it's been abandoned and it sucks but eh. Sometimes, people move on from projects and they leave behind a little bit of themselves and to ask for more and be mad you don't get any seems odd. Anyway, the concept is really solid and of course I wold have loved to see the idea fully fleshed out and be immersed in whatever that was supposed to be but this was just as nice. Truly. The game is about focusing on what is important and letting that drive the narrative. You tidy the house? Boom. Later in life, you are remodeling it. It didn't doddle around muddy-ing the story by too many focal points and gave a clear, linear path each playthrough and honestly I think the point of the game can be applied to some of the reviews here. Why be sour for sour's sake? Find something more meaningful to cling to. lol4 found this helpful
An abandoned in Early Access walking simulator. Not much to say about it except that it is not very good as it pretty boring, the FPS tanks in some places and painting the house gave me really bad motion sickness.2 found this helpful
Reflections is a [strike]abandoned adventure[/strike] scam game where every action you take has only one consequence: it increases its developer's wallet. Every action you take is punctuated by unsolved bugs, collisions with the black and white environment, illustrating and providing clues as to what could have been better done with your money.2 found this helpful
Well and truly abandoned.1 found this helpful
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