Solomon's Link
aarthificial · 2023 · Adventure, Point & Click, Puzzle, Isometric, Stylized
PC
Positive81% · 43
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About Solomon's Link
This game is a result of 6-month long challenge during which three people tried to create a short but complete game. Unfortunately, due to personal life issues, we couldn't finish the story in time. We're releasing the game as a short demo for archiving purposes but please keep in mind that the game will not be expanded on any further.
Solomon's Link is a short (~15 minutes), story-driven, point-and-click demo, in which you serve unseen as both witness and guide to a pair of fugitives living out their first night of freedom after years behind bars. With two vastly different minds and two specialized sets of hands to work with, lead the escaped convicts through an industrial maze of fuse boxes and factory lines by leveraging each prisoner’s strengths to offset their partner’s mental and physical limits - not to mention, the limited reach of the chain that binds them together.
In the process of their escape, jailbirds L.T. and R.T. broke free from their chain gang, but not from each other, leaving each of them bound to a criminal they hardly know, guilty of crimes they’d never learned. With no choice but to work together, yet no clue of each others’ intentions, each is left to weigh their mutual dependence for survival against the looming threat of betrayal, and balance the trust needed to move forward against the deceit necessary to stay safe. For better, or for worse - every word that is spoken, and every thought that goes unsaid, holds a chance to tip the scales.
Justice is blind; you are more fortunate. Watch the world from above through the countless eyes of the factory’s security system, and hear the whispers of the concrete jungle with environmental sounds packed full of custom-made foley. Independently control R.T. and L.T. in both movement and conversations through simple, intuitive UI, stay immersed with menus designed to help you settle into the role of an investigative observer, and indulge in a fully-fledged original soundtrack to score it all.
The source code for the game, together with all the assets, is available at https://github.com/aarthificial-unity/foundations.
FREEDOM IN CHAINS
Solomon's Link is a short (~15 minutes), story-driven, point-and-click demo, in which you serve unseen as both witness and guide to a pair of fugitives living out their first night of freedom after years behind bars. With two vastly different minds and two specialized sets of hands to work with, lead the escaped convicts through an industrial maze of fuse boxes and factory lines by leveraging each prisoner’s strengths to offset their partner’s mental and physical limits - not to mention, the limited reach of the chain that binds them together.
PRISONERS’ DILEMMA
In the process of their escape, jailbirds L.T. and R.T. broke free from their chain gang, but not from each other, leaving each of them bound to a criminal they hardly know, guilty of crimes they’d never learned. With no choice but to work together, yet no clue of each others’ intentions, each is left to weigh their mutual dependence for survival against the looming threat of betrayal, and balance the trust needed to move forward against the deceit necessary to stay safe. For better, or for worse - every word that is spoken, and every thought that goes unsaid, holds a chance to tip the scales.
FLY ON THE WALL
Justice is blind; you are more fortunate. Watch the world from above through the countless eyes of the factory’s security system, and hear the whispers of the concrete jungle with environmental sounds packed full of custom-made foley. Independently control R.T. and L.T. in both movement and conversations through simple, intuitive UI, stay immersed with menus designed to help you settle into the role of an investigative observer, and indulge in a fully-fledged original soundtrack to score it all.
SOURCE CODE
The source code for the game, together with all the assets, is available at https://github.com/aarthificial-unity/foundations.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
there no tutorial, there idea two peoples chain together are really weird idea, the puzzle element are kind of failure that only leading people confused, the dialog in-game too cringy and too longer to digest, anyway this game need much refined to became a much stable idle game.3 found this helpful
"Solomon's Link" looks like an adventure game, but it's more of a visual novel tech demo expressing a simple concept for a game. And that concept is a Choose Your Own Adventure based around that old TV trope where two characters on the show get handcuffed together. We've all seen that episode. This is the same thing but shorter, looks more like a mobile app or a browser game than a PC game, and offers very little to gamers as a serious gaming experience (which is what we're here for). The graphics in this game are passable, but could be better. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This…1 found this helpful
Very sdhort, but great! Cute, well made, fun to play.
Onvce i figured out how the controls worked this was a pretty good demo with a style of gameplay i havent seen before. Personally i'd love an "it takes two" style game with this theme/story. Worth 15 minutes of your time.
I honestly the game was called "Salmon's link" In my opinion, i think this game is way too long for me to complete it. (really)
Too much text to click through.
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