

The Crack (壳中之物)
Riyuekong Studio · 2024 · Adventure, RPG, Strategy, Puzzle, Visual Novel
PC
Positive95% · 19
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About The Crack (壳中之物)
Are you still contacting your friends from school?
Do you still remember the love from the youth?
And even more, do you still have the dream that keeps your heart beating?
You’ve been trained to have a heart covered by unbreakable shell. In this game, you are going through a journey to crack it, leading to the long forgotten.
Who is murmuring in the dark? Who is screaming for help through the crack?
Happiness and torture, past and current, drop by drop, are all there to be collected, by you.
When it is finally at your fingertip, will you become a warrior, a deserter, or, a murderer?
Humbly offered by SMS Studio, a journey of Crack.
Rigorous Original Plot: A tightly woven narrative intertwining reasoning with flashbacks and dialogues, progressively deepening and leading players to understand the stories of each character from various perspectives while solving puzzles.
Rich Story Choices: Diverse story directions and endings, where each choice can lead to unexpected consequences.
Mystery Puzzle Elements: Combining traditional text-based gameplay with modern mystery elements, offering players an experience that is both familiar and novel.
Exquisite Visual Style: Beautifully designed scenes and character art, immersing players as if they were in the midst of the story, having face-to-face conversations with the characters.
Beautiful Original Music: A rich collection of original background music, enhancing the immersive experience of solving mysteries.
Settings: Use settings to switch to Chinese and English
Do you still remember the love from the youth?
And even more, do you still have the dream that keeps your heart beating?
You’ve been trained to have a heart covered by unbreakable shell. In this game, you are going through a journey to crack it, leading to the long forgotten.
Who is murmuring in the dark? Who is screaming for help through the crack?
Happiness and torture, past and current, drop by drop, are all there to be collected, by you.
When it is finally at your fingertip, will you become a warrior, a deserter, or, a murderer?
Humbly offered by SMS Studio, a journey of Crack.
Key Features
Rigorous Original Plot: A tightly woven narrative intertwining reasoning with flashbacks and dialogues, progressively deepening and leading players to understand the stories of each character from various perspectives while solving puzzles.
Rich Story Choices: Diverse story directions and endings, where each choice can lead to unexpected consequences.
Mystery Puzzle Elements: Combining traditional text-based gameplay with modern mystery elements, offering players an experience that is both familiar and novel.
Exquisite Visual Style: Beautifully designed scenes and character art, immersing players as if they were in the midst of the story, having face-to-face conversations with the characters.
Beautiful Original Music: A rich collection of original background music, enhancing the immersive experience of solving mysteries.
Settings: Use settings to switch to Chinese and English
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
⠀8 found this helpful
This game offers a lot of different options when playing which is nice, although it's pretty annoying and frustrating when picking one option, the game forces you to select another or sometimes up to all of them. The music is enjoyable, but it does get repetitive after a while. A bit of variety would definitely help. Regardless of this, the best part of the game is definitely the story which gives you flashbacks that help you understand better the character we are playing and the unexpected story line where you need to pay attention to the environment and characters dialogue to be able to solve the mystery. On a side note, I know it says in the description of the game, but the fact that they completely used AIs to make this game definitely doesn't really make you be able to enjoy it to the max, much less when there are very clear image mistakes where the environment or even the character's designs don't make any sense. [quote=][b] For more reviews, check [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45284670/] my Curator's Page [/url][/b][/quote]4 found this helpful
English is readable, and the plot is also well-written! Thank you for making free game with high-quality!2 found this helpful
The Crack (壳中之物) 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. This e-book was slapped together with the godawfully bad RenPy Visual Novel/E-Book construction kit, so just like no professional writing took place here, no professional game development took place either, it's just a product of filling out templates in the construction kit. This E-book features Choose-Your-Own-Adventure elements where you make some decisions that don't do anything to change the fact this is just an E-Book. Nobody finished reading a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book and said "Boy, what a great game I just played!". Because E-books aren't games. And neither is this. This E-book is a painfully badly written cringefest, a "sli…1 found this helpful
Add hints. I got hard stuck in one of the clue finding sections, but the part I did play was ok I think. Been a while so I don't remember.1 found this helpful
A Haunting Tale of Isolation and Discovery The Crack (壳中之物) isn't your typical game. It's a slow-burn narrative experience that weaves a captivating tale of isolation, self-discovery, and the unknown. If you're looking for a game that will stay with you long after the credits roll, then The Crack might just be the experience you crave. **A World Shrouded in Mystery** The game throws you into the shoes of a nameless protagonist trapped within a vast, crumbling facility. With no memories and limited resources, you must explore this desolate world, piecing together fragments of the past and uncovering the truth behind your imprisonment. The narrative unfolds organically through environmental storytelling and cryptic messages, leaving you to piece together the bigger picture. **Survival with a Side of Atmosphere** While not a traditional survival game, The Crack emphasizes resource management and exploration. You'll need to scavenge for food, water, and supplies to survive, all while navigating the labyrinthine world and avoiding the unseen threats that lurk within. The oppressive atmosphere, with its decaying environments and unsettling soundscapes, creates a sense of constant unea…
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