The Unintended Consequences of Curiosity

[b]the unintended consequences of curiosity[/b] looks like a cute little puzzle/adventure that works both as a single player experience and co-op for up to 4 players. the problem is, it's so buggy it barely works as anything. the game starts in a village where you live with your parents and apparently participate in unpaid child labor. you even have to make your own pickaxe, unheard of! at least some rocks drop gold and such, probably to be used later on something, but I didn't get that far. while hacking away at stones, you find a cave and accidentally freeze the entire population by breaking the snow globe inside, which in turn becomes a ranged weapon somehow. so you gotta travel south and fetch the eternal torch from a magma- and monster-filled cave and set things right. [b]it's a linear game but still somewhat open[/b], with the possibility to explore multiple regions in any order to gather stuff needed to progress into closed off areas. despite appearances, [b]nothing on the way will be friendly[/b]. even fluffy bunnies are from monty python and they kill you if you touch them. they can be frozen for a few seconds and killed with the pickaxe and might even drop some meat, bu…

"The Unintended Consequences of Curiosity" is a 2D retro pixel adventure game that blatantly rips off the art style of South Park for profit, but the developer can breathe a sigh of relief as Parker and Lewis aren't traditionally the litigous type. So far. This looks a lot like a JRPG, another strike against the game, but it's just an adventure game as the developer presumably wasn't able to work out how to make an RPG using Unity. In fact a lot of work was done here to make a game with Unity that could have been done in a fraction of time with RPG Maker while delivering the same value to gamers... ie, none. One reason is presumably the multiplayer/co-op aspect, which as far as I can tell only got used once (see below for the player counts). There's a bizarre kind of story that doesn't really sell well to gamers and should be disregarded, another point of commonality with RPG Maker games... this is badly written. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lac…

[i] My Experience [/i] Unfortunately, I picked this up prior to seeing Steam users come to a consensus on it. When my co-op partner and I finally tried to take it for a spin, only 54% of Steam reviewers were recommending the game. While I liked the "South Park" style of character models and found the movement animation charming, we too (like many other reviewers) ran into a game-breaking bug. Early in the game, we ran into a door that required three keys to open. Whenever I (the first player) picked up a key, it went into my inventory and then could be used as normal. Whenever my co-op partner picked up a key, however, it turned into another copy of the ice spell that was currently in his inventory. The key disappeared from the map, and he was unable to use the key to open the door in question. I could be mistaken, but it looked like there were only three keys in the areas of the game we had access to at the time, so we were effectively stuck. While I certainly respect the effort that must have been required to create such a game as a solo developer, I'd have to recommend against this one.

I mean. It's ok. Could be better.

It is a really Fun Adventure game. i had tons of fun streaming it. i recomend playing with friends!

FUNNNN