The Whispering Valley
Studio Chien d'Or · 2022 · Atmospheric, Horror, Story Rich, First-Person, Adventure
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About The Whispering Valley
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1697940/The_Whisperer__Le_murmureur/
Explore a sinister village and solve complex puzzles in The Whispering Valley, a folk horror point & click game. Delve into the horror of guilt and depression to investigate the village's deepest secret.
Province of Quebec, 1896. Hidden in the hollow of a valley, the village of Sainte-Monique-Des-Monts conceals a secret that weighs heavily on the community. The village is left abandoned. Those who remain can only wait. But something else torments the inhabitants. A shadow prowls around the village. Some saw it, others heard it. They heard it whisper.
Inspired by games such as Scratches and The Dark Eye, The Whispering Valley brings back the classic horror point & click subgenre. You will find the old school adventure features that we all love: puzzle solving, exploring, dialogues, inventory, using and combining objects.
Exploration
Dynamic and highly-detailed environments are for you to explore. We created a full-scale village that holds many mysteries. Each door can be opened, each building can be entered. Using the 360° panoramic viewing and the zoom in functionality, you can even examine every little detail that catches your eye. Is it too dark to see? Hold up your lantern to light your surroundings and uncover the horrors that darkness beholds.
Puzzle
We all enjoy the surreal, mind-binding, over-the-top puzzles in Myst. But you won't find any of those in The Whispering Valley. Since the game is taking place in a realistic setting, the puzzles are also realistic. But it doesn't mean that they will be easy to solve, no!
Investigation
The story of The Whispering Valley is not quite simple. There are a lot of characters, their relationships are complex and they all hold a part of the secret. To find the truth, you will have to chat with each of them, examine the environments and read their correspondence. Maybe then you will find what terrible secret Sainte-Monique-Des-Monts is hiding.
Inventory
No surprise, The Whispering Valley has an inventory system. All point & click games, recent or not, have one. But for this game, we created a simple and clean interface in which you can inspect, combine and use items without developing a headache.
A gripping story about guilt. Realistic and dynamic environments. 360° panoramic viewing Unique and challenging puzzles. Eerie soundtrack. \
Explore a sinister village and solve complex puzzles in The Whispering Valley, a folk horror point & click game. Delve into the horror of guilt and depression to investigate the village's deepest secret.
Province of Quebec, 1896. Hidden in the hollow of a valley, the village of Sainte-Monique-Des-Monts conceals a secret that weighs heavily on the community. The village is left abandoned. Those who remain can only wait. But something else torments the inhabitants. A shadow prowls around the village. Some saw it, others heard it. They heard it whisper.
Inspired by games such as Scratches and The Dark Eye, The Whispering Valley brings back the classic horror point & click subgenre. You will find the old school adventure features that we all love: puzzle solving, exploring, dialogues, inventory, using and combining objects.
Exploration
Dynamic and highly-detailed environments are for you to explore. We created a full-scale village that holds many mysteries. Each door can be opened, each building can be entered. Using the 360° panoramic viewing and the zoom in functionality, you can even examine every little detail that catches your eye. Is it too dark to see? Hold up your lantern to light your surroundings and uncover the horrors that darkness beholds.
Puzzle
We all enjoy the surreal, mind-binding, over-the-top puzzles in Myst. But you won't find any of those in The Whispering Valley. Since the game is taking place in a realistic setting, the puzzles are also realistic. But it doesn't mean that they will be easy to solve, no!
Investigation
The story of The Whispering Valley is not quite simple. There are a lot of characters, their relationships are complex and they all hold a part of the secret. To find the truth, you will have to chat with each of them, examine the environments and read their correspondence. Maybe then you will find what terrible secret Sainte-Monique-Des-Monts is hiding.
Inventory
No surprise, The Whispering Valley has an inventory system. All point & click games, recent or not, have one. But for this game, we created a simple and clean interface in which you can inspect, combine and use items without developing a headache.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
I was predisposed to like this first-person adventure because of the québécois setting, but I found it frustrating and somewhat primitive. Not a true 3d engine and only certain directions you could go. Not a total slide show like Myst because you could look around. Lots of invisible walls. Had to constantly consult a guide as, often, I didn't see objects that were in the dark or just not visible enough. A few puzzles were unfair and I would not have solved them without a guide. Constant loading screens going from 7 to 12 seconds. Worse on an external hard drive.15 found this helpful
The Whispering Valley is a point 'n click adventure with fixed positions, but you can look around in 3d. Graphics are a bit low budget but things like desks and props have a good amount of details. After playing the prologue (The Whisperer), I was worried this game would be a total letdown, but it wasn't. I actually was intrigued about the story from start to finish and enjoyed playing this. You play as a priest investiging a little village after receiving a letter with a warning not to go there. So, of course he did go. And it's a horror game, so what could possibly go wrong... Well, not that much. It's very light on the horror elements. No jump scares, a bit graphic here and there. And let's say that the villagers had a reason to be afraid. Gameplay consists of finding the right objects to use in order to progress. The village is one large area and you can walk the entire end and back whenever you want. Indoor areas and certain outdoor segments do require loadings screens though and that was a bit of a bummer because you need to traverse the area a lot. It's not a difficult game. Just be sure to check every area closely. Like in the prologue, although less bad, the game doesn…3 found this helpful
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Superb atmosphere, very interesting story, but long loading screens, somewhat easy puzzles, and some bugs. Still I enjoyed it! Hope the devs would keep making games like that!1 found this helpful
A good game but hard work a lot of small bugs to work around, a couple of crashes and frozen screens but if you have the patience it is worth it.1 found this helpful
x-- 8/10 --x Very eerie, loved the P & C styled gameplay!
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