Way Walkers: University

Waywalkers University isn't a bad game in the sense that it isn't enjoyable or isn't well done. It's written well, with artistry suited for a choose-your-own-adventure, or CYOA, game. However, this is hardly a good CYOA game by modern standards of CYOA games. Imagine an old Bioware game with the option for romance: You cannot romance a character unless you agree with every single value the romantic interest holds. Your character is expected to emulate the romantic interest that you wish your character to court. The argument for this is the high cost of crafting the assets for different paths, of course, but whether that argument holds any water is irrelevant here. A text-based CYOA game's only assets are essentially code and readable text. There is little excuse for how much the authors push your MC into having a certain personality when choosing to develop certain relationships. The only excuses are a lack of creativity and a closed, narrow mind. The times my MC would impudently roll his eyes, sigh, or pout were grossly inconsistent with the personality that I was led to believe was possible to play, inferred from choices made very early on in the game. It feels too much like th…

Way too short and with an abrubt ending without any kind of feeling of achievement. Apparently the game is just the first part in a long series, something that isn't clear either from the title, or from the description.

A quite old game that was added pretty recently to Steam, alongside a brand new DLC. I've only discovered the game with the Steam release, and I've been able to play now. It's a very interesting spin on the "magic school" formula. You don't have your usual story set nowadays in our world, with a main character that is thought to be a normal human until they discover they're more than that. I don't have anything against that, but it's nice to see something different. It's a pretty original story with a lot of cool concept, and part of a much bigger universe (the author also writes "regular" books). This is the first part of a trilogy, and the second part is out too, but the third one will take some more time, apparently. I'm writing this review before playing the second part. If you want my updated opinions after playing book 2, please check out the review I'll write on it's page. [b]PROs - Story, world and characters:[/b] That's the basis, and it's good! Worldbuilding is great and the story is compelling, and most characters really cool. [b]- Branching:[/b] The story has a lot of branching paths depending on the choices you make and relationship status with the main characte…

Not worth the money honestly. A very short game, well written I will admit but I could have finished this in an hour and a half if I wasn't distracted. Very good lore and world-building, but I can't recommend for anything more than 2 bucks.

This is a guarded "Yes" for me. This is another "magical school" type of game, but the world is interesting as are the classes. There's an intriguing mystery that, unfortunately, just begins to unfold when the game ends. Therein lies the problem: This is not a complete story. There is no real conclusion to anything (other than your current school term). Worse, it feels like I barely got to do anything before the game ended. I've played many, many COG and Hosted Games, and don't remember one that felt this short. I know Choice of Games recently raised their prices and can't remember if they also raised prices on Hosted Games. If so, they should not raised the price on this game because the story isn't complete. There's a part 2 and I read on Choice of Games forums a Part 3. How many "chapters' must we have before coming to a conclusion? So, yes. It was fun. I liked the story. I liked it so much that I shelled out the money for Part 2. But buyers should be aware the story does not conclude with this installment.

I remember when this first came out way back when as a phone game, always was my favorite out of all the games of this style. Very happy to see it available on steam