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  https://twitter.com/yacobg42/status/1786037208836698370 INDIKA is a third-person adventure game out on Xbox, PC and PS5. You play as Indika, a nun living in a monastery in the snow-clad hills of Russia during a harsh winter ruined by war, famine, absurdist magic realism, and a monastery of nuns who all hate your guts for reasons indiscernible to the player. There's a voice in her head - is she possessed by the Devil, thus causing such disdain? The voice tells her sin is good though, so, perhaps? Or is it Indika herself whose human failings have created such grief? After tending to some menial work (which includes a horrible yet hilarious scene), and years of not being blessed to leave, Indika is tasked with sending a sealed letter to another monastery with strict instructions not to read. Indika must thus embark, on foot, on this epic journey of self-discovery and decide whether she should ultimately kill God at the end of the game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZdaWdtYUvU This is a 3-5 hour experience with light puzzles which you can finish in one afternoon where you'll get into a series of surreal incidents which can be comedic to the point of being way too dark, or a serious examination of the subjective interpretation of good and evil, and each person's choice of devoting one's self to God. It is also a game where pointing out its highlights are pretty much spoilers and thus difficult to discuss, but it has interesting (albeit shallow) usage of game mechanics such as levelling up, city building, retro 16-bit arcade gaming, and even motor racing. There's a button exclusively used for prayer. What I can tell you is that the marketing of this game over-hypes it and you should go in without any of these expectations. I played this on the recommendation of that Jacob Geller tweet and only after finishing it, I saw it being called a "A24 elevated horror experience similar to reading a Russian novel" and I don't really think it aims to be that or even reaches that height. There's a trailer claiming it has all these intrinsic game mechanics, but most of them appear once for thematic effect and will only repeat if it's necessary. It is, however, profoundly weird (positive) and has some of the most interesting scenes I've seen in video games this year. It's very much a "not for everyone" game but if whatever's on this post intrigues you, I recommend you give it a play. The game has a demo.  Content Warning: Nudity and sexual assault (not shown) Screens:             Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1373960/INDIKA/ PS5: https://store.playstation.com/en-us/concept/10008296 Xbox: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/indika/9n020kfqg301
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This is completely fascinating and I have wishlisted it for sure.
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May 5, 2024 15:27
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Nice OP! (I have nothing substantiative to add  )I'd never heard of this game until day or two ago. But I've always got time for the "short narrative experience". Also, the logo treatment for this game is just *absurdly* eye-catching. Roll on the 8th.
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I don't know what I was expecting but it certainly wasn't that.
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23 minutes in and I have two thoughts: 1) I hate drawing water from wells 2) This is the most Eastern European thing I've seen/read in a while, wow.
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May 6, 2024 01:47
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I saw a really terrible ad on youtube for this game, which is the extent of my knowledge.
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May 6, 2024 01:51
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this game loving rules in a way that other weird things that kind of suck also loving rule
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If it's the ad that says "strong woman" it is genuinely terrible that both repels people and sets expectations way too high. A truly weird promo for a truly weird game. Forgot to mention but this is playable on deck with slowdowns here and there, and there isn't much graphical options to tweak so all I did was turn off motion blur
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Those pixel parts really cooled down my hype. I probably should've caught onto them considering the UI's styling, but I guess I really wanted a cool russian art house game and instead it's more goddamn postmodernism
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Loading tip: Don't worry too much about collecting points, they are pointless. *thinks back to the reward of filling the water bucket*
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May 6, 2024 12:19
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I missed three points while falling in the intro and it's actively bothering me.
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May 6, 2024 13:13
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This Nun is Forklift Certified ⛪☦️🚧🏗️
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May 6, 2024 14:41
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The points system is one of the best things about the game but it's absolutely impossible to say why without getting into massive spoilers.
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May 6, 2024 15:03
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Really cool little game
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May 6, 2024 19:37
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been very interested in this though it seemed like it wasn't on anyone's radar until a few days ago. glad to see i was wrong
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108 minutes in. hosed up by, gestures, all of that. This is the kind of game I can only take in small doses because it goes so hard.
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May 13, 2024 18:44
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This is a very special game.
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May 17, 2024 23:15
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I am having a hell of a time trying to figure out what the forklift portion wants me to do
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May 18, 2024 06:08
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try parking it strategically so you can walk over the top of it
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Wrapped this in two sittings, I kinda feel like I was hit by a truck. What an incredible, ambitious little game, and also just such an compelling story and presentation. I went into it knowing very little and I'm glad I did. I kind of feel like this is a game that should be approached almost completely blind, so I guess I'm thankful I didn't read the (well written  ) OP, because I think it's maybe giving a bit too much away. Anyways, for anyone on the fence about this, here are a few games that I would compare Indika to for recommendation's sake (not necessarily mechanically or in the same genre, but regarding theme and scope): SOMA, Inscryption, Hellblade, Returnal, Amnesia: Rebirth, What Remains of Edith Finch BeanpolePeckerwood fucked around with this message at 11:36 on May 18, 2024 |
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