No Players Online

Okay first off I loved the original No Players Online game and it was great (short but great) this adding on to that was good but I feel like the desktop and extra games on the computer kind of ruins what was so good about the original, this game could have function as it's own sperate thing. But I did enjoy my time with it... BUT! for someone like me who likes to get all the achievements to complete it 100% the "My Minefriend", "Artistic Masterpiece" and "Player 1 - Mullard 0" achievements are just awful to do it's just luck. You could probably do it if you work hard on it but HOLY it's a pain in the butt. other than that it's pretty good.

Great Demo concept marred by some really tedious elements in the back half. Wish I could give it a neutral because it has a lot of great ideas, but this was a major slog by the end.

Simply magic game. A wonderful combination of many different genres and creative inspirations brought together into a very heartfelt, liminal, and melancholic project in its own unique way. The game reminds me of so many things at once, like Fatum Betula, Pony Island, a little bit of Ironbark Lookout, and even the ARG project INTERLOPER, while still remaining its own carefully crafted and well structured story. Overall, the game creates an excellent feeling of a playable analog horror experience. The entire atmosphere, from the music to the slow exploration of files and the whole desktop sandbox aspect, creates an amazing, liminal, and meditative atmosphere. At first I thought this game was simply another project from the new wave of VHS horror games, similar to what the Torture Star collective creates. But No Players Online is actually a somewhat different experience, without any chases from maniacs. Still eerie, but evoking more of dread than pure horror. Overall, this is a very interesting and engaging project. If you enjoy story driven horror games as well as more relaxed and melancholic experiences, I highly recommend it.

This game has some cool parts, but the writing is really bad. It can't really decide if it wants to faithfully represent late 90s internet culture or if it wants to just be a horror game with a fancy interface. The fancy interface is impressive sometimes, but it's clear the devs are too young to actually know about any of the stuff they're trying to do with the retro setting, so it becomes quite silly very quickly. Mostly a chore to play outside of occasionally looking at interesting set pieces, and not even remotely scary or tense because of how goofy the core premise is.

The concept is great its just that they completely ditched it like 30 minutes in and the rest is just a bunch of boring overly complicated fodder

Look. Waaaayy back in 2019- when the original itch.io flick came out, I played that. It was a good concept, but the main gripe of everyone was that the lore was just... handed to you, at the end. It used a lot of cliches and drowned in overused cheesy concepts. So, a good while later, when I saw this was getting a makeover by a new, small team, I was thrilled. The demo came out, and I LOVED it. Despite having the same story and elements as the original, it was FUN! It was spooky, and interesting, and a new concept and format of gameplay I fell in love with. So when the full game came out and was put back in store, I was eager to play. But... I was dissapointed. It made exactly the same mistake. The whole thrill of the demo was built around being alone, or not perhaps knowing if youre truly alone. Not knowing the full picture. Being stalked by an indescribably horridly tormented spirit with unknown intentions. But... the second half of the game fell into the problem the original itch.io game did. All of a sudden, that spirit was just a person who was really really nice, and the whole cliche of transferring your soul into the game happened, and all of a sudden john himself showed up... and now you have a party of 3- with people you know about, who are very normal, very powerless. The story felt rushed during the second half- you knew nothing, and then some higher power interferes and all of a sudden you know everything, every story, and it becomes more of a shoddy walking simulator/RPG platformer (??) than a thrilling horror puzzle game. I was, to say the least, dissapointed. considering i paid £13 for like an hour of extra gameplay.

今までで遊んだホラーゲームの中では個人的に面白くはなかった。 90年代風デスクトップを再現しているのは発想としては面白いが、ただそれだけだ。 他にも似たようなゲームはある。 ローカライズ固有のバグを修正すると開発は去年の11月にも言っていたが、未だに日本語で遊んでいると終盤で進行不可になってしまう。 具体的に言うと、[spoiler] 主人公がパソコンに魂を移す場面で、マインフレンドというキャラが出てきて、「抽出を始めるには僕をクリックしてね。」 [/spoiler]と言うのだが、日本語ではクリックしても先に進めないため、英語でプレイするしかない。 プレイ時間や体験を考えても価格には見合わない。まだ同じ価格のMISIDEを遊んだほうがマシだ。