Temanava

full playthrough here: https://youtu.be/KRd9XVJe8Pw This is a really cute game with a neat concept I'm excited to see where it goes in the future. There are some areas that are in the game that aren't part of the story yet and can cause you to get stuck luckily the game is short so if you do get stuck it's not too hard to get back where you left off. I wish the language development section was a bit more complex, but I think this is meant to be more of a family-friendly any age game.

TEMANAVA, bir kazadan sağ kurtulan yardımcı pilot olarak oynayacağınız bir Macera/Keşif oyunudur. Garip adalılarla iletişim kurmak ve komutanınızı bulmak için gizemli güçlerinizi kullanmak için bilinmeyen bir dil öğrenmeniz gerekecek!

This is yet another student project, one of literally thousands self-published on Steam Direct. It's from IIM Digital School in France. This is the result of an academic exercise for students. It's not a full, complete game in the way professionally developed products are. While it has more quality than most amateur games, it's not a complete gaming experience. Student projects have limited value for gamers because they're not fully developed games, just barely functional demos that show the students progress. Steam is not a place for for-profit colleges to dump student homework assignments... and having thousands of these is not good for gamers. The students made a simple low poly adventure game for consoles then published it on Steam instead of consoles. I don't know what they teach the students at IIM Digital, but it's not the differences between gaming platforms, I can tell you that much. Anyway this simple yet annoying game has you take on the role of a woman who crashed a plane into an island full of non-French speaking foreigners and you have to do some basic questing and dialogue with them to progress. The catch is the natives use a made-up writing system, and also the controls for this game are terrible. The students at IIM Digital School had never seen a keyboard before or played a PC game before, so it's understandable they mapped your movement keys to ZQSD. This, of course, makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and the students should feel bad about themselves for this. Worse, you can't correct their mistake. Since the controls can't be customized, this makes the game inaccessible for a wide range of gamers, including those who are left-handed, have physical impairments, or use international keyboard layouts. Developers have a responsibility to ensure gamers can customise their experience with the game. But frankly, I don't think there's any human being alive that could properly think ZQSD is remotely usable as a keymapping. On the important subject of visuals, this features fairly low quality stylised/cartoony low poly 3D graphics. It comes across as the kind of thing you see on mobile phones and Nintendo games, which will deter a lot of PC gamers, understandably. Gaming is a visual medium, and to be considered one of the best games on Steam, the graphics have to be some of the best on Steam. That's not happening here. Let's look at the price and what kind of value this actually offers gamers. It would be unethical for students to try charge money for their homework assignments, so you don't have to pay any money for this. But you'd still have to spend your time downloading this, and "time is money", as they say. There's the other problem, too... as a student project, this wasn't made for gamers. There's no requirement for them to polish and balance the game properly, all they need is something to show the faculty so they can get their grade and move on. Let's once more ask... why is that good for gamers? It's obviously not delivering a solid product. Yet here it is, on the store page, and here you are, reading my review for a student demo that's going to waste your time. While genuine amateur developers who made real products get ignored because they have to compete with this stuff. In some ways, this deluge of student projects on Steam is harmful to everyone. Even as a free game, this couldn't find an audience. With a peak of [b]only 3 players[/b], it's clear the Steam community took one look and walked away. They literally couldn't pay people to spend time playing this. This student project/tech demo/glorified homework assignment provides no Steam profile benefits, no +1 to your game count, and little value to gamers (because it's just a small, unpolished student project), so I can't recommend this over the thousands of full, professionally made games on Steam.

While a very interesting student project, it is not a finished game. It's riddled with bugs, lacks quality of life, has movement that is unplayable on anything but an AZERTY keyboard (but still shows you the wrong keys). Cute idea, I'd play it if it was a full game, but it shouldn't be on Steam in is current state, even for free.

Officially the worsr free game on steam Crzazy thsi TRASh made it to steam. ZQSD to move the character. So many bugs and annoyances Character kept walking on her own during my 2nd playthrough. COuldnt get the coconu out of the tree despite watching the only gameplay on YOUTUBE. they got it to work, I followed their play and it didnt work for me. YOu have to use special symbols to talk to the locals, which is annoying, Cant move the character with the mouse or gamepad, JUST ZQSD DO NOT PLAY this TRASH GAME. I tried it twice and both times it a frustrating experience. Im surpried STEAM or VALVE dont remove trash games like this from their databese. Game just does ntot work at all.

Very cute game where we have to learn and use a language !

Good stuff, I'd love to see more. The language-aspect of puzzle-solving makes it very fun. Graphics and sound are both very cute. I had 2 issues on my end. The keys for movement automatically remapped to ZQSD, and that's Z for forward. Weird. The lack of a cursor during the notebook also makes it a tad bit difficult to navigate but that bit was minor.

Très cool, la mécanique de parole est innovante et les puzzles sont cool. Ce serait banger si il y avait une suite !

Игра 'Temanava' оказалась приятным сюрпризом. С первого взгляда простая графика и медитативный геймплей скрывают глубокую стратегическую составляющую. Погружение в мир, где нужно гармонично развивать свой атолл, собирая ресурсы и привлекая богов, затягивает на долгие часы. Механика игры интуитивно понятна, но добиться идеального баланса между развитием и поддержанием благосклонности божеств – задача не из легких. Каждое решение имеет последствия, и часто приходится делать сложный выбор между краткосрочной выгодой и долгосрочной перспективой. Визуальный стиль, хоть и минималистичный, создает уютную и расслабляющую атмосферу. Музыкальное сопровождение идеально дополняет геймплей, помогая полностью погрузиться в процесс строительства и управления своим маленьким островным раем. Единственное, чего, возможно, не хватает, это большей глубины в истории мира Temanava и более разнообразных событий. Но в целом, это замечательная игра, которая отлично подходит для тех, кто ищет спокойный, но в то же время увлекательный стратегический опыт. Рекомендую всем любителям градостроительных симуляторов с уклоном в атмосферу и медитативность!