The Apartment

This game has such a nice idea that is just ruined by a convoluted system. Trying to find every bit of detail in the murders is so difficult thats its frustrating, sometimes you will just be walking back and forth trying to find the thing for it to be pretty much invisible next to you unless you know to look for it. an example of this is the "drugs" during the hanging lady case.

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Детективная история от первого лица, в которой вам нужно будет раследовать убийства нескольких девушек. Игра в стиле "догадайся сам", но и здесь есть несколько "но". Во впервых дргадываться нужно с осторожностью, так как при неправильном решении вам придется начинать главу сначала. Во вторых, все головоломки запутаны и сложные, а подсказки к ним идут в текстовых и голосовых сообщениях, и так как в игре только английский язык, то для игры обязательно знание английского. Технически и визуально игра сделана красиво, локации графически смотрятся добротно, есть разнообразие, но (здесь то же есть свое "но"), для запуска данного продукта нужен комп с "хорошими" мозгами, иначе глюки и зависания, плюс долгая загрузка вам обеспечена. Если над игрой не много поработать в плане оптимизации, добавить больше локализаций, то получится достойная детиктивная, хардкорная история, ну а на данный момент игра тянет на твердую троечку :) Еще вы можете посмотреть обзоры на другие игры: http://store.steampowered.com/curator/25737869/ Так же подписывайтесь на нашу группу с халявными раздачами: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/freeekeys

This game is very buggy and frustrating. Play at your own risk. I've had to restart the game several times because things don't trigger. Good story, but hard to really enjoy it. (btw I'm currently stuck in the dungeon where you pull the lever, and the lever won't pull.) EDIT: I got the lever to work and was finally able to finish the game. SPOILERS: The end turns into an FPS and its crazy hard, and the part with the sniper is the worst... you'll see why.

Can no longer recommed this game. Really good idea, unfortuantly there seems to be almost no QA on this game. Physics are mental, trying to read things is a pain. Trying to rotate things is a pain. Trying to jump on a lamp is impossible. Finding the hidden object unless you accidently see it on the warehouse mission is impossible. Audio when using headphones is crazy, tries to do 5.1 on stereo headphones so unless you are staring at the person talking its almost silent. Watch someone play the game instead on youtube and save your brass.

游戏表面看起来粗糙。不过里面惊喜不少。一方面进行调查。一方面恐怖气氛不错。喜欢调查或恐怖游戏的。还是可以试一试。不过就是里面的调查需要很细心。

Let me start of by saying that this review CONTAINS SPOILERS!!! I personally enjoyed this game quite a lot. However, when judging it objectively I cannot really say with honesty that I would recommend it to other people. The (old/first) trailer did a really good job in filling me with immense hype about buying this game. After reading some of the reviews I decided to buy it myself. While the game does indeed offer some of the things that the trailer promised it would, it left me with many more things to be desired and a huge turn-off. All in all, here's a simplified explanation of my experience playing it; I'll start with the positive things. The story was good at the start. You play as James Sachs, a detective who has been called out to fill in the gaps on some investigations regarding really bizarre murders. The mystery element, tension, scares, atmosphere, ambiance and many more positive things were there, including the whole feeling of actually being a detective in an actual crime scene. Some of the voice acting was good as well (I loved the voice actor of our protagonist). The game does a good job at immersing the player during the first hour (give or take some minutes depending on the player). It does, however, come with an overwhelming number of negative aspects which unfortunately overpower all the good things that this game offers to the player. To name a few; - I encountered a lot of bugs and incomplete level design. More than I would like to admit. Bugs regarding Sound are also there, with people talking way too loudly sometimes and then suddenly sound like they are talking through a tunnel. - The whole sound aspect. It could have been a lot better, less buggy, and more optimized. For instance, I turned all of its settings to maximum. Sometimes I could barely feel the impact on the people, but then when an explosion happened it felt as if the settings had suddenly be optimized to "x1000 times stronger than what the game allows" as maximum. - The game crashed twice on me when I was already ~2 hours into it, meaning I had to go through the start 2 more times and reach the point in which I was. When I DID save there, the game bugged (I could not jump, I could not interract with any objects or elements, I could not talk to people), forcing me to play from the beggining one more time. - The jump mechanic, all the objects' interraction with the player and the environment, the complete lack of a UI, an Auto-Save feature or an Inventory, the bad dialogues and the grammatically incorrect voice overs/texts, the ending... All of these were godawful and they played a big part in completely breaking my immersion. All of the excitement which I felt while playing was quickly turned into frustration when I tried to rotate objects. All the curiosity about unfolding the game's mystery was shattered and turned into a slight anger when I was forced to start the investigation all over again because of a mistake. Especially the ending - I bought this game expecting to solve puzzles, murders, police cases, crime-scenes. Not to play a severly downgraded version of a Call of Duty scenario. At end, our detective literally transforms into a vigilante. - Bad later story development. The game just leaves you with too many questions that are never answered and a feeling of an incomplete, horribly-written story. For instance, what was James's actual illness? What happened to his wife? How was he allowed to work for the Police as a Detective when he has documents and history of being in a mental assylum institute? Why are the souls of the victims wishing him the worst (in his head)? How on Earth does James single-handedly kill 100 armed thugs with automatic rifles when he has such little experience with using weapons? Why is the hospital at the end so empty of everything (staff, other patients, police officers, secretaries, you name it)? And what kind of an ambitious, powerful man sends 100+ thugs in order to kill 3 people? All in all, this game had HUGE potential in my opinion. The scenario(s), the idea behind it all was marvellous. Unfortunatly, its execution failed by a long-shot to keep up with it and compliment it. However, I am not yet giving up on its Developers and I hope to see more (well-made!) stuff from them in the future.

Encountered a game breaking bug tied to the auto save system. Behaves like checkpoints. Saves after each segment of an investigation concludes. For me it created a sequence break at the hanging corpse crime scene. Followed by a hard softlock, after I returned to the game mid investigation. Restarting the level doesn't do what it is supposed to, instead loads the last auto save. *Sigh* To resume playing I'd need to delete all my save files manually from the corresponding steam directory. Might return to this, might not... Try the demo first. It is a good vertical slice I believe. The Apartment was pretty ambitious for it's time and place in indie history.