
There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile... This is the first title in the series known as The Strange Man, developed by Uri Games. Experience the myriad horrors awaiting David as he moves into his new house.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.43/day in the week to Sep 9 → 0.29/day in the week after.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.29/day in the week to Jul 24 → 0.29/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
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"There was a crooked man,
and he walked a crooked mile.
He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat,
which caught a crooked mouse,
and they all lived together
in a little crooked house. "
This is the first title in the series known as The Strange Man, developed by Uri Games.
Experience the myriad horrors awaiting David as he moves into his new house.
In The Crooked Man, you play as David Hoover, who has recently moved to a new apartment during a rather rough time in his life. In the midst of him struggling to deal with his current situation, David starts to experience some odd occurrences in his apartment, and decides its best to ask a little about the former tenant.
However, he learns little.
Strangely compelled to learn more about this man, David sets off in search of him, hoping to find answers to his questions.
In commemoration of the game's Steam release, achievements, and multi-language localization have been added.
2D horror-adventure featuring exploration and action elements
Wide range of hardcore expressions of violence
Multiple endings
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看Airly的视频被种草了 想着应该也不会很吓人吧加上像素风真的无法割舍于是买了捆绑包…结果被突脸和追逐战吓毁了...尤其是打无伤成就的时候真的感觉自己很命苦 剧情还可以 解密不是特别难但需要到处跑 以及男主很美(? ...ok我要拾掇拾掇玩第二部了
one of my favorites in the JRPG horror genre along with Ib, The Witch's House, Mad Father and Pocket Mirror, Uri is an amazing developer and 11 bucks in total just to buy the entire Strange Men series felt like a steal. The Crooked Man is probably her most famous work and for good reasons, I love how the story wraps up in the end and how each character felt like a real person with real irl issues. I highly recommend to anyone to try out this game or just the entire series as a whole and to support the developer, after all, each Strange Men game is 3 bucks each so you're not spending that much.
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Languages: English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Simplified Chinese
Hours played at review time, across 67 reviews with recorded playtime.
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I purchased all of these games due to the reviews, but I cannot even get myself to finish the first game. The only scary thing is the few jump scares. The game also does not tell you the controls, so if I didn't have to restart the game in the first five seconds due to being lost already, I wouldn't know about the item inventory which you do end up needing. Giving the benefit of doubt maybe I just didn't pay close enough attention but I got confused so many times as to what I was meant to be doing and had to look up a walkthrough multiple times in my few hours of playing just because of how confusing and uninformative the game is. I feel as though if you are playing a game, you should not need a guide just to progress on the main story line and yet many people on the guide I used are thanking them because they also needed help. The game is also just going back and forth a million times, in my case this was ten times as bad due to the fact I was always searching for where I was supposed to be continuing the story at. I tried to give this game a fair shot even through my annoyance at its lack of information and my confusion, but it comes to a point where it feels not only like a chore to play the game but like torture. To avoid spoilers if you do still want to play, I will put it like this, my breaking point was when I was in a fight and kept dying so I looked up how to beat it, I had to click on something I had tried to click on before and couldn't, maybe due to me being a pixel off or maybe do to the guy getting me. After that I had to use an item in my inventory, you know the one I almost didn't even know about, without any slight clue I should have done this. Yet, I finished the section with the help of the guide and continued. So, after about twenty minutes when I continue after something that almost makes me quit in the hopes all those reviews about it being a good game aren't lying just to die at another impossibly confusing fight and end up at the start of the section I was at and lose all my progress due to there being no auto save, I finally gave up. Long story short this game isn't scary, but it is boring and confusing.
a good adventure game. can recommend it. cool pixel graphic. the price of this game is in offer for -50% very good.
Absolute peak 🤚😲✋ Cinema. Played on RPGMaker way back in the day, bought this and it's sequels, I can't wait to play the rest. I'm very happy I got to experience this all over again, all endings, saving my GOAT on the 2nd playthrough and being able to enjoy the amazing chills once more. If you're into horror/psychological with an incredible story that won't take much of your time, I highly recommend.
Went on a nostalgia trip and binged a bunch of RPGmaker horror games that I watched youtubers play back in the Cretaceous period years ago. Ignoring the old engine limitations (mostly referring to the clunky combat), this game, along with Ib, are the best of them. Honorable mention goes to Mad Father. Love the story and writing. I forgot most of the plot, so the twist still hit when I got to it. Old gem
Ahhh esse daqui me traz muita nostalgia. Minha avó não tinha internet na casa dela, então eu baixava alguns joguinhos de RPGMaker para passar o tempo lá. Crooked Man foi um desses, você precisaria estar LÁ, na época, para entender o hype desses jogos. Uma história bem competente (inspirada em Silent Hill 2), com puzzle e combate que você não espera num mod de RPGMaker e, mais importante, boa parte do jogo feito com Licenças-Livres (wikimedia e sites de som-base online são creditados). Eu nunca terminei o jogo. Na batalha final (sim, tem batalha final) eu não conseguia vencer o Crooked Man. Foi pura skill issue de uma criancinha burra que não tinha detonado para vencer algo que dependia do seu teclado, mas agora com meu cérebro totalmente desenvolvido de adulto, consegui vencer o jogo e ver o final. Acredito que a história é sobre os erros do passado e como as pessoas se prendem a ele demais. Interessante perceber isso numa review falando de nostalgia, né? De toda forma, já comprei bombons por preços mais caros que esse aqui, vale a pena mesmo jogar.
As of now, i finished the first walkthrough, I have one achievement left to do. I'm gonna be honest, the ending was extremely emotional and I like it a lot. The graphics are great. The gameplay is great, although you cannot find a 100% walkthrough guide (in English and on steam) it was quite easy to do the achievements, I love this game and it connects emotionally to some players in many different ways. Definitely recommend! Anyways, I'm gonna complete the last achievement tmrw! ;p
Isso sim é um jogo de terror indie... Gosto muito de jogos de terror mas fazia um tempo que eu sentia que os jogos de terror indie que tem hoje em dia tão meio sem sal. Sempre mais do mesmo, seguindo formula, com uma narrativa super rasa e se baseando só em susto atrás de susto. The Crooked Man é de outros tempos. Essa versão é de 2018 mas o jogo original é de 2012, no AUGE dos jogos nesse estilo RPG Maker. Claro que isso dá pro jogo alguns sinais do tempo. Tem vários momentos que não tem puzzle em si e sim você andando pra lá e pra cá pra acertar a ordem que tem q interagir com o cenário pra liberar os diálogos (o que pra ser justo é um tipo de puzzle, né... mas você entendeu). Como eu já disse em outras reviews minhas, todo jogo que se baseia em exploração na minha mão demora 4 horas a mais. Pq eu gosto de explorar? Não, pq eu sou burro e fico perdido... é foda... Mas o que fez esse jogo ser absurdo de bom é a história. É ISSO que eu sinto falta nos games mais recentes. Uma narrativa profunda que usa o terror como alegoria pra alguma pauta importante. Não acho ruim terror pelo terror tipo um slasher da vida, mas eu tenho um espaço especial pra jogos que sabem fazer o "terror atmosférico". Ser assustador não por ser brutal e pesado, mas por realmente criar um cenário e um clima de medo. Fui jogar achando que seria qualquer coisa e me surpreendi com um BAITA jogo bom... Recomendo pra qualquer um que queira dar uma variada nesses slop PSX que tá na moda hoje.
恐怖外表下的悲剧,大卫若是早点遇到杜克就好了。
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