The Ring of Truth Reviews

With a little patience and perseverance you will uncover the Ring of Truth. It's a metaphorical ring, of course. The story is sad for your character, but ultimately has a happy ending. Find the recordings and the other objects littered about during your exploration. The game is short (~1 hr), depending upon how long it takes to gather everything and make sense of it all. You can run if you wish. As a plus, the music is lovely. For the current price of 49 cents, why not give it a go.

Interesting walking sim that acts like a scavenger hunt. My only problem is that some of the objects are just too small to find, so I often missed them completely.

This review is based in the on-sale price of 40 cents, I do not believe it is worth full price. You get about 30-45 minutes of playtime, in which you walk through a factory, explore and look for interactable objects and recordings. The recordings are in text only, which i personally prefer as i struggle comprehending information as audio, it is also helpful for the puzzle at the end. once you've gathered all 10 recording, you have to find out their correct order and that ends the game. I really enjoyed exploring the factory and the things you have to find are not too easy to spot either. The factory looks fairly interesting for such a limited space and is well build. The story is mediocre but absolutely fine for such a short game, i didn't expect much more depth. If you like walking sims and have a chance to get the game on deep sale i think it's worth trying. :)

Sorry but this is a pretty [b]mediocre[/b] experience and definitely not worth $11,79 CAD (though it does go on sale for 90% off which to be honest is about as much as I'd somewhat comfortably pay for an experience like this) [b][u]The Good:[/u][/b] - Other reviewers have made complaints about the visuals but honestly, for an indie game, I was quite pleased with it and they did a pretty good job setting up the atmosphere of an abandoned remote train factory. - The soundtrack I have to say is pretty nice and calming, good work by Alexander Hoff and Dylan Owen (though I found it kind of funny that they sort of copied the melody of the Daredevil show's intro music for one of the tracks) - They are at least open about the game's mechanics in the game's description [b][u]The Bad:[/u][/b] - While I'll admit that I'm not the most observant in these types of note-based story exploration games, it was still quite difficult finding all the recordings and objects to the point where I kinda got bored of continuously circling around the entire place. - The "recordings" (which are just written notes) contain a good deal of grammatical mistakes and weird phrasing. - While the story unfolds "decently" well as you find the recordings and piece it together, the story to me was a little bare-bones and the "plot-twist" at the end introduced a pretty big plot-hole that kinda nullifies your entire reason for being there. - The ambient audio that plays as you walk around makes zero sense. it's literally just the hum of old fashioned warehouse and factory lights (or maybe some other electronics) but this is an abandoned factory with no power whatsoever. I get that you had to fill in the silence but you could have at least added some light nature sounds (since we're surrounded by woods and there are a good chunk of openings in the building to let that kind of sound in) and maybe you could've added some lighter instrumentation in between each track. I don't know, this for me completely broke immersion. Sorry but overall, not impressed, it just barely passes for a thumbs up (only reason I'm not giving it a thumbs down is because of how often it goes on sale). [b]6/10[/b] sidenote: my play-time was closer to 1.8-1.9 hours but I left it open while taking a tea break.

I love walking simulator games. This game looked fun. Unfortunately I keep walking over stuff and can't get back over it as the jump feature only works for me in select areas, so I wind up getting stuck in numerous places and the having to restart the game. I want my $5 bucks back. I really wanted to like this one, and still would if they'd fix the bugs starting with the jump feature. Fix it, and I'll switch to a thumbs up! So far this game is only frustrating.

[h1] Not that bad... But not that good either... [/h1] Everything is rusted, almost same color, finding the collectables is kinda tricky. You need to find all the tapes, which tell a little of a story and you need to find out the order of it, because it's scattered all over the place. Did kinda like the searching for the items and tapes, some very well hidden, but finding the order of the story was a drag. Not fun at all, but I got the picture of it. That was enough for me. Recommendation? Honestly, it's more of a MEH then a YES or a NO. Make the game F2P and it's a YES from me, but I think a NO is best suited in this case. Good thing the developer didn't put weeping angels in the game as well... LOL

This isn't the worst game. All the controls work fine, and all the achievements pop when earned. Unfortunately, the story just isn't interesting or relatable, and the end makes no sense in that [spoiler]there's absolutely no reason for you to be there in the first place because, as we learn, your father did not like you and would not have sent you a letter.[/spoiler] This just wasn't interesting, fun, or satisfying.

This game is ass. Slow movement, janky ass gameplay and no voice acting? The developer "Useless Machines" name couldn't be more ironic, because thats all you get with this game, its a useless game filled with dead useless machines

Hello. So I got this game because I am a fan of walking simulator/exploration/story based games and the price tag was fair. First of all, the story comes together really well and it is well written. The puzzles are fine, ~basically the objects you need to find through the environment and another thing about story that I won't spoil here~ They are not obscurely placed and easy enough to find as long as you pay attention to your surroundings. The graphics and music are not bad aswell. Nothing outstanding but good enough for its price tag. Only thing I find that could be done better is the environment/object variety. But since the game is set in an abandoned factory, it's quite negligible. Overall I recommend it to people who likes these type of games, it's worth a playthrough. Edit: Typo

$5.99 for this game? Seriously? I liked the premise and I expected to at least get something decent. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case. The graphics are really poor, the font is tiny so you almost need a magnifying glass to read the text, the character speed is slow and there is no run option (if there was the game would probably last about 20-30 mins tops). Also, it's obvious that English isn't the dev's first language, but apart from a few grammar mistakes here and there, the text is ok. You simply wander around the building looking for recordings (there are no spoken words, you just have to read the text... yea), and a few objects that you can examine. Literally NOTHING else. Also, the jump option is very weird, in the sense that it's only available on the very first sequence of the game, on the train tracks. After that the character magically loses the ability to jump (although it's not really needed), which is funny. There is one positive thing about the game and that is the story, which you piece together right at the end and it's interesting and touching. Even for a walking simulator, this is mediocre at best and it sure as heck shouldn't cost that much. The $5+ price is outright laughable. This game should be in the $0.50-$1.50 range, then I wouldn't have been so harsh on it. As it is, stay away or wait for a 90% sale or something of that sort. 3/10, Not Recommended.