ArcticBoy: The Interactive Story Reviews

I LOVE STAMINA METERS! I LOVE STOPPING TO CATCH MY BREATH EVERY 10 FEET!

This game was the greatest game I ever purchased. (This user has refunded the game)

So I get this game for $0.57 on the steam summer sale thinking "Oh this will be some janky goofy meme game that I can laugh at and enjoy for a lil bit in an ironic sorta way." I watch the intro and laugh from the random goofy default unity animation dance. Then I'm in control so i walk around the house checking to see if there's any silly interactions or something, I find none. I go outside and decide to check the back of my house, walking past a snowmobile on the way, i die of a heart attack because the character is so out of shape I guess, I laugh at the absurdity and continue. The opening cutscene plays again, it's unskipable and suddenly the goofy dance isn't so funny. I walk outside and go over to the snowmobile, turns out it's just a static object and impossible to use. I realize now I have a stamina bar for walking, if you walk more than about 10 steps your character dies so you gotta go at a snails pace and then wait for a minute every 10 steps. I assume it'll only be for a minute or two as a joke and walk towards the bus stop, turns out no bus. I end up doing the whole walk 10 steps wait 2 mins thing for like 20 minutes before finally getting to the store. I walk in and think "well now i'm here in doors i'll be able to walk around without worry right?" nope, gotta keep going 10 steps (seriously for a guy who had a 2 minute dance scene to open the game he sure has no cardio). I gotta find a sushi kit apparently. So I walk straight up to the fridge section, no luck. I go to the freezers, no luck. I go to every single shelf hitting e constantly, nothing. I very carefully go over every inch of the store till i find the sushi hidden in the diapers, i have to aim right at it and hit e with no prompt only to get another message saying "Find sticks". Luckily I managed to find them randomly and barely click on them because they are tiny and finally I can leave. Make it half way home, get a call telling me two sets of sticks not one. I turn the game off and get a refund. Which honestly was my favorite part. Like I know this is going for a whole desert bus kinda joking troll game thing, but it just doesn't work because in desert bus you know right from the start that it's a silly joke about how crazy it would be to make a game that is so realistic it's boring. It's funny because the only interaction you really make is press forward and tap right sometimes. This game on the other hand isn't realistic and it wants you to interact enough with it that it goes from "Look how slow this is lol" to "ok just get to the next funny part". Like really if the whole game was like the first minute with the funny dance number and the game was just goofy broken jank i'd recommend it for a laugh but instead it's just boring and though it tries to come off as ironic it just feels like they through it together thinking of the punchline without realizing a punchline is only as good as the setup. So yeah, to the consumer I say don't bother, to any streamers or youtubers maybe play it but make sure you can keep your viewers entertained with your commentary and to the creator of the game I say; Try again and focus more on the goofiness and trash, you made a legitimately funny open but don't let the joke overstay it's welcome.

Another completely whacked out story line game from this developer, this time it's a story about internet romance gone horribly wrong! I will say that this game is well worth the price tag.. but NOT as a game for "you" to play yourself. .. By far, the best value in this game is to GIFT it to someone you want to troll and tell them just to play it. Then watch them as they get hooked enough or curious enough as I was.. to play it all the way through to the end! Haha! My Score.. To play it yourself.. 2 out of 10. My Score to troll as friend as a meme: 9.7 out of 10! Recommended, but only to troll a friend with! ..Make sure it's a close friendship, solid enough so they will talk to you again! OR you can just watch my own condensed 34 minute long playthrough HERE: (Spoiler Warning) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B38Aa6P-FHA

wow super cool game. didn't expect this to have so much fun

This is game of the year material, i cannot wait to see what comes in part 2. buy and play this game you will not regret it, best game i have ever played

No...... Just No.... No save points, No Sound settings, no video skips. All it is is a game that limits how fast you move through it with stamina limitation and then a cheesy story with it. You message a girl online, you think you're going to hook up, but you have to get all these items to bring first, and yet you cant take your vehicle?...... then the story continues (no spoilers) and the game is over. not my cup of tea. Not even worth the $1 or less it sells for. Waste of an hour and a half

A Must Have! Fantastic story with unbelievable plot twists! Great Soundtrack, Story, Gameplay, visuals, and more! 10/10

words cannot describe the amount of pure rage and frustration this game put me into for the 13 minutes i played. there were no save points so every time you died from a "hearth attack" it would set you back to the opening scene that goes on for way too long with no option to skip. he had a pretty cool dance tho. 2/10

cool game if you can manage past the stamina simulator meme. loved all the plot twists and cutscenes. (update for nomination).