Blues and Bullets Reviews

Game is dead after 2 episodes. Shame, but stay away from it. It's an unfinished story. Update: I started playing this game yesterday, although I have bought it (including the season pass) a long time ago. After finishing the 2. episode (my playtime is below 2 hours), I went to the game's discussion section here on Steam to see if there's any info about when the 3. episode will be released. After realising the game is abandoned (even the dev's website is down), I decided to get a refund. Steam denied this on the grounds of me buying the game more than 2 weeks ago. I have of course filed for refund again. Everybody who has bought this game, mistakenly thinking it will be finished, needs to request a refund. It's sad that his game won't be finished, and that the devs have fallen on hard times. I really wish them all the best. But we must not accept paying for a product, and receiving less than 50% of what we paid for.

The first two episodes were great actually, this game has a good story with a nice soundtrack and i thought the episode 2 was very impressive. It's so sad that it got abandoned.

The developing company is gone - the website (Google "A Crowd Of Monsters") is gone. There have been no posts on social media, no posts on these forums, no word anywhere. The project quietly died and went away, and no one on the development team thought to notify any of the people who purchased the game. The story, sadly, was very intriguing. The voice acting was (in my opinion) excellent, the gameplay fun, and the atmosphere chilling and (at times) horrific. It's a shame it all had to end this way. If you do purchase this know that you will get episode 1, episode 2, and a cliffhanger. I do not believe there is any possibility of this IP being continued at this point.

Blues and Bullets is an episodic alternative history noir game developed by A Crowd of Monsters. The first episode was released in July 2015 with the second due to be released in March of 2016. I will keep this review updated with each chapter I complete. Gameplay takes place in third person as you control Eliot Ness, the police officer who caught and locked up the great, Al Capone. Eliot has now retired from being a cop and runs his own diner, called Blues and Bullets. This game reminded me quite a bit of L.A Noire as you search for clues for a crime. There is only one crime scene to investigate in this episode but it is a gruesome one at that. There is a small element of gun play, which is very basic at best; it is done via an “on rails” mechanic similar to that of Time Crisis or Blue Estate. The gun play so far has a very small part to play in the game overall. Graphically, the game is represented in a black and white noir style visual. This art style just looks awesome, whilst the graphics themselves aren’t stunningly good, the black and white tricks your eyes into thinking it is better looking than it actually it. The animation is slightly on the poor side, but nothing that can’t be ignored. Eliot is voiced by none other than Doug Cockle (the voice of Geralt from the Witcher franchise), and the rest of the voice acting is all done to a very high quality. I was completely hooked onto the story right from the start of the game, there isn’t a slow ramp in excitement like most adventure games like this, and you get right into the nitty-gritty from the get-go. The ending of episode 1 leaves you wanting more as the plot takes a huge turn of events. There are plans for there to be another 4 episodes released, I am hoping they speed up the development cycle of them, as I think 9 months between episodes is a bit too much in my opinion. There isn’t any aspect of difficulty in episode 1, the only real puzzle can be completed with just a matter of trial and error and the gun play scenes have checkpoints at every corner so even if you do die, you don’t have to replay a whole lot of content. I am looking forward to see how they make the gameplay elements of this game have more of a challenge in future episodes. Episode 1 took me just about two hours to complete; this was with finding all interactable objects throughout the scenes to get an achievement. I found out at the end of the chapter, that finding all of these objects unlocks a “Bobble head” mode, which is always a classic cheat mode that used to be included in game. It will be interesting to see whether you can activate this mode in future episodes or whether it is only to be used in episodes you have already completed! Sadly I did have a couple of technical problems with Blues and Bullets. I suffered two random crashes of the game that took me straight back to desktop, with no error message or warnings. There were no signs that the game was suffering performance issues, it did only happen when completing a scene, never mid gameplay. Thankfully the game saves at the end of each scene you complete, but this does leave room for game save file corruption. The game can be played with keyboard and mouse; normally for third person view games I opt for a keyboard and mouse controls, especially ones with any form of gunplay, sadly I could not do it with Blues and Bullets. Firstly the onscreen controls do not show any keyboard controls; only Xbox controls. Secondly, the cursor in game has a fairly big glitch where it just shows as a blank white square. You have to move your cursor to the bottom right hand corner of the screen for it not to be visible even when using a controller. To sum up, Blues and Bullets is so far a very interesting adventure game that has a lot of potential. Hopefully the technical problems are cleaned up before the next release of the series comes out. If you are a fan of the Noire themed films and games, this game is definitely going to be for you. It’s a fairly quick paced game which is something that a lot of adventure games can’t boast about so even the casual players amongst you will definitely get some enjoyment here. If you are on the fence about the game still, you can purchase just episode 1 for £3,99 which should give you a good amount of content to see whether you will enjoy the rest of the series, provided the developers don’t change it drastically or you can purchase the complete season for £14,99. Right now I would be completely happy paying £14,99 for this season, it does a lot of things right and the only negative points are technical problems which will hopefully be patched in the future. 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Avoid at all costs. The original release was for 5 episodes of which you could either purchase the first episode standalone or a season pass for the full 5. I chose the season pass just by the description and look of the game. I will admit that the first two episodes are very good indeed, however episode two was released in 2015 and there is still no sight of episode three and there are strong rumours that the company no longer exists or has since stopped developing the game. Taking into account that people have been asking A Crowd Of Monsters for an update since September 2016 and there has never been a response either on their website or social media it appears that the rumours are true. Further to this the season pass is no longer on Steam which is pretty much the final nail in the coffin for me. This means that the game is incomplete and under no circumstances should you buy this game. I am currently going through the very slow, repetitive and painful process of trying to get a refund from Steam for the three episodes I have paid for but will never own.

I played through the first episode of this and immediately bought the season pass because I loved what they were going for. The second episode took quite a while to come out but was also great. It's been almost a year since the second episode, the third one is nowhere in sight and the developers have gone silent. They're not posting in the forums, their social media has gone dark (though they said on Twitter they insist the game isn't dead and they'll say if it is) and according to LinkedIn, many of the team are working full-time elsewhere now. It's clear this didn't sell enough to keep development going and rather than admitting that and trying to make it right, they've just walked away. Those of us who bought the season pass have been screwed out of 3/5 of our purchase, Steam will not even proactively refund us and this scam is still for sale! I'm never buying a complete episodic series again, unless it's from a developer with a proven track record or until the season is fully released. These developers have no respect for their customers and frankly, has shown how little Steam has as well. AVOID!

Another game where the devs gave up on it. I am getting fed up of paying fro incomplete products. I am no longer buying any episodic titles until they have fully released every episode. Also same goes for the beta pre release purchases. Develope the game make the product decent then release and sell it you fukers.

Yeah, the game is unfinished and will never be finished. So, I dont recommend gettting it. Yet I still leave this a positive review, as the 2 released episodes are truly great. This is by far the darkest, grimmest and most violent take on a Telltale-style story. Got to love the dark atmosphere, and the situations way too grim and ugly for big game publishers to touch. Little touch of steampunkiness also makes the Film Noire world an interesting place. Most importantly, the story is very intresting and keeps you glued to it, and darkness of it makes anything possible, this is not your generic Hollywood story. Shame and sad that this game was never completed. The developers should have found a publisher to fund the whole game, instead of relying on the sales of first episode. Their business model failed, and everyone lost.

Is it a good game? Yes Does it have the start of a good story? Very much so. Should you buy it? Hell no. This game hasn't had a single word from the devs in almost a year with many of the staff now working in other companies. The company is dead,. and so is this game.

Game has no continuation, stops at episode 2, don't buy it. (could have been good but doesn't really matter anymore)