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Californium Reviews
Taking the form of wacky shenanigans and a first-person experience of a bad trip, Californium pays homage to sci-fi legend Philip K. Dick (Blade Runner, Minority Report, Total Recall, etc.) by transporting you into the life of a writer who is searching for his own identity.
| App ID | 402060 |
| App Type | GAME |
| Developers | Darjeeling, ARTE France, Nova Production |
| Publishers | ARTE France |
| Categories | Single-player, Steam Achievements |
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Simulation, Adventure |
| Release Date | 17 Feb, 2016 |
| Platforms | Windows, Mac |
| Supported Languages | English, French, German |
382 Total Reviews
268 Positive Reviews
114 Negative Reviews
Mixed Score
Californium has garnered a total of 382 reviews, with 268 positive reviews and 114 negative reviews, resulting in a ‘Mixed’ overall score.
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Recent Steam Reviews
This section displays the 10 most recent Steam reviews for the game, showcasing a mix of player experiences and sentiments. Each review summary includes the total playtime along with the number of thumbs-up and thumbs-down reactions, clearly indicating the community's feedback
Playtime:
197 minutes
This is a "yes" with a LOT of asterisks next to it... It would be 100% recommend if it were given an update and some love after launch.
To start with the good:
- I enjoyed exploring the game, and unravelling the story.
- Cool take on a hidden object/walking sim game
- Quite satisfying to solve the puzzles
- Philip K Dick references all over the shop! :)
- Such a brilliant unique art style and premise! I really did sit going "how the heck did they do that" at times.
- The world created, and seeing it through the lenses of each reality absolutely nailed the PKD science fiction approach, it was awesome seeing it in an exploreable environment.
- I'm thrilled this game exists and couldn't put it down.
And now for the less good things that could definitely have been fixed:
- Made my relatively beefy PC struggle with frame rate and cranked my fans up to full... for reference, I can play GTA V at 60fps without an issue.
- I needed a guide to do some hidden object puzzles, as quite a few were things I had found, but I just couldn't get the icon to appear without vanishing when I turned to click on it. I was using the guide as a "yes, you did find it, try standing in this really specific spot and looking at this angle" (sometimes this still didn't work and I'd end up doing weird things to make it work or reloading the level)
- Needed to reload at a really climactic part of the game because the thing used to progress the level.... didn't actually appear until I reloaded. Kind of took me out the game a bit having to look that one up.
- One of the achievements is flat-out broken (talk to all NPCs) - people tend to edit their save files to get this achievement.
- You slide down stairs when standing stationary on them (I'd imagine this is quite an easy thing to fix depending on how movement is handled)
So... all in all... I paid £0.67 for a really fun evening! Sure I have some hang-ups about how nice a patch would have been to resolve the things that irked me, but... even at £6.00 I'd have not felt cheated. I had a blast. :) Admittedly I'm a massive Philip K Dick fan, and love his books, but I'll be coming back to this more than once I think. :) You can see the conflict I have, as technically no probably not a great experience for people... but I had a ball. :)
👍 : 1 |
😃 : 0
Positive
