Magdalena Reviews

This is less a game and more of an interactive short story. It's first person and you can roam around the small map and read letters. The letters are very well written and the story overall is good. It took me an hour to beat and get all 4 achievements. Alot of the reviews must be from an older version, even gameplay I saw online is somewhat different. There was no lighter and the game wasn't dark after the very beginning but had the same letters. All in all it was a good experience and worth the $0.49 I paid. THIS GAME IS NOT MALWARE. It is, however, very taxing on a PC. I'm running a 5950X and a 6800XT with a 1200 watt ASUS ROG THOR power supply. I only mention the power supply because it has a wattage display. I was running 480 watts the entire time and my fans were screaming. ( for comparison Elden Ring in 4K on max setting runs just over 400 watts on my PC) The settings menu seems to be bugged so I couldn't tell the exact resolution or quality settings but MSI afterburner took up a quarter of my screen so, though the graphics were great, I was definitely in a lower resolution (my MSI is setup for 4k, if the overlay is huge it's because it's in like 720p) and my 6800XT was maxed out. Several reviews say it won't launch but this game appears to be made in unreal engine and probably won't launch on lower end PCs. I had no crashing, stuttering, freezes at all.

No idea what the game is about. But it is an easy 100% achievement game. Just before leaving check the pillar with the knife pegging the page, that took me two quick runs to find.

I'm shocked at just how bad this game is. All you do is find several notes, in and around a house. I paid .26, and still feel ripped off. No. Just no.

This game was a good experience, especially for $1. There was a bit of stilted writing, but otherwise was a nice story, and the English was very well done for a native Russian speaker. It seems that in the years after its release, with bad optimization and maybe a few bugs, the game has been drastically changed and become a gutted version of itself. I really think a lot of the reviews are unnecessarily harsh and in some ways xenophobic as they assume the game is bad because of its Russian origin. This also being the (I assume) first game from this developer, the quality is actually better than most first timers I've seen. I hope that the negative reception doesn't dissuade the developer from releasing titles in the future.

EDIT 02/01/18: One year later, I thought I would try again. Oh how excited I was as the game actually booted to the menu, maybe I could play the game again. Of course I couldn't, the game will crash on the loading screen and take your computer hostage so it takes quite some effort to kill it and regain controll of your PC. We can only hope the remake that the poor unsuspecting Steam Greenlight Community (RIP) voted for and greenlit never arrives, or there will be many more unhappy customers in future. Don't even buy this on sale, it is at best literally unplayable, at worst malware. I also found it amusing that within an hour of originally posting this review back when the game was new, I had three "Unhelpful" downvotes. Clearly the Developer doesn't like bad reviews and uses multiple accounts to try and bury them. Upstanding and honest behaviour that goes hand in hand with this wonderful attrocity. --- EDIT 04/01/17: It's worth updating just to let people know I've made a few attempts to come back to this game, but the developers seem intent on not letting anyone play it anymore and it won't boot at all. Now they have a re-release version of it on Steam Greenlight trying to trick us into giving them votes again (I will admit to voting for them on Greenlight for this one) so they can sell it again under a slightly updated name. The horror. --- Once upon a midnight dreary, I was feeling bright and cheery, Until some technical problems I abhor. While I nodded in anticipation, the game it crashed, oh damnation, Met with errors, crashing, crashing, what a chore. "T is some glitch," I muttered, "I'll try some more," But appeared this way for evermore. Ah distinctly I complained about this failure of a game, But long it lingered in my brain, I felt the need to play some more. Eagerly I held my patience until the game it was updated, "No more crashes", in sorrow I implored. I clicked my mouse, the game it soared, And displayed madness at the fore. --- I initially bought this game when it was first released. In my very brief playtime, the game repeatedly crashed at start-up. In the two occasions I actually got into the game, once my mouse locked up in the settings menu unable to alter anything until the game crashed completely. The other time I went straight into the game, getting about 1-2 FPS. I believed my system was capable of handling this game with a GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB RAM, but alas, it was not to be. I got a refund and that was that. Nonetheless, I kept thinking about the game, wishing I could have experienced it, and then I saw it again, on sale for £0.36, at that price I could hardly say no, it was worth seeing if it had been fixed. The technical problems I suffered are all gone, I’m happy to confirm I’m now running the game smoothly with all the settings maxed out, I knew my set-up could handle it. This is the sort of game made for me, I love the writings of Edgar Allan Poe, I love games like Gone Home which give me a place to fully explore at my will. But perhaps this game works better in the native Russian language. It is clear the developers are trying hard, but the English translation is so bizarre I just can’t quite work out what the writing is trying to convey half the time. The quality of the writing is the key factor of a game such as this, when that doesn’t work, you’re just left to explore without any real sense of purpose or immersion. The developers have an interesting sense of humour, I’m sure there is a joke I’m missing about the fork next to the toilet. I don’t understand it, but it’s still funny on a simple visual level. Also the physics on the chest of drawers are pretty special, just pick them up and move them around like they’re in zero gravity, it’s quite novel in what is supposed to be a dark and moody game. The big issue for me though, is that the game entirely lacks an Invert Mouse option, which is simply unacceptable. This can easily be patched in, but for a game claiming to be a release build and not an Early Access preview, this is inexcusable, especially as it has been out for some time now and has still not being implemented. When basic essentials are missing from a game, you have to seriously question what is going on at the development end. I'll happily edit this once (or if?) this essential feature is patched in. But two months after the alleged release build was made available on Steam, I don't have high hopes. From an objective perspective, this game is not good and I cannot possibly recommend it. But from a subjective personal perspective, I find it all quite entertaining. If you want something competent, maybe look elsewhere. If you’re happy to take a chance on a game that will utterly confuse and amaze you with unintended craziness, you could do a lot worse. I'm going to go back in now and see what else I can do.

It's shite; unplayable shite. I let this sucker idle to earn trading cards, but the actual game goes to a black screen and there's nothing to be done about it (check other steam reviews, I'm certainly not alone). I got it in a bundle for less than a buck, and I still feel ripped off. Avoid like air-borne syphillis. NOT recommended.

Magdalena is a horror game, where you relive your deepest and darkest memories. Story: You play as George, he is going through his old home and is reliving his old memories by exploring the house. The more you explore the house the more backstory you get and sinister truth is revealed to you. Now I took the story description from the store page, but if this description wasn't there, it would be impossible to actually follow the story ( mostly because of a few factors, but we will get to those later). The story itself is not that interesting and a few notes pretty much giveway the plot twist ending, which is incredibly predictable. Graphics: Magdalena is an asset flip game. The entire house you explore is called Residential House and you can buy it off the asset store. It's been used in so many horror games, if you would take a shot everytime you saw the same house, in a horror game you would die. Most recently this map was used in a video game called House Party, but there the map actually feels like things were added on top to make it feel like an actual house, here there's none of that. It overall looks good, but since it's a stock map, I won't give them points for the graphics. Audio: Everything about the audio design is forgettable. The voice acting is pretty bad and with the echoy design it's hard to understand what the characters are saying. Other than that, the music and sound effects are really bland. You can hear crickets chirping and a fire place burning almost constantly, which after some time get's annoying, because you will explore the house for a long time and hearing the same thing over and over again will drive you insane. Gameplay: In Magdalena all you do is walk around and relive the memories of George by reading notes. This overall doesn't seem that bad for a short experience, but the game is totally unplayable. The game takes roughly 15 minutes to finish, but it will take much much longer. First of all the game is really buggy. If you get lucky and the game starts playing you will have issues trying to finish it the entire time, because of constant gamebreaking bugs. One of the first ones you encounter is constant crashing. It feels like every so often the game will crash, but if you manage to get the good RNG, you won't encounter a lot of crashing, but however you will encounter other bigger bugs. One of the bigger ones is a soft lock that will force you to replay the entire game all over again and even then there's no guarantee the final note will spawn so you can finish the game. I did three runs before the game actually decided to spawn the final note. I can't even tell you what causes the bug, but all I know you have to get down on your knees and beg to every God and hope all the planets are aligned correctly for it to happen. Verdict: Magdalena is an awful game, that is barely functional, the dev himself said the game is broken beyond fixing and did nothing about it and the fact the game is still up on steam and they are charging money for it is awful. I've also heard some people say the game bricks their PCs so that is a fair warning before heading into this game. Just save your money and buy something else. Pros: N/A Cons: - Game breaking bugs make the game unplayable - The entire house is a stock map - Awful audio design Final Rating: 1/10 If you liked this review please consider joining https://steamcommunity.com/groups/completingthebacklog and https://steamcommunity.com/groups/ImperialReviews

Trust me when I tell you: This Game is not even worth for idling cards - Start Game doesn't start the Game is crashes it - Game crashes that hard that you have to reboot your PC in order to idle it because thats all you can do - Even the Menu is complete trash. Typical RUS developer Trash who doesn't care - nothing we haven't seen before.

+++ easy & fast 4 Steam Achievements https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3135117313 +++ 5 Trading Cards (perfect) --- very short & empty/ boring Good for Achievement Hunters, Trading Card & Games Collectors only https://store.steampowered.com/app/432470/Magdalena/

This game has a great idea behind it.. why oh why couldn't it have been developed by a proper competent developer? The game claims that almost all things can be interacted with, this is far from true. And the actual interaction system is horrible, you don't pick stuff up and look at it and move it around in your hand like you'd expect, you drag it across the floor, you drag a magazine or a cup across the floor. The movement in the game is bad, and the lighter to give you some light is so weak that I had to look at my keyboard to make sure I pressed the correct button then I looked down at my feet in-game and saw a spec of light. No subtitles, no key-rebinding. And why is the flashlight(lighter) bound to the button L? Why not T or Q or something closer to the rest of the buttons. Horrible, absolutelly horrible performance. I have a pretty damn strong PC and I was lagging all over and my FPS was in the ground, I had to turn everything to the worst setting to be able to play without ripping my hair out. The game tries to be scary, it tries to be some sort of horror but fails. The only scary thing if you really want it to be scary is the vocie of a woman talking, and her voice is extremely low, if you want to be able to make out any words then you'll have to turn your windows volume WAY up which will make you deaf as there is no in-game volume sliders, so all other sounds will probably blast your eardrums out. This game is simply unfinished. I don't.. I can't phatom why this was released as a finished product when it's clearly not. Why not just wait until it's finished or at least put it in early access. I'm really sad that this game got released so early, I bet if this game was released when it was actually finished, you know, when the game is playable performance-wise, when you've finished the options menu, it would've been so much better but now you've tainted everyone with a bad experience to this game. I can only assume that most of the positive reviews where for a CD-Key to the game or something. No one in their right mind would rate this game good. And by the way I'm pretty sure that the developers or something are going around disliking all negative reviews because as far as I can see most negative reviews instantly get like 2 or 3 dislikes. Edit: And yea, I almost instantly got 2 downvotes, cool. [h1]Curator page[/h1] [i]If you liked this review or otherwise found it helpful in deciding whether or not to buy this game, feel free to follow [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/29162366/]my Curator page[/url].[/i]