Indigo Prophecy Steam Charts & Stats

Wow... just... wow! This game is arguably one of the best games I've ever played. First of, this isn't like any other game out there. For those of you familiar with the PS3 exclusive "Heavy Rain", this was its developers' first baby. The narrative is intense throughout the entire game and never has a game's plot been so suspenseful for me. This is no shooter but it definitely has action in the form of intense quick-time-events. The open-endedness of this game is a feat itself that makes this game a must-have. The best part of course, is the immersion and interaction. Literally everything you do in the game, you will have some kind of mouse controlled gesture that correlates in real life. But with all great games, it comes not without flaw. Much like a game I previously reviewed (Amnesia), the story's conclusion felt unsatisfactory (and absurd). Fortunately, this game defies the old addage that the end justifies the means because the journey is one worth remembering. Grade: A-

This is a game of thirds. The first third is a truely engrossing, very well-written police investigation. The second third is a fun, over the top action-adventure. The last third? The last third feels like it's from a different story entirely. Plot elements are randomly introduced from nowhere, previous threads are ignored, and the game doesn't really seem to have any idea what it wants to be. Two-thirds of the game are fantastic. The final third shows exactly where Quantic Dream were told to stop working and get it shipped. The two stealth flashbacks were a terrible, terrible decision, though.

Are you a fan of Simon Says mixed with your quick time events!? The action is just a series of quick time events, but the story is solid up until it gets to the wacky supernatural ending, which is preposterous. The game does kind of feel like playing a movie and there are some choices on how to handle different situations.

Jogo muito bom, só cai um pouco no final mas é muito massa! Great game, the ending is a little disapointing but it is great nevertheless!

An interactive movie! One of the most epic DDR-ripoffs ever made! Whatever you do, even scratch your butt, can have an influence on the whole story! The story, though it makes little to no sense, is gripping and intense! You're gonna sleep real late just to see a bit more! One thing to remember, kids: Don't mix alcohol with medicine.

While it can lead towards the bizarre, like, every five seconds, and the plot makes less sense than the early episodes of Lost, the interactive storytelling intrigues, making for a very refreshing departure from normal gaming conventions. If you're looking for a story-focused, emotional, refreshing experience, Indigo Prophecy/Fahrenheit comes highly recommended.

You get to a point with Indigo Prophecy... maybe around the time you get to the cutscene where main character is attacked by possessed house furniture and he does knock-off The Matrix action moves to dodge the flying chairs and vases, and it goes on for three minutes, and you have to play Simon Says QTEs the whole time... where you think "Wow, that was fucking awful." Then you realise like 50% of the game is just more of that. I respect Quantic Dream for their effort towards making a more cinematic adventure game. Sometimes, it succeeds. You can feel the spark. For just a minute at a time, you will care about how your performance affects the other characters. You will get drawn into some moody location and feel curious and tense and immersed. The game and the film come together to make something new. Unfortunately, both the game and the film are awful, so these moments are rare. I won't go too much into either (like how on the game side there are constant annoying QTE and dialogue options are indecipherably vague, or how on the story side the dialogue is stilted and the plot goes into totally off-the-rails nonsense in the last third), but there is one particular thing that offended me, that made me want to write a review, which is how badly used the characters of Carla and Tyler are by the end. The further the game delves into the supernatural, the less relevant two police officer characters are going to become. And it is clear the writers had totally no idea how to handle this: instead of coming up with some new way that Carla and Tyler can contribute to the plot, they basically get dropped entirely. Tyler literally vanishes suddenly from the story, whereas Carla just gets shoved disrespectfully into the role of Lucas's love-interest with no build-up, and does nothing further of note. I'm not sure which is worse, especially considering Lucas is literally a walking corpse at that point. I can't exaggerate just what a massive fail this is for the story. We've spent just as much time getting to know these two as we have with Lucas, and they are both more interesting than Lucas! When the game decides "Actually, these two aren't relevant", it's not only a waste of two good characters — and of all the considerable mocap and voice acting and money that went into creating them — it's a waste of your time.

In short, this game is a steaming pile of crap. Don't buy it. It relies on the (theoretically) interesting concept of making you perform every in-game action either by doing a combinations of key-presses, or by playing a game of "simon." This unfortunately gets sour very quickly, becoming at best monotonous, and at worst downright punishing as you'll be forced to replay the same segments of the game over and over again, without any way to skip through the (occasionally lengthy) in-game cutscenes. Additionally, the story takes a dump during the last 1/3 of the game and finishes in such an anticlimactic and absurd way that it effectively makes the previous 2/3 of the game a complete waste.

I have so much playtime in this because when I first got it, I had a pretty old PC with a lower end graphics card, and the QTEs apparently were tied to framerate. Due to that poor tech decision, I failed over & over trying to compensate for the control desync issues in the apartment panic sequence where whatshisname is being pushed to leap off his balcony. Tech issues aside, it would have been best to leave it at that, but I wanted to see just how off the rails the story supposedly went and...Yeah, the story loses all focus the longer it goes and while it's almost so bad it's funny, it's probably funniest if you're not having to muddle through the bland gameplay. Years later, Quantic Dream & David Cage would reel themselves in a little with Heavy Rain, which is somewhat better (at least until you replay it for different narrative paths), but ultimately all their games are better to watch someone else play than to play yourself. Indigo Prophecy was the beginning of Quantic Dream's bland narrative game formula that, while adjusted over the years, still resembles this old game. Largely uninteresting narrative branches, clunky dialogue, flashes of mild to overt sexism/racism, bland QTEs, & clumsy minutiae ridden interactions. If there's any highlight to this game, it's the opening and the early intrigue, but because it's Quantic Dream, it fails to follow through and loses the plot at the most critical moments.

Great, engrossing, immersive game with a hell of a story up until the last 3rd of the game where it just turns into crazy oblivion and it loses me. The graphics are great, the style of cut scenes even as you're playing showing up like it's a comic book almost is just a great director design for a game. The story is told from multiple perspectives which eventually, about half-way, come together. You play as both the main character who starts the game killing a man in the bathroom only to come to as if he had blacked out to find out he's murdered someone. You must escape and quick. Then you also play a duo of investigators who investigate the murder. The storyline was so well setup, and everything even the quick time events were forgivable until that last part of the story. Even though, I still give this a thumbs up because it's just that good at the beginning and middle.