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• gamedeal user

  Dec 30, 2017

  I can't believe I spent fifty nine cents on a game where you browse free PDFs. Let me just give you a rundown of what happens in this game. You start in a beautifully lit library with windows letting in the light of a setting sun. You have an aiming reticle so that you can select your book with precision and grace and the music begins to play majestically in the background. You attempt to open a book but alas, you have been unsuccessful. So you hop your way down to the ground floor with the absolute grace and jumping ability of a man sized jackrabbit to open the most delectable piece of literature imaginable where you will find yourself mispronouncing and not understanding French words in your head. This game is exactly what it says it is, I don't know why anyone in their right mind would purchase it but here we are.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 30, 2017

  First impression review: As an enthusiast of literature and literacy, I'm highly impressed by this. Upon first glance, I was about to think "Oh great, another silly 'simulator' made just for laughs". That is not at all what this is. The beautiful 3D library environment offers a great ambience. And the ability to read these classic texts all in one spot is a great idea. A great idea, in that it actually encourages reading, and prose literacy, while more or less emulating the page-turning experience of an actual book. I'm going to give it a fair "4/5 stars", as I feel there are a few technical points that could use improvement, which I will suggest to the developer here: - It is difficult to interact with some of the books throughout the library. It is also difficult to tell which books can actually be interacted with or not. And it is also difficult to tell precisely where to click in order to successfully interact. I would suggest providing some form of visual indicator on the interface to indicate which books can be interacted with, and also where to click (or simply telling if you're in range and/or clicking the right spot). - A nice aesthetic would be the ability to interact with the chairs to emulate sitting down to read. - Some variance in music would be a nice touch, as well. This could be remedied, however, by muting the game, and turning on your own music. - I would like to see a "bookmarking" system, along with a gamesave system to remember the bookmarks. This would be nice for coming back to unfinished reads. - I would also like to see maybe a map or other form of index to give players an idea of where certain books are found in the library. - Personal request: I would like to see some works by H.P. Lovecraft, if possible in the future. :) I also noticed a small bug, as well, where sometimes, text in books would initially render invisible upon initially opening a book. This was quickly remedied by either closing and reopening the book, and/or turning the pages back and forth a few times. So far, I am greatly pleased with Reading Simulator. Looking forward to the future. Keep up the great work. :)
• gamedeal user

  Dec 31, 2017

  SHORT VERSION: This is a terrible way to read books. If you want free ebooks, head to gutenberg.org for the texts, and go to https://calibre-ebook.com for a library & reading app. Unless you're an ebook fanatic who loves innovative ways to read books, don't bother with this. Reading Simulator is nothing like a *good* way to read books, just... different. I am an ebook fanatic; I wanted to like this, but, it falls short in so many ways. The library setting is pleasant, but the books are scattered, unmarked, and poorly formatted: they don't include italics or bold from the originals; the line breaks from whatever source file was used are copied, resulting in orphan words all over the place; sometimes text overlaps other text. There is no skip forward or skip back so it's flip through one page at a time; no bookmarking; no way to mark where a book is in the library. No edition notes - no note of which translation or version a book is. The book itself is shown in a small window in the middle of the screen; there is no enlarging it, nor the text within it, for easier reading. No copyright info. These are all presumed to be in the public domain, and likely grabbed from Gutenberg (which doesn't explain the line breaks), but some Gutenberg books aren't in the public domain in other countries. It has Joyce's Ulysses; only some versions of that are in the public domain in the US. It's cheap, so you won't need to feel cheated if you bought it out of curiousity. But it's not worth using to read, and there are better-structured walking sims if you just want to enjoy some quiet ambiance.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 31, 2017

  do NOT waste your money on this crapy game. all you do is run around and it doesnt even stick to the title! "reading simulator" should be where you read books or somthing but its not! Theres one readible book! other wise you run around being bored to you life! PLEASE DO NOT GET THIS GAME!
• gamedeal user

  Jan 11, 2018

  Just want to read random books? Try this game. Why would you want to read a book on the computer? You'll find out, I guess! Horrible controls. I couldn't figure out what to do at first. No invert setting? Some people need their invert mouse setting. A tutorial would be great. Brief first play description: Spawn into glowing room of knowledge, unworthy. Immediately stare at ceiling, no invert. Stumble around discovering gigantic leaping abilities. Notice the reason I'm here all around me and calm down. Bookshelves. Rub face against glass, see books, but do not know how to open their case. Look around some more find cases, one's open.Ffinally, I'll read something. The open case is revealed to be just as fruitless, only hauntingly left open by someone else. The librarian, perhaps? Ok. Maybe there are books I can access somewhere. Walk up to the one true book, the book in the light. Walk up too fast and clip through it.Turn around and find Peter Pan on a desk.Start reading. Satisfying.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 20, 2018

  a game about a rabbit man who looks for a book in a beautiful library... That is all you can do
• gamedeal user

  Jan 25, 2019

  As you can guess from the name and description, "Reading Simulator" is not a game but an art project that asks player a witty question: Why do you need a real library when you have a virtual library? Extrapolating, why do you need a real nature when you have a virtual nature? (see: "Hiking Simulator 2017/2018" from the same developer) Why do you need a real farming when you have Farming Simulator? Why do you need a real friends when you have online-friends? Why do you need a real food when you have photos of food on Instagram? In case of reading, the answer is: "Because this virtual books are unreadable". "Virtual library" consists of number of poorly formatted texts from free sources on poorly executed "book reader" window with terrible font and without an option of changing any settings. That's not a bad thing for an art project: I assume that no one expected this "game" to be a real book reading software. Even if the reader options was available you simply won't bear the process of reading Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities" or Stoker's "Dracula" when you need to flip the hundreds of pages with a mouseclick without any possibility to leave a bookmark. Without any mention of it in an open form, "Reading Simulator" emphasizes the theme of comfortable reading: it seems like the process of reading can't give you a true pleasure without a number of conditions that provide you coziness, even if you're trying to read world-famous classic. It's not important if you read the text that is printed on the paper or that is displayed on the screen of your gadget (smartphone or e-book reader), it's a hundred times better experience than "Reading Simulator" can provide. Again, it's not a bad thing: I assume that one of the main purposes of this project was to make players think about the reasons people like to read printed books, and in my case "Reading Simulator" worked perfectly - at least, now I know that I simply have not enough patience to read even ten pages of "virtual book" in "virtual library" (it seems like this process could be even more uncomfortable in VR), and for me it was a short but definitely fun experience.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 26, 2019

  Who made this crap, a 5 year old? The blur alone stops you from enjoying the game. Then you have to find a book. Good luck with that. I want my $.49 back. Don't bother buying it.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 17, 2019

  Very bad control over walking and looking around. When I turn the person's head, it's quite nauseating and when I walk, the sensitivity is way too high. I could only click on books that were facing me, so most of the books I could not read. Chairs at the desks were in the way of over half the books making it impossible to click on them and read them. Overall, not even worth spending the dollar on this game.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 19, 2020

  Nope. Sentences in books are horribly aligned as if they were hastily pasted from another source.