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• gamedeal user

  Mar 14, 2023

  "Buried" gets an easy recommendation from me for any fans of horror short stories. The oppressive atmosphere created by the sound, simple visuals, and well paced writing made for a two-night playthrough that was frankly tough to stop on the first night. You get to make some choices throughout the story, and I immediately am having thoughts about going back through and seeing what happens with alternate choices. At the end of the game you get an option to sign up for Bromoco Games' newsletter which I happily did, but this game came out in 2016 and I do not see any others currently on Steam, which is a real shame. I'll be on the lookout for more like this.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 24, 2016

  [h1]TL:DR[/h1] [i]Lumberjacks know how to fell aliens pretty damn well.[/i] [h1]The Good Stuff[/h1] ++Telltale-esque story where choices matter ++Lots of choices throughout, some make a difference whereas some provide a different line in the dialogue +Text moves at your speed +See your choices after each chapter +Seeing as choices matter, multiple playthroughs are possible +Good sci-fi action and writing +Background paints a picture as to what the setting looks like +Can easily do one plathrough in one sitting [h1]The Ok Stuff[/h1] =Characters are for the most part good. Main guy is cool but some minor characters are a bit annoying =There are decisions where one option is clearly better than the other, only a couple though and they're mostly just dialogue based ones [h1]The Bad Stuff[/h1] -Nothing. [h1]The Truthful Hard Facts[/h1] [table] [tr][td]Acquirement Method[/td][th]Steam store[/th][/tr] [tr][td]Price Paid[/td][th]$2.99[/th][/tr] [tr][td]Length[/td][th]2-4 hours[/th][/tr] [tr][td]Rig Used[/td][th][url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/thisgrouplinkwasavailable/discussions/0/1473095331487872526/]Laptop[/url][/th][/tr] [/table] [h1]Check out my Steam group for more Reviews![/h1] [url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/thisgrouplinkwasavailable]STEAM REVIEWS GROUP![/url] [h1]My YouTube channel![/h1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4BQSDGExl23rHcd9ML2mRw?
• gamedeal user

  Jan 24, 2016

  This contains everything i could ever ask for in a Choose your own adventure game. Simply: I love it. The story is original and it never lacks for excitement. I would recommend this game.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 26, 2016

  Great atmosphere, dark and oppressive thanks to good writting and good background sound, highly recommended for those who enjoy text based adventures (and there are quite a few choices to make, many minor, several major).
• gamedeal user

  Feb 13, 2016

  “Buried: An Interactive Story”, as an interactive story has a lot going for it. But as a story it still has a way to go, and some of the issues are so integral as to likely prohibit repair. Still, for the most part not a bad way to spend three hours. (Due to offline play, I can only estimate game time at over three hours. There is a LOT of text. I found this to be both a plus and a minus, as you will see.) The premise of “Buried: An Interactive Story” (BAIS) is that you are the boss of a logging crew who very suddenly finds that he and his crew are the victims of a mysterious and unknown disaster deep in the forest. You find your way into an underground government facility, where things really start to go bad. The story/game is broken into 5 chapters, each chapter is further broken into small segments, allowing for pauses. The story of BAIS is pretty basic Lovecraft-like, and not particularly original. Saying that, I would also say that the mood generated is adequately creepy, with a story that feels both complete and real, in the context of this type of game. If the idea was simply to create a great story, this would fail. But since the point is to create an interactive story, it succeeds quite well, with the storyline leading not to more story so much as more decisions. The purpose is simply to drive the player to the next choice, and the choices really stand out (at least for the first three chapters.) The choices really are often quite difficult to make, as they almost always involve other characters for which you feel a genuine sense of responsibility. Some choices are simply to move the story along, and give the feeling that the response would have varied little based on the decision made, if at all. Some choices are significant, as you are notified once your choice is final. At the close of each chapter the player is notified of the statistics involving each significant choice among existing players. UNFORTUNATELY, once the fourth of five chapters of BAIS is reached, the choices do next to nothing for the story and are rarely significant. In virtually every case it’s a simple choice of “noble choice” versus “selfish choice”, and shallow beyond belief considering the depth of many choices offered in the first three chapters. I chose “noble” (this IS fiction), so I have no knowledge of how other choices would have played out. About his point, the complexity of the game that was such a strong feature to begin…..comes crashing down. In numerous cases the story feels unconnected, and one death as related in the story was absolutely NOT the death that had occurred in “my” story. While there were many pluses to the first half of the story, I was quite happy when it finally came to a grinding halt. Great attention was paid to the grammar in BAIS, which was much appreciated. I only found one case of a typo, one of a sentence that made little sense linguistically, and one case of “I” instead of “me”. While there were numerous cases of commas improperly used (or absent), they were by no means dealbreakers. The minor background sounds added much, as did the background stills and the choice of typeface. The feature of leaving the game with a simple ESC, then returning regardless of the position within a chapter segment was very welcome. While I wish BAIS had either been shorter and cheaper, or long with more attention paid, it was still acceptable. Still, I would recommend waiting for a sale price of no more than $1.50 US. BUY ON SALE ONLY. Thank you.
• gamedeal user

  May 30, 2016

  Simply put, this is a solid and reasonably intriguing horror-mystery story told in the form of an interactive novel. The visuals are minimal but effective, the sound is spooky and immersive, and the writing is simplistic and a tad underwhelming but gets the job done. No great shakes, and fairly short (a few hours, tops), but worth the three bucks if you're up for a moody and sometimes action-packed tale with a wee bit of interactivity. It won't be an earth-shattering experience for anyone who's read the odd horror/sci-fi short story - or played a certain famous video game franchise, which I won't mention the name of for spoiler reasons! - but it's an entertaining enough diversion for those of us with an unquenchable taste for the eerie and enigmatic. Oh, and for those greatly concerned with such things: it would also appear to have some small degree of replayability due to the variety of choices on offer, even if one suspects that most if not all of the story's main mysteries are revealed in a single playthrough. But hey, what do you expect for three bucks? A blow-job AND a marriage contract?! C'mon, let's be realistic here... Verdict: 7.5/10.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 21, 2017

  An engaging storyline with compelling writing, a joy to play. This is a very fine example of interactive fiction.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 21, 2017

  I'm gonna be blunt here, this, game, is, freaking fantastic. I'm only in 3 chapters and I'm hooked. If you are looking for the old book reading ways of "choose your adventure" style books this is the style for you. I'm currently recording a let's play of it and will be up on youtube and I will provide a link below but for now, let's get into the depth of this. ---Story So Far--- Like I said I'm only 3 chapters in but it can only get better from here. I was instantly hooked into the story from the start, so far though it seems not much change has going on since I am watching anther YouTuber play it after the chapters I played and it seems we still got the same results just a bit different, a different order etc etc but that does not decline the value of this. Why? Because I could play it and someone could play it and they could be like, OMG DUDE DID YOU SEE THIS? And I'm like NO DUDE BECAUSE THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED! I do love the fact that at the end of each chapter it tells you how others reacted to the major decisions that you make in the story. It'll say you and 36% of players chose this. See my point? I won't spoil anything at all about this you'll have to pay the money for the game. ---Music/Artwork--- The music is a ten out of ten, sure it's very basic but the subtle of the music adds to the climate of the still shot art. The art that is in the background is fantastic. Though I think they could have added more to the music at the starting of the chapter 1/2ish by acting a slight hum, ya know the hum of florscent(sp?) lights but it's not a deal breaker. ---Price--- For 2.99 this game is quite worth it so far, I hope to play it more after I beat it to see if there are any other endings/branching paths etc etc. I really hope the makers will make more of these. Perhaps expand the genre, expand on their game and make even more, bigger, more decisions/endings, etc etc. --- If you wish to see what the game is about, here is a spoiler alert and a link to the playlist of what I am making for a Let's Play. I hope this convinces more people to play this game. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrS81Xfbl5mtRJ5y9IJyw4onO94b-ZDF6 Have a good night.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 24, 2017

  So, I was fascinated by this imperfect story and found myself really wanting to keep moving forward to see what happened. Sure, it's not a Hugo Award winner, but I'm not so cynical that I didn't enjoy it. It was a lot of fun. However: The vast majority of choices don't seem to really have any serious consequences. I've gone back and replayed it twice, and, with a couple of exceptions, you end up in the same place no matter what you have chosen. However, there are a couple of life-and-death decisions and a decision or two that make other characters irritable for awhile. Overall, I would have liked the game a bit more if there had been more serious consequences to the decisions made and more endings than just the 2 to 4 (depending on how you look at it). Most decisions don't really do anything and some of the decisions that the game claims are important are only acknowledged with a sentence or two later. It's almost as though the writer had intended a larger work, but then condensed everything down to where there were really no wrong turns. Still, I enjoyed the game and the story, and I even bought a copy for my little boy to play on his account. He was convinced even the most minor decisions were monumental and really enjoyed the game as well. Thumbs up for me.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 25, 2017

  For $3 this is a masterpiece. The story was suspenseful. The characters were well thought out, although towards the end some of them seemed to change rather drastically in a very short amount of time. I'm still curious about the other possibilities that you can get from this game, but I'm not sure I want to spend another 3.5 hours to play it all over again. I wish there was a feature where you could start from a specific chapter (which there may be, I haven't gone back to look yet) so I could just go to the parts where I made mistakes and correct them. The only other criticism I have about this game is that it is simply another game that more or less creates the illusion of choice. In some instances it doesn't really matter what you choose to do, the outcome will be the same, however, this game didn't do that badly when it came to meaningful choices, and I commend it for that. I approve.