About This Game "Lumber Island - That Special Place" is a psychedelic first-person horror adventure. The plot doesn't lead you by the hand, only self-contained exploration reveals obscure history of this place and its secrets. Atmosphere is the most important aspect - you'll see no buttons on your screen; there is no inventory in the game, which provides maximum immersion aided by music, sounds and Oculus Rift in future."Back in 1970s, this island was known as the "Lumber Island". It abounded in rare wood species of the highest quality, which were sought for by the craftsmen from all over the world — many of them took trips to the island in person, to pick the best material. The island thrived on private manufactures and tourism... until deposits of oil were found under it. This finding doomed the island: its inhabitants were made to leave their home land, the wood was chopped down to the ground. And after the oil had been pumped out to the last drop, the island was left abandoned and totally exhausted."You awake to find yourself in a life-boat ashore an island, and the last thing you can recollect is having fun at a great yacht party. 7aa9394dea Title: Lumber Island - That Special PlaceGenre: AdventureDeveloper:DeanForgePublisher:DeanForgeRelease Date: 1 Oct, 2015 Lumber Island - That Special Place Download Direct Link Apart from some trifling issues such as the odd crash, some dodgily translated documents, a rather difficult first level (at least until you suss what you're supposed to do), and a severe lack of save points, this is actually one of the better "budget" horror games you'll play this - or just about any - year. It looks amazing, is highly immersive and atmospheric, and has a genuinely intriguing plot...but again, ONLY if you show a bit of patience in the first area, which I'll confess I nearly gave up on (hint: it's not that hard, once you observe the A.I. for a while and play it super-safe). A minor gem lying in wait for those willing to persevere. Verdict: 8\/10.. It's too short but nice survival horror game tough. Very mysterious and spooky as hell of course. Reminded me of the Amnesia games with the jump scares but, much shorter.. It looks good and it shows what can be done on an indie budget with Unity, Adventure Creator, and some skill. But it is a pretty bad game. It makes no sense. You wander around in the dark with some murderer out to get you. If he sees you, you're dead. You can't hide; he'll get you. And he must have night-vision goggles. He can see you before you ever see him coming. And the only way to stop him is to find a couple of boots and give them to him??? WTF? How is anybody supposed to figure that out? Poor game design. Poor puzzle design. Great atmosphere. I'm sorry I wasted money on it though. Another game for the trash bin. Put the 3-5 bucks toward a decent horror game like Outlast or SOMA.. I wish I could recommend this game+ Graphics, story (even though overly vague), and horror atmosphere are really nice.Unfortunatelly the gameplay and mechanics are very flawed to be an enjoyable game to play:- - puzzles hardly make any sense- - sometimes you die out of nowhere- - unskippable, slow, unnecessary and somewhat long cutscenes- - worst of all: there's no save so whenever you die you need to play the level ALL OVER from scratchThe team has potential. I hope they learn from these details and achieve their true potential the following games.. Well,that didn't take long.Fantastic boot hunt simulator.If ya die ya start all over.I didn't like it.Nice atmosphere though.Can't recommend.. So I got this game recommended for Halloween and while the atmosphere in the game is super eerie and creepy, the puzzles and bugs of the game just ruined the experience for me.I were multiple times able to run through objects and wall, and fall out of the map as well as the physics object were super weird. While some puzzles were really interesting and well thought out the majority of them were really hard to figure out and I ended around just clicking everything hoping to find something as there were not really much to go on from other than a few sound or visual clues on some of the puzzles, but those who did have the clues were really nice and seemed to be well thought-out.The game does also have a save decent function, and instead of restarting the game from the beginning it only takes you to the beginning of the level. The last level were pretty punishing as you needed to do certain things in a specific order or you'll get kill and restart the level from the beginning!The background music were the same 2-3 minute loop over and OVER again for the entire game, and it got really old fast and the few times there were a bit of silence or change to the music it was amazing.The main monster; while he were creepy and it did get me a few times, the hiding mechanic makes it so easy to escape it. Instead of the suspense of seeing the monster looking for you to seem to simply reset when to hide and the other "threats" in game were main cheap\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665jump scares.I will say the game is decent and I'd probably not be this critical over it if I haven't paid 5\u20ac for it, to be honest I've played better free horror games that had an equal 2-3 hours play time.I will however say the ending and the story the games tries to tell is pretty interesting and I've still not entirely figured out what it all means but I probably won't play the game again to find out which is a shame.Pros:Nice atmosphereInteresting plotCons:Music gets trivialBad Physics\/going through wallsMonster\/Jump scaresThere's better free gamesPuzzlesProbably wouldn't recommend this unless you're really running out of things to play.. It's like the Grudge but instead of seeking vengeance over your violent murder, you just lost your fave shoes :(
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Updated: Mar 19, 2020
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