Buy The Fall

Clunky battle system. Mediocre puzzles. Great story. The latter is why I would recommend this. Finished game in just over 3 hours so be weary of going full price for it.

The Fall is one of the best scf-fi storiies I have encountered. It asks some incredible questions about what being alive means and delievers one of the best twists I have ever seen in a game. Also, it harkens back to old school adventure games like Grim Fandango and the Monkey Island series.

Don't read anything about this game going in. It takes about 3-4 hours to complete so just grab it and get it done in one sitting. You'll be glad you did!

The story and experince is worth the headaches. Looking foward to the second part.

I cheated and ended up watching all the walk throughs online becuase you get stuck a lot looking for puzzle pieces; something I hope the next one fixes. For example, limbo never had this issue for me and kept my flow through the game. Getting stuck just hurts the flow of the story, but after watching part of a walk through I found myself turning on the game and haveing to get to the next part. However, some times longer puzzles with back tracking help tell the story.

Have to go to work in the morning, so I ended up watching all the playthroughs-- the ending is amazing and wish I had waited to get ther my self. Still, thanks to let's plays, I bought the game and am looking foward to the 2nd part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDt55HqLxMQ



Limbo this is not-- that said, there are some graphic issues that make everything black-- I had to adjust the graphics to full brighness to see the subtle hues that showed a beutiful world in darkness. Limbo, did not have this issue, however, these backgrounds also help tell a story. I just wish there was a better way to represent dim lighted enviroments.

Check out the Kickstarter to find more about the 3 influnces of the game.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/189665092/the-fall-dark-story-driven-exploration-in-an-alien/description.

I found the puzzles in this game frustrateing. Even after looking up the solutions I felt like some of them were a logical stretch.

You'll spend a lot of time making no porgress. Only to look up the solution and learn that you just hadn't shined your flashlight in the right corner somewhere. And you still won't know exactly what you're doing until you've blindly connected the dots. This will happel a lot.

This game isn't too smart for you, it just doesn't give you enouh information to let you be smart.

The atmosphere is great -- wonderful lighting and bloom effects, layering, good audio quality, and cool special effects (screen glitches, etc.)

Wish I could say the same about the gameplay. Aside from a very numb experience of pacing back and forth with a flashlight consistently shining into the shadows, and a "puzzle solving" mechanism of simply interacting with every item in every possible way... there are also some unpleasant, buggy things:

1) Despite a lot of great animations, the transition from jump to landing is quite poor. Unfortunately, jumping and landing is a pretty common and frequent occurence!

2) There seem to be major problems with triggering flashlight/look function on and off. By default, holding down the right-mouse button is glitchy at best -- sometimes not triggering the light on at all, but more often it cycles through on/off without being functional. The only way I could get it to work properly was by setting the "Toggle" mode on the settings, so a single button-click turns it on. But even then, whether it triggers the first time clicked is iffy (it doesn't always work)

For the significantly discounted Steam Sale price, it was worth a download just for the story, visuals, and audio (more of an "interactive story" experience than a game.) But at full price... I would say no.

A gritty masterpiece.

The Fall is a game that immerses you directly in a dark and intriguing atmosphere from the beginning, with a magnificent music, great graphics that have good performance.
About the game, has an amazing story that is not repetitive just to make a longer game, The Fall puts you directly in the move, face to face with challenging puzzles, a careful script, good dialogues, unpredictable (if you not pay attention) movements, and a surprising ending.

The only two thing i feel wrong about this game, was the spanish translation need some revisions, and the combat system that is a little slow to react, but i really like the idea, and i hope see in the sequel that kind of combat strategy which makes you think more than just shoot.

The main points I enjoyed were the subtly developing main character and the narrative about AI freedom and self-awareness. A dark, intriguing atmosphere and an end that isn't trite or overplayed.

What I didn't enjoy was the gunplay. It felt somewhat tacked on, most of the time, and seemed like a distraction from the main points of the game. That, and a few puzzles were somewhat unreasonably roundabout are my main complaints.

Other than that, a wonderful story with a really interesting sci-fi narrative. Looking forward to the next installment.

Well son of a ♥♥♥♥♥ if this wasn't actually pretty good.

It's a fairly standard point-and-click-esque with cover-based shooting thrown in. There is substance in these humble beginnings; some puzzles caused me to pause, a bit perplexed but with solutions that inspired and, in many later cases, entertained me to actual laughter. Action segments felt decent - I was very much in control and there was satisfaction to be had. These segments are infrequent, reacting well with their choice of use in specific parts.

Of course, what makes The Fall shine like a diamond in the rough is its premise, and the way that it unfolds.

There are no humans in this world; cold, severe logic drives every character in ways that is both easy to follow and intruiging. We see the conflicts unfurling from a distance as we approach but find them fascinating when presented by the few characters seen. At no point does the story not make sense - it's both watertight and accessible, so you may wade in freely and find the speed to which the game picks up much shorter than usual.

Framing the plot is the UI, which uses a Unix-like terminal that emphasises minimalism over complexity. Come to think of it, there's actually no HUD in the game, at all. Everything that shows up is a result of your scanning over the ruined depot, a cunning move to reward investigation using light. We have precisely what the designers intended, because of this: players moving through dark, devastated areas sweeping their light from the ceiling to the floor, controlling their speed to drink in both the surroundings and any analysis of the area we can find. It works. It feels good, and the A.R.I.D suit's robotic movements are the perfect compliment to tie these moments to the overarching story.

One of the most notable things that drew my applause was how "abilities" are unlocked. Put simply, I have never seen it done better than The Fall. The AI controlling the suit is denied access to functions such as networking with other machines and greater firepower, but these functions have failsafes that activate them when their release is required to safe the occupant's life. Therefore, you are able to activate these by intentionally putting your pilot in danger, a colossal AI protocol moral quandry. These represent contradictions to the running protocols of the suit, to such a point that I wonder why I've never thought of the concept before. The Fall makes it seem so natural and obvious that this would happen for AIs in general, and for it to have achieved that as a story about AIs shows its fortitude as a pure story, let alone a story attached to a game.

Of course there are some rough edges to be found - some moments when the suit seems to float along the ground, hands that don't connect with ladder rungs, some floating objects here and there - but their arrival was noted and discarded, as by the point I'd encountered them I was wholeheartedly sold on the entire experience anyway.

For the 69p I bought this for, it's beyond any measure of value for money and a standout success for showing how Kickstarter projects can bring otherwise-impossible projects to life. The Fall tells a strong story using minimal assets set to a soundtrack that seemed almost perfect for every moment it appeared. It's much like a shot of something strong, but goes down smooth - you'll be at the end of the experience quickly, but it'll feel like you've just drank something well worth the money.

I bought this because it's on sale, and the reviews were fairly decent. But after an hour of playing, I've had to reference a walkthrough several times. I'm not particularly good at point and click, since it requires testing everything possible, but I feel like the puzzles give you no hints of any kind.
The story seems intersting, but the game is just agitating me, so I can't recommend it.