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About This Game Lifestream is a haunting tribute to the classic text adventure that plunges players into the roles of Randolph and John Holton, a father and son desperate for answers to the mysteries surrounding a mysterious realm and an enigmatic brotherhood.GameplayLifestream is a modern "blast from the past" that combines the best elements of interactive fiction, visual novels, and gamebooks with a graphic user interface that emulates the look of early 1990s text adventures. It features beautiful artwork and cinematic music. In place of a text parser is a context-specific multiple choice menu. A compass allows you to travel from room to room, and separate inventory, map, journal, and character screens are available at the push of a button.Lifestream plays like an interactive novel. You make a series of choices that determine what happens next in the story. But unlike traditional gamebooks and choose-your-own adventures, Lifestream also features more advanced adventure game mechanics, including locations to explore, items to collect and use, characters to meet and interact with, and puzzles to solve.Story"Father Randolph Holton was dead. Not literally, of course. But in his heart, he knew he could not live on...not after everything he had learned. Sitting at his dark oak desk in the corner of the dimly lit, cozy study, the white-haired, frail Catholic priest--even frailer of late--dipped an old quill into a container of jet-black ink and began to write..."John Holton's father, a Catholic priest named Randolph, has been missing for two weeks. Unable to go to the police for help, since doing so would tarnish his father's reputation as a celibate priest, John takes it upon himself to search for his father.Over the course of Lifestream, players take on the roles of both John in the present and his father, Randolph, in the past. While John searches for answers, players see the troubling events that led to Randolph's disappearance firsthand.FeaturesEXPLORE multiple detailed locations, including a quaint Victorian home and small village churchENJOY over 150 pieces of original artworkSOLVE a multitude of challenging puzzlesINTERACT with a variety of interesting charactersEXPERIENCE an emotional, hour-long soundtrackUNLOCK 30 achievements to view a special post-game bonus scenePLAY 8+ hours of content with over 78,000 words--the text equivalent of a full-length novel! 6d5b4406ea Title: Lifestream - A Haunting Text AdventureGenre: Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPGDeveloper:Storycentric WorldsPublisher:Unimatrix ProductionsRelease Date: 25 Apr, 2016 Lifestream - A Haunting Text Adventure Free Download [portable] lifestream - a haunting text adventure I suck at completing games, it happens very rarely. I suck even worse at writing reviews (I write them even more rarely). However, this game's story was captivating enough to keep me interested enough to complete it in two days AND to write a review. The review may suck, but the game didn't.. GUI-driven text adventure starts slow but good value for the moneyPositives:+ GUI-driven text adventure like the mid 90's+ Very nice artwork (it's not HD, but it's in a style more like the 90's adventures)+ Detailed story+ About 8 hours of game play+ Cost only a few bucks, less if on discountNegatives:- Takes an hour to start getting into the plot (I almost gave up), you do much day-to-day priestly stuff without a clear plot hook- Some aspects of the characters backgounds are confusing at startNeutrals:-\/+ The GUI means that you can only chose from certain actions, unlike a true text adventure where you can type anything into the parser (this makes it less frustrating to play but you miss some of the fun)-\/+ You play as either a (presumably Catholic) priest or his son (who his incognito and claims to be his nephew)-\/+ Some of the storyline choices you have to do are a bit far-fetched (which is why this style of game works better for fantasy worlds than a real-life setting)-\/+ A few timed puzzles (not sure if it affects the final outcome)-\/+ Much of the dialog choices don't seem to affect the final outcome-\/+ Apparently a remake of a game from 2003. A nice interactive novel which goes back to standard text based adventure games of ye olde days. A pretty nice game, finished it in about 3,5 hours. The story is - although not fantastic - pretty entertaining, the puzzles (apart from one in my case - you'll know which one) do not require grinding to solve. The one thing that stands out in the"con" section is that the inventory - divided into pages - seems clunky at times. Apart from that it's a game worth getting especially if it's on sale.. UPDATE: The developer fixed my save file and I was able to finish the game.The story is good, the ending a bit of a surprise.Probably not something I would play again, as I felt too constricted, and I prefer more freedom.I am changing my recommendation to yes, though, as it is still a good game.Only made it to the start of chapter 2, where I encountered what appears to be a game breaking bug, but here is what I think so far.It's not what I expected, and I don't like the changing of which character I am, or the very linear gameplay.The story seems fine so far, accept for all the "surprise" at how someone who's been missing for 2 weeks hasn't been keeping up with their gardening, yard work, etc.The music was nice, til it changed to a more suspenseful tone, then I turned it off.If the problem gets fixed I'll update.. This is the second text-adventure I played on Steam (the other one from a different developer), but the plot in this one completely sucked me in.The game tells a supernatural story about a son investigating his father's disappearance, with each chapter switching between son and father, present and past perspectives. The story starts slow, but the mystery and suspense gradually build up, culminating in a completely unexpected ending.I definitely recommend this to anyone who enjoys reading and likes adventure\/detective games. Now I am going to check out the other text-adventures of this developer, hoping they will be as good as this one.. It starts a little slow - kind of seems like a text Catholic Priest simulator at first - but then the story opens up and you're swept along with the intrigue. I didn't realize how much I've missed text adventures like this. I really hope this developer releases many more similar text adventures - hopefully some in the light fantasy vein of the original Infocom classics - like ZORK and the ENCHANTER series. It has a definite Gabriel Knight feel to it - which isn't bad - but I can definitely see this format is ripe for many different genres of storytelling; i.e. murder mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, time travel and so forth. I used to write dozens of games like this myself when I was a teenager in the 1980's and playing Lifestream really made me nostalgic for those days of thinking up unique locations and devising interesting puzzles. I like it and want many more.. I suck at completing games, it happens very rarely. I suck even worse at writing reviews (I write them even more rarely). However, this game's story was captivating enough to keep me interested enough to complete it in two days AND to write a review. The review may suck, but the game didn't. 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