okay, theres a LOT to unpack here. but first i want to start with some rankings.
THE BEST
DEJA VOID
DAMIENT
THE END OF IT ALL (PINK SWIRL GAME)
THE ND
GREAT
SUNK COSTS
UNBOUND
S.S.C
KYOTO 1986
VESSEL
GENESIS
LUCYFACE
DISTANT STATIC
IF I COULD START AGAIN
SHOWDOWN
BACK HOME
OUROS
THE UNRAVELLING
TAXI
WHAT LIES IN WAIT
TRANSPORT STRUGGLE
GOOD
BLUE LIGHT
EXECUTIVE ORDER
ASCEND
SUNK COST
HOLY HALLS OF GOD
BAD
TIME HARRIER
FALLEN FROM GRACE
DECISIONS
FUCKING TERRIBLE
THE GOLF WAR
I KNOW THE END
SCRATCHED OUT
UNPLAYABLE
WEIGHT OF THE GENERATIONS
LUCY
I LAUGHED OUT LOUD
FIN.
so, now the rankings are out of the way, lets talk about the story
fuck yeah the story is good
somehow, in some way, you guys made a somewhat coherent (disregard hall of the god) story. i loved every second of it and i loved the in universe explanation for why everything is so fucked up in every universe, lucky to play the kyoto branch first, i loved catherines character and i loved the fucken weirdness of damien and chronos,
buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut
you guys shouldnt have added the gold branch.
it ends the game on a sour and shitty note,
the game is like a fine wine, only getting sweeter towards the ends of the branches (mostly)
but right as you reach the actual end, someone puts a pile of dogshit in the bottle of wine. its been ruined. youll still remember how good the wine was, but its ultimately overshadowed by the dogshit in the oh-so beautiful bottle.
tl:dr mmmmm game good except for fucking gold branch 8.5/10
You have shared my exact thoughts about the end to this all.
Although, with the time passing, I personally got to appreciate it a little bit, as it was intended to be Meta and, at least partially, it is pretty funny. I now feel that it's more of a "me problem" and so is "you problem" than an actual downside, cuz it's we who took it way too seriously, but that also shows just how powerful and creative everything else was.
Such an amazing concept and opening, the first 10 minutes or so of this game and the menu system is a 12/10 with how good it is. I chose the Wyoming path unfortunately, and it completely soured me on playing any of the rest of the titles in this collection. Some of the games on the Wyoming path are truly terrible and it hurts me to say that because of how promising this was in the intro. This is a painful 2 stars at best.
An absolutely genius concept, this was very fun to play and it was just a delight to see all the different styles mixing so nicely. Congrats to all of the many developers that worked on this, it's truly something special. I did not encounter any bugs (as far as I know) and the only thing I thought was missing was a way to alter the volume. Other than that, it was a very fun experience and I'd definitely recommend playing it!
Does Fall from Grace have any choices at the end? After you kill Satan it's just a black screen with music. You can open a menu by right clicking, but that's it. The game keeps running so it isn't clear if it's the end of the path or if it's bugged.
I have finally finished the collection after 1.5 days of playing.
I love almost every second of it, with games being even more inventive with narrative actually truly cohesive and pretty much almost never really conflicting with each other and even when such would arrive it all could be explained by parallel lines.
…and then, today, I got to the N/A branch, and I got even more hyped and I absolutely adored the first games of it and how it tied all of other branches together…
…and then came the Endings, and I have completely lost all of my enthusiasm, with 3 of them not being games at all, one being LITERALLY A SINGLE SENTENCE (it may make sense in-the-narrative BUT THERE STILL COULD BE DONE MORE WITH THIS THAN JUST "okay you let go"), and the only game out of the four, and a really good experience with that, DOESN'T EVEN HAVE TO DO ANYTHING WITH THE PRIOR NARRATIVE AT ALL!
I wanted to sing this collection praises, for doing right everything C.H.A.I.N. couldn't, for games being even more innovative, creative, fun and narratively both cohesive and interesting and not even clashing with each other despite there being so many of them and so many branches, and the N/A branch tying them together even more!
Only for all this greatness to just… end like this, leaving me absolutely deflated, desolated, emptied out, destroyed, hollow.
I can't even feel angry, I'm that blue balled.
I can't even think of how why it would all end like this except it all being one big joke, and one of the branches already ended with a very silly and very fun one.
As much as I was bummed out by C.H.A.I.N.'s complete lack of the cohesive narrative except for the first few games which I still absolutely adore for a storyline that could've been, at least it also provided an amazing ending that looped it all on itself!
I don't know what to feel about C.H.A.I.N.G.E.D. anymore. I wanted to love it, I loved it, and now… I feel nothing. Betrayal, even. I understand how utterly silly it all sounds, but it really made me feel, and now it feels like it just played with my feelings.
hey!! thank you so much for checking out and playing both collections, that's really a lot of dedication! i'm sorry to hear you were dissapointed with the ending games in the extra branch. I can clarify the intention there a bit if that helps: I don't think the intention was that the endings on the extra branch were supposed to be the "true endings", it's more of an extra timeline as a reward for playing the other games. also, these games were the only ones made with full context of all the other games, so hence they're all a bit more meta. any ending in any branch could be considered the "true" ending if you think about it. I'm sorry if you feel like everything was building up to those last games and it didn't deliver! Thanks for playing :)
I should say that I'm sorry for getting so emotional, cuz… I did love almost every other game this much and the entire narrative, I got invested, hard, especially since it spoke to me on a personal level, the whole thing being about a mother trying to save her child, and as a mother figure myself it always hits very close whenever I experience such a story.
It's all on me in the end and I should've seen the extra endings beings mostly meta, but again, got too invested. And this means that the project worked, and worked far too well, and I don't see this being repeated ever again in the future just for how... working it is, but hey, I really want to find myself mistaken in some future.
I do wonder still what the Sin(e)s game was about in the end cuz it's really cool but so confusing, man.
I almost completed every game and I'm loving this.
There's just a little thing i wanna say, and it's about it's optimization. It's just not normal to have the launcher take 60-70% of my gpu when it's in the idle "launching game" state, it's just too big of a waste, especially for low end pcs. Please patch this.
hey! that's a really good point, we have to keep the launcher active so that it can listen for when the player is done with the game. but i didn't think about the impact it had! thanks very much for the feedback :)
It's a mixed bag for performance, tbh. Some of these use unreal engine, some unity, some godot, some gamemaker. I have a midrange system from 2013 and got through it all fine. My system chugged on the two most intensive games. I'd consider trying it out at 720p to smooth out the highest end.
Ive noticed that theres a game made by the same people that created this game called "C.H.A.I.N." Is this game a sequel to that game and i have to play it to understand this one, or am I able to play this without worrying about it?
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Is anything supposed to happen in LUCY aside from a single phone call? After the very first phone call nothing happens and I can't do anything.
what if this was just changed but cooler and isn't a fetish game
the variety here is absolutely crazy
Hello
Looks nice
thank you!
okay, theres a LOT to unpack here. but first i want to start with some rankings.
THE BEST
DEJA VOID
DAMIENT
THE END OF IT ALL (PINK SWIRL GAME)
THE ND
GREAT
SUNK COSTS
UNBOUND
S.S.C
KYOTO 1986
VESSEL
GENESIS
LUCYFACE
DISTANT STATIC
IF I COULD START AGAIN
SHOWDOWN
BACK HOME
OUROS
THE UNRAVELLING
TAXI
WHAT LIES IN WAIT
TRANSPORT STRUGGLE
GOOD
BLUE LIGHT
EXECUTIVE ORDER
ASCEND
SUNK COST
HOLY HALLS OF GOD
BAD
TIME HARRIER
FALLEN FROM GRACE
DECISIONS
FUCKING TERRIBLE
THE GOLF WAR
I KNOW THE END
SCRATCHED OUT
UNPLAYABLE
WEIGHT OF THE GENERATIONS
LUCY
I LAUGHED OUT LOUD
FIN.
so, now the rankings are out of the way, lets talk about the story
fuck yeah the story is good
somehow, in some way, you guys made a somewhat coherent (disregard hall of the god) story. i loved every second of it and i loved the in universe explanation for why everything is so fucked up in every universe, lucky to play the kyoto branch first, i loved catherines character and i loved the fucken weirdness of damien and chronos,
buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut
you guys shouldnt have added the gold branch.
it ends the game on a sour and shitty note,
the game is like a fine wine, only getting sweeter towards the ends of the branches (mostly)
but right as you reach the actual end, someone puts a pile of dogshit in the bottle of wine. its been ruined. youll still remember how good the wine was, but its ultimately overshadowed by the dogshit in the oh-so beautiful bottle.
tl:dr mmmmm game good except for fucking gold branch 8.5/10
You have shared my exact thoughts about the end to this all.
Although, with the time passing, I personally got to appreciate it a little bit, as it was intended to be Meta and, at least partially, it is pretty funny. I now feel that it's more of a "me problem" and so is "you problem" than an actual downside, cuz it's we who took it way too seriously, but that also shows just how powerful and creative everything else was.
Where can i find the main menu music for this?
Such an amazing concept and opening, the first 10 minutes or so of this game and the menu system is a 12/10 with how good it is. I chose the Wyoming path unfortunately, and it completely soured me on playing any of the rest of the titles in this collection. Some of the games on the Wyoming path are truly terrible and it hurts me to say that because of how promising this was in the intro. This is a painful 2 stars at best.
An absolutely genius concept, this was very fun to play and it was just a delight to see all the different styles mixing so nicely. Congrats to all of the many developers that worked on this, it's truly something special. I did not encounter any bugs (as far as I know) and the only thing I thought was missing was a way to alter the volume. Other than that, it was a very fun experience and I'd definitely recommend playing it!
"Kill Themis" tape doesn't work, it launches, loading few seconds and then closes to main game. It's even don't show any errors
Does Fall from Grace have any choices at the end? After you kill Satan it's just a black screen with music. You can open a menu by right clicking, but that's it. The game keeps running so it isn't clear if it's the end of the path or if it's bugged.
I have finally finished the collection after 1.5 days of playing.
I love almost every second of it, with games being even more inventive with narrative actually truly cohesive and pretty much almost never really conflicting with each other and even when such would arrive it all could be explained by parallel lines.
…and then, today, I got to the N/A branch, and I got even more hyped and I absolutely adored the first games of it and how it tied all of other branches together…
…and then came the Endings, and I have completely lost all of my enthusiasm, with 3 of them not being games at all, one being LITERALLY A SINGLE SENTENCE (it may make sense in-the-narrative BUT THERE STILL COULD BE DONE MORE WITH THIS THAN JUST "okay you let go"), and the only game out of the four, and a really good experience with that, DOESN'T EVEN HAVE TO DO ANYTHING WITH THE PRIOR NARRATIVE AT ALL!
I wanted to sing this collection praises, for doing right everything C.H.A.I.N. couldn't, for games being even more innovative, creative, fun and narratively both cohesive and interesting and not even clashing with each other despite there being so many of them and so many branches, and the N/A branch tying them together even more!
Only for all this greatness to just… end like this, leaving me absolutely deflated, desolated, emptied out, destroyed, hollow.
I can't even feel angry, I'm that blue balled.
I can't even think of how why it would all end like this except it all being one big joke, and one of the branches already ended with a very silly and very fun one.
As much as I was bummed out by C.H.A.I.N.'s complete lack of the cohesive narrative except for the first few games which I still absolutely adore for a storyline that could've been, at least it also provided an amazing ending that looped it all on itself!
I don't know what to feel about C.H.A.I.N.G.E.D. anymore. I wanted to love it, I loved it, and now… I feel nothing. Betrayal, even. I understand how utterly silly it all sounds, but it really made me feel, and now it feels like it just played with my feelings.
I'm sorry.
hey!! thank you so much for checking out and playing both collections, that's really a lot of dedication! i'm sorry to hear you were dissapointed with the ending games in the extra branch. I can clarify the intention there a bit if that helps: I don't think the intention was that the endings on the extra branch were supposed to be the "true endings", it's more of an extra timeline as a reward for playing the other games. also, these games were the only ones made with full context of all the other games, so hence they're all a bit more meta. any ending in any branch could be considered the "true" ending if you think about it. I'm sorry if you feel like everything was building up to those last games and it didn't deliver! Thanks for playing :)
I should say that I'm sorry for getting so emotional, cuz… I did love almost every other game this much and the entire narrative, I got invested, hard, especially since it spoke to me on a personal level, the whole thing being about a mother trying to save her child, and as a mother figure myself it always hits very close whenever I experience such a story.
It's all on me in the end and I should've seen the extra endings beings mostly meta, but again, got too invested. And this means that the project worked, and worked far too well, and I don't see this being repeated ever again in the future just for how... working it is, but hey, I really want to find myself mistaken in some future.
I do wonder still what the Sin(e)s game was about in the end cuz it's really cool but so confusing, man.I almost completed every game and I'm loving this.
There's just a little thing i wanna say, and it's about it's optimization. It's just not normal to have the launcher take 60-70% of my gpu when it's in the idle "launching game" state, it's just too big of a waste, especially for low end pcs. Please patch this.
hey! that's a really good point, we have to keep the launcher active so that it can listen for when the player is done with the game. but i didn't think about the impact it had! thanks very much for the feedback :)
Glad to help! I hope to see more CHAIN games in the future
'Twas an enjoyable romp through time and space. Great work everyone!
Anybody got the system requirements? Would this run at 60 FPS on a 4 GB system with an Intel i3 8th gen processor + Intel UHD 620 graphics card?
It's a mixed bag for performance, tbh. Some of these use unreal engine, some unity, some godot, some gamemaker. I have a midrange system from 2013 and got through it all fine. My system chugged on the two most intensive games. I'd consider trying it out at 720p to smooth out the highest end.
I tried out the first few games and unfortunately they don't run on my potato. Thanks for your comment though, it might be useful to someone.
If you close CHAINGED after launching a game you get about a 50% performance boost, maybe that will help
Ive noticed that theres a game made by the same people that created this game called "C.H.A.I.N." Is this game a sequel to that game and i have to play it to understand this one, or am I able to play this without worrying about it?
it's a similar format, but there's no overarching storyline or anything so you can go into this one without having played CHAIN :)
I like it a lot so far, but I can't figure out how to save. Does the game autosave?
it does between games!!