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Shady Brook - A Dark Mystery Text Adventure

76% positive of 13 Steam reviews

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Released
2016
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Platforms
Steam

Made by Storycentric Worlds. Published by Unimatrix Productions.

About the game

Explore a small country town with a twisted secret in this dark, Twin Peaks-inspired mystery text adventure that combines the best elements of classic interactive fiction, visual novels, and gamebooks.

Tagged by players

  • Text-Based
  • RPG
  • Interactive Fiction
  • Adventure
  • Casual
  • Horror
  • Point & Click
  • Mystery
  • Exploration
  • Story Rich

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What players say

  • Recommended
    Shady Brook is a text adventure game where you take on the role of Jake Torrent, a fiction writer looking for a quite place to live and work with his elderly father. However, it becomes apparent that not everything is as it seems as Jake is soon caught in some kind of dark mystery. Pros: Very simple controls Puzzles to solve Puzzles range from easy to hard A mystery unfolds as you play Cons: Fairly linear The one…

    12 h played when written. 4 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    Well, all i can say about this game: I definitely enjoyed it. It`s pretty similar to its previous game, Lifestream. Both games have no story connection though. That means boh games can be played independently. Shady Brook is a simplistic puzzle game and features many point & click adventure elements. You`ll have to click to move between the screens and change the location. The pictures are all fine, the interface is…

    3 h played when written. 9 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    Entertaining at first, but turned out that the game system mainly wants you to repeatedly walk around and just talk with everyone. Word to the devs. If you make an Adventure or a game, there has to be some interactivity and decision making. Not that the player just clicks through your story. Though this wasn't the worst case, this game needs more in order to be considered a game and in order to be sold on steam…

    12 h played when written. 4 found it helpful.

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