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Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist on Steam
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A 15 minute heist game by Crows Crows Crows & Directed by William Pugh (The Stanley Parable). Slip into the soft-soled shoes of the mastermind responsible for the greatest heist- oh god I can’t do this any more, i’m joining the strike. good luck writing the steam description. -tina
Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist is a comedy, first-person and indie game
developed and published by Crows Crows Crows.
Released on December 04th 2015 is available on Windows, MacOS, Steam Deck and Steam Machine.
It has received 9,773 reviews of which 9,108 were positive and 665 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍
The game is free to play on Steam.
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- OS *: Windows XP SP2 or higher
- Processor: 1.80GHz Processor
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Video card with 512MB of VRAM
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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- OS: OS X v10.7 Lion or higher
- Processor: 1.80GHz Processor
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Video card with 512MB of VRAM
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.” ― Jerome K. Jerome Coming from the designer behind The Stanley Parable and a young developer team, this free little game with a needlessly long name carries a similar pattern of blatant absurdity. Due to the ridiculous amount of probable effort that I'd have to put while writing the whole completion of the title each time, I'll be referring to the game simply as Dr.Langeskov for the remainder of this review. Now that is settled, let me try doing this properly. Following the example of The Stanley Parable , it is somewhat hard to write a review to a game that would be better played without knowing anything about it. So, if you'd like to enjoy the full experience, I'd highly recommend to stop reading and give it a try to see it for yourself. Since it already is a freeware, you won't have anything to lose rather than 15 minutes of your time. Still here? Well then. You've asked for it. Since we've already downloaded the game, we must have intended to actually play it, right? There is one little problem though. As the game starts, we are very apologetically informed that they are unable to let us play since it is a single player game and there is already one person playing it. Apparently we have to wait for the other player to finish the game before trying it ourselves. But since the studio conditions are a bit below excellent - nope, of course there are no safety hazards! What is it you are thinking? - There is a shortage of employees in the whole place due to a recent strike. We are informed that it would all go quite swiftly if we were to help them simulate the game for the player inside. Reluctantly agreeing, we start following - or try to follow, at least - directions of the young director with a mousy voice and a British accent, who dreads that our every single action might end in a catastrophy. As you can see, this short, 15 minute adventure is a complete parody of a developmental concept. There is no actual game here. Like that the cake was a lie, the game itself is a lie. The whole thing is a smart and somewhat enjoyable conceptual experiment that could invoke some appreciation. Certainly not a masterpiece - and not in the claim of being so anyway - and the humor isn't exceptional, but Dr. Lengeskov presents you a distraction and a smirk on your face for 15 minutes: a task well done. It might be noteworthy to mention that the expected gameplay is somewhat linear contrary to The Stanley Parable , carrying only one possible ending. The idea is to enjoy the environment, the concept and the reactions you are having around. Very much like any joke. Throughout your playthrough, you might want to investigate the environment, since there are items around to collect for achievements. Achievements themselves are a bit buggy though. I recommend not using the steam overlay or sending the game to tray since it may block achievements from unlocking. If all else fails, verify cache and they should trigger the next time you are meeting their conditions. Go ahead. I know that you are already curious. It is not the wittiest kid on the block, but it is here and it is free with certain creative value. Enjoy! Please also check out Lady Storyteller's Curator page [url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/ladystoryteller#curation]here - follow for regular updates on reviews for other games!
Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist is a short free game. It takes approximately 15 minutes to finish it. This game is a nice unique experience and pretty humorous. During your way through the game you will be led by a voice, like in Stanley Parable. The voice acting is really enjoyable. If you have played The Stanley Parable and enjoyed the humour of it you should definitely try Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist. Sounds 9/10 Graphics 7/10 Gameplay 5/10 Atmosphere 9/10 Video of playthrough: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=848813481 If you liked my review, please feel free to follow me and/or my curator group: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Ov3RT4K3R/myworkshopfiles/?section=guides http://steamcommunity.com/groups/orcollective#curation Also feel free to check out my YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC83DYCmrWfl9ttrhX54jmWA
I played my first playthrough, delibrately going slow and standing around listening to the narrator plead with me to do things, and I finished in about an hour. It took me another half hour or so to do another one and a half runs of it to get all achievements. You can get 90% of the dialogue and entertainment in about a single, twenty minute playthrough. If you played The Stanley Parable and liked it even a little bit, then you should give this a try. The gist of the story is that you are behind the scenes of a the single player game "Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist" and since somebody else is playing it, you can't. Instead, the unseen narrator guides/tells you want to do and when, because most of the workforce has gone out on strike because of reasons. For example, he tells you "turn the knob to activate the rain", and you can sit there and wait for however long you want to turn the knob, while he pleads with you. You can also find other levers and buttons to push to mess with things (though the story progresses regardless). It's a nice way to spend an hour, and wouldn't mind spending a couple of bucks for it, but since it's free, there is literally no reason not to play it. There is no replayability with this game, but that was the same with The Stanley Parable, once you've seen and done all the options, that's all there is to the game. Same thing here, but even moreso. "It's not the destination, but the journey" but taken to the extreme, the journey can be completed in 10 minutes and the destination actually made me chuckle the first time I played it. ================================= The graphical options could be better (only four options from poor -> best, with a unity launcher with resolution options), but I had no problem running it at a locked 60fps at 1440p with SLI 980s. Probably not the hardest thing to run, even though it looks really good. It also helps that there isn't a lot shown at once, and you're locked in a room, so heavy optimizations can be done on the developer's end. Though, at one point there is an open flame and fire shown, and that stood out as being drastically lower quality. Other than that isolated instance, I was not disappointed with the visuals. There is a bunch to look at, boxes, posters, and papers all had really high resolution textures and could be looked at up close to read about the game that you're backstage from. There's a lot of information in the scattered papers and beta review sheets laying around that give you an actually fairly high detailed view of what is going on in the game that you're not playing. (though, granted, you can choose to ignore all that and play the 'behind the game'-game instead). TLDR; Don't ignore this game because it's free, thinking it's low quality trash, nor brush it off because it's trying and failing to be a The Stanley Parable-clone. It's well made, with a great sense of humor and a great narrator, just like The Stanley Parable.
A darkly hilarious comedy about a game you never get to play. Almost as much a walking simulator as a point-and-click adventure, Dr. Lageskov takes you (literally) on a backstage tour of game development, with top-notch voice acting and a surprising and engaging script with humour quite reminiscent of Portal 2. Would be worth paying for, but it's free! And short! And funny! Would search every nook and cranny again (and did... several times... stupid pretzels).
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Yes, Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist is free to play on Steam.
Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist is not on sale because is already free to play on Steam.
Yes, Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist received 9,108 positive votes out of a total of 9,773 achieving an impressive rating of 9.05.
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Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist was developed and published by Crows Crows Crows.
Yes, Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Yes, Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
No, Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist is not playable on Linux.
Yes, Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist is playable on Steam Deck, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
Yes, Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist is playable on Steam Machine, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
No, Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist does not support VR.
Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist is a single-player game.
No, Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist does not currently offer any DLC.
No, Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist does not support Steam Remote Play.
No, Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist does not currently support Steam Family Sharing.
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Developer
Crows Crows Crows
Publisher
Crows Crows Crows
Release
04 Dec 2015
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