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You are thrown into a weird world by the machine Garage. Can you escape from it?
Garage: Bad Dream Adventure is a adventure, point & click and dark game
developed by 作場金属製作所 Sakuba Metal Works and SmokymonkeyS
and published by 作場金属製作所 Sakuba Metal Works.
Released on July 07th 2022 is available only on Windows
in 4 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Japanese.
It has received 309 reviews of which 301 were positive and 8 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 15.90€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 (SP1+) 64bit
- Processor: x64
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 750 Ti
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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loved this game, but not for everyone. its for a certain demographic for sure.
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For a point and click fishing simulator / dating simulator, I don't even think what I can articulate fully encapsulates the true nature of what's in this game. You know how video games, no matter the genre, aim to make you feel good? Like how first person shooters pump you full of adrenaline, farming simulators or games like Minecraft aim to give you a sense of progress, so you can feel pride in the work you've put in? Garage: Bad Dream Adventure is the first game I've ever seen to make you feel nothing but bad. Alone and empty. Contemplating why you're here, who you are, if you should even bother going on. Yet you can't look away, you keep coming back. The visuals are gritty and bleak, but so full of detail that it's overwhelming, especially in the first couple of chapters. The whole world around you is rusty, molded, mildewed, and rotting away underneath you. The music and sound effects are barebones and simple, but provide a sad and hopeless ambiance if the visuals somehow weren't enough to get that point across. The character design is unnerving as hell and all look vaguely similar, yet each character has unique design features so it's easy to tell them apart. Everyone is deformed in some way; lumpy heads, bulging eyes, grotesquely flailing genitals. Speaking of which; not going to spoil anything, but this is one of the few games to ever exist with intersex (or intersex-transitioning?) representation which is pretty unique to see today, let alone in the 90's when this came out. Along with that, no topic is too taboo in this game. There are mentions of suicide, self harm, and a short scene depicting sexual assault. Everything nasty you'd try to avoid in every day life is splayed out in front of you in Garage. My advice for progressing through the game? Repeatedly talk to everyone as much as possible. Blink and you will miss something or accidentally soft lock yourself out of an achievement. You are bound to miss multiple achievements the first few playthroughs anyways, so don't stress too much your first time. Don't concern yourself too much with buying fish hooks either, you'll find plenty. Spend the early parts of the game saving up your stamps for the upgrades, because your fuel and ego run out so quickly. I have yet to 100% this game and I'm on my 3rd playthrough, likely with many more to come. No matter what ending I get I am left more confused and empty than last time. I highly recommend this game. Especially if you've got a little something wrong with you. Or a lot, I don't judge.
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Really has to be played by more people, the fact that this incredibly unique game exists and was recovered from its lost media status to be put on Steam with a translation is nothing short of a miracle
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A super obscure Japan-only point-and-click adventure with a run-down diesel-punk aesthetic with themes of loss-of-identity and mental-illness-how-many-more-hyphens-can-I-add-to-this?? AND it has fishing??? I was very impressed to also learn that the people behind this version of the game have updated and balanced it since release, rather than just leaving it as is. If literally any of that sound interesting then I'd recommend checking it out!
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Under the veneer of ugliness and biomechanical decay, there's a sincere human story being told in Garage, and it unravels its moments of grotesque beauty with unexpected grace for a 25+ year old game. Some rough edges may have been smoothed out, but to my knowledge it's fundamentally the same game that came out in 1999 and almost became lost media. Like most Japanese style adventures, the game involves moving from place to place and talking to NPCs to get information and progress the game state, occasionally needing to use items or show them to NPCs. There is also a heavy emphasis on fishing, which is mechanically simple but pretty satisfying. It becomes mandatory later in the game, which may turn some players off, but I enjoyed it. You need to refill your fuel and Ego levels at respective clinics every so often to avoid a game over, though it's thankfully cheap to do so. Navigation is very confusing for the first hour or two, but once you understand how the inner and outer tracks face opposite directions, it gets easier. The timer is always running even while in menus, but don't worry about the cycle number going up, it won't lock you out of any events or endings. Judging from how the game looks I expected it to be very alienating and hard to get through, but I was able to finish the entire game without a guide, except for one minor thing I got stuck on near the end. As long as you're talking to NPCs at every opportunity and reading notes, you will be provided with enough information to figure out how to progress. Every machine NPC has their own habits, motivations, histories, relationships to other machines, etc. And in spite of how they look, I grew quite fond of them. It was surprisingly touching, feeling happy for an elderly shut-in machine who tells you that he's started going for strolls and just had a nice chat with his neighbor, or feeling sorry for a machine who begins to lose their sense of purpose and eventually succumbs to Ego depletion. The artwork by Tomomi Sakuba and soundtrack by Tomonori Tanaka are distinctive, often repulsive and disconcerting, but can also be quite beautiful. There are heavy psychosexual undertones in the character designs and overall story, with a lot of Freudian and Jungian inspiration. The music is largely atonal mechanical noises with droning, wheezing melodies and I think it fits the game perfectly, and some of the ambient tracks are really gorgeous. After spending some time in the world of Garage you'll feel more at home than you might expect, engrossed in a routine of rolling around the tracks, refueling, fishing, shopping, and checking in on your fellow machines. This is a game that makes you think and feel and sticks with you well after you've stopped playing. Garage definitely earns its status as a cult classic and I honestly can't recommend it enough.
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Garage: Bad Dream Adventure is currently priced at 15.90€ on Steam.
Garage: Bad Dream Adventure is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 15.90€ on Steam.
Garage: Bad Dream Adventure received 301 positive votes out of a total of 309 achieving a rating of 8.90.
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Garage: Bad Dream Adventure was developed by 作場金属製作所 Sakuba Metal Works and SmokymonkeyS and published by 作場金属製作所 Sakuba Metal Works.
Garage: Bad Dream Adventure is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Garage: Bad Dream Adventure is not playable on MacOS.
Garage: Bad Dream Adventure is not playable on Linux.
Garage: Bad Dream Adventure is a single-player game.
Garage: Bad Dream Adventure does not currently offer any DLC.
Garage: Bad Dream Adventure does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Garage: Bad Dream Adventure does not support Steam Remote Play.
Garage: Bad Dream Adventure is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
作場金属製作所 Sakuba Metal Works,
SmokymonkeyS
Publisher
作場金属製作所 Sakuba Metal Works
Release
07 Jul 2022
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