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Schein is a 2D precision side-scrolling puzzle platformer. Use the magic of light to explore hidden worlds, solve challenging puzzles, and defeat deadly beasts in this award-winning atmospheric action-adventure game.
Schein is a precision platformer, side scroller and sokoban game
developed by Zeppelin Studio
and published by .
Released on October 09th 2014 is available only on Windows
in 4 languages: English, German, French and Spanish - Spain.
It has received 328 reviews of which 241 were positive and 87 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.9 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.77€ on Gamivo.
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System requirements
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Windows
- OS *: Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1
- Processor: 1.6 GHz
- Memory: 768 MB RAM
- Graphics: 256 MB SM3 DirectX 9.0c
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 1126 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Full controller support
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Great indie game. + Simple storyline with few good twists. + Beautiful soundtrack. + Great platforming. + Great puzzles, there's actually quite a lot of puzzles in this game. + Greatly combines puzzles and platforming in one package. + Great voice acting. + Very unique and interesting graphics style, whole level design has 4 different dimensions or whatever you call them, even through each of them are mostly re-skins each looks great and a bit different, it feels very well done. + Collectables unlock some short text dialogues. They are challenging to get, very satisfying. - Some weird performance. Game automatically starts lagging a bit after playing for half hour and lag keeps increasing the more you play. After 1h of playtime game lags unplayably. If I quit the game it runs very smoothly again and always starts lagging after I play a bit. It sucks I have to restart the game every 30 minutes. This issue has been mentioned by many players, yet there's no better fix other than keep restarting the game as far as I know. - Final boss battle is cryptic and a really hard pain in the ass, it's really unfair 1. Cryptic, I had to play for half hour until figured out how to beat him 2. In his last form he starts shooting "invisible" projectiles, they look like water so they are almost invisible. 3. It's pretty much trial and error kind of battle, every step requires perfect play. Still, I must admit that it's great that it saves after every hit you make on that boss, otherwise I couldn't imagine myself ever beating it. 8/10
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A charming and entertaining game. Title Schein Developer Zeppelin Studio Publisher Meridian4 Release 10 October 2014 Graphics 2D Genre Platform Price €6,99 Rating 7.5 /10 The game. Schein is a challenging puzzle platform where light will be the key to everything. The word "Schein" means (among other things) "a glow" in German. Gameplay. Schein tells the story of a desperate man, who ventures forth into the mystical swamp in search of his missing son. As he gets lost in the darkness, a wisp appears that offers him help, guidance, and its magical power: a light that changes the world. Use this mighty power and your wits to unveil new dimensions, defeat deadly beasts, solve tricky puzzles and uncover hidden paths through the murky swamp. You'll find a nice gloomy atmosphere, good puzzles and hard platforming. The game consists in solve puzzles while jumping platforms. It's insane in some parts. Creatively uses the game's light mechanics to blend the hand-drawn assets of the four worlds, as well as somehow incorporating a 3D model without it looking really out of place. It's inevitable not remember LIMBO . It's very easy to die in Schein , like in LIMBO , though Schein doesn't quite have the same pathos to the main character's death. The game has a good level of difficulty in some parts. Hard sometimes. The platform of the game can be a bit frustrating for ones, and challenging for others. You'll die a lot. But it's a good difficulty. I really liked this game. Positive points. (+) [*]Decent story. [*]Awesome art style. [*]Relaxing music. [*]Brilliant game mechanics. [*]Good level design. [*]Progressive difficulty on levels (except one or two parts, but it's ok). [*]Puzzles are never repeated. Negative points. (-) [*]None. Some parts are too hard, implies a lot of deaths, but isn't a con. It's challenging.
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This game is addictive. Especially for puzzle/platformer lovers. I really enjoyed the challenges this game offers. The thing I liked the most about this game is sometimes you have to be precise about timing when you are solving the puzzles. Pros: - Brilliant game mechanics - Good level design - Progressive difficulty on levels (except one or two parts, but it's no such a big deal) - Puzzles never repeat Cons: - Game ending, story-wise and gameplay-wise, is not original (Reminded me so much of another game that I cannot mention here)
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Charming little puzzler that does a lot of things right, but some wrong. In general the idea is that you manipulate light around you to reveal and mix different worlds so you can overcome obstacles. The concept works great and allows for some difficult brain twisters. The puzzles are challanging but also rewarding once you get past them. Graphics are decent, nothing impressive to me, in fact if anything I would say the game feels bit unpolished there but given its an indie game I'm not taking that as a con. It didn't bother me. Couple of things that did bother me though: - Unless you shed the appropriate light color you won't know whats there. This may not seem like a problem at first, but there will be many sequences where you have to navigate tight spaces switching lights and you will die many times because you switched the light too soon or too late and there is no way for you to know until you try (and die). Game that does this much better as an example is Fly'n where you have shadows of the other world. - The game tries to do a decent job at introducing you to different things you can do, but doesn't hold your hand. This means if you are particularly resourceful you may overcome some obstacles in a non intended way and never learn what new mechanics you were supposed to pick up until you get stuck much later, because you never learned it. Other things you never tried or had to try until you are stuck 30min on the same puzzle and discover "Hey! This is possible?! That would have saved me hours had I just known!" The story is non fairly shallow, not going to say more about it. Overall it was a nice journey and I would still recommend just be prepared for some (good) frustration. 7.5/10
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Schein is a neat puzzle platformer game focusing on using various light sources to warp reality to solve the puzzles in the game. I liked the fact that some of the puzzles are thinking based while others are reflex based. The game does not completely bogs itself down with a single type of puzzle over and over again; it alternates between these two types of puzzles to keep you interested to the game. You never feel any unnecessary repetion in the game. It has quite a good of an atmosphere. The graphics and music is nothing like Bastion, Braid but it is decent enough and fits very well with the atmosphere. There is also the underlying story which unravels as the game progresses. When everything is finished it just felt a bit underwhelming to me. For such an interesting and compelling atmosphere, I would have preferred at least multiple endings. But then again it is not much of a problem. I really recommend Schein for anybody who is interested in a good puzzle platformer game. Also considering its price, it is a very good deal for a low price.
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Schein is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.
Schein is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 4.99€ on Steam.
Schein received 241 positive votes out of a total of 328 achieving a rating of 6.94.
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Schein was developed by Zeppelin Studio.
Schein is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Schein is not playable on MacOS.
Schein is not playable on Linux.
Schein is a single-player game.
Schein does not currently offer any DLC.
Schein does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Schein does not support Steam Remote Play.
Schein 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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