This is a fairly small unfinished game at the moment, so don't expect endless hours of gameplay yet, but thus far it seems promising! The movement is very fun and satisfying, and easy to learn. As I said, certainly a long way off being finished, but the bones of a very good game are here and I will be following the development to see what comes next! And it's free so you have nothing to lose!

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they put fishing on the web.... the mind boggles

very cute very fun, ideal to play with your significant other! it's like if animal crossing was just the fishing and didn't scream at you for not playing for a day. press G to meow/bark. no game with a meow button can be bad

A very good game - more than redeemed itself from the shoddy beginnings it had!

No Man's Sky is an incredibly versatile game. There's so many things to see and do - want to explore endless planets? Go ahead! Want to get into space fights and take down giant capital ships? You can! Want to plunder abandoned freighters? Feel free! Want to build a sprawling underwater base? You can do that too! Want to be the overseer of your own settlement and watch it thrive? Want to smuggle contraband for pirate factions? Want to feed a cute animal you found and make it your pet? Want to track down ancient ruins? Want to encounter anomalies in the vastness of space? Want to unlock the mysteries of the universe? You can!!

There's something for everyone and so many ways to play. I really want to champion the incredibly versatile difficulty settings too - you can really build your own experience and play the game at your own pace. I only play for a few hours here and there after work and I've tweaked my difficulty settings to make things a bit less grindy because I don't have the time to be grinding things out. I'm not locked out of any content by doing this and it lets me tailor the game to how I want to play.

No Man's Sky is my current go-to game to play while watching videos or shows because it can be a really chilled and relaxed experience, but it can also be an intense and exciting game if you want it to be. The versatility is great.

If I had to sum it up, I'd say that No Man's Sky is a rare find: an Open World Survival Craft game that *doesn't* get boring after the first 3 hours.

The Norwood Suite follows loosely from the previous game by Cosmo D, Off-Peak. Where Off-Peak lay the groundwork for this fascinating, uncanny world of swelling music and familiar-feeling spaces, The Norwood Suite plunges us even deeper.

Cosmo D is a master at creating surreal spaces; the game is set in the Norwood Hotel, an establishment you explore and learn about throughout the game. The hotel feels equal parts familiar yet alien, and at times you find yourself wishing you could jump through the screen, be amongst this bizarre world and its chatty, peculiar characters. It's a world unlike our own, but the quirky charm and mystery are nothing short of captivating.

In terms of story, The Norwood Suite is tantalisingly vague. There's plenty of dialogue, environmental storytelling, and musical storytelling for you to piece together somewhat of a narrative, but the intricacies of the Norwood Hotel - the events unfurling at the hotel, the wider world it lives in, the lives of its inhabitants - remain elusive. In the game you are a visitor in the hotel, and as a player you are a visitor to Cosmo D's universe. You pick up snippets of what's going on, much like an interloper would, but the answers are not yours to have.

It'd be remiss of me to not discuss the scoring of The Norwood Suite. And what a score! The music truly defines this game, and steps it up from a simple fetch-quest entry in the indie library to an incredible sonic experience. The music and sound surround you and fully immerse you, enveloping you into the heart of the hotel. Music is, narratively, a core part of the game's story (as it was also established to be in the precursor game, Off-Peak). Through both conversations and music both overheard we come to learn and understand how music grows: it evolves and regresses, changes and stays the same, is loved and loathed, is loud and quiet, is the most important thing and is insignificant, is learned and forgotten. Describing music with words never really does it justice; it is no wonder Cosmo D chooses to illustrate it through games.

I may be overselling it. The game left an impact on me, and I hope it leaves an impact on you too. It might not be your cup of tea, but it's worth checking out just to hear some of the enchanting soundtrack (I believe even the naysayers enjoy the score!)

The game does one more thing you don't see very often any more - it has a free demo. So if you want to dip your toes into The Norwood Suite, I encourage you to at least try before you buy! The previous game by Cosmo D, Off-Peak, is also available on Steam in its entirety for free, so do give that a look as well.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/467360/OffPeak/

A lovely hidden gem. The gameplay is fun and surprisingly addictive, the music is great, and the game is adorable. Great to sit and actively play, or just sit back and enjoy watching your biomes thrive!

This game has such a cool aesthetic and some really interesting and fun gameplay! It also makes me feel very nostalgic for the early web. The story concepts are super cool too - the internet, except you browse through a headband while you're asleep? It's got a wonderful retro-cyberpunk vibe. It's not the longest game but it's super fun to play through and/or goof about in.

Although you aren't a hacker, I'd very much place this in the 'hacking games' genre. If that's your thing, check it out!

An essential bit of information for enjoying this game to its fullest: PLAY WITH A CONTROLLER. The game will tell you this as soon as you start it, and it really does mean it.

This is the best game I've ever played. This feels like the best game I will ever play.

Go in as blindly as you can. The entertainment value of this game is learning, exploration, discovery and freedom. You are an astronaut flitting about through space in your hodgepodge spacecraft, exploring the beautiful, scary, magical, incredible mysteries that fill your solar system. Learn about the species that came before you. Learn about what will come after you. Learn about life, death, and everything in-between.

This game will take time. Give it a good couple hours before jumping to conclusions. If you are really - and I mean REALLY, truly and utterly - stuck and confused, check out the beginning of the Polygon walkthrough - it offers helpful pointers without spoonfeeding you everything. Start with that, then go off-piste.

It's hard to talk about this game without spoiling key elements of it, but so much of its impact and effect isn't from the content, it's from the emotions it elicits. Bittersweetness, melancholy, ennui. Hope, thrill, excitement. Peace, calm, tranquility. All of these emotions racing through you as you continue your journey, embellished and heightened by the accompaniment of a truly BEAUTIFUL soundtrack composed by Andrew Prahlow.

This game does something many games don't do any more: it trusts the player. There is very little hand-holding. Go forth and explore! Nobody is going to tell you how to do it, and nobody will do it for you! Go! See! Learn! And then do it all again!

Simply put, this game is a masterpiece.

I'm very glad I bought this game for a reduced price on Indie Game Stand, because I think I'd ask for my money back if I'd paid the full price. This game is an absolute mess. The gameplay is virtually nonexistent, unless you enjoy walking around aimlessly, and there are no real redeeming qualities to actually encourage you to progress. Unless you like clicking on people and things randomly until you somehow make vague progress, I cannot recommend this game to anyones unless they're either a masochist or someone who runs a YouTube channel specifically for the purpose of mocking abysmal games. There are corners that have clearly been cut throughout development too, with the functionality to sort of 'trade' with plants existing for some unspecified reason (but I would assume it was so the developer wouldn't need to program more than one menu or something). Please don't buy this game if you love yourself.