Rue Valley - Disco-like time loop RPG

[LESS T_T]

https://ruevalley.com




https://af.gog.com/game/rue_valley?as=1649904300

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Developed by Serbian studio named Emotion Spark Studio.

You​

You are at the motel in the middle of nowhere, the last place you want to be at. You are forced to attend a psychotherapy, which you don't want. But you can't leave because, whatever you do, as soon as the clock hits 20:47, the world rewinds and you are back in the room with your therapist. Find the strength to lift yourself up, learn about residents of Rue Valley, uncover the mystery of the time anomaly and figure out a way to stop it.

Characters​

Meet a variety of characters, all interconnected and with detailed backstories. See them from different perspectives each loop as you learn more about them. Help them, use them, relate with them. Their stories will make you laugh, cry, break your heart or maybe heal it, but no matter they do, you won't forget them.

Attributes and Traits​

Define your character by Personality Attributes and Traits. Be a cold-hearted loner who overthinks everything or a melodramatic loudmouth always responding with your gut. Reflect your own personality or Role-Play someone completely different as dialogues and interactions are heavily influenced by the character you play.

Status Effects​

Suffer the consequences of your choices and struggle with the Status Effects that will temporarily or permanently change your personality. Be more extraverted when you're drunk, or more sensitive when you're anxious. Just when you think you have everything under control, a wrong decision and an unexpected Status Effect can start rolling things downhill.

Information, Tasks and Skills​

Explore the world to gather Information which is stored in a node based graph that represents your mind. Once specific information nodes are collected they will generate a Task or a Skill. Once acquired, Tasks will tell you what to do and will unlock new choices in dialogues and interactions. A variety of unusual Skills will unlock absurd dialogues and interactions that will allow you to complete tasks in unexpected and hilarious ways. Learn to play the piano, understand rocket science or memorize all the lines from the cheesy romance novel.

Motivation​

Explore and complete Tasks to gather motivation. Use it to acquire new Tasks and Skills, but choose wisely, as you won't always have enough motivation to do everything.

 

[Ivan]

highly emotional RPG lol come on dawg

 

[rusty_shackleford]

make it stop

 

[V_K]

Disco-like AND time loop? What is it, Worst Trends in Current RPGs: The Game?

 

[bionicman]

 

[Comte_II]

LAME

 

[JarlFrank]

"survive the psychotherapy"

See, the reason Disco Elysium's journey of emotional self-discovery was fun was because it's wrapped around a detective investigation plot and you stumble upon these issues of your past bit by bit as you investigate the world around you.

Going to psychotherapy sessions with NPC Freud sounds fucking lame in comparison.

 

[Darkozric]

Once we had Myst clones now VN clones. In the grim darkness of the near future, there is only click, reading, and muh feelings.

 

[bionicman]

Once we had Myst clones now VN clones. In the grim darkness of the near future, there is only click, reading, and muh feelings.

It's just a temporary thing, whenever there's a super-successful indie hit (or just any sort of product really, doesn't just apply to games), there will be copycats to milk the hype train. Eventually the hype train dies out though.

 

[LarryTyphoid]

I don't understand game devs. They can plan out a team of artists and musicians, they can program, they can arrange a deal with publishers or Steam to get their game commercially available, but they can't actually put all that into making a real game that isn't a pile of retarded trends. Coming up with cool ideas for games should be the easy part. Any kid can do it.

 

[Harthwain]

I like the idea of Mind Map and I am interested in time loop as gameplay mechanic, but "survive the unjust psychotherapy" sounds like a lame premise.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

The mind map remind me of Norco.

 

[FriendlyMerchant]

"Disco-like" is the only phrase I need to here to know this isn't an rpg.

 

[Faarbaute]

Haha, this is great.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Really these should be called AoD-likes

 

[SharkClub]

I don't understand game devs. They can plan out a team of artists and musicians, they can program, they can arrange a deal with publishers or Steam to get their game commercially available, but they can't actually put all that into making a real game that isn't a pile of retarded trends. Coming up with cool ideas for games should be the easy part. Any kid can do it.

Tragic isn't it. For every one of these creatively bankrupt indie game devs that churn out derivative garbage with no gameplay there's probably like 1000 "idea guys" with actual good ideas that will never be realized because of a lack of skill, whether that be in programming, art, sound or even tardwrangling a team of people.

 

[just]

notbuying-like lmao

 

[CanadianCorndog]

I would probably play it just to check out the systems. The psychotherapy angle is kind of goofy on the surface but who knows what it actually means in game.

And I hate "when it's done". Just stop writing that. Make a schedule and stick to it.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

I don't understand game devs. They can plan out a team of artists and musicians, they can program, they can arrange a deal with publishers or Steam to get their game commercially available, but they can't actually put all that into making a real game that isn't a pile of retarded trends. Coming up with cool ideas for games should be the easy part. Any kid can do it.

At least this one is not another rogue-lite/souls-like with metroidvania elements.

 

[Darkozric]

At least this one is not another rogue-lite/souls-like with metroidvania elements.

Yeah, it's not cat poop it's dog poop. Big difference, I'm relieved.

 

[Junmarko]

 

[Darkozric]

Dev with a dirty sheets fetish spotted. The next natural move is the creation of The Dirty Sheets Crowd Thread.

 

[Harthwain]

I am actually interested why it is the smallest one. Because if it is the smallest one, then it does indicate the existence of a larger one, which begs the question as to why you didn't take a larger one to begin with.

 

[just]

I am actually interested why it is the smallest one. Because if it is the smallest one, then it does indicate the existence of a larger one, which begs the question as to why you didn't take a larger one to begin with.

lack of motivation

 

[V_K]

I don't understand game devs. They can plan out a team of artists and musicians, they can program, they can arrange a deal with publishers or Steam to get their game commercially available, but they can't actually put all that into making a real game that isn't a pile of retarded trends. Coming up with cool ideas for games should be the easy part. Any kid can do it.

At least this one is not another rogue-lite/souls-like with metroidvania elements.

Don't give them ideas.