Sense - 不祥的预感: A Cyberpunk Ghost Story

[Rean]

Picked up this little piece since it came out on GOG and have been casually enjoying it. Very easy 2D 'Point & Click' (more like spam-click, especially with a controller). Surprisingly good atmosphere, combining cyberpunk dystopia with Chinese horror and an 80s touch. It's weird, but the final result comes out nice.

Indie as hell, and obvious it is such, but it has that certain quality and obsession feel about it that you can just taste. Really nice hand-drawn assets too.

Now, if you look at the screenshots, you might think this is just some low effort coomer shit, especially if you notice the characters' MASSIVE bazongas, but it's anything but. In fact, it's way less horny than I even expect the average cyberpunk game to be - figure the dev just has a really particular preference for his girls.

Oh, and the soundtrack's kinda charming too, it's got some pleasant music in there.

Give it a try if you want something dark.

 

[KafkaBot]

I liked this one when I played it all the way back in 2020. I was just disappointed that the game focuses almost entirely on its supernatural aspects; there's surprisingly little "cyberpunk" here, to the point that I sometimes felt the setting was little more than window dressing.

The devs have another game, SENSEs: Midnight, which is a homage to classic PS2-era survival horror, but I haven't played it yet:

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The scarce reviews suggest this game didn't too well, but that doesn't seem to have stopped them; their website claims they're developing a third Sense game. Plus, they released a small project this year that doesn't carry the Sense brand:

 

[Rean]

I liked this one when I played it all the way back in 2020. I was just disappointed that the game focuses almost entirely on its supernatural aspects; there's surprisingly little "cyberpunk" here, to the point that I sometimes felt the setting was little more than window dressing.

Just finished it. You're right, there's no cyberpunk. In fact, for most of it, I thought the MC had time traveled to the 80s, but that didn't seem to be the case in the end.

Weird but enjoyable game. I didn't mind the focus on the spirits, the hodgepodge of Oriental cultures was a bit bizarre though. I'm also a bit disappointed with how hard it was to follow the events and character names, it felt it was genuinely trying to tell a cool ghost story, but it didn't come out too well.

There was also at least one cringe Youtuber reference I caught in the epilogue, not sure what that was. Backer?

 

[Rean]

The devs have another game, SENSEs: Midnight, which is a homage to classic PS2-era survival horror, but I haven't played it yet:

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The scarce reviews suggest this game didn't too well, but that doesn't seem to have stopped them; their website claims they're developing a third Sense game. Plus, they released a small project this year that doesn't carry the Sense brand:

Thanks for this. I'd checked out the devs, but it seems they used a slightly different company name for these releases on Steam.

 

[Venser]

Giant boobs

 

[Tyranicon]

Shame those giant assets didn't see more use, just sayin'.