A game I got as part of a Humble Bundle, and in the interests of full transparency the first failure of the Veizy.com Steam Summer Sale Playtime, it’s The Novelist.
I played The Novelist for 18 minutes, I couldn’t finish out the hour. The Novelist is one of the least interesting games I’ve ever played, and I am a huge fan of artsy non-games. In The Novelist you play as a ghost who is observing a family that’s staying in a summer house. The family have incredibly boring issues that you, as a ghost, have to help them with. The father is a novelist with writer’s block. The wife thinks her marriage is failing. The child wants to play with his toys. I don’t care.
I see what The Novelist was trying to do. Maybe if I played it for longer I would have found out they succeeded, however I highly doubt that. It seems like they wanted the game to be about the minutia of life and how the little things are what’s most important. Instead all I saw was the minutia of life and how dull and boring it is.
I don’t want to write any more about this game. It was so, so dull. Urghh. I am never to play it again.
The Novelist Website
The Novelist Steam Page
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