Suprisingly "high brow" review for a Steamster. Usually they just say "iz gam".
KeoniBoy you too seem a bit shall we say, "a lover", of anything "devil". It's not healthy dude! Believe me, he won't reward you for it. Contrary to what "Butthead" might say, he is NOT "huh huh huh..... cool". Maybe you should perhaps worship something like "Darwin" instead! You can still be the anti-Christian edgelord and the worst thing Darwin can do to you is tickle you in the night with his ghostly beard!

:D :D

Before you all start whinging, that's meant to be taken with "humour". Even though that is something "the devil" and his "lackeys" are not known for.

Mind you, I must ask myself why I'm even "defending God" here, he (or any of the others for that matter) don't really go all out to help us mere human microbes these days. Will probably have to wait for an "apocalypse" to be due for any of that! You know, just like politicans when it's election time!

It is funny how you call everyone an idiot or "flies" who happens to like or to be interested in this game and then you have the chutzpah to complain about the level of discourse.

He won't you know. Trust me. If he called you "r-----" for ANY other reason he would have been banhammered immediately. But for targetting you for being "Christian", nothing, not even a "tut tut tut" will result.
"BrutalTruth"? Used to be a good death metal called that but they were a bit dumb with their lyrics! :D They were all "Hail Dawkins! F--- God!", had many an issue with people of that ilk also using the name over the years!!!!!!!

So, that's the only reason why you're complaining huh? I'm proletizing for what YOU hate. So therefore I'M the criminal!
My "chutzpah" is only for the people who seem to think they have carte blanche rights to abuse a certain group, and then scream foul when that group retorts...... hey, people like you!!!!!!

PS/ Flies was just a general term - and if you're THAT much of a sensitive little flower to be offended by THAT, you're not really suited for the rough tough world of anti-theism, or these forums! :D

PPS/ It's a disgrace GOG have even let this thread go the way it has.

PPPS/ brutaltruth99's vacuous nothing posts are now "high rated" as well?! Holy Toledo, this "GOG forum clique" is a seriously rancid one! Or it's just a damning indicator of how bad many people are round here. Sigh.

Fine. Then there is only one option left.

https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?product=gog&form=report

I'm genuinely shocked some posts in this thread have been up for days, do we even have a moderation team?

One way to find out is to try the above link brutal kindly posted. Other than that, I think the answer is a resounding "no".

Yep! An innocuous piece of entertainment that made the "mistake" of using religious themes, but I guess the fact that it was enough to piss some people off was somewhat predictable.

No, it does not involve the devil but a character based on him. For example, did you know that neither Nikola Tesla nor H.P. Lovecraft were personally involved in the game "Tesla vs Lovecraft", and that both of them are in fact characters in the game? You can make all kinds of crazy things happen in a video game, but that doesn't change the fact that in the end, as Marko put it, it's just a stupid video game.

And here, "stupid" really means "harmless".

We find Steam reviews much more numerous on any prog than GOG, to put it mildly. Most of them are basic "astroturf", and therefore to be taken with a large grain of NaCl, but some are quite comprehensive, insightful, and therefore very useful in making a decision to commit one's "dosh", on GOG, of course! As for our "beliefs", we are an agnostic on most things, until we have enough "evidence" to at least convince Horace Rumpole, or a Red Judge. What we "worship" is the DDG image we admiringly gaze at in the myriad mirrors adorning the walls of our shrine. "What's it all about, Alfie?!" ((;--))

There is a very interesting interview with studio co-founder Dmitry Setlov on RPS:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/how-historical-fantasy-indika-channels-its-russian-creators-anger-against-putin-and-the-orthodox-church

definitely worth a read including the comments.

It's mostly about the story, meaning it's light on gameplay. Some walking, some puzzle with moving boxes
and pathfinding and some chasing sequences that can be quite trial and error. All technically solid but could be more optimized (I play this on Ubuntu Linux via Heroic Game Launcher).

And then there are the mini arcade games which are ... not good. Esp. the very first thing you have to do is to collect stars and all of them. It _nearly_ made me rage quit and refund.

Other mini game are not that bad but all of them with a not that well implemented control scheme.
A lot of people on Steam already ask the dev to make them skippable.

On the content IMHO:
it makes great points at topics like falling from believe, psychosis (Indika as referring to the medical term 'indication' I guess), not living up to other's expectations and the vile of people (esp. the religious and political zealots- after all, acccording to the devs, this is a parable about Putin and the Orthodox Church).

Heavy but at the same time it also tells this with an incredible, dry sense of humor and very psychedelic at times, including the 8 Bit soundtrack, which brings it all together.

I haven't played it to the end, yet but besides the mini games, I love it so far.

My rating would be 3.5/5 because of the mini games. Otherwise 5/5.

"basic astroturf"? Eh?
"A dose of NaCl"? (Yes, I do know that means "salt" but why not put just that?)
"Horace Rumpole"? "Red Judge"?
"What we "worship" is the DDG image we admiringly gaze at in the myriad mirrors adorning the walls of our shrine. "What's it all about, Alfie?!" ((;--))"..... that's BEYOND surreal!

Did you use some chatbot AI to generate this post or is it just thanks to Google Translate?

Thanks DarkBattler, though I will let MarkoH01 tell me what he meant exactly by the word "stupid" before accepting your second hand opinion on what he meant by it.

So "no devil" in it eh?
Let's read this cut and paste excerpt from the store description!
Play a TPP adventure game that combines an imaginative story with a dark sense of humor
Join a young nun Indika on her journey of self-discovery
Meet the devil himself as Indika’s unlikely travel companion
Explore the hidden depths of Indika’s soul while tackling unique puzzle elements
Travel through surreal landscapes of Russia seen in a distorted mirror
Uncover Indika's troubled past in the form of 2D pixel art mini-games

Hello? "Meet the devil himself"......... there it is IN WRITING in the GAME'S. OWN. STORE. DESCRIPTION!
Do. You. Understand?

I'm geting POed with these hair splitting, argumentative, "smoke and mirrors" politician / double speak bullshit replies.

The game may be harmless, but the prejudiced self-righteous attitudes of some posters in this nasty thread still stink! And THAT is what my real beef with this thread is, NOT "whether the game has the devil in it or not"!
Jesus, will Clownski or some other mod come and lock it PLEASE!

That is actually a very good review of the game - and a refreshing bit of sensibility. Thank you!

Bollocks is still bollocks, whoever shovels it out, lad. QED.

So let me confirm that he hit the nail on the head ... I really meant "harmless", "meaningless", "nothing one should worry about" ... might not have been perfectly worded because English is not my native language. I did not want to say that it is literally "stupid" ... that I can't even judge and from what I've heard so far it's more likely that it's probably more intelligent in the sense that it is trying to make people think with its strange and surealistic artstyle... but again - I don't know enough about the game to be able to really judge how good or intelligent it might be. However it is in any case just a videogame and in my opinion one should never worry about any piece of art: be it a movie, a book, music or a video game.

It also says "imaginative" which imo is much more important. I guess that is the reason why DarkBattler said that it does not have any (real) devil in it ... it's just one (of many) imaginary depictions of the devil and nothing more. It's a story told by a writer about something they inveted in their head.

I wonder how closing a thread could be a solution to this. If you want a discussion to stop and have said everything you wanted to say you just have to leave it ... that's what I did before you asked me by name to confirm sth. another user interpreted from my post. Moderating certain insults or similar things of course is a different thing.