CAYNE

Holy Hell this is FREE!!! WTF. 5 hours spent very well. Ok now for free this has some seriously good writing, voice acting done is this Well Done seriously!!! I loved this game from start to finish pulls you right in, Great stroy and its told beautifully also the old school point and click is done very well to a high standard if im honest esp when its FREE!!! might I just add ;) The Stroy is good and the PDA files holy shit some of them are messed up man, At first glance its like ahhh man I gotta read Morrowind days all over xD but when you read them you get an idea of what the hell is going on in this place and I just wanted more. I could go on and on how i really enjoyed this game for what it is but I would rather you all download it and play it for yourself trust me you wont regert it, not only that did I mention its free.

A really fun isometric point-and-click adventure game in a gritty sci-fi horror setting. The puzzles in this can be really hard to figure out, but thankfully there is a guide available to look at if you get stuck. This is set adjunct to the devs other game "STASIS" which I do look forward to playing in the future. This game is short, as it took me 2 hours to complete, but I felt satisfied with my experience with it, and enjoyed every moment with it. My only complaint that I could really point out, was the FMVs felt a little less quality compared to the rest of the game. Some of them were even just 2 seconds long, which is like why even bother? PROS: - Great atmosphere. - Great graphics. - Sound design is top notch. - Voice acting is good. - Good horror moments. - Nice and short. - Steam Achievements. - It's Free! CONS: - FMVs could have been a higher quality, a little longer. - Old School Point & Click tropes are present. - No Steam Trading Cards.

More of STASIS, same atmopshere and same character styles (everyone is insane). What really made it hard for me to enjoy this game was that the puzzles had no direction to them. Early on you get a can of protein powder. The description makes it seem like you'll be using it to wake someone up, or something to that effect. What do you use it for? Using it as an alternative for fingerprint dusting. Except the last person to use a terminal was a guy in a giant psuedo hazmat suit, and the second time you use the powder, it's on a ID card that can also apparently double as a fuse? There was no logic there what so ever. The last straw for me was to use a terminal to get a piece of information (room numbers), except for a few things about the terminal: 1. You used it once before for a completely different purpose, and the new purpose was not there before. 2. There was a reactor overload not 30 minutes before that logically would have fried it completely. 3. The terminal is literally labelled "Damaged Terminal", and the description describes it as barely functional. Why would I use a damaged terminal? WHy not logically label the information I needed elsewhere, like put the room number on the wall? The story itself barely makes sense, and barely ties into the original game except by theme alone. I found maybe one terminal that actually hinted at what really happened. The rest I had to gleam from the message boards.

It's like watching your least favourite Aliens movie to get more of the lore of the universe (Stasis games) But it's free and you're still a fan and it actually wasn't that bad aside from very obtuse puzzles, being short and having awkward, terrible jokes

[b]Cayne[/b] is a powerful adventure game. I would’ve loved for it to be much longer, but it’s free, so I won’t complain - too much - about the length. The level of quality and effort put into this free title is outstanding, beyond what most other developers would do.

CAYNE is a cinematic space horror game, much like the developer's previous game STASIS. It's obviously shorter but still, can't believe they actually released this for free! It's as high quality as a regular game, with great voice acting, well-made environments and a disturbing storyline taking you deeper into the horrible work of the Cayne Corporation. Definitely recommended to play after STASIS of course, so that you understood the full context of this free prequel. It plays about the same, although I do think they made some good upgrades for the inventory system. The PDAs look better as well, with an easier way to go through them. I recommend this to people who enjoyed STASIS and of course space horror in general! It's free so you got nothing to lose but your time investment.

This is a short atmospheric, isometric gore-horror point & click adventure game. It looks well done and the puzzles are fun, not authomatic but not impossible. Only recommended if you like the point&click adventure games though. But if you like them, give it a try, it's entirely free to play, which is amazing, it even has some voice acting and cutscenes. And it has been transalated to many languages, and looks well done, which is just shocking for a free game. Could have been 5-10$ easily. The same developers got other previously released game you can try if you like this: it's not free and its called Stasis, but both share the same atmosphere.

This game is for free, probably to drag attention towards the next big project that has been released on Kickstarter. While I think this is a clever idea and a good way to give a taste of what their games feel like, unfortunately the taste I got from Cayne was disappointing. On a first glimpse, it looks like a game with a very specific aesthetic and atmosphere, which personally I find very appealing. It makes you feel like you're about to dive into a small chunk of a big, immersive world. You realize it's not as wonderful as it feels once you get stuck on the first puzzle. If you like to proceed by trying to randomly combine everything with everything, then you'll get your treat. I prefer intuitive puzzles that have some logic, puzzles that make you feel satisfied when you figured it out yourself and not because you were lucky to click the right stuff in the right place. Unfortunately, Cayne disappoints on that aspect. And there isn't much left to this game that can make up for it. Voice acting seems to be good, but the main protagonist is obnoxious and just not pleasant to listen. The language used in general feels like taken out of urban dictionary (I understand it was supposed to bring out the personality for some of the characters, but for me it was immersion breaking). Gameplay feels sluggish, you spend most of your time trying to get from point A to point B. And the story itself, well, you can figure out the whole twist pretty much in the first half of the game (providing you didn't quit frustrated with the puzzles). Appealing aesthetic and atmosphere was what lured me in and I don't regret playing it if just for this sole reason. But it is not enough to recommend it :(.

Excellent horror game from the creators of Stasis and it's absolutely FREE. Highly recommend to play it.

It's free so it won't cost you anything to try it. But - regardless of the price - it's a thumbs down from me wheras STATIS got a thumbs up. The story is barely coherent. Actually, it may not be coherent at all. There's a chick, she's preggers and....stuff happens. Much of the stuff isn't really relevant. The grotesqueries are over the top, there's a lot of screaming, everyone is insane and there's very little to care. I had to search the forums to piece together the story. I don't mind some ambiguousness in a story but when half of it ventures into "WTF" territory then there's something wrong with the way it's told. Furthermore, the puzzles were fairly stupid. Like (hey, spoilers ahead!!!) usinga broken scapel on a can of food so you can smear grease on a terminal to figure out which buttons people have pushed. Huh? There's ton of ash around you from buring fires and you want to use grease from food? Another has you accessing a terminal that's labeled broken yet it not only works it contains completely different information than before. Thus you're almost going to have to look at videos or read the walkthrough because the puzzles aren't logical. So what we have is a poorly told story combined with unintuitive puzzles in a world where everyone besides the main character is crazy. The only thing that this story has going for it is mood. Like STATIS it captures the feel of the original Aliens movie quite well. And it worked fine. No bugs encountered in two hours. Still, I can't help but feel that playing this was a waste of my time.

Fun, free, and short. Expands a bit on the lore regarding the game's namesake, but a lot of the character's PDA entries are written like cartoon villains. Creepy and gory, but definitely nothing like the original. You will see the "twist" coming from a mile away.

Great adventure game. I recommend playing Stasis first. Puzzles were easier to figure out than Stasis. I was able to complete the game in about 3 hours without any hints. Love the lore.

I really enjoyed playing this, my only gripe is that I wanted more, the ending was left open and I just wanted to see what happened. The puzzles were fun, definitely made you think, so if that's not your style and you like your answers there and in front of you, you might not enjoy this aspect too much. Graphics were good and for the most part I understood the story line, though there were moments were I was confused. It's not a long game, it can be completed in a day if you desire or otherwise a couple depending on how long you play for. It's also pretty easy to complete the achievements, (especially with help...) Overall 8.5/10. Would definitely recommend, bonus for being free.

I really liked the first Stasis game and I loved Stasis: Bone Totem, and Cayne is a nice free introduction to the series. While the stories are self-contained, Cayne takes place after the first game and it resolves a couple of loose threads. Graphically, the game looks pretty good, though the transition to 3D isn't fully realized until Bone Totem. It seems like they used this game to experiment a lot with the series' overall look and feel, so you still have some pixel hunting issues from the first game and 3D characters that stick out a bit from the environment. The puzzles felt a bit more random compared to the other Stasis games but they weren't too crazy and I enjoyed them for the most part. The voice acting is definitely an improvement from the first game, though the main character seemed a bit out of place at times because of how cheerful she seemed during certain moments. Some of the villains were a bit corny too, but in a perverted Lexx TV series sort of way so I enjoyed them. While this is my least favorite entry in the series, it was still fun to play and it's free so I recommend it.

It's an interesting horror story with some solid moments of yuck and body horror. I do regret not having played 'stasis' from the developers first, as I think there was some references in the end that would have been better if I got them. Otherwise, play it!!

Cool old style point & click adventure. Like Stasis is a nice omage to the tipical horror games from the 90's with a lot of gore and violence. Good Dubbing and beautiful atmosphere. It's a bit short but hey, is free!

This game is Dead Space with Hillbillies. The beginning had me, I was excited to play this game, I was looking forward to something new, that is until I got to the first puzzle, that passed, I was glad it was over, and continued on, Until I was stopped by the second puzzle, and then the third, and fourth... I was already tired of playing this game, none of the puzzles make sense, not intuitively at least, logically sure, but at no point in time would you have thought "I'll combine A+B to get C and then solve the puzzle!" it had just become "let me click on each item individually and spam the combine button because there are no hints to combine item A with B to get C, etc... nothing flows and so you're stopped periodically trying to find out what stupid combination works. The character developement is lacking, the main character is annoying, overly self depreciative and it just makes me not care to see her live through this ordeal, the other chracters in the game added nothing but more drivel to skim through while you attempted to figure out what you needed to do next, find a password, a temperature setting etc... they're all so extreme in their shallow stupidity you don't really get a feeling like they were ever real, like they don't fit in this game. it'd be a streatch on how they even fit in the made up company of the game as "scary, deprave, psychotic, shallow." as they're meant to be. Finally the ending of it all, it was obvious from the beginning. If I wanted a M. Night Shyamalan ending I'd much rather watch his movies then play this game, because I at least know it's going to finish in about an hour and a half, and would much rather save the last 30 minutes doing something else.

Very cryptic, But good game. Gameplay and mechanics remind me of Fallout 1/2 and it's even has a 90's vibe feeling to it which is great. It's free, Try it.

Obtuse and illogical puzzles, pixel hunting, lots of backtracking, terrible UI and repetitive sound effects and commentaries. This game showcases all of the bad gameplay mechanics the adventure game genre left behind years ago.

Cayne is officially in my top 10 'Disturbing yet Intriguing Story' Games. The atmosphere and I had a love/hate relationship, and the puzzles irked me to no end. However, I don't regret spending the 4 hours it took me to complete this game and obtain all of the achievments. -9/10 for Samantha. -11/10 for PDA's. -10/10 for everything else In conclusion: I want a conclusion.

I've had nightmares like this. I wish I was kidding. So that is the reason why I took my sweet time beating it. The graphics and their animation is great, the cinematics are phenominal, the story is a low-burn horror, the puzzles are interesting, and the other characters are sick and most deserved what they had coming. The voices are fine and certain sounds sent chills up my spine. I went in blind having never heard of Stasis, the previous title in this twisted little universe, before. When I see "horror point and click" I usually experience constant jumpscares and lots of pointless gore. This game has the bulk of its fear in the background, in the events that led up to the game, and in how quickly everything fell apart. Granted there is still some gore and a couple abrupt shocks but it works. The only real problem I have is that Hadley doesn't seem to connect the dots even with you reading every blasted thing and a lot of things that is said out loud in retrospect are hilarious in a sick and twisted way. Also Hadley is kind of slow... but that is perfectly understandable given her situation. I just hope the ending (which cut off) didn't make it a "shaggy dog" sort of story. Poor girl deserves better. In the end since this is a teaser for the developers' next game and a taste for those who never got around to playing their first, the length of the game and whatever its ending may imply is perfectly fine. Its free. Its better than many other free games on Steam. Go for it.

Pretty awesome game. It has more cutscenes than some AAA games. [h1] Positives [/h1] - The story is awesome and the writing is pretty great. - The visuals are great - The atmosphere is eerie, although it could have had some more suspense and danger. - Voice acting is pretty good (not superb but for a free game it's amazing) - A lot of effort went to a free game. Wish we had more devs like this - Puzzles are decent [h1] Negatives [/h1] - Some puzzles could've been designed better. For me it was the fuse box. But I guess it's pretty standard to complain about some puzzles. - There is one larger area that you frequently cross, and each time you have to sit there and watch your character run for a few seconds. It gets annoying after a while, especially, if you are lost and frequently backtrack. The positives heavily weigh over the negatives, and although this game is not for everyone (heck this genre isn't for everyone) it's worth a try for most hardcore gamers and definite try for genre fans.

Short but nice game in same style and universe as STASIS. Some answers to puzzles are hard to guess correctly but story and characters are very nice.

Game Score: 5/10 Cayne is an isometric point and click adventure game. The story was interesting with a minor twist that is revealed throughout. It took me about 2.5 hours from start to finish so a review of this game doesn't really matter much. For a two person dev team this is a really amazing game Brotherhood nailed it with the story telling and art. Voice acting was on point for each character and really gave them their own personalities. I'm not really a fan of point and click puzzle games so this didn't really do it for me. I got tired of waiting for Hadley to run from one end of the map to the other. I get it, she's pregnant, but damn, not a fun mechanic. Some of the puzzles were very vague and were not friendly to the player at all. I had to cheat and look up a walkthrough for a few of them. From what I've read online the story and ending are supposed to be a part of the Stasis universe which is another game from the same developers. Pros: - Interesting Story - Great voice acting - Nice graphics for a small dev team - Fun story you can piece together as you play Cons: - Annoying puzzles and red herrings that make you think they are part of puzzles - As a stand alone it has a dumb ending but I'll have to play Stasis to get the full story - SLOW PREGO WOMAN made me wait I don't think I'm morally allowed to give a thumbs down to a free game. Especially one I played all the way through. I had some good times. But overall it's a mediocre game. Given it's short play time I'd say give it a shot if you're into puzzle games or if you like whipping grotesque boobies for pink grub milk. :)

Recommended for fans of point and click adventures and horror/sci-fi. Overall well worth trying out for anyone who thinks they may like it, you probably will! +Visuals, including environments/effects and cinematic cutscenes +Fully voiced dialogue +Some challenging puzzles +Variety of areas to explore and piece items together +Free! -Fairly short, ~2-4hrs playtime depending on playstyle -Some puzzles are unintuitive to where you are just combining/trying things randomly

Didnt expect anything when i downloaded this game, but it actually has a cool story and fun gameplay for a free game.

CAYNE is a nice old style adventure game, set within the Stasis universe. While its release as a free game is likely meant as a marketing device for the developers' current Kickstarter pitch, CAYNE is actually good. The puzzles are relatively simple, and most of them make sense; I can think of just one that had a somewhat nonsensical solution, and yet that one was easy to solve. The puzzles are also not frustrating or annoying, with - again - just a single one that required a lot of backtracking. The game's main story, while somewhat predictable, is nicely told and deeply enriched by the side stories within the game. It's worth paying attention to every bit of lore in the world, as many discoveries become more meaningful the further the story progresses. The game is very short - it took me more or less 4 hours to complete it - but that actually works well here. Something longer would likely become repetitive, just as Stasis did near its end. Speaking about Stasis, I recommend playing through that game first - it's not required, but some of the things in CAYNE will make more sense with previous knowledge of the universe it happens in.

Really good point and click horror, with some really hard puzzles at times because you feel like you literally dont know what to do and where to go at points but saying that it adds to the suspense more. Story is really good in terms of trying to get out and what happens. There are only two flaws i think and that are the charecters all seem to be the same old psychopath it feels like theres no change and the second is that it feels to short but you cant argue considering its free, i hope they make it longer by adding dlc packs for more story because ending leaves it right open. If this game wasnt free i wouldve quite happily paid a £5 for it, highly recommned this game to anyone

Although this game has good production value (for a point-and-click adventure game), the design decisions are remarkably poor. [b]Pros[/b] [list] [*] Voice acting, animations and background noise all achieve what they set out to do [*] The setting gives off a pretty solid "Sanitarium" (1998) vibe [*] Plot has a few unexpected turns, and keeps itself together [*] Unconventional protagonist [*] Rich environment descriptions [*] The game is gated, which aids players in not feeling overwhelmed [*] Several puzzle solutions are foreshadowed [/list] [b]Cons[/b] [list] [*] Several of the items are intuitively used in every situation, but is hardly ever correct. At one point at in the game you end up having a blade, a "rope" and screwdriver/cutter multi-tool; all at the same time. [*] Inventory puzzles have really contrived solutions. The worst offender by far is the 'fuse puzzle'. [*] You can die at seemingly random, and it does nothing to improve the atmosphere of the game [*] In fact, multiple "correct" solutions will put you in situations that realistically would be even more likely to kill you [*] There is plenty of backtracking [*] Easter-eggs blend in with the game, making it hard to figure out how to continue [*] Controls are not explained, at all. [*] The game is literally full of locked doors that will never open, but were intentionally made to stand out [/list]

Enjoyed playing, however it was no more than a day of gameplay at most. But interesting logs to find and read. I've never clicked around so much in a game while being kind of confused though xD

I didn't actually like this game. But it was good in most ways, I just didn't like the story and the walking. This is the first game I've ever played in this franchise. And right off the bat, I gotta say the entire plot was derivitive of the original Bioshock, saw the ending coming a mile away. I also played this game with my phone in one hand and the mouse in the other. The time she takes to hobble her pregnant butt across the walmart sized rooms is pretty ridiculous. During the time it took her to walk from one place to another, I'd get in 2-3 reddit articles. But those two things aside, the game was well made, had decent puzzles, looked great, sounded great, and is very worth your time if you're into the franchise. I imagine that would make the story more...meaningful. But if you're someone like me who doesn't have any investment into the universe it takes place in, you can safely skip this one. Unless you're bored. It's free!

I would highly recommend this game even if it wasn't free, as its free its a no-brainer - download and play it, its freaking awesome!! The game is a prequel to STASIS and is an isometric puzzle game with a horror theme, the pacing is great, the puzzles make you think and many require quite a bit of thought to solve, but all of them so far have been logical, there aren't any silly solutions that you would never guess on your own like some games. I think I'm almost at the end and will update the review once I've completed this game but I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it. It works perfectly on Linux. The developer published this free as they are doing a kickstarter called Beautiful Desolation, if you enjoy this game I'm sure the Dev would be grateful for backing their next project, it looks awesome!

Just because a game is free, doesn't mean it's also free from critique... Cayne in my opinion just makes about everything that made Stasis interesting worse. The positive: - New graphics engine and smoother animations, my main critique of the 1st game The negative: - New graphics engine...the game just looks too clean compared to Stasis. Everything looks kinda "nice" instead of dark and gritty. - Annoying unskippable dialogue and cutscenes that take away control of your character. Your mouse pointer disappears and all you can do is wait around for the boring dialogue to finish. - The story is threadbare and utterly uninventive and boring. You know from the very beginning who the antagonist is. You don't know why, even after the ending, because it just ends after 2 hours with no "real" explanation, though I can guess. It's still only piecemeal. There are only a handful PDAs of very ugly people (now with pictures) around that detail some of their moronic conceptions. Most of it can be disregarded anyway... - The level design: Instead of an advancing world, you're thrown into a "hub" area in which you have to repeatedly go back and forth between different "parts" of the game to collect 1 item, then had all the way back to where you started to use said item. And you're doing that over and over again. While in between the fucking long walks you could be listening to the ramblings of the characters, but alas, most of the time you can't move your character while someone is talking. Yay. Wasted time 2x. - The puzzles are esoteric at times. People get stuck in the first room ffs, because it follows no logic. Absolutely none. Not even the item descriptions offer any sort of clues. One puzzle really annoyed me more than most though: It required you to open a safe with a DNA sample...well, that DNA sample consisted of a voice recording and a picture!!!!!!! What does THAT have to do with DNA? Nothing! Absolutely nothing! It's misleading. - If you want your players to NOTE DOWN certain VERY IMPORTANT details in PDAs and on consoles, then at least a HINT what might be considered important would be nice. If you quickly skim over the very first console and don't realize that it somewhere lists a password that is required to progress the game...fuck that. Better solution would be to just have a "log" available for the character, in which all information can be stored. Almost any other game does that. - Item use is jarring. Instead of selecting an item and using it, you have to first open the inventory, then select the item, then close the inventory again. And if you're unlucky, some interactions just don't prompt any feedback and you wonder why it won't do anything. Looking at you, fucking fingerprints... -Character often doesn't run, but instead walks very slowly...great game design, when everything is already stretched to prolong the game, from the level design, to the guesswork puzzles. - The "final confrontation" doesn't make any sense. In no universe would that ever work. It would have been believable if the "item" was placed differently, so that activating the "thing" would actually lead to a somewhat predictable outcome and not to a serious hail mary... Overall Cayne isn't worth the effort right now, even though it's free. After Stasis I had expected more. At least that game followed some kind of logic and progression path. Thoroughly disappointed.

Why are you reading this? Go play the game! Then read this. Being someone who played Stasis twice, once and then stopped because of a bug. Then again to redeem myself..the second time I finished it. I loved Stasis. The story, the atmosphere, the monsters. Everything. CAYNE and STASIS are very different in the fact that it seems to me, in this game. The brothers focused more on story than atmosphere and there really was only one monster that really was able to kill you. Everything else was more or less docile. Another thing, Hadley is immune to explosions. Seriously, I lost count how many times she was exploded in the face. But also she can't be drowned either since she was dragged in by some white fleshy things. But she still can be mauled by Samantha? How is that fair? XD. Another problem Hadley has is that she jumps from one emotion to the other. In one moment she's hostile, then a second later she's asking "Hey, can you help me escape?" If you haven't played the game, when you get to that part you'll know what I'm talking about. But anyhow I do reccommend this game because it's by the same people who did stasis and they are also doing a kickstarter for their next game which looks frikken fantastic. Another problem in CAYNE is that they don't exactly tell you what you can do with the tools you have unlike in stasis, it's a guessing game really to pick at what you can and can't do. But other than that, yes I recommend this game. So enjoy. Here's the playlist of my playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiiwEpSndQmclUAex5BDzLdyT_idWCH3_

CAYNE is a nice grotesque Point & Click Adventure about a pregnant girl called Hadley. Pretty nice story, cool graphics and an awesome disturbing atmosphere. For free? Why not?! I recommend it.

Its not bad for a free "adventure" style game. The story is quite interesting, the voice acting and cutscenes are actually very well done. If youre looking for a dark and disgusting game you cant go wrong with this. The game toys with the aspects of abortion which is an incredibly bold move for such a small studio so I will give them props for that but I cant stand the main character, possibly because she reminds me too much of myself. My biggest complaint has to do with some of the puzzle solutions, they make no sense. Why in the world would putting protein powder on a piece of metal to cut out a strange shape then make a fuze? Which is indeed a solution in the game that stumped me. Youre welcome. All in all though for a free to play game I dont regret playing it.

Tried this free game as I figured it would be a good way to get an idea of whether or not STASIS was worth buying since the two stories were linked. It is quite a good point-and-click adventure/horror game. Other than one puzzle very late towards the end of the game, I found none of them too frustrating to solve and if you get too stuck then the game begins to give you "soft" hints with what to use on what location or "sparkling" items at you to find and collect. The story is quite solid and told through journal entries and the odd NPC that you meet along the way, but being a horror game at its heart don't expect pleasing conversations. Game length is about three to six hours, depending on how much the puzzles confuse you. The only thing that really bothered me about the game was the ending and how abrupt it was; perhaps because this game was made as a tester for the Brotherhood's next Kickstarter project, the ending was deliberately made to be that way so you wanted to learn more about this gaming world? Oh and before I forget: DO NOT play this game with headphones! Some of the voices are at different pitches and volumes (seems to be a distance thing) and you will cop it badly when surprised by sudden noises. Go with speakers and be ready with the volume controls or keep the sub-titles on. Overall I quite enjoyed this game and strongly recommend it: after all it is free! It has sold me checking out STASIS too so I can learn how the two games and their stories are linked.

Good stuff; like the main game (Stasis) that this is a spin-off from, this is a grotesque piece of point-and-click sci-fi horror with plenty of disgusting environments and revolting events, not to mention an abundance of unpleasant NPCs to interact with/read the PDAs of. I've got a few quibbles, but by and large I can enthusiastically recommend this (especially with the price point being what it is ;-) Positives: -Graphics- Twisted body horror and plenty of moist, dripping, meaty set pieces, combined with a slightly grotty science fiction look (more like the dimly lit, functional, not pretty environments of Alien, but slightly more fancy and certainly with more holograms and other traditional sci-fi accoutrements). The environments are fantastic, but the character models aren't too shabby either. Particle effects, fires, liquids and such are merely average, but taken as a whole, the graphics are quite tasty indeed. -Music- It doesn't necessarily knock you off your feet, but it is more than competent and it absolutely underscores and emphasizes the feelings of dread and horror in the game. -Atmosphere- Absolutely the best thing about this game; I've run out of superlatives, so rest assured that Cayne is absolutely saturated with grim, horrific atmosphere. -Writing- With the exception of some of the dialogue (which either tries too hard to be edgy or just comes off as banal and cringeworthy), the writing is pretty decent, particularly the plot arc (although you will probably see the ending coming WAY off in the distance). Meh: -Dialogue- Some is quite compelling, but much of it is quite rote and unexceptional (with a few groan-worthy moments). -Puzzles- While many are common sense, there are a few item combinations that don't make much sense, except in hindsight, and the only way to discover them is by either blindly combining inventory items or consulting a walkthrough. Ditto for the puzzles themselves; again, some are relatively straightforward (take notes!!!) but others are kinda obtuse (I used a walkthrough to get the secret achievements, because they are largely found by just clicking on places that don't have anything to do with the plot). These are absolutely not like some galaxy brain point and click game solutions which are completely divorced from any form of reality, but a few are still a bit of a stretch, and depending on how long you break between game sessions, you will probably forget a few locations from early in the game and what significance they could play in the end stages. *shrug* Not a huge deal, but still a niggling problem. All in all, a game I can certainly recommend!

CAYNE is another excellent Sci-fi Horror game by the same people that made STASIS, now for the story. Hadley is a young woman with a plan for her life, a plan that did not include being pregnant. But that’s were Hadley found herself, now at a hospital about to get an abortion thanks to a third party she could get her plan back on track. But after waking up from sedation she sees she is not in the hospital, but in some weird laboratory with a big hulking monster with her. Where is she, what’s happening and how has she gotten more pregnant to the point where she could have the baby any day now? Hadley must escape, but is that good idea or will she be out of the frying pan and put into the fire. All right time for what’s to like about the game. Well to start like with STASIS, the Story to this game is really fantastic it talks about family and what’s it means to be a parent. Which was very good. Then we have the PDA's which like the first game add so much to the story and help’s to add/build up more of the world. Then there is the atmosphere of the game which is still pretty good and lastly the protagonist of the game Hadley is a pretty interesting and likable protagonist and I love the dialog we get between her and the man that talks to her. Now for the bad. First off the game is a bit short you can beat it in four hours, less time if you don’t read the PDA’s. All so there is no death or suicide achievements which is sad, I liked them they were fun and gory. So with all that said CAYNE is another excellent Sci-fi Horror game, with a fantastic story, an interesting and likable protagonist, the game may be a bit short, but it’s still excellent. So if you’re looking for a great Sci-fi Horror game this is one of the best.

It is free, so I can't complain. I haven't played Stasis, so I'm basing my review only on the very short game that Cayne is. The story is intriguing but is far from being memorable. Most of the puzzles suffer from the "adventure game logic" that was a trademark of adventure games from the 90s. Its retro style is pleasant, but the controls are akward. Plus, the game crashes randomly on linux (ubuntu 16.04) from time to time, so be sure to save regularly if you play on this platform. Anyhow, it is interesting enough to make me want to check out Stasis.

hello everybody this game is the more gore and freakyist game u will ever play best part its free i would definly recommend it to people if like puzzles and point and click game with a spice of horror and gore in it and story is pretty interesting. come check out my youtube video on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uJENWEgrEo

This game brought back some great childhood memories of playing games like Bladerunner and Indiana Jones. I liked it enough to buy the Dev's other game Stasis and even backed their new project Beautiful Desolation on Kickstater. My only complaint is that some of the solutions to the puzzles in the game aren't very apparent and I ended up referring to a guide to finish the game. For a free game, you can't go wrong here.

For a free game it is worth the couple of hours play time. Game play: Doesn't hold your hand, you only have a few options to deduct through so go through them all systematically to solve the puzzles. For a short game a walkthrough probably wouldn't hurt you if you get stuck. Story: Dark humour and story telling. Atmosphere was great. Ending gave me the chills even though I knew from one of the first dialogue interactions what was going to happen. There was definitely some pretty sadistic elements that made me question whether or not I should be laughing or cringing. Music/Sound/Voice acting: Amazing for a free game. Very well done. Graphics/CGI: For a free game again, excellent. I'm surprised they don't at least charge some small change at least. But not complaining. Over all: For a short point n click, it was a fun couple of hours. Some back tracking of walking which was a little tedious because of the protagonist's walking speed was the biggest pitfall. Ending didn't leave me with questions about the ending but more about the world setting. There was some obvious post apocalyptic under tones anyway, but still a tiny bit more back story or finality would have been fun. The total idea of the game would make an interesting larger scale game - but it suffices for what it is. Replay value is nill however unless you are going for achieves which are not obvious and I would just suggest a walkthrough from the first play through.

I have not finish it yet, but I already "hate" it! Its very slow to move from one place to a other also the massive wall of texts on each of the PDA's. Also there are no hints like first put powder on a other item to mark cutting lines to cut the metal. Just a "Yes yes yes no no no what was I thinking..." nothing like "I can not cut this without marking the outlines first...". On the other hand the story sounds interesting macabre what happend to Hadley and the Station. Also its free... so if you do not mind to brute force some of the points by use every thing on every other thing and find pixels to click, its a good game then.

Well. Bischoff Brothers are said to have reinvented the genre of point-and-click adventure games. There's a truth to it indeed: CAYNE is an ABSURDLY good adventure game. Puzzle-solving never get boring or unintuitive. Also! Although it draws quite a lot from its horror inspirations - like the original ALIEN and its immediate sequel ALIENS - it somehow manages to build on them and - thus - becomes v. unique. There's one problem with it - and its the fact that its a little bit short (approx. 6-8 hours, 10 at most). It's free, however, so that's not a problem, espec. since most AAA games offer 15-20 worth of content. But don't get me wrong here. Even if it wasn't free, I'd still give Bischoffs m' monies for it.

What I did like:[list] [*] story is nice [*] graphics are fantastic [*] so is the sound (great voice acting)[/list] What I didn't like:[list] [*] it's hard to suspend your disbelief when you see a pregnant woman running, jumping, climbing and performing other crazy stunts [*] there's a lot of backtracking and this game could use a quicker way of getting from one area to another (nowadays most adventure games just skip to loading when you double click on an exit) [*] one particular puzzle didn't make much sense even after figuring it out with trial and error [spoiler](making a new fuse from an access card)[/spoiler][/list] It's a nice little (and free!) game and if you like sci-fi and adventure games you should really give it a try.

In my opinion CAYNE is less of a game and more of an interactive short story. While there are puzzles and achievements, there isn't really much choice or actual gameplay. Fortunately the story was intriguing enough to keep me going. THE GOOD: -Psychological horror done right. There were a couple of moments that wouldn't have fazed me had I glossed over them, but when I stopped to look at them or think about it, the more disturbing they became. This is exactly the kind of slow burn horror that I find far superior to jump scares. -Intriguing story. Great intro to the STASIS universe. You get a handle for the gritty darkness, but are left with many unanswered questions. This is helped greatly by the visceral atmosphere. Who is Cayne? What's up with this Weyland Yutani wannabe company? Why do they only hire narcisistic psychopaths? -Likeable protagonist. Hadley was great. Empathetic and in an incredibly vulnerable situation, but still badass. THE BAD: -Puzzles were tedious. It was very easy to miss objects sometimes which lead to a lot of backtracking. While I don't think a game should be easy, it definitely took away from the urgency of the game. Running back and forth was tedious enough when I DID have all the items I needed. And when it did come to puzzling my way to the next section it usually ended up being a matter of use object A with object B. The in game solutions to Hadley's conundrums while clever were not immediately obvious to the player. Pesronally I think it would have been nice for games like these to have more than one way to solve the same puzzle, it would make the facility seem a bit more flushed out and would be more rewarding to player's ingenuity in a non-linear fashion. -Lack of urgency. With the exception of the very first gameplay scene and the end of the game, I did not feel a great sense of urgency while playing. This was odd given the circumstances Hadley was thrust into. -The ending. While it made sense and was definitely foreshadowed, it still felt rushed and gave me a lack of closure. It felt cheap to me. Just a few more details and I would have been a little more satisfied. -It was very short. As to be expected really, but it's definitely worth mentioning. I played through CAYNE in about 3 hours. All in all, if you want to experience a short and dark sci fi story, I definitely reccomend CAYNE. If you're turned off by tedious puzzles and want actual choices in gameplay, then maybe it's not for you.

Absolutely! For a free game this was very impressive! The story is very linear and short, but captivating...The atmosphere and graphers are excellent! If you enjoy a little bit of horror with your adventure then you will most likely enjoy this one. [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/31208751/]Please follow my Pixel Art Curation for other great games...[/url]

classic style, modern feel.. nice gameplay.. advance puzzle solving, it well confusing but surprising. to be honest.. I prefer Isometric game than FPS games.. lot of potential there, good job developer. what mean 'dont lick your sister' by the way? :D

Interesting Story and with a somewhat different protagonist. A pregnant Woman. The dark scifi atomsphere is great, the voiceacting matches the setting yet it reallly recycles the rooms a lot. The puzzles are abstract and there is too much walking, especially since the Hadley isn't a runner in her state. If You like sci-fi, a unique story and can overlook the slow gameplay it's a intriguing game and even for free.