Magdalena

This game has a great idea behind it.. why oh why couldn't it have been developed by a proper competent developer? The game claims that almost all things can be interacted with, this is far from true. And the actual interaction system is horrible, you don't pick stuff up and look at it and move it around in your hand like you'd expect, you drag it across the floor, you drag a magazine or a cup across the floor. The movement in the game is bad, and the lighter to give you some light is so weak that I had to look at my keyboard to make sure I pressed the correct button then I looked down at my feet in-game and saw a spec of light. No subtitles, no key-rebinding. And why is the flashlight(lighter) bound to the button L? Why not T or Q or something closer to the rest of the buttons. Horrible, absolutelly horrible performance. I have a pretty damn strong PC and I was lagging all over and my FPS was in the ground, I had to turn everything to the worst setting to be able to play without ripping my hair out. The game tries to be scary, it tries to be some sort of horror but fails. The only scary thing if you really want it to be scary is the vocie of a woman talking, and her voice is extremely low, if you want to be able to make out any words then you'll have to turn your windows volume WAY up which will make you deaf as there is no in-game volume sliders, so all other sounds will probably blast your eardrums out. This game is simply unfinished. I don't.. I can't phatom why this was released as a finished product when it's clearly not. Why not just wait until it's finished or at least put it in early access. I'm really sad that this game got released so early, I bet if this game was released when it was actually finished, you know, when the game is playable performance-wise, when you've finished the options menu, it would've been so much better but now you've tainted everyone with a bad experience to this game. I can only assume that most of the positive reviews where for a CD-Key to the game or something. No one in their right mind would rate this game good. And by the way I'm pretty sure that the developers or something are going around disliking all negative reviews because as far as I can see most negative reviews instantly get like 2 or 3 dislikes. Edit: And yea, I almost instantly got 2 downvotes, cool. [h1]Curator page[/h1] [i]If you liked this review or otherwise found it helpful in deciding whether or not to buy this game, feel free to follow [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/29162366/]my Curator page[/url].[/i]

+++ easy & fast 4 Steam Achievements https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3135117313 +++ 5 Trading Cards (perfect) --- very short & empty/ boring Good for Achievement Hunters, Trading Card & Games Collectors only https://store.steampowered.com/app/432470/Magdalena/

Trust me when I tell you: This Game is not even worth for idling cards - Start Game doesn't start the Game is crashes it - Game crashes that hard that you have to reboot your PC in order to idle it because thats all you can do - Even the Menu is complete trash. Typical RUS developer Trash who doesn't care - nothing we haven't seen before.

Magdalena is a horror game, where you relive your deepest and darkest memories. Story: You play as George, he is going through his old home and is reliving his old memories by exploring the house. The more you explore the house the more backstory you get and sinister truth is revealed to you. Now I took the story description from the store page, but if this description wasn't there, it would be impossible to actually follow the story ( mostly because of a few factors, but we will get to those later). The story itself is not that interesting and a few notes pretty much giveway the plot twist ending, which is incredibly predictable. Graphics: Magdalena is an asset flip game. The entire house you explore is called Residential House and you can buy it off the asset store. It's been used in so many horror games, if you would take a shot everytime you saw the same house, in a horror game you would die. Most recently this map was used in a video game called House Party, but there the map actually feels like things were added on top to make it feel like an actual house, here there's none of that. It overall looks good, but since it's a stock map, I won't give them points for the graphics. Audio: Everything about the audio design is forgettable. The voice acting is pretty bad and with the echoy design it's hard to understand what the characters are saying. Other than that, the music and sound effects are really bland. You can hear crickets chirping and a fire place burning almost constantly, which after some time get's annoying, because you will explore the house for a long time and hearing the same thing over and over again will drive you insane. Gameplay: In Magdalena all you do is walk around and relive the memories of George by reading notes. This overall doesn't seem that bad for a short experience, but the game is totally unplayable. The game takes roughly 15 minutes to finish, but it will take much much longer. First of all the game is really buggy. If you get lucky and the game starts playing you will have issues trying to finish it the entire time, because of constant gamebreaking bugs. One of the first ones you encounter is constant crashing. It feels like every so often the game will crash, but if you manage to get the good RNG, you won't encounter a lot of crashing, but however you will encounter other bigger bugs. One of the bigger ones is a soft lock that will force you to replay the entire game all over again and even then there's no guarantee the final note will spawn so you can finish the game. I did three runs before the game actually decided to spawn the final note. I can't even tell you what causes the bug, but all I know you have to get down on your knees and beg to every God and hope all the planets are aligned correctly for it to happen. Verdict: Magdalena is an awful game, that is barely functional, the dev himself said the game is broken beyond fixing and did nothing about it and the fact the game is still up on steam and they are charging money for it is awful. I've also heard some people say the game bricks their PCs so that is a fair warning before heading into this game. Just save your money and buy something else. Pros: N/A Cons: - Game breaking bugs make the game unplayable - The entire house is a stock map - Awful audio design Final Rating: 1/10 If you liked this review please consider joining https://steamcommunity.com/groups/completingthebacklog and https://steamcommunity.com/groups/ImperialReviews

It's shite; unplayable shite. I let this sucker idle to earn trading cards, but the actual game goes to a black screen and there's nothing to be done about it (check other steam reviews, I'm certainly not alone). I got it in a bundle for less than a buck, and I still feel ripped off. Avoid like air-borne syphillis. NOT recommended.

EDIT 02/01/18: One year later, I thought I would try again. Oh how excited I was as the game actually booted to the menu, maybe I could play the game again. Of course I couldn't, the game will crash on the loading screen and take your computer hostage so it takes quite some effort to kill it and regain controll of your PC. We can only hope the remake that the poor unsuspecting Steam Greenlight Community (RIP) voted for and greenlit never arrives, or there will be many more unhappy customers in future. Don't even buy this on sale, it is at best literally unplayable, at worst malware. I also found it amusing that within an hour of originally posting this review back when the game was new, I had three "Unhelpful" downvotes. Clearly the Developer doesn't like bad reviews and uses multiple accounts to try and bury them. Upstanding and honest behaviour that goes hand in hand with this wonderful attrocity. --- EDIT 04/01/17: It's worth updating just to let people know I've made a few attempts to come back to this game, but the developers seem intent on not letting anyone play it anymore and it won't boot at all. Now they have a re-release version of it on Steam Greenlight trying to trick us into giving them votes again (I will admit to voting for them on Greenlight for this one) so they can sell it again under a slightly updated name. The horror. --- Once upon a midnight dreary, I was feeling bright and cheery, Until some technical problems I abhor. While I nodded in anticipation, the game it crashed, oh damnation, Met with errors, crashing, crashing, what a chore. "T is some glitch," I muttered, "I'll try some more," But appeared this way for evermore. Ah distinctly I complained about this failure of a game, But long it lingered in my brain, I felt the need to play some more. Eagerly I held my patience until the game it was updated, "No more crashes", in sorrow I implored. I clicked my mouse, the game it soared, And displayed madness at the fore. --- I initially bought this game when it was first released. In my very brief playtime, the game repeatedly crashed at start-up. In the two occasions I actually got into the game, once my mouse locked up in the settings menu unable to alter anything until the game crashed completely. The other time I went straight into the game, getting about 1-2 FPS. I believed my system was capable of handling this game with a GeForce GTX 970 and 16GB RAM, but alas, it was not to be. I got a refund and that was that. Nonetheless, I kept thinking about the game, wishing I could have experienced it, and then I saw it again, on sale for £0.36, at that price I could hardly say no, it was worth seeing if it had been fixed. The technical problems I suffered are all gone, I’m happy to confirm I’m now running the game smoothly with all the settings maxed out, I knew my set-up could handle it. This is the sort of game made for me, I love the writings of Edgar Allan Poe, I love games like Gone Home which give me a place to fully explore at my will. But perhaps this game works better in the native Russian language. It is clear the developers are trying hard, but the English translation is so bizarre I just can’t quite work out what the writing is trying to convey half the time. The quality of the writing is the key factor of a game such as this, when that doesn’t work, you’re just left to explore without any real sense of purpose or immersion. The developers have an interesting sense of humour, I’m sure there is a joke I’m missing about the fork next to the toilet. I don’t understand it, but it’s still funny on a simple visual level. Also the physics on the chest of drawers are pretty special, just pick them up and move them around like they’re in zero gravity, it’s quite novel in what is supposed to be a dark and moody game. The big issue for me though, is that the game entirely lacks an Invert Mouse option, which is simply unacceptable. This can easily be patched in, but for a game claiming to be a release build and not an Early Access preview, this is inexcusable, especially as it has been out for some time now and has still not being implemented. When basic essentials are missing from a game, you have to seriously question what is going on at the development end. I'll happily edit this once (or if?) this essential feature is patched in. But two months after the alleged release build was made available on Steam, I don't have high hopes. From an objective perspective, this game is not good and I cannot possibly recommend it. But from a subjective personal perspective, I find it all quite entertaining. If you want something competent, maybe look elsewhere. If you’re happy to take a chance on a game that will utterly confuse and amaze you with unintended craziness, you could do a lot worse. I'm going to go back in now and see what else I can do.

This game was a good experience, especially for $1. There was a bit of stilted writing, but otherwise was a nice story, and the English was very well done for a native Russian speaker. It seems that in the years after its release, with bad optimization and maybe a few bugs, the game has been drastically changed and become a gutted version of itself. I really think a lot of the reviews are unnecessarily harsh and in some ways xenophobic as they assume the game is bad because of its Russian origin. This also being the (I assume) first game from this developer, the quality is actually better than most first timers I've seen. I hope that the negative reception doesn't dissuade the developer from releasing titles in the future.

I'm shocked at just how bad this game is. All you do is find several notes, in and around a house. I paid .26, and still feel ripped off. No. Just no.

No idea what the game is about. But it is an easy 100% achievement game. Just before leaving check the pillar with the knife pegging the page, that took me two quick runs to find.

This is less a game and more of an interactive short story. It's first person and you can roam around the small map and read letters. The letters are very well written and the story overall is good. It took me an hour to beat and get all 4 achievements. Alot of the reviews must be from an older version, even gameplay I saw online is somewhat different. There was no lighter and the game wasn't dark after the very beginning but had the same letters. All in all it was a good experience and worth the $0.49 I paid. THIS GAME IS NOT MALWARE. It is, however, very taxing on a PC. I'm running a 5950X and a 6800XT with a 1200 watt ASUS ROG THOR power supply. I only mention the power supply because it has a wattage display. I was running 480 watts the entire time and my fans were screaming. ( for comparison Elden Ring in 4K on max setting runs just over 400 watts on my PC) The settings menu seems to be bugged so I couldn't tell the exact resolution or quality settings but MSI afterburner took up a quarter of my screen so, though the graphics were great, I was definitely in a lower resolution (my MSI is setup for 4k, if the overlay is huge it's because it's in like 720p) and my 6800XT was maxed out. Several reviews say it won't launch but this game appears to be made in unreal engine and probably won't launch on lower end PCs. I had no crashing, stuttering, freezes at all.

The game I got seems to be a different version than described and from past reviews. Good thing it only cost a quarter, but getting it back now.

another huge & juicy pile of horsesh#te. i tried to launch the game 11 times. one crash when loading the main menu and 10 crashes when trying to start a new game. restarted my gaming rig and checked the game files with steam but nothing helped. i even tried starting the russian version but it keeps crashing and crashing and crashing. yet i recall playing this game for like 20 minutes about a year ago on my old gaming rig. but even then it was really poor by any standard. even if you don't have any standards! one single house in the middle of nowhere filled with some generic & sterile unity engine assets and still it ran at 15 fps for absolutely no f#cking reason at all. and it was an absolute borefest even though i didn't get very far. so i guess it's sort of a good thing that i can't play it anymore. still a piece of sh#t though. just let me get the trading cards and then clean this malware off my machine.

If your rig have trouble to run Crysis 3 then beware-this unfinished small house is hungry for even more PC power. But since we talk about around 200 square meters of game area (whole game), results are terrible. Maybe is some eternal loop hidden by dev somewhere in house and that eat resources? Who knows... To conclude: this is not game, just some empty clueless space. Everything is broken, achievements for sure. Not even horror, nothing. Empty shell.

[b] PLEASE LISTEN TO THOSE NEGATIVE REVIEWS!!! [/b] I got the game for 22p AND I have requested a refund. You ain't getting my pennies Mr. Scammer! It's not even worth it for the trading cards. Twice I tried to 'Start' the game from the main menu and twice the game froze my PC - even my cursor wouldn't move. I had to wait 10 minutes each time before it just closed. I've never had that happen before in my life. I've played a lot shit games during my time and usually you can just Alt-F4 or if it freezes, terminate it via the Task Manager. But not even that was possible. This game froze my PC completely. [i] 'Minutes feel like days while waiting for something to happen.' [/i] Yeah, that's pretty fucking accurate. ░░░░░░░░░░░█▀▀░░█░░░░░░ ░░░░░░▄▀▀▀▀░░░░░█▄▄░░░░ ░░░░░░█░█░░░░░░░░░░▐░░░ ░░░░░░▐▐░░░░░░░░░▄░▐░░░ ░░░░░░█░░░░░░░░▄▀▀░▐░░░ ░░░░▄▀░░░░░░░░▐░▄▄▀░░░░ ░░▄▀░░░▐░░░░░█▄▀░▐░░░░░ ░░█░░░▐░░░░░░░░▄░█░░░░░ ░░░█▄░░▀▄░░░░▄▀▐░█░░░░░ ░░░█▐▀▀▀░▀▀▀▀░░▐░█░░░░░ ░░▐█▐▄░░▀░░░░░░▐░█▄▄░░ ░░░▀▀░▄ 💩💩▄░░░▐▄▄▄▀░░░

I don't recommend this game, because it was not possible to play any second. The game chrashes in screen for choosing the language, or later in the very first loading screen.

Wouldn't run on my Win 10 Alienware Alpha. It was even hard to idle it for cards because it runs, hangs (alt tab works sort of, but will not actually switch), and had to reboot to get control back (start > power > restart). But it does technically idle while hung, so I could get my trading cards. On my 2nd attempt, I got it at least to accept the "Rus Eng" choice, then loaded indefinitely, and Alt + Tab shows a crash report. In the end I could alt+tab to the crash window (although nothing pictured), hit enter, and it accepted the hidden dialog and I was back on my desktop. What an adventure :) . I honestly only got it for trading cards, which it did deliver. But it was the hardest way to get trading cards of any of the junk games I've bought for trading cards :) .

[strike]This game has a lot to go for but as an indie it failed in many things -It's poorly coded: I can't even play it just because it automaticly displays in 4K when i've got my windows set to 1366x768, and there's no way that I can downscale it without another monitor. -Even after some problems regarding the crossover to Ue4, the support for it is realy low And lastly to Yellow Bun Studio: This game is dead, you should not care about it anymore, so if you want to still be on the indie market you're gonna need a hit tittle, and for those regards im here to help. Just push a little bit more of imagination and work on either a sequel (which i don't recomend after seeing this flop) or on an original story that catches the eye of everyone.[/strike] [b](edit 2022: Nah forget what I typed, this was nothing but a glorified demo made from flipped assets, I've seen powerpoint presentations more worthy of the title of "game". This should be removed from the steam store simply for the fact that it's nothing but a stinking turd on steam. There's ZERO effort put into this demo. In case someone sees this "game" while searching the store, don't even bother, you'd get more value and fun opening a TF2 case)[/b]

First "game" I have requested a refund on, and I got it for 75% off. For me it was to make a point, this should not be on steam. Especially for money! I should have known better, it looked interesting but how wrong I was, 18 minutes of exploring was all I needed. Junk, please save yourself 18 minutes and avoid.

Seems like it has potential, but lacks in subtance and the notes are really hard to read. While the environment looks gorgeous, it runs extremely slow, and even turning down the graphics won't help much

My god what a game. At first I was annoyed by the poor illumination that the lighter gave but... it's a lighter it's obvious it's not the best font of light right. The ambience is good. The pitch black outsides is kind of frightening even on the house while I was opened doors or switching lights I felt like something was going to jump on me any moment. The game is short, but the story is good enough and the ending gave me the chills. Oh and it has trading cards that are worth the games price on sale or even more. I recommend it.

Normally i don't write comments much but i made an exeption for this.Beside from not opening,i can't even close it!I had to restart the computer every time.Definately not recommend.

Tags: Adventure - WS - Walking Simulator Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR:Its broken. Loading bar reaches 100% sound plays and nothing happens Game dev was promising a port to unity engine 4 and removal of settings options. Looks really amateur based on the screenshots and looks not worth the time or effort to playthrough however if it gets fixed leave a comment and I will play this through again and reassess this review.

Atmospheric walking sim with Broken Achievements. For $3 it would be an okay way to spend 15 minutes, if it was coded properly. Fix the achievements, the crashing, and maybe some of the visual problems and then we'll talk.

For the price the game is pretty decent: graphics are great, it's nice that you can interact with every object, and the storyline is fine (at least to the point I managed to get). On the other side: it's super dark outside - I can't see a damn thing. Also some intro explaining the storyline would be nice, but there isn't any. But my biggest issue is that the game runs really slow, even if my computer meets the system requirements (according to my son who helped with this. He also told me to turn off some settings in the game, but it didn't help). If the creators of this game made some kind of new version, or improvements, then this would be a pretty good game. In the meantime, I will give Magdalena a little recommendation for its graphics and storyline!

Tried to play today and sat listening to the opening song 4 times with nothing on the screen. All I ever saw was the option for language. Couldn't open other windows, including Task Manager to try to kill it, and would not respond to my attempts to close the screen. Really disappointing

Absolute shit. I tried loading this game 8 times in both languages and had it freeze on a black loading screen every time. Wasn't even able to start a new game once. Devolopers should be ashamed. This is not a finished product, but more a completely untested, bugged, rough draft.

I cannot even play this game ive tried changing all the settings it gets about 1/3 of the way loaded into a new game and crashes do not buy I got it for around $.80 with a coupon and it doesnt even work for me doubt it will work for you and even if it does im sure it wont be worth it.

Highly disappointed with this game. Not only is it quite buggy, but the mouse sensitity can't be changed and it is permanently on high, meaning the slightest move of the mouse means you turn drastically - precision is right out the window. "Press E to interact with everything" except for several things, "Press L to use Lighter" that doesn't work - one big frustrating mess.

The game description sums it up perfectly: Minutes feel like days while waiting for something to happen. At 2fps.

EDIT: Ok, nothing changes after half a year and as I see a lot of people have the same problem. Looks like developers don't give a damn about their game what is so sad. Steam should remove that game from their shop. These developers are just taking money from buyers don't mind if they have any issues with this "masterpiece". Don't waste your money. ___________________________________ OK, I'm done. I have no experience of a plot, graphic or anything else that game provided. Why? I can't play. When I'm trying the following issues may appear: - black screen of death - unable to click anything - unable to close the game (only thing I can do is hard reset) - experience crashing of resolution and then I'm unable to even shut down the laptop Oh, before someone starts to be curious - my laptop is new and shiny with Windows 10 operating system. Sadly I can't make a complaint because I waited too long in hope that something will change. Such a pity. If something will change (hopefully for better), maybe before another patch, I will edit this.

Don't even bother. This game does not work. I tried it first on a macbook pro at it's lowest quality and resolution, didnt work properly. Just extremely laggy. Then tried it on a middle class Windows10 PC (with updated drivers etc), and still no go, this time actually somewhat worse, just black. Not worth the ca. 30 cents paid. C'mon guys. Ridiculous.

If this game is good or bad, I'll never know. It crashes after loading, and as long as have researched, many people have this issue. And no word from the devs since 2016.

Won't load at all under either Windows 10 nor Windows 7 (two very different computers). Don't even think about buying because it won't likely work.

Really great game to get lost in and argue with your friends about curling. Is it sport? Should you respect it? This game will give you plenty of time to talk it out.

Magdalena looks to be an interesting bit of artwork. It is basically a walking game, where you walk around a house (inside and outside) and explore. It includes a story in notes, contained in three notes to be found around the house. I think that, for most people, it would be boring; but I found it somewhat interesting. If you are looking for an "arty" experience, then this may be worth getting. When the achievements are fixed, Magdalena would be worthwhile buying for any achievement hunters on Steam, but only if it is on sale for about 50 cents or $1 (currently, it is being sold on Steam for $2.99). I can't give this game a high recommendation, but it just scrapes by.

Don't buy this sc*m game. The game itself won't loading and the dev of the game did not do any update to fix it so you only see an empty black loading screen. As short the game is broken and no fix by the dev

The stuttering on this game is so bad, I couldn't even play it. It was a punt at £0.36 but I'm still disappointed I couldn't even navigate my way into the house!

Very nice and all but terribly laggy, can't change the keyboard settings so I have to break my fingers to -sorta- play, also does anything ever happen in there ? It's nice having a bathtub but what good is it if I can't be used to cut my wrists in it out of boredom ... Seriously the worst 5 dollars ever spent ! On a 2015 mac book pro, totally unplayable.

This game is good. The gameplay sometimes boring, but you can be scared. Some places are too dark. And you can get trading cards.

cool badges cool logo ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE GAME Is not worth your time even with a discount

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I would actually review this but it crashes every time i try to load it, it cost me 2 8 cents but im refunding it anyway😍 From what i could see: Pros: - pretty title screen music Cons: - Everything else AND IT COSTS MONEY!!!!

The earth is 4.6 billion years old and we managed to exist at the same time as this masterpiece.

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maaaaaaaaadalena madalenaaaaaaaaaaa vocee é meu bem quererr, eu vou falar pra todo mundo..

In the dream, we are all waiting to wake up. Then, we will remember.

poor cant even get it to run no matter what resolution i use always crashes :(

Game crashes after the first loading screen, the latest update doesn't work at all.(win10)

This game makes my eyes burn I'm blind now Got trading cards, Worth it

It seems a nice game but... crashes every time I tried to play >(