Mothmen 1966

Wow, so this is Pixel Pulp, eh? It's something between a comic and an interactive puzzle. It's a very short experience, but very well drawn. This can easily be played in a single sitting over a period of about an hour or two. In the time it'd take to watch a cheesy Netflix film you can experience MOTHMEN 1966. The story is absolutely bonkers. I mean, the plot all over the place. There are no answers here, only questions, all the way through. Playing the game is almost like watching an episode of Twilight Zone or something, except there's no narrator who can try to make sense of it all. There are a few sections in the game where you're tasked with a puzzle or challenge and it takes very straightforward logic to figure it out. The game is forgiving in this way, in that you'll die a lot but it's very easy to just go back and try again. I failed a lot of times at different challenges, but trying them to completion never seemed too frustrating of a task. I thought it was neat but the story is just all over the place. It's extremely pulp. It's like, there's a mothmen part, but then there's this whole other side plot about weird guns and strange grandmothers and abusive relationships..and each are just as important as the other within this crazy plot. I liked it all, the graphics, the experience, etc and I can even go with the pulp of it all because I have a large collection of EC Comics, Eerie comics, Creepshow comics at home, but even I have a hard time coming to terms with *all of these crazy things all happening at once*. This is the first in a series of Pixel Pulp games here on Steam, and I played this one first after reviews showed it to be the roughest of the three. But the art is real impressive. Anyway, thumbs up.

The first entry in the Pixel Pulps series of visual novellas by LCB Games. The story is great fun, a playful, yet also impactful, piece of pulp science fiction. The game revels in its comic book-like pulpiness! And yet, at the same time, the writing is superb, in a way that elevates it out of its specific genre and it becomes, simultaneously, a reflection upon that which it is celebrating and playing with, an artistic feat that can only be accomplished by people who love what they’re doing. It’s a delight. The pixel art, though not as refined as their latest game, Grizzly Man, is fantastic. And the player interface and overall design - which they seem to use across the whole Pixel Pulps series - is a dream. Finally, I much prefer the card game, and a puzzly shooter mini game, to the mini games in Grizzly Man. I’m excited to play their other two games.

Great visuals, nice atmosphere, well-told story, terrible card game.

A short narrative adventure with tons of style and atmosphere. The story is horror themed on a very pulp way, focusing on the characters as the horrors lurk on the fringes of our view, mostly to save on budget for films but a mark of the genre by now, and masterfully used here, it uses the troopes of the characters you would expect from this story and makes them more complex, it´s very interesting. The art deserves a mention but off course you are seeing them on the store page, it´s amazing how accurate to the old computer games it ressembles, but off course it has a more modern approach to the framing, making it more cinematic. There´s also some mini-games involved, they add some challenge and some fun, plus the variety is welcome and they don´t stay their welcome. One of them even has an achievement for digging into it and it was fun. My only complain would be that it was very short, but since It´s the first in a series of anthologies and it has a really low price, plus made by a small indie, that only makes me want to play the rest. It was a really good surpraise of a game, I rate it a 1964 movie you saw on 1997 on your grandma´s house while your parents went to a party and you´ve being chasing your whole life to find it, then one day randomly it appears on a streaming platform you hardly ever check and guess what? It was worth it, all to get back to the past for a brief moment, where you were loved and there were no worries... are this rates getting to long? Nah, they are perfect, shut up.

No autosave feature, lost all my progress upon taking a break. Very loud and annoying 'text sound' that cannot be adjusted separately from other sounds. Avoid.

Short, so worth only getting if on sale. I enjoyed my time with it, 3/5

My least favorite of these series. Still good for an hr or two on sale.

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