Hello! We are NEWMATIC, the developers of The Strange City. We are truly grateful for your recent playthrough of our game and the fantastic video you created. Your in-depth exploration and keen observations have deeply moved our team. As an indie developer, we have always hoped to share our game with a wider audience. Thanks to your video, more people have become aware of our work, and we sincerely appreciate your support. We have carefully considered the feedback you provided in your video and are committed to implementing swift patches to enhance the game experience. Your insights are invaluable to us. We hope you will continue to support indie developers like us, and we will strive to deliver even better games in the future. Thank you!and god bless you!
this is an excellent start with great potential, but I feel like it can be improved. Some notes are the large areas in chapter 1 with no action. They look great, but they're missing something. I think making it into more of a stealth game (monsters way faster than you and easily notice you if you'renot careful, but there's a clear way to hide). 7:20 was perfect btw, love it. 8:50 is also great. 9:31 started out great, but I feel like a short chase sequence with no escape would've done better than cutting to being captured lol. I love the way they all looked at you. 10:06 's whole sequence was pretty good. 14:33 yes, background stuff like that is what's missing in some of the empty corridors. 15:22 breathing+electrical issues thing is also great backround stuff, good atmosphere builder. 16:38 love it, good enemy and death for this type of game. same with 18:05. 20:30 love this sequence 👍, 22:46 perfect. 26:00 the chase sequence was great, I think a way to make it more scary is more seemingly close calls. Also the ending of that chase sequence was a bit anticlimactic, I'd suggest a follow through lol. 28:41 cages are missing living and dead prisoners lol. 31:47 👍 whew, it's late so I'm going to leave my comment at here lol
This makes me appreciate Little Nightmares so much more. From the storyline to the characters, stage layouts and especially the sound design with the upmost attention to detail. In that game you couldn’t run too fast let alone step on certain things without alerting the monsters that were perusing you.
Didn't make a lick of sense. They're adults, but they're not, and they're dolls-things, but the NPCs aren't and instead they're horrible mutant things, but the scale of everything constantly changes, and wtf did the car crash have to do with the weird culty bullshit at the end of it? Nonsense.
One thing that'd help this game is more careful sound design. When you keep hearing all these stock sound effects, it makes the game much less spooky than it could be.
The orphanage stage really gives the goosebumps even the performance theatre. Those monstrous dolls are deadly and comes to life in the dark as gives me a little bit of pediophobia(fear of stuffed animals that comes to life).
I’m going to have to agree with you. Like the chapter 3 monster he was literally running in place grabbing the air. I understand they want to give you a chance to escape, but it just looked cheesy lol it’s not a bad game, but it’s not something that I would pay money for.
@@greed42o So a game with a very clay like looking animation look, a small child character who has to go through many different locations such as: Being chased by hands, people with freaky limbs, an evil kitchen with meat, is chased by big things wanting to eat them is NOTHING like Little Nightmares at all right? Get real.
@@bunninsula5849 GATEKEEP! This is hilarious. IF I started a franchise called Daddy John's and the slogan was "Better toppings, better food, best pizza" I would get slapped with a copyright infringement. But under your logic, they would be gatekeeping the pizza industry I guess. I am not saying they copy pasted, but it is very clearly their take on Little Nightmares. And if you are going to tell me this game is not similar, your just deluded.
Level art design looks good but main character looks like they're from Animal Crossing, coming out of a realistic looking car, you got some silly looking clown blob monster, a buff dude who loves chopping meat who MIGHT look right in this universe etc...Point being, the character/NPC designs are so inconsistent! I won't mind another Little Nightmares but the game developer needs to decide what they're trying to go for in art design. It looks really silly. lol
After seeing the playthrough... I admit this game seems worth buying. The art style is good enough but I don't think they did good enough for the atmosphere, art style for the monsters, introduction of the things that generally hunt the player. Its uh not scary enough. But I wouldnt mind playing or paying for this game. Although, that is just my opinion. This game feels a bit rough and unpolished as many might say but I think its a good game and has potential... I just dunno how theyre going to polish it and make it scarier...
This game feels almost unfinished. It doesn’t look bad persay, but there's so many differences in styles that i can't tell if it's meant to be like that or if the developer(s) messed up somewhere. Nothing really even hints at the lore of what is happening and why and nothing seems connected as you progress; more like you're just jumping between completely unrelated stories with not avtual story to them. I don't know, it's very odd and unpolished while borrowing too much from Little Nightmares and adding nothing of real value. The graphics in general are nice, and the sound design seems well put together, but the game itself just confuses me.
Game not for anyone who’s afraid of the dark, hospitals, dolls, clowns, blood, skeletons, deaths, and/or even hideous monsters And I’m still not understanding the plot.
This is not nearly as awesome as Little Nightmares. It's a pretty lame copy cat. Way too close to LN to be anything special on its own. A change of setting from dreary mechanical mutant butcher nightmare would've improved it waaayyyy more
Hello!
We are NEWMATIC, the developers of The Strange City.
We are truly grateful for your recent playthrough of our game and the fantastic video you created. Your in-depth exploration and keen observations have deeply moved our team.
As an indie developer, we have always hoped to share our game with a wider audience. Thanks to your video, more people have become aware of our work, and we sincerely appreciate your support.
We have carefully considered the feedback you provided in your video and are committed to implementing swift patches to enhance the game experience. Your insights are invaluable to us.
We hope you will continue to support indie developers like us, and we will strive to deliver even better games in the future.
Thank you!and god bless you!
it would make a big difference if you take the faces off of everyone in the game. Remove the eyes, nose, and mouth.
The animation and transition need improvement babe.
this is an excellent start with great potential, but I feel like it can be improved. Some notes are the large areas in chapter 1 with no action. They look great, but they're missing something. I think making it into more of a stealth game (monsters way faster than you and easily notice you if you'renot careful, but there's a clear way to hide). 7:20 was perfect btw, love it. 8:50 is also great. 9:31 started out great, but I feel like a short chase sequence with no escape would've done better than cutting to being captured lol. I love the way they all looked at you. 10:06 's whole sequence was pretty good. 14:33 yes, background stuff like that is what's missing in some of the empty corridors. 15:22 breathing+electrical issues thing is also great backround stuff, good atmosphere builder. 16:38 love it, good enemy and death for this type of game. same with 18:05. 20:30 love this sequence 👍, 22:46 perfect. 26:00 the chase sequence was great, I think a way to make it more scary is more seemingly close calls. Also the ending of that chase sequence was a bit anticlimactic, I'd suggest a follow through lol. 28:41 cages are missing living and dead prisoners lol. 31:47 👍
whew, it's late so I'm going to leave my comment at here lol
This makes me appreciate Little Nightmares so much more. From the storyline to the characters, stage layouts and especially the sound design with the upmost attention to detail. In that game you couldn’t run too fast let alone step on certain things without alerting the monsters that were perusing you.
Didn't make a lick of sense. They're adults, but they're not, and they're dolls-things, but the NPCs aren't and instead they're horrible mutant things, but the scale of everything constantly changes, and wtf did the car crash have to do with the weird culty bullshit at the end of it? Nonsense.
One thing that'd help this game is more careful sound design. When you keep hearing all these stock sound effects, it makes the game much less spooky than it could be.
Is he that small,or is the city that big?
Because we saw him get out from his normal sized car
Possibly everything is big....(strange city)....idk, good question tho
The orphanage stage really gives the goosebumps even the performance theatre. Those monstrous dolls are deadly and comes to life in the dark as gives me a little bit of pediophobia(fear of stuffed animals that comes to life).
This game isnt bad but... it just feel more like a game trying to copy what another game did and if failed both to be different and do better.
I’m going to have to agree with you. Like the chapter 3 monster he was literally running in place grabbing the air. I understand they want to give you a chance to escape, but it just looked cheesy lol it’s not a bad game, but it’s not something that I would pay money for.
lol that's like saying every horror is copying silent hill or resident evil.
@@greed42o So a game with a very clay like looking animation look, a small child character who has to go through many different locations such as: Being chased by hands, people with freaky limbs, an evil kitchen with meat, is chased by big things wanting to eat them is NOTHING like Little Nightmares at all right?
Get real.
@@TheWaterdog6 These are universal fears. Don't try to gatekeep them to Little Nightmares.
@@bunninsula5849 GATEKEEP! This is hilarious.
IF I started a franchise called Daddy John's and the slogan was "Better toppings, better food, best pizza" I would get slapped with a copyright infringement. But under your logic, they would be gatekeeping the pizza industry I guess.
I am not saying they copy pasted, but it is very clearly their take on Little Nightmares. And if you are going to tell me this game is not similar, your just deluded.
I love the design of the protagonist.
Level art design looks good but main character looks like they're from Animal Crossing, coming out of a realistic looking car, you got some silly looking clown blob monster, a buff dude who loves chopping meat who MIGHT look right in this universe etc...Point being, the character/NPC designs are so inconsistent! I won't mind another Little Nightmares but the game developer needs to decide what they're trying to go for in art design. It looks really silly. lol
After seeing the playthrough... I admit this game seems worth buying. The art style is good enough but I don't think they did good enough for the atmosphere, art style for the monsters, introduction of the things that generally hunt the player. Its uh not scary enough. But I wouldnt mind playing or paying for this game. Although, that is just my opinion. This game feels a bit rough and unpolished as many might say but I think its a good game and has potential... I just dunno how theyre going to polish it and make it scarier...
this game remembers me not only of LM but also remembers me a lot of other 2 games ive played, inside and the other one i have no idea whats called
It has been quite awhile since a video game ending got an audible “...What?" out of me.
I like the look of this game to be honest. I would love to play it on Nintendo Switch when it becomes available. I love Indie Horror Games!
I don't think Tom Nook approves of this island...
This is where Villagers who don't pay heir debts when they're due go.
This game feels almost unfinished. It doesn’t look bad persay, but there's so many differences in styles that i can't tell if it's meant to be like that or if the developer(s) messed up somewhere. Nothing really even hints at the lore of what is happening and why and nothing seems connected as you progress; more like you're just jumping between completely unrelated stories with not avtual story to them.
I don't know, it's very odd and unpolished while borrowing too much from Little Nightmares and adding nothing of real value. The graphics in general are nice, and the sound design seems well put together, but the game itself just confuses me.
O Alanzoka tem que jogar esse jogo 😢❤
Not bad, keep up the good work! I know how hard u try to make it, awesome ❤
Thank you for watching!
SO WE PLAY A DEFORMED WOMAN ?!!!!
also the game looks a little janky
This games looks gooood! I wanna play 😁
This is basically Little Nightmare 1 and 2, so similar😅😅
Little Nightmares 4 : The strange city
The same thought as me 😂
This game is dope as hell!
so this is how Tom Cruise feels
Its good and creepy. Is the main character a doll? I'm confused about what is happening
Doesnt look bad, but it very unpolished and unoriginal
This on ps4 ?
I think it's only on steam.
This is like Little Nightmares
As great of a game as this is I need people to stop comparing it to LN. it just not on that level
How about I Can have Little Nightmares 1 . 2 . 3, and Super Mario Odyssey + DLC Kingdom Pass, Can there be Little Nightmares 4 Game? And Reanimal 2?
👍👍👍
Good good
Game not for anyone who’s afraid of the dark, hospitals, dolls, clowns, blood, skeletons, deaths, and/or even hideous monsters
And I’m still not understanding the plot.
Animal crossing: Walk into Big nightmare City
imagine the smell!! 36:45
Yea a watered down version and its bad
I'm hooked
มันก็ดีนะ แต่รู้สึกไม่สุด 😂
Nice attempt but I'm going to pass. I don't know. Maybe its just me but I didn't like this at all. But good luck going forward guys.
Drff❤
This is not nearly as awesome as Little Nightmares. It's a pretty lame copy cat. Way too close to LN to be anything special on its own. A change of setting from dreary mechanical mutant butcher nightmare would've improved it waaayyyy more