- Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie, Fantasy
Unrest is a role playing adventure game set in a fantasy interpretation of ancient India that adapts to death, failure, and the choices you make. Play as ordinary people in a struggle for safety, freedom, and a chance at peace. Use conversation, manipulation (and rarely, violence) to achieve your goals.
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Character
Earnest, grave, contemplative and open-ended.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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gameranxPhil OwenAug 20149/10I love it. Unrest is another indie that exposes the lie of AAA that says games need some physical skill element to be worthwhile. It gives us many layers to ponder with its narrative, wrapped in a package that feels culturally relevant even as it's firmly rooted in a past and culture that is not my own. That, my friends, is something worth experiencing.
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TwinfiniteMike GeibJul 20144/5With cunning conversation and clever dialogue as the focus, Unrest delivers a solid performance as an adventure game that breaks the norms.
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SoftpediaRadu HaulicaJul 20148/10Unrest offers a gripping story about hope, failure, action and inaction, fear and security, which feels more like an interactive visual novel than an actual game. And a well-written one, at that. Sort of like A Game of Thrones without endlessly waiting for the dragons to come, the game delivers its quick shot of gripping narrative, challenges you to make a couple of life and death decisions, then leaves you boiling in the karmic print of your choices.
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Rock, Paper, ShotgunAdam SmithAug 2014I wish it were more literary or theatrical in its presentation and style, but perhaps that would distract from the aspects that I admire. A fair few people have reacted to the brevity and lack of resolution by suggesting that the game is unfinished but that doesn't seem to be the case at all. It may be a little rough but Unrest is deliberate in its approach to the idea of playing roles and even though I don't entirely approve, I will defend to the death (or mild shouting) Pyrodactyl's attempt to introduce new elements to the conversation.
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PC GamerAndy KellyAug 201460/100A compelling story with many outcomes, but the game itself is a little too rough around the edges.
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Snippets via OpenCritic, where 23% of critics recommend it.
About the game
- Platforms
- Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac
- Developer
- Pyrodactyl Games
- Publisher
- KISS ltd
- Released
- July 23, 2014
- Modes
- Single player
IGDB rating 6.0/10 from 3 ratings.
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