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The Long Maze was available as a giveaway on November 28, 2022!
The Long Maze is a classic maze from which you need to find a way out. The labyrinth consists of more than 100 rooms and many corridors. In order not to get lost, open the doors and leave them open, so you will know that you have already been here and you should not go back. Use the flashlight by pressing the "F" button. The sound in the game creates the atmosphere of an abandoned basement. Ready, then go ahead, find a way out and get out of this maze.
Windows
268 MB
$5.00
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This game works on Windows 10 but you have to wait until the game loads.
The main problem I have is that you can't turn around so you need to go sideways or backwards which makes the game less fun.
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Brian,
It looks like you need to use your mouse to be able to turn around and not the arrow keys. I wish the game came with some instructions.
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Won't work on my Win 32, XP, SP3 machine. Which might mean not 32 compatible, or maybe not XP compatible, or maybe something else. But the reported error is the usual "not a valid Win 32 application". No problem. Though I don't understand why these developers can't just say "developed (or tested) on so and so spec machine. Backward compatibility possible but untested." Of course, they may be afraid that less people will test it then. On the other hand, I'm almost inclined to say that, if it doesn't list specs, don't waste your time downloading it. But I don't think the situation is bad enough yet for that solution. A minor problem, I admit, but also laziness. We see it here, and maybe some don't download because of it, but, how less inclined would someone be to buy games on Itch without specs.? Maybe the developers on Itch should consider that. At least, even if you inherited or otherwise acquire the rights, you could take 10 minutes to put it on your oldest machine and test it yourself, rather than expect people to pay $5 for the privilege. If you cared at all. Though, I'm not saying this applies to everyone on Itch, only some. Don't take this as a rant, just a minor piece of feedback that needed to be made, eventually. I'll keep testing, when my interest is piqued. Considering it's free. But, I'd be less inclined to shell out $5 if I wasn't sure if it would play on a particular machine. Just saying.
Anyway, thanks GGOTD, Falco, and I should be mentioning Itch or at least some Itch developers. Sorry about that folks at Itch. Thank you for participating. And thanks as usual to Whiterabbit for going "above and beyond the call of duty". Hope you're feeling better soon, and don't feel bad for taking time off. You've got credits earned with us reaching to the moon. Or maybe even the sun. :) And thanks Jason for your constant and valuable participation.
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mediaman(watcher)13, A user, JEDIEG From Saturday's Game Giveaway on Electronic World Z mentioned that they were not able to get that game to run for the same error you received. I suspect now that Shader Model is not the problem but a lack of 64 bit subsystem on the PC. Windows XP SP2 Pro may solve the subsystem issue but may not.
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Does not work. Will not load on my Windows 10 computer.
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Stephen A Herring,
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Stephen A Herring, I am running Windows 11 home and it's working fine for me as well. It is perhaps due to the fact you may not have the Direct X Runtime for your computer which many games seem to require for rendering. Check to also make sure your graphics drivers are up to date.
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Today's game reminds me of some of the dungeon crawling experience I've had with games on the NES. Most notably, Wizardry , Ultima 2 , Swords and Serpents to name a few. Also on Sega Genesis, Sword of Vermillion had plenty of it as well.
This game captures the experience of it without introducing RPG elements and is very challenging in my opinion. I've managed to open 6 doors so far myself and found my self going back and forth to the same room I was already in. My brain was literally confused.
The games atmosphere is best enjoyed if you have good speaker system with sub-woofer or gaming earphones / headphones. Yes - it does have that eerie feeling to it but you won't be running into any "gory" surprises. It's more of an ASMR experience. For those of you who don't know what ASMR is, you can Youtube it, it's supposed to be audio therapy and there are different kinds out there from family friendly ones to those that are not so much.
The games specs today say that "Windows" is supported but does nothing to describe what specifically it's looking for. My laptop, Intel Celeron N4020 1.1 ghz, 4GB of RAM, Intel UHD 600 Graphics. It ran reasonably well. My laptop happened to be manufactured in 2022 so it's a safe bet that many computers will be able to run this.
If you are looking for more dungeon crawling action on Steam you could try the classics. Here is one example of it: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1882240/Forgotten_Realms_The_Archives__Collection_One/
This game and other classics are still on sale during the normal Autumn Sale until November 29th at 10am PST.
Overall it's an interesting game that don't require a lot of tasks to do, you just simply enjoy the atmosphere of it and try to get out of the maze.
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sailorbear510 aka Jason, assuming you're not familiar with it already, thought this review of "A Little To The Left" might interest.
https://www.theverge.com/23473263/a-little-to-the-left-nintendo-switch-pc
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