Stories: The Path of Destinies

A game with a unique style and beautiful narrative, gets destroyed by repetitive gameplay and boring combat. The game could have been so good, but the combat alone turns it into a very average game.
The story is so good tho it's worth a playthrough.

A good indie RPG. The gimmick is that you have to go through the game 5 times to unlock all the "truths" and then reach the true end. Each run is very short (around an hour) and different from the previous one.
Combats start out kinda boring but get better as you unlock abilities. Environments look very nice and the game is generally well polished.

The writing and characters in this game are great and funny, but there's only so many times I can be bothered to play through the game to get alternative endings, especially when dialogue can't be skipped at any point.
I played through it enough times until I stopped having fun. Maybe that's the best way to enjoy this game, but it's sad it has to be that way.
I would still, however, recommend it, even if just for a few runs, because the game is still very fun overall.

"Less is more" is a mantra that I wish this developer had in mind.
Purely from a gameplay standpoint it isn't bad, the combat is a simpler version of the Batman combat, pretty much a one button combat system. It does it's job and can even be fun at times from how well it flows.
You have a magic system which just buffs/heals you and a run of the mill skill tree.
The biggest highlight is the humor which is actually pretty funny, it's a lot of pop culture references to games, events and celebrities.
At times it's borderline modernized Gex dialogue.
My biggest issue is the structure of the story. You have this book that the main character is reading that shows him the future and many different outcomes of his actions and you learn truth's at dead ends that you can then use to figure out a perfect solution with this knowledge to forge the perfect path where you survive the events of the game.
Now the issue is that even with the truth's known; nothing actually changes apart from eventually unlocking the true ending when all are found.
So say you know for a fact that every decision with a specific character is a bad idea cause they are a bad person the MC will constantly mention their knowledge of this fact but ignore it for the sake of letting that story unfold as if you didn't know this fact.
Which makes it kinda pointless to even have this meta narrative of learning knowledge you shouldn't have to influence the story, I wish the game was way shorter and focused more on that meta narrative even if it would be even more linear.
Also I have to mention the fact that you can not skip cutscenes and have to replay so much of the game and rewatch the same cutscenes over and over again to 100%, it's a pain.
So overall despite being a little bit negative about it.
It is a pretty good Steam Deck game if you want a simple little adventure game in short bursts but I do not recommend getting 100%.
A very similar game that is pretty much the same concept but perfected is Beacon Pines which I would highly recommend checking out.

Wonderful narrative, really charming characters and a really addictive gameplay loop. It also doesn't outlast it's welcome. I really recommend picking this up and playing it. We absolutely need more games like this.

This is one of those games I think I got in a bundle at some point and then it sat unplayed in my library for years. Finally played it, and it's actually great! Combat is simple but fun once you get a few upgrades, voice acting is excellent, the story is interesting. Highly recommend.

Excelent game with funny and multiple choices.Worth gameplay!