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A 2D exploration/horror game starring the Touhou Project's Koishi Komeiji. Use her Third Eye to explore a mental world entirely unlike reality.
3rd eye is a adventure, faith and psychological horror game
developed by 3rd eye project
and published by PLAYISM.
Released on September 30th 2019 is available only on Windows
in 4 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Japanese.
It has received 318 reviews of which 277 were positive and 41 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam.
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System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Vista/7/8/10 (64-bit only)
- Processor: CPU Core i5 2GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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UPDATE: 10 feb 2023 @ 5:04am Important: Watch the credits until they are over please. After a replay and reading at my previous review I gotta say I overhyped it a little. I still think is a great game. This time through I enjoyed the art and the atmosphere even more. I managed to understand it more too. I can see what they were going to but a lack of a proper translation and planning made it more confusing than it should have been. Again, if you are a Touhou fan you will feel right at home but if you just want a scary game I dunno if this fits the bill completely. Besides, it will ask you for a bit of patience and dedication to really understand it. It's a doujin game after all. A few rough edges are expected. Now... about the message... This is what I understood... There's always a third eye watching you. Watching me. Watching everyone. That third eye is... other people. Their look and judgement will affect your behavior. Not all of the third eyes are nice. The story is about some twins. Satori and Koishi. Satori is the smart and talented while Koishi is hard to handle and understand. Her dad doesn't like any of them since he wanted a boy but can at least tolerate Satori. Not Koishi. Their mom doesn't really know what to do either. She tries her best but she can't handle Koishi and gets desperate. After some years Koishi is seen as the weird one. Going from doctor to doctor in order to try and "fix" her. Unfortunately nothing works. Satori still believes her sister will get better and is nice and loving with her sister. One day in a tantrum out of frustration Koishi pushes Satori out of a window and she dies. Koishi escapes an it seems like she's left on her own. Here's where it gets weird. I dunno how many of you know this but medicine for your mind is not the most reliable even nowadays. We still don't know a lot of stuff so it's implied that Koishi has some really rough hallucinations while under treatment. Said visions happen inside gensokyou at the same time it is also implied that they do actually happen. In the end, all of the game is Koishi's Journey through the pain she suffered throughout her life. In the end the two sisters manage to reunite in gensokyou. It's... quite confusing and I don't think I really got the idea completely but I am satisfied nonetheless. I love when fanworks try to make sense of gensokyo. Since is the place of the forgotten, the fans are able to imagine how these character were when they were remembered. When they lived in our world. So yeah. Give it a try. Maybe even wait for a sale but it's something I think any touhou fan should try. Specially if you are a fan of the Komeiji. These two are... such great characters that offer so much. OLD REVIEW (16 Mar, 2021 @ 7:37am) TL;DR: - Diet fran bow with touhou characters. - If you are a touhou fan and you are on the mood for a scary game. Go for it. You gonna love it. - if you like this artstyle and atmosphere: you gonna love it. - If you come looking for more fran bow just keep in mind this is a way smaller game in scale but I bet you will love it. Like a small delicious snack. - if you know nothing about touhou you may not recognize or make sense of a lot locations, behaviours or jokes but you don't need to know that. The game gives enough hints on what to do. You will enjoy it. Personally I already knew about this artist and I was pleasantly surprised when I knew they would be working on a Fran bow styled game. The art it's amazing, creepy but cute at the same time. It took me this long to play it but here we are. I really liked the game. The story they created really ties up to a character like Koishi and I love how they implement the "3rd Eye" idea into not just the story and gameplay but also into the little pages you find around and giving some interesting comentary to think about for a while. Now there are a few things you should be aware before going into this game. The translation isn't perfect. A lot of times you won't understand what they are saying since it will sound random for you. You don't have to worry too much because the puzzles aren't that hard to solve which takes me to my second point. It's kinda hard to recommend this title to the "general public" or people coming from a game like fran bow because all of the characters are from touhou and as such they have certain quirks that you will only know by being in the fandom so you will miss some key parts. Specially on a certain chapter, you will see those chars and have no idea WHY they are there in the first place or their motivation. Also there are a few puzzles that if you know the char the answer will be completely obvious. Altough there are enough hints in game so you can figure it out even if you know nothing about the character. There are a few other oppsies here and there with things like sound or volume and koishi some times walks in place after you start an action but since it's a doujin game it's understandable and they don't break the game or anything. Overall I gotta be honest. I love touhou and I'm completely pleased with this game. I love seeing the doujin side of touhou is still alive and still making amazing fangames. A pleasure to have contributed to the creators by buying this game. Thank you.
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It was a short game, but had a lot of heart and passion in it. I've been a Touhou fan for over a decade now and loved the references to various characters and stories. Maribel and Renko's side story was my favorite. On that note, the writing for the game seems to assume you know who these characters are as it will not explain much in that regard. Not to mention that the game's translation isn't always clear and can sometimes be confusing. I think it's fair to compare the game to Fran Bow, and having now played both I think Fran Bow had stronger puzzle elements, though 3rd Eye makes up for it with Macabre humor and excellent art and music. It took me only 3 hours to finish the game, which isn't much for a 15 dollar game (but we westerners are used to paying more for Touhou merchandise). If you're okay with a shorter, more linear experience than other games of this type, I would absolutely recommend the game. Koto Inari's art and vision is a gem and I'm very glad that this game was made. :) as a side note: of course Flandre would be carrying multiple sticks of dynamite on her person at all times
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The first thing you need to know about 3rd Eye is that its illustrator is Koto Inari. Whereas most Touhou artists try to make ZUN's girls cuter, lovelier and more stylish, Koto Inari gives them uncanny, twisted, often morbid or even mutilated forms. You won't be drooling over your favourite Gensoukyans in this one! But that's not why you'd play 3rd Eye anyway. It's a gloomy, psychological horror adventure game with fairly simple puzzles. Solutions are usually found quickly so long as you investigate all objects you come across. Sometimes you'll get different results or find invisible points of interest if you activate your Third Eye mode first. Not that much logical thinking is required, as the majority of items you pick up are used automatically once you interact with the object or person they are intended for. The real appeal of this title is definitely the creepy, eerie world and its weird, unsettling inhabitants. The horror is not too direct and aggressive: The game has a slow start and the early areas seem quite peaceful. There are only few jump scares and less moments of peril than I would have expected. To make up for that subtle approach, you'll likely be quite heartbroken from what you learn along the way... One more thing: Be sure to restart until you've seen both endings, otherwise you'd leave with the thought "that's it?" or "what was that all about?". Overall, 3rd Eye's one of the most unusual Touhou games ever made. It's worth playing for its uniqueness alone, but also its narrative. Hopefully, it'll lead to an influx of more gruesome fangames, as we have so very few of those!
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Super excellent art, very good at setting a spooky mood. The translation kind of drops off and gets pretty rough after a certain point, but the quality of the writing does manage to shine through that with the Hifuu part of the progression anyway. Also contains at least two untranslated choices with at least one that seems to be really important, and that's kind of unfortunate. It's also... kind of inexplicably a RAM hog. In one area I peaked at 6 gigs of RAM usage, although it never got that bad again. Still, it's worth your time. I really enjoyed what I've played so far and will probably try and get a different ending, if it exists, because the one I got was very abrupt.
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(I just played it one time, there might me multiple outcomes, but for now this is my review) 3rd tells the story of Koishi from Touhou Project, and a little about the Satori family as well. Playing as Koishi is both sad and creppy at the same time, due to the amazing artstyle everything around looks sad, and with the neat 3rd eye mechanic, you can see the world in a very creepy way, making it an amazing horror experience. The game also makes you kind of scared about the protagonist (Koishi) through the game, which reflects her totally unpredictable actions in Touhou project as well! Overall It's an amazing game 9/10 with only two problems: - The translation makes some dialogues really awkard sometimes, leaving you with a huge question mark, and also two choices in the game are not fully translated which may or not have made us choose the wrong thing? - Perfomance gets bad sometime not really sure if it's the game or my PC
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3rd eye is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam.
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3rd eye received 277 positive votes out of a total of 318 achieving a rating of 8.06.
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3rd eye was developed by 3rd eye project and published by PLAYISM.
3rd eye is playable and fully supported on Windows.
3rd eye is not playable on MacOS.
3rd eye is not playable on Linux.
3rd eye is a single-player game.
3rd eye does not currently offer any DLC.
3rd eye does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
3rd eye does not support Steam Remote Play.
3rd eye is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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3rd eye project
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PLAYISM
Release
30 Sep 2019
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