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American Arcadia is a cinematic puzzle game that combines a 2.5D platformer and first-person game to tell the tale of a thrilling escape. Experience the extraordinary story of Trevor, an average man escaping from the world's most popular reality tv show.
American Arcadia is a singleplayer, point & click and third person game
developed by Out of the Blue Games
and published by Raw Fury.
Released on November 15th 2023 is available only on Windows
in 11 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Spanish - Latin America.
It has received 3,254 reviews of which 3,073 were positive and 181 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: 64-bit Windows® 10
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4670K or equivalent
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050ti or equivalent
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 20 GB available space
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A platformer or a puzzle-lite game. A fun mind-f@ck, or a crock of sheet. A fun out-of-the-box experience or a reskin of a classic movie. You be the judge. Pros: * Great voice acting and music. * Interesting level design for the most part. * Plotline keeps you guessing until the end. Cons: * Devs sometimes troll the player. (eg: in chase sequences, making it so you have to sit and listen to long dialogs before they'll move a guard/etc, so you can keep going) * There were a cpl times I had to search the forums to figure how to proceed - which is good for a puzzle game, not as much so for a platformer w/ light puzzling. Meh: * There's a "meta" game element which is accessed by hitting 'Tab' - which sometimes brought up the Steam overlay mid-chase-scene, because I'd also been holding 'Shift'. Wish they'd defaulted it to a different key. * Ending is... kinda-sorta a bummer, but not totally. NOTE: Not a good game if you have coordination issues. TL;DR: I enjoyed it overall, but found myself annoyed several times - to the point that this is a grudging thumbs-up. 6.5/10
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American Arcadia — a delight. Essentially, it’s a game version of The Truman Show, but very creative and with a really interesting approach to gameplay — you play as two characters at once. The first one has platformer gameplay, similar to Inside or Limbo, with box-pushing and jumping. The second is a narrative adventure/walking sim in third person. Sometimes both characters act simultaneously! And sometimes everything gets completely flipped upside down. The story, while a bit clichéd, has intriguing twists — overall it leaves the impression of a well-thought-out and enjoyable narrative. There’s humor too — and not the cringe kind. The characters grow up logically. The mechanics for each character gradually evolve, and the game itself keeps becoming more original. The visuals are quite charming, and in some places American Arcadia looks gorgeous. The music is pleasant and always fitting, though nothing to write epic praises about. Played on Steam Deck without major issues — runs at 30fps and higher. But unfortunately, Deck does sometimes struggle a bit because of the dual renders. All in all, for me this was the perfect game for a couple of evenings. I gave it 9/10 and highly recommend checking it out — if only to see how simple mechanics can be combined in such an original way.
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I heard about AA in a Second Wind video and I was happy that there is a demo on Steam, which is apparently rarer these days than finding a AAA game that doesn't immediately try to sell you a season pass for content that should've been in the base game to begin with. Seriously, why do only indie developers remember that letting people actually try your product before buying it used to be standard fucking practice? Anyway, the demo hooked me like a particularly aggressive fishing lure designed by someone who understood the fundamental concept of "not insulting the player's intelligence," and I genuinely enjoyed myself until approximately the second half of chapter five, at which point the game transformed from a delightfully twisted examination of reality television dystopia into what I can only describe as a puzzle designer's fever dream after eating too much cheese and watching Myst speedruns. The story? Brilliant. The fourth wall breaking? Chef's kiss. Trevor's character transformation from hapless drone to... well, slightly less hapless drone with agency? Lovely stuff. The voice acting managed to convince me these were actual people rather than digital sock puppets being operated by caffeinated interns, which is more than I can say for most games these days. But then - and this is where things get about as pleasant as a root canal performed by a particularly vindictive and drunk dentist - the puzzles became this disjointed, imagination-free clusterfuck where I'd find myself staring at the screen like a confused tourist who's just realized their GPS has been leading them in circles around a Tesco car park. Picture this: dramatic scene unfolds, tensions are high, characters are having meaningful emotional moments about the nature of existence and free will, camera pans back to me and... nothing. No indication of what I'm supposed to do next, no visual cues, just the digital equivalent of being handed a Rubik's cube in a darkened room while someone shouts unhelpful instructions in ancient Sumerian. The moral questions, though, is where the game earned its keep. Very similar territory to Enslaved, which I'd recently finished and which had left me pondering the age-old philosophical question of whether it's better to live in comfortable ignorance or struggle with the burden of uncomfortable truth. Who gets to make that choice for others? Heavy stuff, wrapped up in a narrative about reality TV that somehow didn't feel completely ridiculous. The ending felt rushed, mind you: had that unmistakable "oh shit, we've run out of money, better wrap this up before the creditors start breaking kneecaps" energy that's becoming depressingly familiar in indie development. But despite all the puzzle-related trauma, I actually enjoyed the bloody thing. What absolutely baffles me, though, is how a game that looks like it could run on a particularly ambitious toaster managed to chug along at the frame rate of a geriatric sloth on my Steam Deck. Thank Christ for Lossless Scaling, which smoothed things out to a respectable 60fps and prevented me from developing the kind of motion sickness usually reserved for particularly turbulent ferry crossings. But docked mode? Completely unplayable: we're talking 10-20fps maximum, which is performance so dire it makes early access survival games look optimized by comparison. I've never seen a game struggle so spectacularly when plugged into a proper display, like it was actively offended by the concept of higher resolution. But there you have it. American Arcadia: brilliant concept, solid execution, puzzle design by someone who clearly confused "challenging" with "fucking incomprehensible," and optimization done by what I can only assume was a drugged up hamster running backwards on a wheel made of good intentions.
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I don’t even know where to begin—this game far exceeded my expectations. At first, I assumed it was merely a simplistic imitation of the iconic film (The Truman Show), but I was completely mistaken. What I found instead was an experience both immersive and profound. The ability to switch seamlessly between 2D and 3D gameplay adds an unexpected layer of versatility, with each mode offering its own unique charm. The cinematic sequences are stunning, the narrative style deeply engaging, and the supporting characters are crafted with real artistic brilliance. Yet what truly sets this game apart is its philosophical depth—it doesn’t just entertain; it invites introspection. The story boldly explores the nature of good and evil, confronting the player with unresolved moral dilemmas that echo long after the game ends. It’s this fusion of beauty, emotion, and meaning that transforms the game into a true masterpiece. The soundtrack is very excellent and suits the overall atmosphere of the game. Don’t be a fool! Play it now.
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Pretty entertaining game. By the end, it really felt like I had just watched a good movie. Storywise, the game clearly takes inspiration from The Truman Show movie, but expands on the concept by setting it on an entire town named Arcadia. Gameplaywise, American Arcadia is a mix between an Inside-like game and a 3D hacking game. You switch between two characters: Trevor, for the side-scrolling sections, and Angela, for the 3D ones. Sometimes, you even control both at the same time. Those moments required a bit of precise timing to succeed, but they were not too difficult and I actually found them pretty original and fun. Overall, the gameplay was fairly easy, except for 3 or 4 avoid-the-enemy sequences that took me several tries to get through. In all, I really enjoyed the story, and I would recommend it if you'd like to play an easy Inside-like game with some simple 3D hacking/logic puzzles.
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American Arcadia is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.
American Arcadia is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.50€ on Steam.
American Arcadia received 3,073 positive votes out of a total of 3,254 achieving an impressive rating of 9.05.
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American Arcadia was developed by Out of the Blue Games and published by Raw Fury.
American Arcadia is playable and fully supported on Windows.
American Arcadia is not playable on MacOS.
American Arcadia is not playable on Linux.
American Arcadia is a single-player game.
There are 2 DLCs available for American Arcadia. Explore additional content available for American Arcadia on Steam.
American Arcadia does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
American Arcadia does not support Steam Remote Play.
American Arcadia 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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Developer
Out of the Blue Games
Publisher
Raw Fury
Release
15 Nov 2023
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