Broken Pieces

Broken Pieces is a psychological thriller taking place in a french coastal village somehow outside the flow of time. Solve the mysteries by putting the pieces of the story back together by figuring out the enigma behind this mystical place.

Broken Pieces is a adventure, action and female protagonist game developed by Elseware Experience, Benoit Dereau and Mael Vignaux and published by indie.io.
Released on September 09th 2022 is available only on Windows in 11 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Hungarian, Portuguese - Brazil and Russian.

It has received 413 reviews of which 307 were positive and 106 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.0 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 5.74€ on Steam and has a 75% discount.

The Steam community has classified Broken Pieces into these genres:

Adventure Action Female Protagonist Atmospheric Psychological Horror Story Rich Third Person Singleplayer Puzzle Exploration Investigation Supernatural Sci-fi Mystery Cinematic Thriller Narrative Point & Click Surreal Time Travel

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Requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7 (64 bit)
Processor: Intel Core i3-2130 (3.4 GHz)/AMD FX-4100 (3.6 GHz)
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: 3 GB, GeForce GTX 1050 (Legacy GPU: GeForce GTX 660) / Radeon R7 370
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 23 GB available space

Reviews

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Oct. 2024

For the most part, I felt genuinely immersed by Broken Pieces. It actually puts many pieces of the great adventure game puzzle in all the right places: the visuals, the location design, the narrative, the gameplay mechanics (well, most of them) and the side activities altogether deliver an enjoyable experience. Not outstanding, but definitely worth its time. There is also a nice old-school feeling to this game. It has a bit of a Syberia (or maybe The Longest Journey) touch to it which I definitely loved. It could be because of a fixed camera angles in the first place but it still delivers this nostalgic 2000's experience. However, it's not all peachy. Broken Pieces could have ended in my favorite list if not for the several major shortcomings: - The bugs. The game has been released two years ago and it is still full of showstoppers. It took me three attempts to start a proper playthrough. At first, I started with the shoulder camera and was unable to get past the shooting cans tutorial as the game has just got stuck. So, I did a bit of reading and restarted my playthrough from the same slot but with the fixed camera only to realize that the saving of my progress is not working anymore. So, I had to restart again, but this time around from a different slot. - The combat mechanic. For some reason, it is becoming a norm in the modern adventure games to introduce some action-style gameplay element. In most cases, it fails miserably and Broken Pieces is no exception. The so-called combat here is a simplistic reaction-based minigame that is nothing but a major distraction as it suddenly spawns at random locations and times without prior warning. Thankfully, there is a reduced combat option in the settings to turn down this mess a lot. - Finally, the ending. For me it felt absolutely flat, without leaving any real emotions or thoughts to carry around for a few hours after completing the game. It definitely plays better than it ends. So as a final verdict, Broken Pieces is still worth your attention is 2024 if you're an old-school adventure games lover just like me. It is likely that you will get some 10-15 hours of an enjoyable playthrough but will not walk away completely satisfied.

June 2024

Ok so this is a beautiful old school adventure game at its heart. It felt like throwback to a 1990s adventure game, but updated to modern standards. If you love adventure games, and do not get bored easily searching around for items and solving puzzles, then this game is a 9 out of 10. If you crave lots of action then this score will drop down to around a 5 or 6 out of 10. The graphics are absolutely gorgeous on ultra settings. The voice acting is superb, best I've heard in a long time. The story was really interesting also, but it is not spoon fed to you. You will have to piece together everything slowly over hours and hours of playtime, listening to tapes and reading documents. One thing I did not like was that there was no map option, I got lost often and could not figure out where to go. Most people do not have the patience these days to play games like this, but die hard adventure gamers will surely be rewarded!

May 2024

I played this in VR with the UEVR mod + the 'behind the shoulder view' game update, which take the game to a whole new level of immersion. I was very surprised by the quality of this title, really polished and excellent in pretty much every aspect. VR made it even more special and almost felt as if the game was always meant to be played that way. THE GOOD - Superb artistic design - Great sound - Fantastic puzzles with just the right amount of difficulty - Exploration is great, the way places connect to each other, the views, everything about it makes exploring the town a real pleasure - Very interesting story until the end (which I didn't quite understand, truth be told) - I loved having to go back to the house from time to time, it felt real and it made me feel I was really a part of that world) - The weather changes was a very nice touch - Great graphics (that look way more amazing in VR where you can really appreciate all the work that was put into them). Lots of memorable places like the Church. - It offers a relatively small town but it's packed with things to see and places to visit which IMO just works much better than a much bigger place where roaming around could become boring or repetitive. Perfect size to make you feel immersed in the story it tells, I loved that. THE BAD - The ending. I didn't particularly enjoy it and would have liked a better explanation of what happened. Not bad in a way that ruined the game, far from that, but it just wasn't up to the quality of everything else up to that point. THE UGLY - Combat. Not bad but nothing too special either, just ok. It's not an action game so even if it was removed completely the game would have been just as good. It offers some nice change of pacing from the exploration, though, so it was fine, I kind of enjoyed it despite not being by any means the best part about the game. I deeply enjoyed this game and will be looking forward to any new projects by this team. It was a fantastic exploration/puzzle game which reminded me in many ways of the old Resident Evil games, which is a big compliment, by the way. Certainly a must-have title if you're into good exploration and puzzles. The 'behind the back' camera option should have been there from the beginning, it makes the game way more immersive that way though the fixed-view system is also very well done and even more reminiscent of the RE games I was mentioning before. A matter of preference but personally even though I love the classic style I prefer the behind the shoulder perspective. And if you can play this in VR please do so, it enhances everything about the game in a way that turns it into something truly special. the mod works perfect with it, no tinkering needed, no issues whatsoever. Press a button and you're good to go, totally worth it, it's like playing a different game almost. Congrats to the team for their game, it should be way more popular than it is.

March 2024

I'm loving it. Don't listen to naysayers. The combat is alright and makes perfect sense in the surreal setting. Very immersive adventure and clever puzzles. You'll get stuck from time to time, but not for too long if you review the clues and observe well. The game gives you all the information you need, but doesn't serve it on a silver platter and I think it's great. Big studios could learn a lot about excellent writing. I can't fault the voice acting either. Oh and it looks beautiful.

Jan. 2024

Broken Pieces is... a weird one. This is one of those moments where I wish we had a more granular system of rating as opposed to the binary "yes/no recommend." I do think it's worth playing but you have to understand what you're getting into. I initially thought this would be a survival horror kind of game, and on the surface that's the look and feel the game has going for it. But in reality I'd liken this more to something The Adventure Company may have made or published back a few years ago (think Secret Files: Tunguska, Syberia, Keepsake, etc), which in my eyes isn't a bad thing, since I quite enjoy those games, but if you were coming into this expecting a Resident Evil style challenge, you'll be very disappointed. To be positive, the game looks wonderful, it sounds great, the music is nice (except for the "songs" made by one of the characters, but that's more my taste than the quality itself), and I personally didn't really encounter any bugs aside from my character getting stuck once during my playthrough. I think the exploring and light key hunting/puzzling mechanics were an engaging enough backdrop to the mystery of the story, but I feel the combat is a bit ham-fisted. It never felt challenging, interesting, or diverse enough to justify itself, and only really served to slow the pace down. I think had this game been exclusively an adventure style title it would have been better for it. With that said, I quite like the story and all the mystery everything is surrounded in, but I think the pay off is inadequate at best. I'm no stranger to or detractor of open endings or things that require interpretation, but I don't think the narrative (while engaging in the moment) had enough thematic meat to really make an ending like that satisfying. The game's relatively bite sized though, so if you see it on sale though I'd say it's worth testing out to see if you dig it.

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