INFRA on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
INFRA puts you into the boots of a structural analyst on a routine mission. Quickly though, your task turns into a fight for survival, all caused by deep-rooted schemes of the past. Your tools are simple: your camera and the wits to navigate a labyrinth of debris.
INFRA is a puzzle, exploration and atmospheric game
developed and published by Loiste Interactive.
Released on January 15th 2016 is available only on Windows
in 6 languages: English, Russian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese and Korean.
It has received 3,213 reviews of which 2,849 were positive and 364 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified INFRA into these genres:
System requirements
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Windows
- OS *: Windows® 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/XP
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 512 MB of memory or more. Requires support for Shader Model 2.
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 18 GB available space
- Additional Notes: With "memory available" and "model & texture quality" settings on "low" on 32-bit systems or systems with 4 GB of memory or less.
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I really feel like this game is not recommended enough to people who enjoy mysteries and puzzles, especially things involving political intrigue or conspiracies and civil engineering. It juggles several different stories at once, zooming in and out on their scope from the personal to things impacting the whole world. It does this with a gleam in its eye and a goofy little bounce in its step at times, and other times shockingly somber and morbid. There is so, so much stuff you can miss, overlook, or bypass. I did not go into it realizing it would take around 35 hours if you are being meticulous. The puzzles make perfect sense, but that also means if you mess up, sometimes that's your only chance to fix something, and you ruined it. There are many kinds of puzzles as well- logic, engineering, physics, a bit of platforming. There ARE many ways you can miss a secret that locks you out of secrets down the line. You will almost certainly miss something. The most helpful advice I can give regarding this is: keep pulling out your camera and holstering it again- this saves battery but you can watch for the camera reticle to change, indicating a target. But don't worry too much about batteries. Also, ROTATE YOUR SAVES! The maps are pretty sprawling, but it feels authentic because of that- a steel mill is absolutely massive. So is the metro. I personally do not view it as "filler", but I can understand if it does to some people. Later on in the game there is a level that seems to greatly inform the dev's next game- Obenseuer. It's really clear that this level was packed full of love and it's a joy to poke around in. If you've played Obenseuer and want to know more about the universe of Stalburg, I do recommend giving this a fair shake despite the gameplay differences. One BIG WARNING I have, that affects a lot of players, is level transitions can cause a crash to desktop after the first several levels. If this affects you- save before the level transition, turn your resolution down in the options, walk through the transition and save again before turning the resolution back up. This seems to happen the most with transitions from inside to outside levels. I still recommend the game even with this caveat. If you're willing to mosey, scamper, spelunk, and run like a bat out of hell through places way bigger than you and piece together mysteries from the odds and ends left behind, give it a try-- especially if it's on sale!!
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I have played many many hours of this game. I 100%ed it a couple years ago, soon after I played it for the first time. I've played it at least yearly since there. It's still been pretty challenging to write a review for this game and describe exactly why I think it was worth so much of my time. The basic gameplay is exploring around, taking photographs of damage and documents, and solving puzzles, but that doesn't really explain what made the game compelling to me. The adventure, the puzzles, and the plot (which begins in the most mundane manner possible, but gradually becomes a solid mystery with its own twists and turns) are all well and good, but for me it is the gradual unfolding of the world the game takes place in that made this a worthy game. It's maybe fitting that a game about the crumbling infrastructure of a city would make the city itself into a character, but there are layers to Stalburg that I never would have expected, with rich detail to the unusual life of the city placed around every corner in the construction of the environment itself. You'll walk through the industrial bones of Stalburg and find what has moved in to the carcasses of tunnels and factories that have been all but forgotten. There is a rabbit hole to go down here, if you want to. There are multiple plotlines that develop in parallel over the course of the game, numerous secrets, and even some hidden collectibles. If you play the game more than once, there will be details you didn't notice the first time or that are re-contextualized by understanding what comes later. All of this is done with a healthy injection of humor, often from the strange (and occasionally somewhat absurd) things you will find as you explore, but for me this only served to enhance the atmosphere. If you are on the fence about trying this game out, I would easily recommend that you give it a try, especially if you are looking at it during a steam sale, when it is certainly available for a cheap price.
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Reflecting on this game years after my initial playthrough, it remains a cherished favourite of mine. I prefer brevity, so I recommend delving into the most insightful reviews for a more elaborate (and perhaps poetic) analysis of the game. The reasons behind my deep admiration for this game can be summarised as follows: - This game offers a lengthy and immersive experience that rewards patience and exploration, making it highly replayable. Beyond its occasional action sequences, the game encourages players to approach it leisurely, savour the puzzles, and appreciate the scenery. Missing optional puzzles may lead to locking oneself out of certain game areas and storylines. - The meticulously designed levels exhibit a remarkable attention to detail, with stunning exteriors that remain visually captivating even by today's standards. The interiors evoke a sense of unease and foreboding, despite the absence of traditional adversaries. - The story delves into mature and rather depressing themes, exploring issues of corporate and political corruption that resonate with contemporary realities. Players navigate through a web of conspiracies, with the story's outcome shaped by their choices. Unfairly labelled as a mere "Walking Simulator", this game stands as an underrated masterpiece. It is a must-play for those who appreciate patience and enjoy narrative-driven experiences.
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INFRA is an easy recommend to anyone who enjoys adventure games; it's not without its flaws, but overall it is one of the more enjoyable adventure game experiences I've had. It's a winner. First and foremost, it's absolutely effing huge. I was expecting a short, atmospheric piece like Firewatch, and about eight hours in I started to realize I was in for a much longer haul and a much different experience. I'm writing this review just after completing two of the (apparently) three endings, with 36 out of 74 achievements, at 36 hours spent. And no matter what anyone else says: sweet fancy Moses, INFRA is not a walking simulator. A game is not a walking simulator simply because it has no combat. There is so much to do here that is not walking. INFRA reminds me a lot of Dishonored or Stray in that these are also UrbEx games featuring an extrahuman protagonist, but here your superpowers are an engineering degree and the right to open doors marked "Authorized Personnel Only." That will sound boring to some people, perhaps, but if it sounds as exciting to you as it does to me, do not sleep on INFRA. Snap it up. The game really succeeds at immersing the player in its world; Stalburg has a healthy dose of Terry Gilliam absurdism, but it feels real in a way that a lot of more interactive and populated environments don't. I think this has a lot to do with how the player is expected to engage with the city. You do a lot of touching and installing and inspecting, and at the end of the day you develop a feeling of responsibility for this place that I'm not sure a game has ever given me before. There are no enemies or monsters to distract you; it is just you and the environment, even when the action gets frantic. The environments are mostly linear, at least through the first two acts, but many of them offer multiple options for progression. I know there are areas in some of the chapters that I never found a way into or that I never came to understand the purpose of. There is a lot of replayability here. The protagonist, Mark, is now a fast favorite of mine. The first time you hear his voice acting, you will cringe, but it grows on you. He's got this laconic delivery reminiscent of Peter Stormare and a dry wit that just perfectly captures the character's unflappable competence. There are no one-liners and no banter here, just a remarkably capable dude left to himself in some lonely places, who is perhaps rightly impressed with himself. I wish that the photos you take and the papers you document over the course of the game were accessible to the player in some way after taking them, so that there was a log of the player's journey. That would have been nice, but there is also something to be said for the game's minimalist interface; there are no menus of any kind to take you out of the world. A studio being able to achieve that is something special. On occasion you may find yourself wishing for an inventory, but the game never really suffers for the absence of one. If I have any complaints, they are these: - Reading hand- and typewritten notes in varying degrees of darkness and gloom is perhaps not the most engaging game mechanic I've ever experienced. I found a lot of documents I could not actually understand. - Ugh, early Source engine ladder climbing. There are a lot of ladders in this game, St. Benedict preserve us. - Many sequences overstay their welcomes. There's a piece of graffiti you'll see a few times throughout the game that says "Hallway Simulator 2016," which would feel like self-deprecating humor if it were not so on the nose. Long tunnels devoid of content are expected in a game like this, but INFRA still manages to have what feels like too many. If i'm being fair, I think this is a side effect of how "real" some of the levels are. This is not a game that toys with perception, perspective, and hidden teleportation -- you get the distinct impression that this level design is excruciatingly honest. - When the game ratchets up the action, many of these scenarios seem like they would be impossible to resolve on a first attempt without a healthy dose of luck. A ceiling will collapse in a particular way over time, for example, requiring the player to move at intervals to remain safe, but with no way to know the safe zones other than trial and error. I wouldn't go so far as to call these rage-game mechanics, but they belong to the same family. Fortunately the action-man stuff is pretty limited, although the game does end with a big example. - Sadly, the game does lose a lot of polish in Act III, when the environments switch from almost exclusively linear to a more open-world design. Some really tight puzzle concepts in the early game give way to a lot of frustrating searching for small hidden objects, repetitive movement, and conflicting feelings that you are both missing a lot of content and desperate to move on to the next area. There's a lot of exasperating confusion over what the game wants you to do next. It rarely stumped me for long, but I don't have a lot of patience for puzzles that are difficult to execute after the solution has been found, and Act III has a bunch of these. Still, the feeling of accomplishment and responsibility that the game gave me through Act II was enough to carry me through Act III pretty quickly, and I don't think an indie game of INFRA's high caliber should suffer for a bit of a rush to the close.
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One of my favorite games. Despite its simplicity (it's a walking simulator), the game captivates with its atmosphere and attention to detail. It's amazing how the developers managed to create so many locations that feel so realistic. You can spend hours exploring locations and finding different bits of lore and secrets. At the same time, you as a player must understand the plot of the game yourself from the documents you found. And the more you find the more layers you will peel in your path to the true story. It's a shame that Half-Life 3 will probably come out sooner than I will see a full-fledged continuation of this game.
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Developer
Loiste Interactive
Publisher
Loiste Interactive
Release
15 Jan 2016
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