The Vale: Shadow of the Crown - Announced for August 19

The action adventure The Vale: Shadow of the Crown has been announced for August 19:

The Vale: Shadow of the Crown

The Vale is an audio-based action adventure game that places you in the worn leather boots of a blind adventurer.

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Features:

• 5 hours+ gameplay.
• Specialized 3D audio provide an incredibly immersive game experience
• Action-adventure with RPG elements: Choose equipment, play-style, magic abilities, companions and quests.
• Emotionally engaging story, quality sound design and voice performance.
• Fully blind accessible
• Headphones recommended for best experience

Story:

As your elder brother takes his place on the throne, you are made warden of a small castle on the outskirts of the kingdom. Blind from birth and sheltered for much of your childhood, you welcome your exile as a chance for a little adventure.
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En route to the castle, your convoy is attacked by a huge invading army. You find yourself alone in hostile lands where you must scrape together supplies and seek out allies in hopes of surviving the long, dangerous journey home.

The path home follows a dark and winding valley known simply as "The Vale". It shrouds the land's darkest secrets including startling truths about your family's past.

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5 hours? LOL, not even worth 5€.

That was my first thought when I saw 5 hours quoted, but then I saw the bit about it being an audio adventure designed to be playable by the blind. I think it's a bit of niche, experimental game, so fair play.

Is this a scam? Non of the videos here nor on Steam show any gameplay, just clouds and flying particles.

Edit: OK its designed for the blind - my fault.

Pretty cool concept. Will be curious to see how it goes. Might also be an interesting experience to play to feel what it is like.

I've played some short games recently that actually turned out to be quite fun, so I'll not slam this for being brief. I'm more concerned about actually having to have sound on to play a game, lol. It's generally not how I play.

Originally Posted by Carnifex
I've played some short games recently that actually turned out to be quite fun, so I'll not slam this for being brief. I'm more concerned about actually having to have sound on to play a game, lol. It's generally not how I play.

Length never factors into assessing whether a game is good or not for me. I can understand when people assess that relative to the cost (though that's not an issue for me), but I never understand arguments about length outside of that. I recently played a cyberpunk game called Dex, which took me about 7 or 8 hours to finish. Absolutely great game - didn't need it to be longer (or shorter).

Originally Posted by wolfgrimdark
Pretty cool concept. Will be curious to see how it goes. Might also be an interesting experience to play to feel what it is like.

There's a playable demo on Steam. I tried it briefly. It reminded me of the old text adventure games but with voices and sounds instead of text.

Well can't say the games not going for something original. I'll pass though.