About This Game Dyscourse is an interactive choice-based narrative adventure game where you journey through a stylized world of choice and consequence. You play as Rita, an unfortunate art school grad turned barista, who is now stuck on a desert island with a crew of oddball travelers after a plane crash. That last choice you just made? It may end up being integral to your group’s survival, or it may lead you down a path to murder and cannibalism!Stories in Dyscourse are emergent, and choices made in the game directly tie to the survival or downfall of the group. As players get to know their fellow castaways and make critical and interpersonal decisions, drama dynamically unfolds, and your choices author your own unique story.We've designed Dyscourse so that players will end up with vastly different stories forged from their choices - everyone’s playthrough will have a unique story to tell. With over 120,000 words and many hours of replayable content, each playthrough allows players to explore more of the overall “story space” and learn more about the crash and their fellow survivors. There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ choices and endings to Dyscourse - how to best survive the island is a decision left up to the player. Choose wisely!Kickstarter!Yes, it's true. Dyscourse is a Kickstarter success story! Thanks to over 2,000 backers, we hit our $40,000 goal back in November of 2013.Special Edition!We're offering a Special Edition of Dyscourse which includes: The 77-song Dyscourse soundtrack (Yes, 77 unique songs! We're crazy!) Dyscourse mid-development documentary video Digital art-book of the making of Dyscourse Dyscourse wallpaperIndie Island!Now available! Indie Island is a bonus story for Dyscourse that features 10 prominent indie game developers stuck on an island together. After a GDC-bound flight took a turn for the worse, these ill-fated indies must now survive together, for better or for worse. Indie Island contains the likes of Tim Schafer (Double Fine), Edmund McMillen (Super Meat Boy), Phil Tibitoski (Octodad), Alexander Bruce (Antichamber), Ron Carmel (World of Goo), Robin Hunicke (Journey), Ichiro Lambe (Aaaaa!), Adam Saltsman (Canabalt), Will Stallwood (Auditorium), and Rami Ismail (Ridiculous Fishing).LinksVisit the Dyscourse website: http://www.dyscourse.comVisit Owlchemy Labs: http://owlchemylabs.comFollow us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/owlchemylabsFollow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/owlchemylabs 7aa9394dea Title: DyscourseGenre: Adventure, Casual, Indie, SimulationDeveloper:Owlchemy LabsPublisher:Owlchemy LabsRelease Date: 25 Mar, 2015 Dyscourse Download For Pc [hacked] dyscourse endings. dyscourse how to save everyone. dyscourse game. dyscourse save everyone. dyscourse video game. discourse ppt. dyscourse all endings. dnys course iskcon. discourse meaning. games like dyscourse. dyscourse achievements. dyscourse best ending. dyscourse fuse box. dyscourse descargar. dyscourse walkthrough. dyscourse tips. скачать dyscourse. dyscourse download. dyscourse the game. dyscourse free download. dyscourse good ending. discourse wiki. dyscourse game characters. discourse analysis. discourse app. dyscourse gameplay. dyscourse steam. dyscourse fan art Dyscourse is a bit unusual as a "decisions matter" style of adventure game because the unofficial tagline should be "MAKE ALL THE DECISIONS!!!".You awake from a plane wreck on a remote island and quickly come across a group of survivors. You need to choose "wisely" to help the group survive, but once you complete the game you gain access to a day rewind option which will allow you to attempt pushing the story down different branches until you are literally pushing other survivors down branches just to see if they will fall and die because why not? This really is the main point of the game, and it's fun for a while but I got to a point where I was satisfied that I'd seen everything I wanted to see. According to the achievements list I've only seen 41% of all possible story events, but it just seems like it would be punishing to attempt to unlock every minor event. I'd rather put Dyscourse down while I still feel like it was a refreshingly unique game rather than grind my way through every possible arc just so that I can say I saw it all.6 out of 10, it wasn't a total plane wreck ( \u0361\u00b0 \u035c\u0296 \u0361\u00b0). It was a surprisingly interesting adventure game with survival elements and grim humor. One of the details I liked the most is character voicing. Along with the soundtrack, the voices sounded quite condemned and therefore dramatic, I spent some time trying to imitate it. Another cool detail is that you see the consequences of your choices in the end (not just statistics as in some other choice games).. Dyscourse is a really different any intresting game, overall its a solid game but has some flaws. The pros:Its like if 'Lost' had choices that YOU choose (Similar to Life is Strange or The Walking Dead), the artwork and atomsphere is really well done. Every moment in the game I feel nervous and eerie and the amount of outcomes and choices are so hearttearing. The characters a realistic and have their pros and cons, there is no one character that is perfect or evil.. which I love because they're not cliche. For instance one guy is super nice but is always paranoid and it gets annoying, one lady is kind but doesnt make the right choice and it a bit of a critic. The timer when you make choices also adds to the tension and is great, after every choice you instantly feel like you made the wrong one which was perfectly done. The varity of deaths are also really cool and it has an amazing amount of reply value, I want to reply it to get every single outcome. The middle:There is some stuff to say in the middle, the beginning is pretty aburpt and i'm not sure how I feel about it.. it doesnt pull you in the first five minutes of playing and takes awhile. The puzzles are generally simple which is a con and a pro, there was only one puzzle I struggled with and it was unique which was good, so the puzzles are unique but simple. I'm also mixed on the soundtrack, it was good but I feel like if the devs went a little further on the soundtrack it could have improved the game.The cons:I actually dont have a lot of cons, I wish they did voice acting instead of mumbling and exploring your area can be fustrating sometimes because the controls can make it awkward to move around. Sometimes the choices confuse me though, for instance I gave food to one lady one day and didnt give her food another day and then she died from starving.Overall: Overall this game is solid, if you enjoy games about choices and point & clicks this is for you. I'd give it a solid 8\/10.. A fun little game with a lot of replayability. Not much to say really, you're stranded on an island you have to get off with as few deaths as possible. It's like Until Dawn, but cuter.. It's difficult to be sniffy about Dyscourse. It's frank in its intentions, makes few pretensions above its station and manages to be sweet, but not saccharine.The premise is of a garden variety \u2013 an amalgam of Lost and Lord of the Flies, played by the cast of an American sitcom reading a script heavily workshopped by indie game developers. It's not as funny as it might be, but it manages to eke enough out of its cookie-cutter characters to raise its replay value. This is essential, since a single, successful playthrough of the story is likely to take well under an hour. Giving more attention to individual charcaters who may otherwise die or retain their carefully teased secrets \u2013 your time is sensibly rationed from day to day \u2013 is one incentive to hit the restart button at the end of an adventure. Another is to explore alternative options for your survival or escape from the island, and this ends up being the more rewarding. Characters respond differently to different situations, and the game was still managing to surprise me with new and often progressively uglier scenarios as I peered further into the depths of the island. Admittedly these depths are fairly shallow. Do not expect ground-shaking revelations or profound plot, but rather the gradual disclosure of additional, neat set pieces, with pleasingly varied outcomes depending on the characters that remain in your party. Whether or not this is likely to hold your attention as you wade through the early scenes of the adventure each time will differ from player to player. However, the addition of a 'day rewind' feature after you've played through the story once, allowing you to reset to any given day on your current adventure, will please those wanting to test out different permutations of the plot mechanics and achievement hoovers alike,Ultimately, if you enjoy choice-based adventures you're unlikely to be disappointed with Dyscourse. If it's not on sale the price is perhaps on the high side \u2013 having clocked four hours of gameplay I doubt I'll go back for more. But the simple and lovingly created art style is really worthy of commendation, however one-dimensional the characters often are.An addendum \u2013 while it is largely confined to the scripting of one character and some painfully dull extra content (really, do not play this), Dyscourse suffers from a syndrome that manifests when game developers talk so much about game development that they convince themselves it would be interesting to add myopic industry chatter into their game. I hope I can speak for all lovers of story-based games when I say that we'd much rather they spent their time on intelligent writing and refrained from indulging in self-satisfcation of this order.. You'll definitely like this game if you like choose your own adventure games, or just adventure games in general. Going through the story once hasn't taken me more than 2 hours, but don't let that make you think this game is small-- it's packed with tons of different paths to take in the storyline, with each path revealing a different part of the story. I found myself replaying to piece together the whole picture, favoring some characters over others to get new information out of them. If you find yourself having trouble committing to a long video game, or forgetting where you are in the game, Dyscourse might be a good match for you, as it was for me.Additionally, the style of the game is beautiful and very quirky, and the colors are a nice balance of saturated and subdued. Very easy to look at for long periods of time if you find yourself playing for hours on end. Music adds a lot to the mood of each scene, and the writing is smart and charming. Pay close attention to what you read! And choose wisely. ;)Overall: Buy this game. Throw your money at it. Play it forever.ALSO: There's a cute cat with fluffy ears in the game. Do it for the cat.. A short choose-your-own-adventure type game with a interesting art style. Pros:Art direction and graphics are good for what they areStory is decent - new aspects found after more playthroughsCons:Very shortNo strong desire to complete multiple playthroughs to see different outcomesSome story arcs don't make the most sense and seem contrived. Possible spoiler: Poisonous gas magically formed in a cave with previous life in it and killed part of my party? WTF?Overall: The game is too short and simple to be worth the $14.99 asking price. The price for the deluxe edition would be crazy. Pick it up if it's half price or less. Otherwise, watch a let's play on youtube and you'll quickly see more money would be a waste.Grade: C-. Dyscourse is a pretty cool game where you make decisions and carry your character and influence what other will do. Every decision affects what will happen. Many things are possible, one run is pretty short (1 hour for the first, and half an hour when you're used to it). What's fun about the game is trying to find some combinations, clues, and learn the story of every character. Of course there are 31 achievments for the lovers, some of them are pretty tricky to get.. Dyscourse is my newest favorite choose-your-own adventure game. I thoroughly enjoyed combing through each path to unlock the variations of each possible ending. I found myself often looking back in time at least 2 or 3 times per playthrough to find out what went wrong. With that said, a lot can go wrong (and that's a good thing). Small details matter in this game especially if you want to aim for 100% of the achievements. I also want to note that the art style is very easy on the eyes. The characters dialogue is also well-written. Personally, Steve was my favorite out of the group with his bleak outlook on life and his trusty stapler.If you want something to compare it to, I'd say it is like a slightly longer and more evolved 'Monster Loves You'. I definitely recommend this game for those who enjoy adventure games. Even if you don't normally play adventure games, this is actually a good starting point for the genre.. This game is absolutely dreadful, and I really wanted to like it. I tried my hardest. I guess the best way to break down my distaste for it would be to list the Pros and Cons.Pro:Interesting art style: The game looks fairly nice. It won't blow you away with graphics, animations, or character designs... but the art style itself is a change of pace from what one would typically see. Soundtrack: Whatever else I may say about this game won't detract from the fact that it has a pretty stellar soundtrack. I always enjoyed what I was hearing in regards to that.Disky: There is one twist ending that made me kind of chuckle. I'll give that due props. Cons:Terrible Characters: I disliked every single character in this game, passionately. For a strictly story driven game like this, that is a cardinal sin. All of the characters were hyperbolic annoying familiars of one character stereotype or another. And since they all spend the entire campaign b--ching, whining, complaining, fighting with each other, and generally failing at whatever task you delegate to them (though there were some successes in that regard), I found it very hard to find any character that I could truly align myself with. Absence of Gameplay: Its pretty tough to call this game a game, there isn't really anything game-like involved with it. Most of the time you are crawling through dialog, and in those rare moments when you can control a character, you have an extremely limited range of movement within a restricted area, and your actions are only ever temporarily extended beyond doing nothing into picking up a couple of objects. Once you pick up those objects though, you're done "playing" anything game-like here. Its back to the story. Which would be fine and all, were it not for the above grievance combined with the below...Absence of Choices: The game bills itself as a Choose Your Own Adventure style game, and I dig that. But for a game whose focus is on story and choices, you don't seem to have a whole lot of decision points. You make a choice here and there and then spend the rest of the time watching everybody react to those choices. Sometimes, the distance between making a decision on something is so large that I forgot what kind of game I was playing for a bit. Its really like an elongated cutscene. When you get to the moments where you make decisions, most of the time they are pretty milquetoast (choose who finds the water, choose who gets to eat, etc). For a game with interest points far and few between, you'd think they would make all the decisions you would have to make be a bit more.... exciting. I went to look at other story driven mobile games just to compare, because I felt I wasn't being fair to Dyscourse with my expectations. I played a story driven game on iOS where every other sentence my character said was a decision point; I had the ability within the game to completely drive the conversation, and as such, the direction of the story. More to the point, even the minor choices I made felt like they carried more weight; they informed my character and allowed me to respond to situations the way I would respond. It may be unfair to compare to Dyscourse, but for a game devoid of any real gameplay and focusing on story and choices, I could have certainly used more. A lot more.Petty Storytelling: There were a number of times in the game where the storytelling just felt.... petty. For instance (Spoiler Alert, I guess...), there was a moment I encountered on a mountain where I had found 3 eggs in a nest off of the cliff. I was able to get two of them, but couldn't get the 3rd. With 3 of us in the party, I had to make a decision: who gets to eat these two eggs? Well, one of the dialog choices presented to you is "All 3 of us will share the eggs", which is an easy thing to do with eggs. But then you are told "No we can't do that, you must choose between 2 of the 3" for no real reason whatsoever. Its obviously a Sofie's Choice moment, choosing who will live and who will die. The petty part is, I had made great strides getting to this point in the game without any characters dying, and I was literally on the last night before rescue. There was NO reason for anyone to die other than the game just said "Nope someone's dying lol". What am I playing this for? This was only 1 of several examples within this game.Dull: All in all, the game is just dull. The story is horrendously generic (plane crash, desert island, etc), and none of the characters to a lick to improve on that. As stated earlier, they are all annoying characters. Add to that, they all speak Simlish. Not normally something I would say is a bad thing, but when you have annoying characters in a dull game talking about dull things (do I really care about George and Jolene's marriage?), the Charlie-Brown-teacher-wompwomp effect only helps to underscore the appropriate level of attention I end up paying to the whole thing. Wompwompwompwompwhatever lets move this along so I can get to the next decision point.Short: Maybe this should be a positive considering my feelings on this game, but for a 15 dollar "game" of nothing, being able to complete it in less than an hour seems... borderline criminal. That iOS game I mentioned earlier provided me a much more robust storytelling and decision making experience at the same length, for free (for the first episode, the 2nd costing about 2 bucks, which is still substantially cheaper than this). Why is this game so short? Its not at all worth 15 bucks for the litany of reasons listed above, but even ignoring all that, 15 bucks for less than an hour of playtime is a steep, steep price to pay. Is this an early access game? No no, that's not a good excuse. I've poured countless hours into Darkest Dungeon and other early access titles. I just don't get it. Maybe the lame, rote, predictable, cliched, boring story just doesn't lend itself to a long lifespan of playability. Whatever the case may be, its a quick burn, so be prepared for that.Ending: I don't really want to spoil the ending.... suffice to say that if you like looking at corkboards, you're in for a grand treat.OVERALL: I cannot NOT recommend this "game" enough. I am honestly completely baffled and dumbfounded by the positive reviews its been getting. I don't get it at all, not even a little bit. I can usually understand one way or another how popular games I don't like are at least popular with others. For Dyscourse? Its as much a mystery to me as the island itself.
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