Unholy Heights

Unholy heights is a game created by Petit Dipottto. It a strategy game, the player plays as the Devil who will spend his savings on an apartment to rent it out to monsters. The purpose of renting out to the monsters is to make sure that he can defeat the heroes who are planning to destroy evilness.

The monsters are the tenants for the devil .

Instruction about apartment

Instruction about Apartment

They are expected to pay rent and also fight whenever a battle is coming up. The player has to tap on the door to alert the monsters who did not notice the battle. 

The player is allowed to upgrade each apartment and change the pricing for each apartment. Also once the player has sufficient cash, he is allowed to build another floor. The only challenge in this game is to attack stronger monsters.

Weak monsters are perfectly fine but the problem is they do not last very long in a battle or they tend not to fight for the landlord. To attract a stronger monster, player has to build a good apartment by filling it with good furniture’s.

Landlord moving towards the stairs 

Each apartment shows which type of monster is living there, how much is the house rented out for and tenant’s satisfaction. Also it displays whether they paid their rent or whether they owe you rent. Sometimes tenant starts a family. 

Once they have a child, the child will be stronger than the parents.

These are the basics of the game. I personally think that this game is mixture strategy and simulation. Strategy in terms of tower base defence type where you strategically plan to protect your base.

Simulation in terms of hotel games where you upgrade the rooms and make it better for your tenants to live in. The better the room, the better the greater the rental fee will be. I feel that this game is actually entertaining and worth paying $4 on steam.

It’s worth purchasing because the game is simply not boring. It’s straight forward and easy to understand. There is certain level of challenge when it comes to managing the cost and expenses. It’s tough to attract the right tenants and meeting their criteria.

However, to me, it’s not addictive enough to make me want to play it even more. I only played it a few times and I got bored of it. Different people will have different opinion. I would say Unholy heights has a twist in their game concept which makes it a little interesting and it’s worth the $4 you pay for as it gives you a long period of game play time.

 

Currently a tenant living in the apartment and potential tenant viewing the apartment.

The Stanley Parable

Recently, I came across a game called “The Stanley Parable”. It’s a mod game created by Galatic Café. Currently it is available in steam. I always had mixed feelings about this game as it depends on how you play this game.

The Stanley Parable is an interactive story based game. The story telling is a little different from the games that I have played before. Usually in story based games, you are given the freedom to make decisions and it will lead to another pathway.

It is very similar to The Stanley Parable too. Different decisions leads to different pathway unless you listen to the narrator. If you listen to the narrator, you get to finish the game in the simplest way.

If you don’t listen to the Narrator, that’s way your life starts to get tough. If you listen to the narrator, he does not laugh at you.  However, if you do, he mocks at you, teases you or even get angry at you for not listening

Sometimes, when you take a different pathway, the narrator tries to take a different route in the narration and attempts to bring back the story by bringing the player to the next planned pathway.

Once I decided not to listen and the narrator got angry at me. He mocked at me by closing the entire pathway and made me run around the square parameters. I felt trapped and I struggled to find a pathway. While not able to find a pathway, he mocks at my stupid decisions.

It’s quite surprising that there are more than 10 ending for a small built game. The gameplay is actually very simple. All the player has to do is to use the keyboard to move and mouse to select items. Most importantly, listen to the narrator too.

I felt that this game was unique as it directly forces you to play along with the story. If you don’t then you have to face the consequences. To me, the game came up with a different

approach of telling a story and indirectly daring the players to try out a different pathway.

It actually stirs the curiosity of a player where they ponder on what will happen if they took a different pathway. Some might even take it as a challenge as they attempt to defeat the narrator.

I did enjoy playing this game and I am glad that I discovered this game. However, to me this game is more to fill up the space during your bored period. It’s a game that you will play when you are feeling bored from your other games.