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No one wants to be a bad person.

Always Sometimes Monsters, a unique modern adventure title focusing on real world problems and traps of social life rather than fantasy and lighthearted escapism, is available 10% off on GOG.com. That's only $8.99 for the first week.

Most games aim to take us as far from everyday problems as possible and set us on fantastic quests to perform in the realm of imagination. Yet the real life and interaction with other people tends to be much more challenging, and the obstacles we find on our way every day are much more difficult. In most games, there's always a good way out of most situations. It's the reality that often drops impossible choices on us. This is a game about such choices. Here, out of money and out of luck, you find yourself heart broken and on the verge of collapse. You set out on the open road on a mission to win back the love of your life. The story from there is up to you. Can your life be salvaged, or are we always sometimes monsters?

Always Sometimes Monsters is a title designed for a mature gamer who isn't afraid to face his fears and problems that reflect what we're dealing with each day in the real world. You'll be faced with racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, mental health, sexual assault, child abuse, animal abuse, drug abuse, and suicide. Every choice you make affects the virtual (yet lifelike) world and affects the protagonist and the people you'll meet on your path. You may find yourself struggling with every decision, but the outcome--whatever it might turn out to be--has the potential to feel like katharsis.

If you think you're up for the challenge that seems far from everything you've faced so far in the gaming realm, make sure to sign up for the original experience that is Always Sometimes Monsters, a Devolver Digital release, for only $8.99 on GOG.com. The 10% off release discount offer lasts until Wednesday, May 28, at 4:00PM GMT.
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SSolomon: The trailer didn't really show what the game is at all, just lots of catch phrases mixed with quick cuts of what I assume is game play. Will pass until some youtube personalities give it a first impression I can watch.
Here you go :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD47IaxAnOs
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JMich: Bloodnet? Flatout 2? Stalker? SiN? Blackguards? Red Faction? Guild 2? Rex Nebular? Risen? Redline? Sudeki? F-117?
None of the above are adventure games, and most (if not all) were welcomed by the community. Tell me if you want a link to the list of releases, just to refresh your memory, even though it is perfectly acceptable to not have found any of the releases interesting.
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Matruchus: Im sorry but all of the above games listed fall in to the boring category for me. All the games in last months are without exception rpg, adventure, plaformer + here and there action titles.
I remember way back when when I wasn't an employee at GOG that there was a long spell of RTS games and such. All I can say in the matter is that there are cycles, sometimes we'll get a bunch of adventures in and sometimes we'll be swimming in RPGs :)
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JudasIscariot: I remember way back when when I wasn't an employee at GOG that there was a long spell of RTS games and such. All I can say in the matter is that there are cycles, sometimes we'll get a bunch of adventures in and sometimes we'll be swimming in RPGs :)
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Matruchus: So basically you are saying this year is rpg, platformer, adventure and action games 90%. And we did have this conversation before :) I know you don't talk much about releases. But do you know anything about Z coming to gog so I won't buy it on Steam instead of here when its released on 7th June.
If I do know anything, I unfortunately can't speak of it :/'
Post edited May 21, 2014 by JudasIscariot
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Nicole28: I noticed that Matruchus had his posts down-repped quite a bit..
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Starmaker: For making the first two pages of a release thread about how he personally doesn't care about the game? He got off easy.

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groze: and you absolutely CRAVE the next über boring 4X turn-based-strategy-whatever-simulator-godlike-thingamabob
(...)
Enjoy your oldies.
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Starmaker: Unfortunately, god games that actually follow through on the promise and deliver thematically are super rare (Dominions, Black & White aaaaaand... that's it?). So I can only hope for a new indie release.

(Speaking of gods, indies, and wishlists, this year's release that made me happiest is Ascendant, a game I hadn't heard about before its arrival on GOG.)

As for Always Sometimes Monsters, it sounds like a game I'd love but also as one that might piss me off *a lot* by getting a single sticking point wrong, and there's just no way for me to take super-deformed art seriously. So I'll wait for a sale at a price justified by the opportunity to look at the technical side alone. But I'm glad to see it here.
Well, to tell you the truth, there are no right or wrong choices in the game (save for some silly Easter Egg ones in Vagabond Dog's offices :D ).I just blackmailed someone in the game to get a friend some care in the hospital. I could've solved that situation with force or other means but I was able to choose the least violent approach. Sure, the art is a little different but I got used to it and was able to play the game just fine.

And for any of you worried, this is not To The Moon 2.0, in case you were expecting a tear-jerker story :)
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JudasIscariot: And for any of you worried, this is not To The Moon 2.0, in case you were expecting a tear-jerker story :)
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Leroux: I'd buy To The Moon 2.0, I'm more worried that this could turn out to be a Richard & Alice 2.0. ;)
I need to play Richard & Alice :) Keep meaning to but then I get ...OOOH ! SHINY!.....