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INDIKA is a great story-driven walking simulator that has a bit of trouble running on the Steam Deck, but it is playable!
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Overall, Indika is a fun experience if you separate the horror genre tag on Steam from it. It feels more like a dark comedy than anything else, and there aren’t really that many other video games with a tone even remotely similar. That being said, it feels as if it lacks polish, and AI art is a glaring issue, especially with the looming threat of it in the art sector at the moment.
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Indika combines strong themes with fantastic visual and thoughtful delivery, creating something wholly unique and worthwhile. None of the game's hiccups stand in the way of what makes Indika special.
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One of the greatest accomplishments a game can achieve is to deliver a unique experience. To present itself in a way that makes it stand apart from the millions of games circulating the market. INDIKA from developer Odd Meter is a game that undeniably delivers an experience unlike any other.
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INDIKA is a distinctive and stylish game that does not pull any punches. It asks very interesting questions, but the answer to them depends solely on you.
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Indika is a game of wild contradiction. It's compelling, thoughtful, and ambitious, but also tedious, rote, and derivative. It's the sort of video game that ruminates on the nature of devout faith, free will, guilt, shame, temptation, and morality, and then asks you to solve boring box puzzles. It's the sort of video game that asks you to solve boring box puzzles and then leaves you earnestly wondering whether the box puzzles were intentionally boring just to mess with you.
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Bleak realism meets absurdist fairytale in a stylish, surreal, and astonishingly surefooted - if mechanically unadventurous - exploration of faith, free will, and demonic temptation.
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For a seemingly dour art game excoriating religion, Indika is pretty funny. With its publishing duties handled by 11 bit studios, the small team at the now-Kazakhstan-based studio Odd Meter have devised a discomfiting surrealist dirge of an adventure game, one which matches exquisite moments and inventive visuals with jagged third-person exploration controls. Centered on a nun within the Russian Orthodox Church of the late 19th century, Indika presents a bleak tale stuffed with black humor. Amid the developing political reality surrounding Russia in the present day, the quest feels poignant, even while much of its messaging relies on subjective...
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Indika is a gorgeous psychological adventure that grapples with religion and the many difficult themes associated with it.
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Despite the flawed gameplay, Indika is still a must-play. Or, since it’s more than just a game, is it a “must-experience”? And when the game is finally patched out, you’re up for an unforgettable cultural roller-coaster.
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Indika is a very strange beast, but its rote gameplay often fails to match the weird and wonderful qualities of its story.
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INDIKA grounds intrigue with its arthouse cinematic flair and satire. It engages curiosity and entertainment. Its world is shrouded in emptiness and questions that mirror Indika’s internal struggles.
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Indika isn't just any ol’ nun, however. She happens to be accompanied by the devil.
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Indika was like a four-and-a-half hour long movie that heavily relies on the voice actors and its characters to tell a remarkable tale.
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Indika hits incredibly high levels of zaniness and suspense and mixes the two so well that it creates a sought-after experience. Players will want to keep playing just to know how it ends, and most storytellers would love to hear that is their listeners' motivation. The game dips its toes in both the surreal and real in equal measure, and winds up being an enjoyable tale even through the most boring walking simulator-like parts. Odd Meter is doing interactive story-telling right, and Indika is a tale that will delight many and have them questioning everything.
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Indika is a creative, thoughtful narrative game with puzzle and platforming elements. However, it's not a title for the average gamer.
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There isn’t a lot of music in the game, but what is there are mostly more modern-sounding synths and a mix of old-timey videogame chiptunes. The game is set in an alt-history that imitates 130 years ago made those choices feel a bit odd. Like with most of their choices though I ended up digging it. Bug-wise I had the two times where NPC pathing broke and one crash while playing on PC. Console versions are set to hit in May of 2024, shortly after PC so make sure you look into the port quality.
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Indika is one of the most surreal games we've ever played. And while it's short, it's easy for us to recommend thanks to its dark and unpredictable story and thoughtful, engaging puzzles.
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While INDIKA is otherwise a unique, compelling and well-designed narrative puzzle game, its abrupt ending left a sour taste in my mouth. This tale of a nun's journey of self discovery is memorable for all the wrong reasons.
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This adventure-horror starring a Russian Orthodox nun takes a lot of risks, and mostly sticks the landing.
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