The Dot

If you are coming for the pigeon, this is not a place for you (false advertising). Also if you don't like getting pranked/trolled/bullied, this is also not a place for you. --- For the starter, the promo-video is mismatch with the real game. Well, the promo is quite a mess. It suggest that there're plenty of game style: 2D platforming, top-down explosion, FPS, etc... Which made it confusing on what is this game actually? Turns out that The Dot is, as advertised itself, not just a single game, but a collection of games of variety genre. Sound good? Here a caveat: those games are too small and unfinished. No, I don't think they should be considered as [i]games[/i] at all. They are, in fact, just prototype for levels. The "separation" of these traditional levels into their own "games" are just making navigation/progression annoying. The navigation, on the surface, looks [i]smart[/i], since it hijacks Windows Explorer to do a trick of infinity directory. But, for me as a programmer, ...

Hi. I never write Steam reviews. This game is going to change that, and I am going to need to dish out at least 10 positive reviews to tip my karmic scales to neutral after what I have to say about this game. Before I start, I want to write a brief foreword to the lead developer. Viktor - there is some very cool potential in here, mostly in assets/art and a little bit of gameplay. I took your words to the player during the game at face value - so, if you are as scared and fragile as you portray yourself in the game to be, please do not read any further and just keep doing your thing. Spoilers for the game ahead. TL;DR - this is not worth any amount of money or time, move on. Google "games that are meta" and play the top results instead to enjoy a much better experience. TW - suicide and violence. The Dot is less of a game and more of an experience, consisting in no small part of traversing directories on your computer, interacting with various file types including images, videos, tex...

I am so fricking confused My PC started to talk back to me

I followed this game from back when it was called "Dandelion", you can still find the original steam game page. This may not seem valid considering the new information and screen grabs provided by devs but this was not the game I was hyped up to play. In all honesty I was more annoyed trying to actually figure out if that game was going to come along, so I leave it simply that if you ended up here, thinking that this was going to be the "Dandelion" game you'd seen. It is not, sadly it might be amongst this somewhere in some form, however that is what I wanted to play and not all this other folder navigation, EXE, Jpeg nonsense. This may be a great game but for me the disappointment hit too hard too quickly when I tried it.

Its something. If you like meta games then this might tickle your fancy. But this is NOT worth 15 dollars. Its like the author played one shot and decided it wasn't meta enough for no good reason. Some people might like it but i cannot recommend this.

I see what they're trying to go for for this game, its a lot like beginners guide but this game is just really bad, there's no substance to it and yeah the way they show things by having to go through folders is cool, but it just feels like i wasted 1-2 hours sifting through folders only for the ending to be a ripoff of myhouse.wad, its not worth 15 dollars if anything its worth 1 or 2, do not buy this game if you are looking for actual gameplay, and even story wise its not that interesting and I got bored halfway through hoping something cool would happen, but no its just the same gameplay loop and it gets boring and repetitive.

This game is as if you befriended a child of Beginner's Guide and One Shot, and the guy has some problems in his life and asks you to be his sitter while he takes shrooms. Then he starts to talk some metaphorical shit about his life, and you are too sober to understand it or even care - and the whole problem is that you also had to buy the shrooms for him.

This game is very niche and very odd. I can see the appeal for people that enjoy 4th wall breaking puzzle games, but for me personally it wasn't the most enjoyable ride, mostly because the pacing was much to slow for my liking. Certain sequences without subtitles made it hard to stay focused. It's by no means a bad experience, but since Steam only allows Yes/No recommendations I'm going with No on this one.

So I was suffering from a bout of food poisoning the day I decided to play this. From playing through the fever dream that is The Dot combined with the frequent bathroom trips I now believe I have experienced what it's like to have Malaria. 10/10.

This game is amazing and has made a comfy place next to some of my favorite games on my desktop I don't want to talk about the game that much because the more indepth it gets discussed the more the game loses a bit of it's magic by knowing what to expect; it's one of those games. The humor is really good and caught me off guard where I burst laughing tons of times. It even managed to get me to show some moments to my friends. The story and emotional aspect of the game is very nice and is personally somewhat relateable. I recommend playing this game and seeing what it has.