7th Chance managed to keep me engaged and entertained but it did leave me wanting more and not in a good way. The game has an interesting7th Chance managed to keep me engaged and entertained but it did leave me wanting more and not in a good way. The game has an interesting premise that after waking to your tent crushed and you needing to find help you come across your house where it shouldn’t be and then explore the surrounding area. You find a variety of objects and can make a choice on what to do with them. Once you complete all that you find out your fate. The objects are meant to point to past events in your life and how they influenced your present. It’s a great concept but for some of them they lack context. For instance I can either take money or burn it. Without knowing the story of the money why on Earth would I burn it ? The default assumption is that it is somehow “dirty” money but with no context to go on that’s just an assumption. If you find random piles of money on the street would you burn it ? Getting past that I would say that I liked how the game handled things in a subtle manner. You can figure out where to go without a map because you can follow markers and when you’ve interacted with everything a bell sounds so you’re never left wondering what to do next. This is key as the game has no map; no objective list; etc but that’s not a negative with how things are handled. I thought the visuals were interesting. They were low detail but had a good art style so I didn’t mind. The music was good but a bit repetitive.
I played 7th Chance on Linux. It never crashed and I didn’t notice any bugs or spelling errors. You can’t save but it is a short game. Alt-Tab didn’t work. There are two graphics settings and a resolution option. Performance was good but I felt at times it was using more system resources than the graphical detail warranted. For instance it used as much system RAM and GPU usage as Shadow of the Tomb Raider but looked nowhere near as good. That being said the frame rate was always above 60 so it didn’t matter much.
Game Engine: Unity
Graphics API: Vulkan
Disk Space Used: 352 MB
Overall I enjoyed 7th Chance. While it could have used more depth what I did get told a good story with what time it had. I finished the game in twenty minutes and paid $1.93 CAD for it so the value is fair. If you enjoy walking simulators you should check this out, it’s not the best in the genre but it’s solid and worth twenty minutes of your time.