About This Game MISSING is an episodic series bringing the 90's FMV games and classic adventure together in a unique experience. In the first episode you play David Newcastle, the victim. Kidnapped for no clear reason, Dave will have to find his way out and elude captivity while trying to figure out who his captor is. Meanwhile, Detective Lambert investigates a series of mysterious disappearances in the city. Use your brain to solve puzzles, find items and use reflexes in action sequences to help the characters progress in the story. This game includes episode one only. Future episodes aren’t available yet and will be sold separately. 1075eedd30 Title: MISSING: An Interactive Thriller - Episode OneGenre: Adventure, IndieDeveloper:Zandel MediaPublisher:Zandel MediaRelease Date: 25 May, 2015 MISSING: An Interactive Thriller - Episode One Activation Code [hacked] This game was awesome!!! I am so sad that there will not be anymore.. The reason for not recommending this game is simple. The developer is bankrupt so no further episodes will be produced. So if you buy it, you'll be left with an incomplete story that you'll never know the ending to. Otherwise it would have gotten a thumbs up, since I like these kind of games even if they're short and have somewhat simple and tedious puzzles. If you crave something FMV you're better off playing 'Her Story', 'Contradiction' or some of the other FMV games on offer on Steam.. Let's get it straight: Missing is not a bad game per se. The puzzles are good enough, and the scenario kind of makes you want to know more about the story. And yet I don't recommend it; why, you ask? Simply put, because this is supposed to be an episodic interactive story, but the studio that made the game closed its doors before finishing the game. Therefore you're left with a forever unfinished game, and a bitter taste in your mouth.In this current state, it is impossible for me to recommend that game (that is one hour long!).. Awesome Game!Little bit Shot..i think i played it 45min to complette the game once.BUT for 3,99 its a very nice game :)7\/10. cheap, great game with fun puzzles and achievements are fairly easy to get.. Unfortunately, as a standalone game it is not something I would recommend for now. It is not bad actually and is definitely worth its money, but 'Episode One' plays rather like a demo version.Visuals are excellent, of course. But the story and even the dialogues you would expect to see in FMV-adventure are nearly absent. We have five chapters that could be solved in two minutes each if you know what you are to do - and the puzzles are not impressive either. We got a couple of pixel hunt, a couple of easy slider puzzles (although solving one of them in 5 seconds for an achievement took me a lot of time!), and - beware! - several QTE events. Some people may like them, but that's not what you expect to see in adventure game.Still, the story does look promising and the actors (especially the one who plays Detective Lambert) are good - so I do hope to revise my review and to give it a positive score after (if) other episodes will appear. Until then - it would be better to wait.. MISSING is a really short FMV adventure game, with some basic QTE - quick time events which require you to click on an action indicator within the time limit. This somewhat experimental little game is obviously planned as an episodic adventure, but there has been some time since the arrival of the first episode, and no news of the second yet. As it is, the game has real promise, yet ends out as a glorious demo.We open our eyes, abandoned, chained and stranded in an old warehouse. The words "Play with me" are painted on a nearby door. All that we know is, that we should escape by any means necessary. Meanwhile, there is an elderly detective who's trying to discover what happened to us, as he vows that "there won't be another one". Curious...There is literally not a single negative thing to be said about the graphics, since they are real life recordings. It is nearly impossible to say where the cinematic videos end and the gameplay starts. Everything is alive, vibrant and actual. More like watching a short movie rather than playing a game. Ambient, decor and music are excellent. For a FMV, this is one of the best yet. The acting isn't anything miraculous though and I personally think our hero seemed quite dapper for someone who's been locked and missing for some time.The game consists of 5 really short chapters, weaved around some really basic adventure puzzles, one HOG-ish puzzle and a couple "dodging" sequences. No actual plot given, no character depth displayed, not much of an actual story presented... you spare 40 minutes - an hour if you are an achievement hunter, adore the cinematic immersion and get done with it. There is no replay value at all. Only an endless wait for this to become a meaningful series of events in the future.I'd be curious about the continuation of the series, if there'd be at least an introduction, or a clue or two about a story! Surely, the game is pregnant with some success, but I really hope it wouldn't end up with a miscarriage, never developing the story furthermore. Take your time, grab it on sale if you are curious. In full-price, I'd only recommend it if you are interested in funding developers.I do understand that it is a tremendously expensive and tiresome process to fund both game development and real life video recording at the same time for a small development team, thus I refuse to down vote this. I'd like to be hopeful, and wait to see what this may turn into in the future. Thus, I'm recommending the game as an encouragement. It holds promise. Please don't let the promise go in vain.Please also check out Lady Storyteller's Curator page here - follow for regular updates on reviews for other games!
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