The rise of Chinese games on Steam

[ArjanN]

Played a bit of it. its okay, but nothing special nowadays. I think Bladed Fury is better, but the problem with Bladed Fury is, that its not really difficult and really shit.

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I agree Bladed Fury on default is too easy, but doing the challenge mode made me realize the mechanics are actually really solid.

 

[Deleted member 1849]

So, what do people think of Chinese Parents?

I think this is the first time I've ever seen a game not officially available in English at the top of the Steam frontpage as a highlighted special offer.

 

[Chairmanchuck (另一个我)]

So, what do people think of Chinese Parents?

I think this is the first time I've ever seen a game not officially available in English at the top of the Steam frontpage as a highlighted special offer.

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Seems everyone loves it. It kinda is a "Nostalgia" trip to a lot of people that brings them back to their childhood/teenage years in China.

 

[Hektor]

I had chinese parents on my wishlist for quite a while, eventually i had deleted it because of no english language support, and now i added it to my WL again because of this news.

 

[Mister X]

China's economy is doing gangbusters right now, it'll be exciting to see what comes out of the country as time goes on.

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Have there been AAA games out of China yet. On the level of GTA, Uncharted, MGS,...?

 

[crimsonheadGCN]

Bright Memory was pretty good, except it a bit hard to read the subtitles with the action going on.

 

[Deleted member 1849]

Steam Lunar New Year Sale is live, and the sale page includes a section for Chinese developed games.

 

[Deleted member 1849]

This caught my eye

 

[grosso_modo]

Nice read

A growing number of indie game developers turned to overseas platforms such as PC gaming platform Steam, one of the world's largest PC game publishing platforms. There, they've been able to avoid Chinese government oversight of content and competition from Chinese gaming giants, which are mostly focused on mobile games.

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http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1003524/is-winter-finally-over-for-chinas-indie-game-creators

 

[Brazil]

Portia is one of my favorite PC games from the past few months. I need to dive deeper into some of the other suggestions in this thread.

 

[Angelus Errare]

Gujian 3 combat looks fire, I wish it was available in English so I knew wtf I was doing

 

[Korigama]

This is like an alternate version of this song:

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I'm really late with this, but that's definitely on point. I've even seen Parasyte before and somehow forgot this specific track.

Got all trophies on ps4 and it's fun. It has a wuxia feeling to it but the story is actually foucsed on normal folks in countryside which is freshing. Very good atmosphere with simple but fun gameplay. The performance has much to be desired due to the game engine and localization is so bad but still for a small team efforts, I'd recommend it. It also has an ICEY easteregg in it but I don't know how these two related.

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Spoiler: minor spoiler for ICEY

There was a lantern platforming mini-game that the narrator made you play if you kept ignoring his instructions enough times, so possibly a reference to that.

 

[Sotha_Sil]

Glad to see Chinese developers starting to find their own footing. It would be great to see new takes on all of the genres western and japanese developers have been working on for so long. Bright Memory could be one example of that, I liked the shooting and melee switches in the trailer.

 

[Chairmanchuck (另一个我)]

If anyone cares, Invisible Guardian, that chinese FMV game got almost 26k reviews.

Also Visitor sequel announced:

 

[spam musubi]

I really want to play Devotion, but we all know what happened there. (Since the OP mentioned Taiwanese games as well)

 

[Chairmanchuck (另一个我)]

I really want to play Devotion, but we all know what happened there. (Since the OP mentioned Taiwanese games as well)

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SteamApp ID was updated last month. It always seems like it might be back soon. I think the devs said 2 or 3 weeks ago it should be back soon.

 

[Deleted member 15428]

I had to stop ICEY less than an hour in. The translation was atrocious.