Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.
It's at its lowest recorded price, $1.99.
- Story and characters: 92 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 55 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Controls: 32 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Difficulty: 14 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Bugs: 9 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 4k player reviews · updated 5 days ago
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The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
First of all the gameplay, it tries to be one of those games from the likes of I am a Bread or Octodad or even Surgeon Simulator, you know those pretentious garbage games made for "funny" youtubers/streamers having the worst types of controls ever designed to be "funny randomness" in the exterior at least because once you see the game for what it really is, its just so shallow, the thing is the controls here which presents itself as very weird and unconventional is not exactly the same as the games mentioned above, its inspired by them but less complicated, its still kinda annoying but its not hard to get into, the main drawing point of this game should have been its story and presentation, characters, we are playing a character that cant control himself and seeing we have to survive for 24 hours by having to control all his functions manually is a cool concept, since its a story driven game overall but with a simple gameplay trying to find a way in so it can be actually called a game and not a visual novel, the idea of having to struggle doing mundane tasks would be a really nice way to focus on the game's setting but it completely loses itself so fast, the tone became so over the top and not funny at all, what was supposed to be a nice spin of a normal human routine turned into the hardest 24 hours of your life becoming something as stupidly overdone into the second half like a fight against hell, fighting city-sized robots and other over the top stuff made the game lose the tiny bit of creativity and immersion it had.
Manual Samuel – Last Tuesday Edition, developed by Perfectly Paranormal and published by Curve Games, is a darkly comedic 2D adventure game that delivers an unusual blend of challenge and humor through its unique gameplay mechanics.
The controls can be frustrating to some people, but I highly recommend playing this game with a controller to do everything quickly.
There is an option to play this game as a co-op.
Visually, Manual Samuel features a hand-drawn, cartoon-inspired art style that perfectly complements its humor.
The audio design further supports the game’s offbeat atmosphere.
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