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[Erebos]

Seems inspired by Don't Escape 3 - a bit rough around the edges and game controls are a little clunky. But a decent effort with a good atmosphere and multiple endings. Keep it up.

[A Second Chance]

Aw, awesome voice-acting that really elevated the experience!! The game is so simple yet so polished. Absolutely hilarious when the left guy turns round and steals a questioning look at all my random commands. Love the Motivation <3

[Hexplore]

What a whimsical and awesome game! It is challenging but so cute.
Some tips for those who are stuck (vote up if helpful):
- Cave with professor cow: release unicorn, randomly click on the 3 red books in the bookcase to open the path to the Christmas tree, need battery for the tree to light up the cave (note word on the wood plague - this is the magic word for later), come back to the lab when you have ingredients for various potions (water, rodent dropping, ink)
- Moose: give flashlight to moose - he will stomp it open for the battery, come back to moose after talking to snake, then back to snake to get the cup.
- Use cup to store milk (cow) for knight, water (moat) for breathing potion from lab, ink (octopus) to use on rodent. Will need to wash cup in Worm’s burger kitchen to trade with snake for candle later
- Rodent: give carrot, wait, come back to get droppings to make weed killer from lab to kill Venus flytrap; later on, use mysterious potion (made with ink) on rodent to get monster rodent
- Delivery machine: put in credit card from knight, put in wrong random passwords 3 times, click forget password, answer questions to gain access. Order 1st burger, follow drone to the boat and then through the waterways to get to worm’s burger place – need moose disguise to get to kitchen. Get another burger for kitchen (later)
- Dungeon: Flip red switch on and off to access 2 places. Make moose disguise in the craft room: use medium box, paint it red + green = brown, add 2 sticks on top, 2 eyes on front, and paper roll as nose.
- Worm’s burger kitchen: grab mitten, place another burger on stove to attract crocodile. Come back later to get croc soft toy and see super cow flying over – meaning you can now access cow’s secret control room
- Cow’s secret control room: get superman outfit for octopus, note launch code
- Dragon: place crocodile soft toy to replace teddy for hippo; place candle, leave scene when dragon awakes, come back to get lit candle for the dynamite later
- Fallen log: place dynamite, then place lighted candle to lit dynamite to go through
- Octopus under moat: need items to fully clothe its 8 tentacles (purple stockings, Christmas stocking, superman suit from cow’s secret room, mitten from kitchen) get ink for mysterious potion
- Shark: use sword and type in magic word from cow’s Christmas room, get shark in capsule. Release shark in unicorn’s cage at cow’s place, use empty capsule on rodent monster
- Rooster and spaceship: release rodent monster on rooster to access spacecraft, need gold coin from hippo and launch code from cow’s secret control room

[The Last Stand.]

I beat the game 90%+ of the time without cheat with this strategy:
- Day 1-2, Dedicate 7 hours per day to find survivors (usually will get 2); repair barricade as required.
- Day 3-4, Once you have 3-4 additional survivors (they help with hordes and cut down time on repairs), start looking for weapons, but put at least 4-5h per day to find survivors to replenish lost ones.
- Day 4-11, use UMP45 as primary. You want to keep 6-7 survivors.
- Day 12, usually get rifle (the best weapon). You can keep finding other weapons for curiosity, but keep using that darn rifle as that is how you win your game!
Night horde tips:
- ALWAYS take out the fastest ones first, then the closest ones. Key is to remove them before they accumulate by the barricades and cause damage. That way you don’t really have to repair much.
- I seldom have to switch weapon during a horde. My usual primary weapon as the game progresses: default pistol –.357 revolver –UMP45 –rifle. You usually find the rifle which is the best weapon before M4A1 and AK47. Chainsaw is a good backup for when zombies accumulate by the barricades (it should seldom happen).
- Initial hordes: aim for head. Aim for legs for soldiers/police/fatties.
- With the rifle, aim at the legs when far and the head when close. Rifle is one-hit kill for usual zombies (anywhere) and can down multiple zombies at once. Not sure if it depends on the computer, but aiming the rifle in front of the zombies (instead of right on target) seem to get the best results.
- Do not stand right against the barricade as it hinders movement. Be prepared to go up and down to cover “dead spots”. Sometimes you need to stand a bit lower and shoot "up".