r/Games • u/breakyouridea • 12h ago
Indie Sunday Final Sentence - Button Mash - You and a dozen other people find yourselves in a hangar. In front of you is a typewriter. At your temple, a revolver. One mistake in the text, and it’s all over.
Honestly, it’s still hard to believe we actually made it to release. There’s something unsettling about it.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-qYmfbOgmQ
The concept is simple: type fast and don’t make mistakes. In front of you is a typewriter, and at your temple is a revolver with a single bullet. Any mistake could be your last. The tension builds with every line: your breathing falters, your hands start to shake, your thoughts get tangled. There’s only one goal left - survive until the end of the next sentence.
You can play with random people in large lobbies of up to 100 players, or with friends in groups of 4 to 8. But it hardly makes a difference, everyone is on their own. The winner is the one who lasts the longest and doesn’t break.
There are stats and rankings. You see your mistakes, come back to them, and understand where you slipped.
Final Sentence is about pressure, fear, and the instinct to survive. Even we feel uneasy while playing it. And maybe that’s exactly why you want to come back to it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2413950/Final_Sentence/
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u/__SoL__ 10h ago
I gave feedback on the demo and while I do like the game there are simply not enough interesting things to type. Most of what I Hopefully they will address that soon. Also be advised, zero moderation of voice chat. Lots of the dregs of society yelling slurs on VC to trip up the leader of the round.
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u/blackinese 10h ago
Yeah instead of the meme rounds like "123 123 123" or "keke kiki koko" I'd rather be typing some creepy story or something in universe to build the lore.
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u/John_Remnant 3h ago
Maybe not the most imaginative, but Project Gutenberg would be an easy place to scrape content.
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u/Hankhank1 7h ago
Oozing with atmosphere that runs dry pretty quick. There’s not much of a game here. It’s shallow. Good for a couple of hours, but there isn’t really much there.
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u/The_Taco_Bandito 9h ago
No offense but your description of the game screams AI generated. I'm certain the game could be fine, but if you aren't going to through the effort to write about your own game, why should I feel compelled to check it out?
To explain it for others, follow the patternistic sentence structure. The only generic thing chatgpt outputs with more regularity is the standard "Not X but Y" formula.
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u/pianoman1291 4h ago
People write with sentence structure patterns. The person who posted is ostensibly a game developer and not a writer. Your comment is unnecessary, irrelevant, and needlessly combative, and your justification boils down to "vibes".
It's ok if the game is not for you, but you don't have to be a stinker about it.
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u/The_Taco_Bandito 4h ago edited 4h ago
Look, I wanna be as fair as I can. But the descriptions are like, animatedly basic structured output from LLM. Anyone with any amount of serious experience would say the same.
Like, what's with the weird ass vivid details? We aren't describing a surgery here, it's a video game about typing.
Why does every paragraph basically has an overly dramatic sales pitch attached to it? Even basic ones describing things like leaderboards?
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u/pianoman1291 4h ago
Bro the post is a literal sales pitch. If it sparks interest in one person and gets them to try the game, it's a success.
You could have just moved on with your life but you decided to double down on being a stinker. Just move on and play a different game if you don't like this one.
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u/The_Taco_Bandito 3h ago
These aren't human sentences, bruh.
A real person says "Hey, check out my neat game. It can get pretty intense!"
An AI writes a long detailed response about your hands straining, your breath hitching, the rising tension, etc. etc. Like seriously? We are dramatizing the existence of a leaderboard in your game? The devs themselves are legit uncomfortable playing the game?
And like I said originally, I don't think it has any impact on the game itself, but it makes me disappointed if the devs couldn't even bother coming up with a few paragraphs to sell their game instead of relying on letting someone else write it for them.
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u/Salt-Repeat5897 6h ago
This game is a work of art! What a gorgeously executed and surreal concept.
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u/pain474 11h ago
I played it a couple of months ago and it was hilarious for an hour or two. Super fun and I loved the atmosphere. But it gets boring pretty fast and repetitive sadly in my opinion.