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Always Sometimes Monsters

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2014

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Quick resume

Set out on a cross-country journey to win back the love of your life and endure the hardship of making story-defining choices that affect your life and the lives of those around you.

Global score

75/100

Genres

Indie, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Simulator

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    Pros

    • Deep, emotionally engaging story
    • Meaningful player choices
    • Multiple endings and replayability
    • Diverse character customization
    • Unique narrative experience

    Cons

    • Tedious and repetitive minigames
    • Some pacing issues and uneven content
    • Limited gameplay mechanics
    • Occasional bugs and awkward controls
    • Story can be heavy and emotionally taxing

    Motivations

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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    • Expectation

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Fellowship

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      "Focus is on individual narrative experience with minimal social or community interaction."

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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      "Gameplay involves slow walking and waiting (e.g. elevator rides), allowing for less intense focus at times."

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    • Intimacy

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      "Deep emotional connections and relationships are central to the narrative experience."

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    • Leadership

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      "Players follow narrative paths and character interactions without leading or managing others."

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    • Progression

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    • Relaxation

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    • Sensation

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    • Status

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Idle, Thrill, Violence, Survival. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy.

    How to use the graph
    Similar games map

    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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