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Bear With Me - Episode One

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2016

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Quick resume

Bear With Me is an episodic noir adventure game. Amber is trying to find her missing brother while being aided by her trusty teddy, Ted E. Bear.

Global score

87/100

Genres

Adventure, Indie

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    Pros

    • Engaging noir atmosphere
    • Strong narrative and characters
    • Excellent voice acting
    • Humorous and witty dialogue
    • Detailed environments with many easter eggs

    Cons

    • Short episode length
    • Simple puzzles
    • Episodic structure requires purchasing multiple parts
    • Slow character movement
    • Some localization and translation issues

    Motivations

    • Autonomy

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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      "Players report being engaged for long sessions and wanting to continue playing to see the story unfold."

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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      "Players enjoy immersive noir atmosphere, humor, and story as a form of escapism from real life."

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      "Players appreciate the immersive noir atmosphere and emotional story as an escape from reality."

    • Expectation

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      "Players engage voluntarily out of interest and enjoyment, not obligation or pressure."

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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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    • Growth

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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      "Requires focused attention to solve puzzles and progress; not designed for passive or background play."

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    • Intimacy

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      "Limited social interaction; emotional attachment is to in-game characters rather than real social bonds."

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    • Leadership

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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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      "Strong narrative immersion with engaging characters, plot twists, and emotional depth."

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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

    A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Fellowship, Expression. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Thrill, Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Value.

    How to use the graph
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    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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