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Outcore: Desktop Adventure

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2022

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Quick resume

All you wanted was a nice game. But now you find yourself opening Windows apps like Paint & Notepad to solve puzzles, and searching for files on your computers that you didn't put there... Who is she? Why did she appear on your desktop? Let's dive into her memories and find out.

Global score

97/100

Genres

Action, Adventure, Indie, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Free To Play, Platform, Visual Novel

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    Pros

    • Highly creative and innovative gameplay
    • Strong emotional and humorous story
    • Free with substantial content
    • Engaging desktop interaction and meta elements
    • Learning opportunities in coding and puzzles

    Cons

    • Some platforming controls feel clunky
    • Short overall length
    • Occasional bugs and technical issues
    • Certain difficulty spikes in boss fights
    • Limited replayability beyond achievements

    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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      "Primarily a solo experience with minimal social connection."

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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      "Game allows pausing and has some idle elements, but requires active management and attention during play."

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    • Intimacy

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      "Emotional connection to story and characters creates a sense of closeness despite solo play."

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    • Leadership

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      "No leadership or group management roles present."

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    • Progression

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      "Players collect items, unlock secrets, and progress through levels and story, with achievements and upgrades."

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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

    Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Intimacy, Survival, Violence, Competition. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Idle. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fellowship, Cooperation.

    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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