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The Emerald Maiden: Symphony of Dreams

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Android, Linux • 2016

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Quick resume

Save your family from an ominous undersea facility!

Global score

85/100

Genres

Adventure, Casual

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    Pros

    • Beautiful graphics and art style
    • Engaging story and atmosphere
    • Variety of puzzles and hidden object scenes
    • Relaxing and immersive underwater and dream settings
    • Includes bonus chapter and achievements

    Cons

    • Short game length
    • Some translation and typo issues
    • Puzzles and challenges are generally easy
    • Story can be confusing or rushed
    • Limited replay value and no multiplayer

    Motivations

    • Autonomy

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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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      "Players use the game as a nostalgic escape and stress relief, enjoying a lighthearted, imaginative underwater world."

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    • Expectation

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      "Players engage voluntarily for enjoyment and interest rather than obligation or external 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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      "No social or community features; entirely solo experience."

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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      "Standard sedentary gameplay with no physical activity involved."

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    • Idle

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      "Requires focused attention to find objects and solve puzzles; not designed for background or idle play."

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    • Intimacy

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      "Minimal social interaction or emotional connection beyond narrative; no multiplayer or social features."

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    • Leadership

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    • Progression

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      "Players collect items and unlock new areas and story segments, showing clear progression through the game."

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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 Survival, Violence, Fellowship, Expression. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Expression, Value, Experimenting.

    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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