3 out of 10

3 out of 10 is a brilliant experiment mixing many genres, design techniques and concepts. I wasn't sure to enjoy it, as I am mainly not a point & click gamer, but I got hooked quite soon. Original gameplay, original characters, original plot, original humor, original graphics and animation, original music, original settings. Everything is perfectly conceived and you can feel the love and care they put in this title. Characters are incredibly characterized, there are so many details and references scattered all over the place, it is a pleasure for the eyes and the spirit.

A quite enjoyable game. It's basically a funny sitcom about a video game developer and its ridiculous staff. Sequences of animated buffoonery are interspersed with playable mini-games. Your goal as a player is to collect stars by either finding them or earning them through games. Some of the mini-games are a bit too difficult. I just can't get all 5 stars in many cases. It's not a big deal, because you can keep going to the next story sequence if you get too frustrated. The mini-game of wandering the office is not super interesting.

3 Out Of 10 plays out like you're taking part of an animated comedy series. It focuses on a game development studio and its core crew, which has difficulties producing a proper game for internal and external reasons.

Besides the video game culture-niched humour, the game is quite accessible for the better side of casual players. I'm saying "better" because there are mini-games strewn across each episode that vary in mechanics and challenge levels (mostly playable with one hand on the keyboard). Still, they are skippable and every episode can be finished in 20-30 minutes, which is at an adequate length. The game goes well into the series factor to a fault, because the episodes stray to their own stories and take focus away from the overarching plot that lead the series forward.

It's a fairly funny adventure game that behaves like an animated series, with a healthy variety of mini-games and distinctive characters. Might not break much ground for seasoned gamers and regular viewers of the likes of Adult Swim, but it's a welcome output for a more casual demographic in both areas, which its concept I hope gets improved on in the sequel.

Seeing the idea of mixing a sitcom-like game with point-and-click mechanics didn't sit well for me at first, but the quirky and silly humor, as well as the original concept of the story, made me change my mind completely. I love how, in each chapter, the goal is more nonsensical than the last one and that it ends up getting your attention rather quickly.

The fact that the chapters are short makes them more compressed, so the concept doesn't end up being tiresome and annoying, and due to the fact that in each episode something different happens, you don't expect what's going to happen next! So even though it follows a linear story, its events are totally unpredictable.

The cartoony style also caught my attention, and I think that it suits the theme and story perfectly. Each character has a very unique personality that makes it seem like it would be difficult for all of them to work together on something (especially a videogame!), but it's the other way around. I kind of grew fond of them, if I'm being completely honest! The references to other game franchises in its minigames, as well as pop culture, made it even more fun to play.

Although I must admit, even if the minigames were entertaining, some of them were a pain to get through

Intro

This is a simple adventure game with lots of dialogue, some point & click sections and a bunch of minigames.

The Good

• It's sometimes fairly entertaining. E.g. the game they're making gets increasingly filled with crap like pointless achievements.
• The 'intern in pet crate' game in Episode 2 is fun.
• You can freely skip dialogue and games.
• Each episode only takes 30 minutes.

The Bad

• It's often rather boring.
• Some of the minigames make no sense.
• Installing 5 different items is annoying, especially in the Epic launcher.
• Episode 5 is like 99% sideplot and ends abruptly with a cliffhanger.
• 5 times 30 minutes is still 2,5 hours.

Conclusion

I only played through this because it's monday and i didn't want to do something actually useful like cleaning. Also i was hoping this would become more like [Mythic Quest][1]. It doesn't.

[1]:

They just released Season 2 of this. Both seasons are permanently free.

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/3-out-of-10-season-2

Season 1 was mildly amusing at best so i'm skipping this.

Next week we get Deponia: The Complete Journey, Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth and The First Tree.

3 out of 10 describes itself as a 'playable sitcom'. It sort of fits that description, in that there's a core cast of characters, a ridiculous setting, a variety of mini-games, and that each episode is 30 minutes long.

Unfortunately, as a whole, this doesn't quite work. The humor is centered around game-dev and programming culture, so it's not generally relatable. The mini-games are very uneven - some are intuitive and easy, others are convoluted and hard. The 30-minute episodic structure would have been fine if each episode was distributed as DLC to a base game. Instead, it's currently set up as five distinct games. Much like a sitcom, the plot of one episode rarely influences the plot of a subsequent episode. The overall story arc of the five episodes is also left incomplete, which is just plain disappointing.

So that's a 3 out of 10 - the rating, I mean. Not the game. ;-)

This is free on the Epic Store this week:

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/3-out-of-10-ep-1/home

No idea what it is, it didn't even have an entry on here yet.

Next week we get Remnant: From the Ashes and The Alto Collection.