Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice
Sometimes: Success Requires Sacrifice, the title says it all! You get thrown into a dark room, with no light to be found anywhere! Are you willing to end your life to light the way for the next generation to proceed further? Play it today and find out!
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Developer: Volens Nolens Games Publisher: Volens Nolens Games
Genre: Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie, Strategy
Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
Tags: Casual (41), Indie (33), Action (29), Strategy (26), Adventure (26)
Category: Single-player, Steam Trading Cards, Partial Controller Support
Release date: Feb 27, 2015
Free
Old userscore: 71% Owners: 500,000 .. 1,000,000
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Followers: 353
Peak concurrent players yesterday: 1
Playtime total: 00:01 (average) 00:01 (median)
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Papers, Please
Fortix 2
LIMBO
Wreckfest
Gang Beasts
Road Redemption
BIGFOOT
We Happy Few
VRChat
Super Mustache
Garbage Day
Raw Data
Kivi, Toilet and Shotgun
BATTLECREW Space Pirates
NeuroVoider
DEADBOLT
Spaceport Hope
My Bones
New kind of adventure
Holodrive
Despair
Dead Effect 2 VR
Calcu-Late
Dungeon Escape
Dungeon of Zolthan
Regalia: Of Men and Monarchs
BallisticNG
Onward
Trickster VR: Co-op Dungeon Crawler
Brawl of Ages
Atonement 2: Ruptured by Despair
Ropes And Dragons VR
Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion: HD Renovation
Langoth
Sword With Sauce
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Castle Story
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Life Goes On: Done to Death
Nihilumbra
Hero of the Kingdom
NOT A HERO
Kero Blaster
Loot Hero DX
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The Culling Of The Cows
Woodle Tree Adventures
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