Shiny The Firefly
Shiny The Firefly
Game
Game2019
Noise
Developer Talentplace
The USSR era is coming to its end – it is 1988. The radio amateur catches a strange signal that emits incomprehensible noises. It is broadcast around the clock and only sometimes a human voice makes its way through the air. You will have to uncover terrifying secrets about this enigmatic signal. From the Steam store page
142 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 6, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
40
Mixed
31 positive · 47 negative
95% range 30–51%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 31 | 47 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 2 | 1 | 52 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Negative
37 of 95 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
41% recommend · 32 yes, 47 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 79 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (164 of 298 positive).
Some players found the game's atmosphere and story intriguing, especially for its low price. [1][2][3] Many reviewers criticized the game for bugs, poor voice acting, and frustrating gameplay mechanics. [4][5][6] The VR implementation was widely panned as unplayable and nauseating. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [1]
Short adventure with some spookiness to it. Somewhat interesting as you explore but the farther you get it starts to become a bit daunting. Visuals are bearable and dialogs leave much to be desired. However there is some horror value so it might be worth checking out. Good luck with finding source of the noise.
- [3]
A short game with an interesting story that had a Half Life like feel too it (Soviet Half Life 😊) I wish it was longer with more story to discover (perhaps in another timeline they did us this anomaly and the USSR continued). The English voice acting could be better, but in Russian it was perfect so I suggest playing it this way. No performance issues and I didn't encounter any fame breaking bug (monster glitched …
- [4]
At this point I can say with certainty, people are NOT going to enjoy creeping from room to room over and over again waiting for something to change, listenning to high school kids read their scripts, and thinking of ways to tape or weight the W key down. Left stick of an Xbox controller does work, btw. The graghics are [graces must be given here] weak at best, with trees outside coming indoors through walls. The …
- [6]
I enjoy Soviet history and Soviet themed games (STALKER, Chernobylite, Metro, etc.), so I bought this game for $0.50 via a Humble Bundle credit that was about to expire anyway. Even having paid that low price, this game is a rip off. Even if it were free, it isn't worth your time. The gameplay, voice acting, and story are just terrible. It's also riddled with bugs. For example, the flashlight has a zoom function …
- [15]
another unfinished and abandoned game with buggy and broken achievements. graphics are below average and voice acting is even worse. story and gameplay seemed ok and workable in the first level (aka chapter 1) and i actually had some fun playing. but after that the game went downhill fast and after chapter 2 the game just ended in the middle of the story. and it will stay like this since the developer officially …
Summarised from 34 of the 117 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
The crowd is split on Noise: 32 recommend it, 47 don't. Which camp are you in?
Reactions
60 of 142 · most liked first🚨 A new episode of Game Changer is out now on Dropout — featuring Noise Boys: Brennan Lee Mulligan, Zac Oyama, Josh Ruben, and more!
neutral · AI labelView post →🃏 TONIGHT! A new episode of Game Changer launches on Dropout at 7PM ET / 4PM PT! Featuring host Sam Reich, and the Noise Boys: Brennan Lee Mulligan, Zac Oyama, Josh Ruben, and more...
neutral · AI labelView post →Options could be: 🎲Every episode of Dimension 20 (with Adventuring Party episodes in-between) 🗣️Every episode of Game Changer / Make Some Noise 🦇 Random old sketches 🎰Random Dropout content from our full library
neutral · AI labelView post →🚨 A new episode of Game Changer Making of BTS is out now — showing a deep dive into how we created the world of "Noise Some Makes"!
neutral · AI labelView post →I always wanted to make a multiplayer game for a jam and finally did in the last Ludum Dare 58 compo. White Noise Protocol - a co-op online game without a single line of netcode 🙃 Play it on itch ❄ picster.itch.io/white-noise-... #GodotEngine #LDJam #ld58
neutral · AI labelView post →John ending + the “Introducing The Noise” swap, pretty much exactly as it is in the game. 5/7
neutral · AI labelView post →This week on Dropout... 🃏 Monday: Game Changer Behind-The-Scenes ("Noise Some Makes") + Crowd Control S2 Premiere (with Jordan Myrick, Cameron Esposito, and Aaron Branch) 👇
neutral · AI labelView post →🚨 There is a NEW ITEM in the Dropout Store! Featuring merch from Game Changer and Make Some Noise.
neutral · AI labelView post →At this point I can say with certainty, people are NOT going to enjoy creeping from room to room over and over again waiting for something to change, listenning to high school kids read their scripts, and thinking of ways to tape or weight the W key down. Left stick of an Xbox controller does work, btw. The graghics are [graces must be given here] weak at best, with trees outside coming indoors through walls. The audio, a key element of the game, quickly gets very annoying and desperately needs…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Your Dad Noise Game of the Week! (It's actually Oregon-Illinios, but we couldn't pass up on the joke)
neutral · AI labelView post →Ratio of Good Vibes to Toxic Nonsense/Noise several weeks into having one's new upcoming game public GOOD VIBES - Discord - Bluesky - Tiktok - Youtube - Reddit - - Twitter - - - Instagram - - - - - - - Random Urinal Stalls - - - - - - Steam Community Forum TOXIC NONSENSE/NOISE
neutral · AI labelView post →Game changer on aircraft trips: Noise cancelling headphones. It fixes so much.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'M HOSTING A GAME JAM WITH A FEW FRIENDS MAKE SOMETHING WITH NOISE IN IT IT STARTS ON 9/11 itch.io/jam/noise-jam
neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Slug Advance Game Boy Advance Noise Factory, 2004
neutral · AI labelView post →Downloaded this game just out of boredom and because its only $3 for the early access. Played for about 30 minutes and then felt like I had no idea what I was doing or how to progress. I had gone all the way one direction, and then all the way back another direction (which takes ages because the game's "sprint" speed is atrociously slow, and even with sprint being the speed of a brisk walk, there's still stamina, making walking take wayy to long.) After doing this I found a guide on the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Short adventure with some spookiness to it. Somewhat interesting as you explore but the farther you get it starts to become a bit daunting. Visuals are bearable and dialogs leave much to be desired. However there is some horror value so it might be worth checking out. Good luck with finding source of the noise.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →NEW SPYRO GAME NEXT YEAR??? *FINN THE HUMAN SCREAM NOISE*
neutral · AI labelView post →They should do Game Changer Rulette with the Noise Boys
neutral · AI labelView post →Sam Riegel on Game Changer/Make Some Noise when?
neutral · AI labelView post →In our Dad Noise Game of the Week it’s Illinois at Michigan State.
neutral · AI labelView post →Experienced on the Oculus Rift with Xbox One Controller. Spoiler Free Review. I'm giving a neutral recommendation. I paid $1.79 USD for this game back on the Steam Autumn Sale 2017 and now the game is all the way down to .49 cents! The game is easily worth that amount. But just because it's cheap doesn't mean it gets an auto positive recommendation. In this case, there's things to like and things not to like, almost evenly. The good is that this game is of decent length. It has some okay…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →White Noise starts updating again on Sunday! I just queued the first page for Patreon. Fun game for readers this time: see how many times I put these rings on the wrong fingers
neutral · AI labelView post →Noise is a great indie horror game! I recommend to anyone who wants to play a little game and enjoy an interesting story that really delves you in! The voice acting is pretty on point. It took me a little bit for me to figure out what to do but not at the point where my friend and I got fustrated. As long as you walk around and look through everything you'll totally be fine. Also, this game is Early Access and it runs really smooth. I only had four things that I encountered that can be fixed…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i thought this will be putin wodka balalaika and talkin to cheekie breeki stalin ghost, but no.. you get bugs, bad voice acting, boring story and at the end you fly out of the map just like in the other "1 dollal" walking simulators. Gameplay: https://youtu.be/FuJLM3x-IVg
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like atmosphere of this game. It reminds me of STALKER. Very interesting story... --- Developers should improve UI and settings menu, it looks kind of cheap :) Very aggresive lods on trees, some textures too blury. I think in overall game is really worth its money)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oregon/Illinois is going to be the Dad Noise Game of the Week for me because I’m going to be groaning all game like I just got off the couch after I fell asleep watching Wheel
neutral · AI labelView post →Was thinking about it, so I made a tier list of Game Changer season 8 episodes Over all, quite a good season! Especially those top episodes. I'm gonna be rewatching Noise Some Makes every so often. God, it's so smooth.
positive · AI labelView post →The game industry has certainly declined and that's not something that can be denied, but there's so much NOISE that has nothing to do with that.
neutral · AI labelView post →one achievement is broken (cannot be unlocked by any means) another achievement can be unlocked only by changing the game language to russian trees are transparent dialouges seems to be recorded in a garage by russians the plot is unfinished (what happened with the employee that you talked with ?)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You know, Russian games are like Russian cars (or many other things) - they exist, but no one knows exactly why
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So This week we are testing our First commercial Game Called Silent Noise : The Park shift Because let us tell you a secret it's steam page is coming soon this November 🤫. #Silentnoise #indiedev #indiegamedev #indiegamestudio #gamingcommunity
neutral · AI labelView post →Dropout's Game Changer and Make Some Noise seem very similar at first glance but they're fundamentally different. You see one is an improv comedy game show where @samreich.bsky.social sits on the left and the other is an improv comedy game show where @samreich.bsky.social stands on the right
neutral · AI labelView post →Outside in 1988. A young radio amateur, who has just graduated from the university, accidentally catches a singal on a simple radio receiver and triangulates the place from which it comes from in an unknown way. After all, before him - none of the radio amateurs or the military - for some reason, was not interested in these signals. Do you find this strange? But this is only the beginning! And so, our hero goes on foot into the forest, having with him a short-wave RADIO and a flashlight. After…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I couldn't beat it. Too frustrating. I liked the narration and there the story was going, but everything else kind of suck. Especially when the monster appeared. I am supposed to go in the dark and disable the light, but no matter what, the monster always gets me, if I run - he outruns me, if I hide in dark - it finds me. Also the performance is terrible and subtitles are way off in those blue warp fields. 2/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →- Reading guide is mandatory for some points, too less explanation. And running away part in darkness didn't work for me at all, can't pass that point. - You may get stuck like then trying door code you don't know. Graphics is good enough, don't expect much. Movement is clumsy. Saving in certain points only. + USSR 1998 setup + Wish to find out what is happened + You'll get to know what happens if you change time dimension only and not the location dimension
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →“Make Some Noise.” Game Changer, created and directed by Sam Reich, season 1, episode 2, Dropout, 27 Sept. 2019. "Make Some Noise." _Game Changer_, season 1, episode 2, Dropout, 27 Sept. 2019.
neutral · AI labelView post →My roommate is watching Game Changer and Make Some Noise but she’s starting in the most recent seasons and jumping around randomly so any time there’s a reference to something that happened in the past she doesn’t get it 😭 Like how do you enjoy One Year Later without having seen Sam Says 3 cmon
neutral · AI labelView post →Noise cancellation headphones help. Don't even need to play music. Cuts down the plane noise too.
neutral · AI labelView post →Schedule for the week. Gonna be watching the season premiere of Make Some Noise in my Discord server in about 20 minutes! Trying out a new Webfishing-like game on Thursday, and SAR on Friday. Hope to see you soon! twitch.tv/jouva #twitch #streaming #PNGTuber
neutral · AI labelView post →The monster gets stuck in doorways preventing opening the final door, achievements don't work, the game is buggy overall. Would have been better without a stupid generic ass monster.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am sad to say, that this game does rather badly in VR. Using the Valve Index controllers was a chore, menu controls a twitchy, probably because finger position is somehow interpreted as cursor movement. Movement in game is annoyingly slugish and again interaction is twitchy at best. Performance is massively subpar, this could actually make me sick. The setting somewhat intrigued me, but without VR, this is not enough to actually make me want to play it further.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Horrible, controls don't work, vr is the worst for this game, voice acting made my ears bleed and the game looks like garbage graphically. Unless you like trash avoid this game at all costs. I have played thousands of games on steam and this is near the bottom of the list.....
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly, I don't really care if the episode is removed. I'm not making money off these things, so it's not like I'm out anything. I don't think any of my Bring the Noise episodes are still up at this point. It's all for the love of the game anyway... 🤷♂️
neutral · AI labelView post →Noise's Hardoween art! ^^ #PizzaTower #Noise #Fanart #NoAI #Halloween Game demo made by @tourdepizza.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Ah, I see. The offense went into FART NOISE mode to end the game. AND THROW IT TO THE MARKER, WHAT THE FUCK
neutral · AI labelView post →I enjoy Soviet history and Soviet themed games (STALKER, Chernobylite, Metro, etc.), so I bought this game for $0.50 via a Humble Bundle credit that was about to expire anyway. Even having paid that low price, this game is a rip off. Even if it were free, it isn't worth your time. The gameplay, voice acting, and story are just terrible. It's also riddled with bugs. For example, the flashlight has a zoom function that it says is operated via the right mouse button, but the zoom is stuck on…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall idea is cool, but realization, level where you have to turn on 20 lights is just really annoying and frustrating especially when main character stucks in all objects across the game. Also the slow change of your "weapons" is ridiculous, even if the person is a normal civilian no one would ever pull out the light so freaking slow. It needs lots of bug fixes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Straight garbage. The VR is absolutely atrocious from the ugly as sin movement and graphics to the poorly programmed controls. In the opening menu I knew I was going to be disappointed when left and right were reversed. In game (VR) the D pad on my controller did not even function, I had to keep going back to my desk to tune the radio via the mouse wheel. The games movement literally made me nauseous with a headache. After giving up and trying the game outside VR, the horrible voice acting and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am sry i tried it, the game is just very bad. So many bugs and problems. If you bump into any surface like a box or small object you can fly off or stack 90% of the time, running is not that great and buggy also, you can be stuck in walls and ground. Very unfinished game. Radio makes no sense whatsoever in this game. The first 1h. was fine, more like a walking simulator, but the time monster came,the game was from barely playable to just a horrible and tedious experience, the monster was…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →another unfinished and abandoned game with buggy and broken achievements. graphics are below average and voice acting is even worse. story and gameplay seemed ok and workable in the first level (aka chapter 1) and i actually had some fun playing. but after that the game went downhill fast and after chapter 2 the game just ended in the middle of the story. and it will stay like this since the developer officially dropped the game to focus on creating even more half as#ed & unfinished garbage…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Badass game but really Fu*ked up Graphics. Play only if u can afford a RTX 2080ti
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game content is missing and only 2 chapters are available. The mistakes in the game have not been corrected. So this game is a lie. Performance is much lower than the standard, which actually makes me sick.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is fun to play. It hits that point where it's not so easy that it becomes boring, but also not frustratingly difficult. Once you figure out exactly what you need to do, you can easily complete your tasks without getting killed a lot. I also have a quick playthrough if anyone's interested. https://youtu.be/YaJXgIUJMoc
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had fun with this! Especially for the low price! Here is my playthrough! :) https://youtu.be/PUv5gFB8oMo
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →https://hardcoregames.azurewebsites.net/noise/ a rather interesting game of exploration, not a bad for horror either
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →26. More People Should Listen To Custom Robo - Panic Cube Day late but that doesn't stop me from shilling this game until the sun goes out. Play Custom Robo, and to Nintendo/Noise? I am in your eardrum. You must make another one. There is no choice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0sk...
neutral · AI labelView post →Bottom Noise Game: Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach Clipped by: IOnlySubToCats
neutral · AI labelView post →Bottom Noise (loud) Game: A Weird Game About Sausage Clipped by: IOnlySubToCats
neutral · AI labelView post →O noooooooo! Cathy! I guess the best I can wish now is that you have adequate distraction (if you need a recommendation, "Game Changer" and "Make Some Noise" on Dropout TV or "Taskmaster" on YouTube or Hulu)
neutral · AI labelView post →There’s a reason why the only comedians I pay attention to are the ones Dropout are willing to work with. And every SNL comedian who is featured on Game Changer or Make Some Noise is, without fail, the weakest comedian on set.
negative · AI labelView post →
Posts are quoted from public profiles with links to the original. Want yours removed? Contact us.
