I can't bring myself to give this a positive recommendation, despite how much I like the assets and storyline. It's vaguely backrooms-y and the darkness combined with the textures and robots is mildly terrifying. Every time you exit the game and reload, you save your progress but you have to go through the same intro again and lose your old position. Not a big deal though. The problem is that there is simply not much gameplay - the robot control panels are awesome, and solving the robot puzzles was quite entertaining, but they don't actually unlock anything or serve any purpose at all. Your job is simply to get a "robot_2" in a short amount of time, which looks like a black tank, and to find the exit door and right-click on it. This can be done in less than 2 minutes if you're into speedruns, and I know because I tried :) There's also certain places that if you fall into, you won't be able to get out. All the puzzles work, you just need to use the NE/NW/SW/SE direction indicators.
Some more sounds are needed, as there appears to be only one sound during the course of the game (when you finish the game), and making the puzzles actually unlock sectors or switches would be satisfying and justify solving the puzzles! I see there are also some empty rooms on the map, which may have been part of the story, but weren't completed in time(?) - this game is probably still a WIP, so I'm excited to see what will become of it.
You can only speedrun if somebody tells you that you can speed run. ;)
I worked too many hours at my job to get everything I wanted to do for this game, in the future the different levels will require unlocking by solving the puzzles.
Thanks for the response - Yes, I figured there were some time restraints going on here, it's still an impressive game though and was quite entertaining. Maybe the speedrun thing should be under a spoiler, haha, but it's very good to hear that the puzzles will be required to solve the game in the future! I'll be happy to update my review when that does happen :)
And sorry, it looks like I selected "Negative" but I really meant to select "Neutral". Updated.
I can't bring myself to give this a positive recommendation, despite how much I like the assets and storyline. It's vaguely backrooms-y and the darkness combined with the textures and robots is mildly terrifying. Every time you exit the game and reload, you save your progress but you have to go through the same intro again and lose your old position. Not a big deal though. The problem is that there is simply not much gameplay - the robot control panels are awesome, and solving the robot puzzles was quite entertaining, but they don't actually unlock anything or serve any purpose at all. Your job is simply to get a "robot_2" in a short amount of time, which looks like a black tank, and to find the exit door and right-click on it. This can be done in less than 2 minutes if you're into speedruns, and I know because I tried :) There's also certain places that if you fall into, you won't be able to get out. All the puzzles work, you just need to use the NE/NW/SW/SE direction indicators.
Some more sounds are needed, as there appears to be only one sound during the course of the game (when you finish the game), and making the puzzles actually unlock sectors or switches would be satisfying and justify solving the puzzles! I see there are also some empty rooms on the map, which may have been part of the story, but weren't completed in time(?) - this game is probably still a WIP, so I'm excited to see what will become of it.
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You can only speedrun if somebody tells you that you can speed run. ;) I worked too many hours at my job to get everything I wanted to do for this game, in the future the different levels will require unlocking by solving the puzzles.
Thanks for the response - Yes, I figured there were some time restraints going on here, it's still an impressive game though and was quite entertaining. Maybe the speedrun thing should be under a spoiler, haha, but it's very good to hear that the puzzles will be required to solve the game in the future! I'll be happy to update my review when that does happen :)
And sorry, it looks like I selected "Negative" but I really meant to select "Neutral". Updated.