Vaporum

alot of these "new" games get thier sales of of the "pitch" akin: "This game compares to Legend of Grimrock" or "Dungeon Master" well, I've got news for ya it don't! This game is a very bland and annoying attempt to recapture the classic era. The puzzels are dull, the environment is dull and the only "RPG" elemets are the mechanical "upgrades" the play character can add on his "armor". Also I don't honeslty know why GOG references Dungeon Master or Dungeon Master II at all on this or the sequal to this game as they don't even sell it!(and likely never will!).

Good Points : Interesting story with a twist at the end. Lots of puzzles and searching for secrets. Bad Points : A few of the puzzles are very frustratingly hard. "Greybeards" with slowing reflexes will have some timing problems.

I liked the general equipment and setup. There are a *lot* more circuit / suit / skill upgrade options than I expected. I've played for three, admittedly lazy, hours and gotten one single skill point. It seems like making a long term plan is impossible at this stage and points are rare. It's not a great RPG look. However, for the two star review... I turned a corner and fell in a hole. The fall was about the height of the character; so lets say two meters. This is instant death. That is some sad, Atari platformer junk that got old in the 80s. As icing on the cake, there's no autosave. I'm not backtracking an hour. I decided to make this the ultimate ironman run. One death. Uninstall. Come up with a different "challenge" mechanic.

This game comes with a lot of great looking graphics, interesting thoughtful combat and not much else. The puzzles are a mealy-mouthed click fests. I wish that I looked upon the forums first before buying. This is SO frustrating to me that I had to uninstall it every time that I've tried to play this game...only to have the same high level of failure with the puzzles. I've played and beaten plenty of questing, grid based games, with varying levels of fascinating puzzles, locking mechanisms, etc. But Vaporum is a 90% game, should have been great, but sadly lacking in quality.

I played maybe 3 hours of this, so I'm not getting the 'full' experience. While I appreciate the effort that went into the backstory, lore, graphics, sound design and all, I find that these types of games (dungeon crawlers) just don't click with me past a couple of hours. I did like the atmosphere, but I found the combat and puzzles to be too annoyingly hard. A very subjective take, I guess.