Repetitive but Interesting
The mood is spot on and there seems to be something here, but in it's current state, I keep getting bored. The weapons are cool, the movement feels OK, and the inventory/journal system/map all work well.
So, let's get to the rest. The early enemies are just not terribly fun to fight. The hordes of zombies mostly just get in the way, the skeletons are easy, and the other creatures don't seem to be lethal enough to build any tension. They are at least somewhat fun to fight (unlike the zombies).
This is not an RPG. This is an old-school FPS with a journal, quests, and an inventory. It's more like Strife than Dark Messiah of Might and Magic or Deus Ex. I do like how the city is the hub where you get quests and move to new areas that feel like old FPS levels. You don't enter "E1M2" or whatever, so that is at least cool.
The puzzles are the boring, "match 3 rune symbols" nonsense that I am completely sick of. Every game does them... they aren't fun... and they don't require any real problem solving.
The graphic style is retro pixel... but somehow still bright and stylized. It almost looks like they used stylized assets and ran the materials or textures through an algorithm that pixelated them. It's a weird mix of dark, retro, but still cartoony in a way. It's kinda cool, but I think I would have preferred darker.
I was streaming this and a viewer said, "what a sausage fest." I didn't see any living women in my 3 hours of play. Maybe they show up later... but all the townsfolk I saw were men. The zombies were men... etc. I could hear women crying behind walls... and there were dead women in the streets. The story starts with a dead woman and her daughter... you're the gruff male who adopts the girl (I am also getting over this boring trope of a hero dad figure and a dead mom). Anyway, it seems you're looking for her, but I didn't care much about the plot.
Anyway, it's average and I wish I liked it more. At least you can pet the dog.
At least you can pet the dog.
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