Ablepsia is yet another of several hundred, if not thousands of garbage low effort endless runners plaguing Steam. Unlike most of them, this one is attempting, badly, to be "artistic" by trying to make some Steam cash from exploiting blindness as a handicap. That's charming, but Steam is often abused by people trying to make a quick buck.
Like all endless/autorunners, you're moving and you can't change direction, but in this one you can pause, at least, which you need to do so you can click on obstacles to remove them. All you do is avoid the obstacles coming at you in this incredibly shallow shovelware game, and click on street lights as you endlessly run by. Also like most endless runners, there's no end, it's a score attack game, and it's also been dumped on Steam as a mild achievement spam game.
From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result.
There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision.
The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts.
Some of the defects in the game can be attributed to the poor choice of using node-webkit/NW.js instead of a serious game engine. This is a very poor quality toolset for gaming, which it's not well suited for, so unfortunately has very limited capabilities because it's primary function for games is to make simple HTML/browser/simple mobile apps rather than full fledged PC games (and given we are here for PC games, you can see why this is a problem). Just as you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear, you can't make a great video game if you use a terrible engine.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 10 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
One of the driving elements of this shovelware game is "achievement spam", that is to say the game features a reasonably large number of trivial/automatically granted achievements, 38 of them, in fact. It's a damning indictment for this shovelware that people only bought it for easy achievements, and not because it has any serious merit as a real game.
Ablepsia has the almost scam-like price of around $5 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam.
