Arabel

A nice little game. I don't know why most people don't like the platforming, it's very simple. The combat is simple and enjoyable, the music is pleasant, and the visuals are too. Especially since you can get it at a good discount

I jumped off after the boss fight and the game put invisible walls around the boss area; thus didn't let me see the ending.

Student project vibes, but A+ student project vibes

God, the platforming is bad. I couldn't even get past the first propper platforming section because the jump/ dash combination just wouldn't work when i needed it to. After about 20 tries i just didn't have it in me anymore. The game looks pretty and did manage to make me interested in it but it's executed to poorly that i just cannot continue playing it.

Arabel is a rather poorly made, low quality third person adventure/brawler. You take on the role of some woman in some underworldy platformer/brawler environment... there's a narrative but the game is so mediocre it's hard to get involved. One important note is that even though this is an amateur project, it does seem to be sincerely and genuinely made. I couldn't find any flipped assets, plagiarism or any other kind of insincere actions from the developer, but unfortunately genuine intentions alone are not enough to produce a brilliant PC gaming experience. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. 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. In fact there's no proper game menu at all.. I am sure the developer thought it was "cool" that the only way to quit the game is Alt+F4 or jumping off a bridge, but this is gamer-hostile UI design. Pressing "Esc" should bring up a menu... and yes, it's a bare minimum that gamers should be able to set custom resolution, graphics options, controls and so forth. This disrespect and disregard for gamers makes this game an immediate fail. The game assets are fairly mediocre/low quality, in some places they appear mismatched... Ultimately the quality of these assets, and thus the overall visual quality is lower than average, and low quality always makes for a less than optimal gaming experience. Remember, we're looking for the best of the best of 110,000+ games on Steam. 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, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts. This looks a lot like it was designed for consoles, but released on Steam instead by mistake. While this is on PC, it has all the hallmarks and deficiencies of a console game, from the clunkier than needed control scheme to the less than cutting edge graphics. There's 10's of thousands of PC games on Steam, and PC gamers deserve only the best. This might not appeal to many gamers due to the lack of PC-centric design. It's unclear why this never made it to the video game console appliances it seems to have been designed for. 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 3 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 110,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 110,000+ games on Steam? Arabel has the completely unrealistic cash grab price of around $8 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. For comparison, the $8 asking price for this game could get you games like "Pillars of Eternity II", "Grand Theft Auto V" or "Mirror's Edge". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.

брать за полную цену не рекомендую, а так нормально

Ну со скидкой в 90% можно и поиграть. Если бы раньше понял, что нужно сначала стрелять, а потом бить, прошел бы за час.