Axiom Verge

The game's strong assets are the visuals and atmosphere, resembling old glory days of Commodore Amiga and Psygnosis games, with mysterious, moody alien worlds, and throbbing techno soundtracks. Unfortunately, the gameplay is quite tedious with lots of backtracking, and the game design is chaotic and unfocused - rules keep changing, there is no consistent visual feedback (some blocks are destructible while others are not while they both look the same, you must conjure invisible platforms into existence, etc.) The plot sounds like it was written by XEDUR during the long, boring years of guarding an empty corridor, or by some rambling AI - it makes very little sense, and it fails to provide motivation to play on. Since gameplay is more important than looks and sound for me, I cannot really recommend the game. I will probably finish it, but it's a tiresome and frustrating experience.

bought this game back in 2016 but only just yesterday did i pick it back up again. everything had been running fine up to today, where out of the blue it's always now laggy. i didn't touch any of the settings and the only fix i could find was to turn off v-sync with the cost of having to deal with screen tearing :/ this issue long aside the fact i just wasn't really enjoying the gameplay or the story has sadly made me abandon the game once again to collect dust in my library, which is a damn shame because the game's pixel art is really beautiful.