Azooma Escape

At first, I was excited by the art style and unique idea, but later the game became repetitive and frustrating. Missions: Most tasks repeat the same loop (go–talk–bring back). This quickly became boring. Suggestion: add more mission types, like exploration or puzzles, to keep the pace fresh. Levels: Rooms often look the same, and the layout feels confusing. Some doors are locked in ways that break the flow, and elements like the scattered vases didn’t add much, and the execution is not the best. Suggestion: give each area a distinct purpose and guide the player more naturally through level design. AI & Stealth : Guards chase instantly when they see you, with no suspicion stage, and they move too fast. Hiding spots are poorly placed, often outside the player’s view, which making the stealth feel unfair. Designing levels around AI behavior is very challenging and requires a lot of iteration and testing to balance properly. Suggestion: add a suspicion phase, slow the guards slightly, and refine level layouts after testing how players interact with AI. Story & Theme: The “Azooma” theme is fun, and an unique idea, but it didn’t feel properly explored or represented in the game. The story and characters quickly became shallow and inconsistent, which broke immersion. Suggestion: research the concept more deeply and show it through small events, or more meaningful interactions to make it feel real. The concept is good and culturally unique, and I respect that the team managed to complete a playable game from start to finish. But with more varied missions, smarter AI, refined level design, and a deeper look at the core theme of “Azooma” the experience could become much stronger and stand out globally.

Although Azooma Escape was developed by a full team with official funding and support in Saudi Arabia, the end result feels more like a first experimental project made by one or two beginner developers. Expectations were high, but the final product is very weak compared to the resources available. The story is almost absent, serving only as a superficial excuse to move from one stage to another. It also contradicts the main character’s personality: someone supposedly trying to escape social life but at the same time automatically accepting side tasks and helping others. This breaks immersion and weakens the player’s motivation. The core gameplay—stealth—is fundamentally broken. Stealth elements are few and simplistic, while the character’s high movement speed makes running away a far easier option than sneaking. Enemy AI is very basic, with no adaptive responses or evolving strategies, leaving the challenge static and repetitive. Missions are repetitive: “go, pick up, return.” Even the ghost stage, which was supposed to add variety, barely changed the core loop. Level design doesn’t make good use of the world either: maps are linear, with lots of empty space, and offer little room for experimenting with different approaches. Character progression is nonexistent; abilities stay the same from start to finish, leaving the experience flat with no sense of growth or reward. Strengths: The game has a unique and humorous concept: turning excessive hospitality into a comedic threat. The cultural setting and lighthearted dialogue add a distinctive flavor, and it’s refreshing to see a Saudi-developed game attempt to bring local identity to a global platform like Steam. Verdict: Azooma Escape carries a bold, funny idea but fails to deliver a cohesive stealth experience. Weak AI, lack of character growth, repetitive missions, and shallow level design make the game feel limited and underdeveloped. With the level of funding and support behind it, the final result should have been much stronger. Score: 5/10

Continuously running and fetching the game. Game is finished with Quality but the gameplay is a Continuous hid & seek with Fetch stuff. Gameplay progress but it gets boring really fast. Also, It is filled with "Influencers" from KSA and I think if they focus on gameplay rather than this it would have been better.

As big as the marketing for this game was, it didn't live up to the hype. While playing the game I encountered so many problems that one might consider small, which I as I thought the team was only made of a couple of people. You can only imagine how I felt when I saw the number of names roll down in the credits. I am not saying the game was all bad, it had its fun moments. The majority of the game's art style was nice, and some of the animations stood out to me like the hiding animation while picking up Amira. Some tracks of the game's music was noticeably good, like the track in the farm levels. The "I" frames were very forgiving at times, but it didn't feel consistent. Some of the boss fights were fun, like the chief of jinn. The first "bad" thing that stood out to me was the walking sounds, they are so annoying especially during chases with a big number of enemies following me. the collision boxes don't feel right as they don't give the player any chance. such as the holes in most levels, even if you get a tiny bit too close to the hole it punishes you which can get real annoying. the map designs are really confusing, and the game doesn't point you to where you are supposed to go except for the "North East"etc that you get from the dialogue. which can make the player feel really lost most of the time, especially when backtracking is required to finish the level. the palm trees in the farm levels are blinding as you can't see where you are supposed to go, or where an entrance would be. I could keep going but I don't want it to seem as if I am nitpicking. Overall I would give the game 5/10 I do not recommend

بداية اللعبة ممتعة وجيدة لكن بعد المرحلة 5 تصير اللعبة تكرار ممل وما فيه أي شي جديد. حرفيا الديمو حق اللعبة يغنيك عن اللعبة الكاملة

really bad game save your time before your money

اللعبه اسطوريه و انصح فيها

a very simple story and mechanic very fun there some bugs would be great if it get fixed - when i respawn the enemy finds me right away while you just respawned it makes the game experience bit frustrating - when im close not on top of the hole i fall right away - the little girl hide and seek there is too many enemies following me makes it hard to pass - the rolling cooldown does not match with the second boss phase (the uncle) its bit long and the boss attack is faster where i cant survive -the amount of gaurds number when you need to escape and they know where you at alot and leave very slim chance to avoid them overall recommended to play.

Unfortunate.

ليه لما أطلع من وسط المرحلة يخليني أعيد المرحلة كاملة؟ صارت لي في لفل 7 ولما أسوي تخطي يطلع لي شاشة تحميل! المفروض يكون الشيء فوري وما يحتاج تطلع ذي الشاشة الورعان اللي معهم المفاتيح، المفروض خلاص إذا أخذت منه الغرض ما يشرد مني. لكن يشرد ويطيح معه مسامير، وتملي المنطقة كلها ممكن تكون مسألة ذوقية، بس أنا ما أحب نوع الألعاب اللي يكون المفروض أروح أجيب شيء أو أقابل شخص وما أحصله، ويجيني شخص ثاني يقول: “دام إنك هنا، جب لي ذا ولا صلح ذا” ياليت تحطون سهم صغير يوضح لي الاتجاه لما واحد يلحقك وتزبن تحت السيارات، حتى لو هو لاصق فيك، يسحب عليك كأنه ما كان يلحقك أما القصة، الصراحة ما شدتني