Finally had a chance to play this after having it for years in my library. I see it is no longer available on Steam, that's a shame.
I added this game to my account on 5 August 2017, almost 7 years ago now, just shy of 2.5 weeks. Wow!
I swear I picked this up at Fanatical, but perhaps it was a trade, since I couldn't find the bundle.
I'd say Bedlam is a mixed review from me.
The game is about being sucked into a virtual world, traversing between different genres, being pretty heavy in the FPS side of things. The story unfolds from there. The voice acting was fun enough, but not mind blowing. The goal is to survive through it all, all while uncovering why you are there and what is going on.
The story and voice acting is what kept me interested, even when I was soured by the WW2 levels. There were a few cool level twists, such as PAC-Man and Space Invaders clones, from a FPS view, but then the game dragged on by excessive levels of mainly walking, encountering the same enemies, and moving on.
The story is interesting enough, but the gun-play is a bit boring, in my opinion. It seemed fine enough, with simple enemies in the first few levels, then it changed to one of those WW2 shooters. The enemies kept re-spawning, and no matter how far away they were, they'd hit you every time when you were in sight. It was all I could do to get through it. Thankfully it switched up from there later, but, it wasn't amazing to play.
On top of that, the plethora of guns to use was insane. Not insane in a good way, but hotkeys 1-9 were all bound to guns, and each slot could have up to 3 different variants. Some were interesting, some were samey, and some just felt useless.
I like the idea of taking guns from different games and using them on other games, but you never knew when you might or might not come across ammo, so you didn't feel the need to experiment much and conserve your ammo. In the end, I enjoyed the starting gun best, and slot 8, type 2 sniper. They had the most punch, and felt good to use. The rest were pretty much forgettable.
The ending wasn't anything to really feel like much of anything happened at all. Just when you thought perhaps there'd be more, it just ends. Ending credit music was fun to listen to, so there's that.
In relation to giving it a mixed review and feeling like I had to push though - Heck, I know its only been about 9 hours to complete the game, even with some idling. That's much better than sitting though other games for 40+ hours, with a lot of the same meritocracy. You know what I mean, you get to a point where you're like 'ok come on, let's get to something interesting or let's have this come to a conclusion'. A few hours is better than endless multiple hours, in my opinion. Even with the samey feel, it was worth a couple days to play.
Was it worth what I spent on it (which was probably only a couple dollars)? Yes, it was worth the time and the money.
Will I be coming back to it? Probably not anytime soon. I know its built on the Unity Engine, so it might be fun to play through once with a VR headset and UEVR just for something new and different.
