Beyond the Marion

Cool design

very short but very cute game! kinda fetch-questy but i personally didn't mind it, the character designs were interesting and goofy and the story/lore i really want to know more about it. i wish there was more but for a short (and free) game, i feel like the download and playthrough is worth it.

achievements broken, i screwed up a puzzle by plugging the plug in the wrong color outlet which is on me but afterwards could not remove it which seems like kinda crappy to do since its needed for progression but anyway my real problem is the game basically punishes you the first time you actually explore anything and in both cases i tried its basically 50-50 that you go to the right persona nd speak to them first to help the other person in time. which seems... weird. not to mention a 30 second countdown timer starts and both times the first time youll have no clue why or how to stop it. i just feel like the game is flicking my nuts. oh yeah btw when i got softlocked and had to start over i realized the opening cut scene which is just still images and text is unskippable. really my guy? really?

"Beyond the Marion" is a promising enough premise, delivered badly. This is a first person adventure game with a plodding pace. I liked the way the game puts you in a 1970's aesthetic space ship adventure. I didn't like the way it's a bug riddled mess that barely works, has a weak plot and an even weaker core gameplay design. Plodding around and then running into puzzle minigames that don't work due to blatantly untested bugs is a fantastic way to take a great premise and ruin it just as fast as the $100 they wasted on Steam Direct for this mess. Despite not being in Early Access, it's obvious this is an incomplete product. Developers have an obligation to deliver complete, not partially done products to gamers, that shouldn't be controversial. Whatever the excuses may be, it does no service to gamers for incomplete products polluting Steam like this. It makes it harder for gamers to find complete games, and it makes it harder for ethical developers who do the right thing to find their audience. The graphics in this game are passable, but could be better. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. Now onto pricing and value. This is "free" enough (not every "free" game in the "free" section is truly free, there's usually some hidden price tag), at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB shows this peaked at [b]only 3 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? What's the verdict? Nope. This isn't worth downloading. There's no financial cost up-front, but you'd still be spending your time and a little hard drive space on a product that's far from the best. There's thousands of better alternatives on Steam.

Член

Fun little game. Would love to see a speed run category for it.