CAPSULE

I loved playing this game. Minimal, yet immersive. Audio experience (pure ambient audio) is great and make you feel exactly in the environment (pod). Reminds me "in other waters" for the sense of exploration.

atmosphere

Nice!!!!

This was recommended by the Bitmap book on horror games, so I bought it on sale and tried it. It's extremely minimalistic and retro indeed, it reminds me of arcade games from the early 80s like Dig Dug or, more directly, Asteroids. The horror aspect didn't click for me, it didn't feel frightening or claustrophobic despite the heavy breathing and the suffocation of the pilot. The sound is supposed to be a really important part of the experience, so for once I played through this with sound turned on, although I play everything without any sound normally. For me personally, sound or no sound didn't make any real difference in this game either, sorry, but at least it wasn't irritating. The way you need to learn the game little by little, as simple as it is, is designed very well. Up to a point you just learn what the obstacles are, try to avoid them, and save fuel by floating slowly, but in later stages you realize that this usually isn't enough, since you don't find enough air or fuel dropped randomly to travel all the way to the goal. Around this point, you eventually figure out by trial and error how to farm a lot of fuel and air using drones, shrikes and the other moving things, and then the question basically becomes not how many times you need to try to beat each stage, but how quickly you can do it. I don't think Capsule is great as a horror game, but it's really good as an arcade game. True, you can beat it in a few hours, but you can replay the levels as often as you like. It's not like the point of playing something like Pac-Man or Wizard of Wor is beating the game.

Although I see a lot of praise on the store, I think this game is a good concept executed poorly -- there is simply too little depth to the game to justify any price but free, and even then, it's a lackluster experience. CAPSULE is a slightly scary experience for the first five minutes until you know what the game has to throw at you. After that, it just gets boring -- the game will probably take you over an hour to complete. Much of your experience will consist of listening to breathing sounds and slowly moving away from pixels with simple chase AI. It won't be worth it, even if you got it for free.

Sound design was really scary and everything launching itself towards me was terrifying... I loved it! The only problem I had was how hard it was to figure out how to jumpstart and get oxygen from dopters but other than that It's a very solid and great game! 9/10

Interesting game. Gets hard fast. Has nothing to unlock to better your craft so its purely skill based. Learning what chances to take and what not to take. Or leaning on the RNG too much. I lost interesting rather quickly, but man... if this had been available on 8-bit systems when I was a kid, I would have spent weeks on it.

Personally, I found this game really boring and spinny. It just wasn't doing it for me.

Short and immersive. Light horror elements, but I think there's a lot more horror in the situation it presents and the feelings it elicits. Worth it if you like the idea of being lost in the unknown and having only the least possible tools to figure out and a very old and warped CRT to view the world from.

Многие воспринимают Capsule как выживальщик или хоррор. И в целом с подобными определениями можно согласиться, но всё портит абсолютно аркадный процесс. Практически всё ваше положительное впечатление замешано на собственной фантазии, чему способствует графический минимализм и куце подаваемый сюжет. Можно долго размышлять что происходит за бортом спасательной капсулы, в каком мире находится главный герой и стал ли он жертвой каких то жутких экспериментов, а потом 5 минут играть в простенькую графическую аркаду с перемещением из точки А в точку Б. Поэтому людям с неразвитой фантазией к приобретению однозначно нежелательно. Да и остальным проект с одной единственной фишкой вряд ли сильно зайдёт. Остановлюсь на 6.0 исключительно в целях поддержки.