This game is total garbage, if I might say so.
That is the summary of what this review is going to explain.
I need to let out a bit of frustration from how terrible this game is, so apology if the review is unnecessarily large, but I do hope it is understandable and enjoyable if you decide to read it through.
The gameplay is non-existent, you just walk endlessly and occasionally have to Interact to be able to progress (i.e. Grab a pickaxe to magically remove boulders (there's no animation of you doing that they just disappear)).
There's at least two areas in the game where you have to go through one of three paths, and depending on your luck, you either get jumpscared and have to restart from a checkpoint, or get to move on. Just pure, blatant guessing. It's not fun, as you might tell.
The chases are also extremely boring since you can't even turn around for a second, the spiders chase WAY too close behind, so turning around even if for a second means you're dead already. This just means for an entire chase you're forced to hold W and Shift and not do anything else for the entire duration of that chase, very uninteresting. The final chase at least makes you pick up a key at the very end, but like... Come on. Boring ass chase, that's what it is.
There is also a total lack of any sort of collectible or lore piece anywhere, which makes the gameplay even worse because there is no need to explore besides the necessary amount to survive. Genuinely. If there were notes from the people who worked in the mine explaining what happened or something, it would incentivize players to seek them out and get them more engaged, but all we get is the protagonist saying random stuff about random items (and I do mean random: Some corpses they refuse to comment on, others they're glad to randomly say one of five lines!)
The story and dialogue are also horrible in SO many levels. There is no story, not at all, it's just random stuff that happens arbitrarily, and yet the dialogue tries to make some sort of story???
Some dialogue like "Is that you, Mom?" or "Trolley... I remember working in the mine." attempt to hint at a story which links the protagonist of the game to the mine in some way, to make it be more personal and whatnot like so many other games do, but IT DOESN'T DO ANYTHING WITH THAT. AT ALL.
Besides for those scarce hints at a story that could have been there, you get nothing, so everything that it tries to say doesn't stick. Make more things which the protagonist remembers, make areas the protagonist was in before the spiders took over, make a reason for the spiders to be there - Here's an idea, maybe, the mine was actually family-owned business, before protagonist left it to pursue their dreams somewhere else, and when they go to their old family cabin to see how things are going, they fall inside the mine hole and see the result of their family operations: mutated spiders that have desecrated and murdered every member of the family, and some other poor employees.
DOESN'T THAT SOUND MUCH BETTER OF A STORY THAN JUST "You fall into a random hole in a random cabin which is infested with random spiders and your random protagonist thinks they saw their random mom, and they also reminisce on a random job they had on a random mine but we won't explore these propositions of a story at all, screw you."
There's some aspects I do slightly enjoy - Spiders which are sleeping or occupied and don't notice you unless you are "Accelerating" (thats how they call Sprinting in da depths (of Horror) apparently...), but even those are used in very uninteresting manners that just mean for an entire hallway you're gonna not be able to run (and if you try to you'll have to restart from a checkpoint and waste valuable time).
But, aside from concepts of mechanics that COULD have existed at some point of space and time, there isn't much to highlight or point to as good - The spiders have eyes in their back, wow, so scary, so sad they are purely aesthetic and don't do anything - some of the ceiling spiders just stare you down with their eye but unless you accelerate they don't care.
The fact that it is listed at 5€ is a total ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ rip-off, genuinely. This game wouldn't even be worth it if it was free. Even if they paid you, it would still not be worth it. Though, considering the Under 1 Hour duration, you're probably going to be able to refund it before you hit Steam's refund policy caps.
Though I wouldn't even recommend it at all, watch a playthrough if you're curious ("RafaPlayer44" on YouTube contains mine), but playing through this walking simulator will just waste your time like nothing else.
Too Long Didn't Read: The developers of the game are total hacks and don't deserve your money. Thanks for your attention!
