"Alright! a claustrophobic underwater base with a malevolent entity stalking you,this'll be great!
...Right?"
The game has you run through a big base placing bombs and finding keycards to open doors,while running from a squid-thing that farts fog,once you've placed all the bombs you have to get out fast.
I'll start with the good things.
The monster was a neat design...it needed a LOT of work,but was conceptually cool.
Your characters run-cycle is hilarious.
...and that's it, so I'll get straight to the problems.
After selecting difficulty,the game had a surprisingly long load on a black screen...I had to restart a few times due to dying/failing,but on the 4TH RESTART the black screen was replaced by a helpful tutorial on what to do in the game...i'm thinking it was supposed to be there every time...so the game immediately failed to give me it's most basic play instructions...three times.
The environment is VERY unfinished,you can clip your face through anything to see what's on the other side,if you look out a window you can see the whole map...and through all of its walls,there are large gaps around doors and some other areas. In some rooms, your gravity physics seem to turn off and you get stuck in the ceiling,tho I found out that by crouching you can get back on the ground.
As for how it all looks? Like generic assets,many of which don't even fit well with the theme.
Once you place your first bomb, the monster shows up...somewhere...it's not overly hard to deal with considering how dumb it is....but It can be difficult to outrun if it gets too close, because of how limited your sprint stamina is...and there's no meter of any kind to show how much energy you have left.
Once you've placed your final bomb you have a limited time to get to the exit...how much time? I don't know. There's no timer at all,if you're not fast enough it's game over...so where IS the exit? I don't know. I absolutely couldn't find it. I thought maybe the hatch you entered at might be the exit,but nope.
At one point in my 2nd attempt I found a door that used the blue keycard,which is the 3rd card you get, that led directly out into a black part of the map where I proceeded to fall through the world....maybe that was supposed to be the exit,but I hadn't placed all my bombs yet on that attempt? Why was I allowed to go through it then?
This could have been really neat,but after failing 4 times [once to my unknown stamina,once to falling out that door,and twice to the unknown timer] I decided enough was enough.
This isn't a lack of polish,it's just unfinished...and If the devs didn't want to finish the game,I don't know why I should.
