Desolation Seed

Not worth the wait.

this is definitely a survival shooter and not your regular FPS, the intentionally limited mouse controls force you into a different style of play. I can see this immediately turning away a ton of people unfortunately. if you want to experience a struggle though this delivers

This game is not fun, i love James Ferraro's work but this game has some really weird design philosophies, controls are unintuitive, enemies are unpredictable, you feel like you are not really "in control" most of the time, you don't die because it's your fault, or pass because of your own merit, it feels like the game decides that for you. I don't know if james is looking for realism to seek more into the game's own themes of hopelessness and a lost future to make it more complete as an "work of art", the issue is, this game is a good work of art, actually, a great work of art, James is an great artist, but i genuinely feel like james don't really want to make a fun game, he wants to create an experience, it doesn't matter if it's "good" or "bad" it has to be remarkable and deep, and to follow the games own themes. He was too afraid to add a "return to menu" button, so he clearly cares way too much for the simulated experience of the game to be most important than the experience of it being a good game by itself, this game could be interactable in other ways that could be less video-game (almost like LSD dream emulator which is a "work of art" type of game, and is basically a walking simulator, most of the "fun" of the game is it's vibe, music and asthetic, pretty much the same thing James is trying to make, but the game would suck if it was a shooter that demanded high skills like this one is doing) Please, decide what you want to make out of this product, or work of art, whatever you wanna call it.