DESOLATIUM: Prologue

I'm really sorry to give the demo a thumbs down because as much as the visuals and atmosphere are spot on and even fantastic for a videogame inspired by the Cthulhu mythos, it is a far cry from a worthy sacrifice on the Great One's altar. I was kind of suspecting by playing the demo that the final game may boil down to pixel hunts slapped together with some boring and rudimentary puzzles so I checked out the complete game's review section and unsurprisingly I was greeted by the flood of negative reviews stating the exact points the demo is pointing towards. Also, It seems that 5/10 of the achievements for the demo have stopped popping up after an update but the developers didn't really bother fixing this even though they were informed about it by players. Regarding the voice acting, it is mostly atrocious and borderline chuckle inducingly bad. This is especially true for the character you play as. Some of the spoken lines are embarassingly bad and I can't believe they were the takes the developers put into the game. Another problem with the demo is that it goes against the rule for demos and that's the fact that it doesn't really give you a good sample for how the main game will be. The only puzzle in this demo is laughably easy. Easy as combining item A with item B. On the other hand, a couple of the notes were hidden in a very pixel-hunty manner which hinted at things to come. All in all, it's truly a shame for this game to become a highly missed opportunity at a stab at the Cthulhu mythos. I really hoped for a lot more and I was greatly disappointed especially in the metric that mattered the most: Gameplay.