Do Not Press The Button (Or You'll Delete The Multiverse)

Amateur effort, fine for a first game, but a project this big, being shipped, with the mistakes it made, is baffling. Usually, efforts getting this far usually get a little outside help. In other words: Get A Mentor. The pacing and timing just is not there - walking takes way too damn long. Shorten the hallways, run faster, *something*, please! You reference the Stanley parable, but then don't get the right walking time or proportions in your own verison of the office? Play it, and then your version of it, side by side, and you'll see. I think they even talk about it with dev commentary or some YouTubes. You have to pace everything: novels, movies, games. Backtracking being hard on top of the slow long walks and elevators is unforgivable. "Why am I stumbling through this when I could just get on YouTube and watch a let's play" is *NOT* what you want people to think. I unlocked the "meaning of life room" but had no way to get there! When I finished the path and drew the voice's face, THE GAME ENDED. WHAT. THE. HECK. There's also the fact that WHEN REFERENCING STANLEY PARABLE THERE IS NO BACKTRACK OPTION: IF YOU LEAVE THE BUILDING, YOU NEVER SEE THE BOSS'S OFFICE. HOW ON EARTH DID YOU THINK TO REFERENCE THE STANLEY PARABLE AND MISS THE ENTIRE CRUX OF THE PLAY EXPERIENCE BEING FAST RE-DOS!?!? DO NOT DO THIS TO PLAYERS! THIS ANNOYS PLAYERS! Same with the duck not surviving the lawn mower scene. Back to backtracking - I can go back to the door, see the pixelation, BUT IT WONT OPEN. COME ON!!! YOU NEED QA AND PLAY TESTING! If you have to do it yourself, be as critical as you can. There's WAY too much stumbling in the dark, bored, and seeing UE5 (or whatever) do fancy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with bathroom tiles. I found myself walking around with a stuffed duck and a glow stick wondering a) why and b) why that somehow was unfunny in game, despite it being funny now. TURN OFF THE CHROMATIC ABERRATION, PLEASE, or at least LET us turn it off. You didn't expose all of the rendering options to the player, so I see rainbows at the edge of the screen and can't turn it off. This leads to eye rolling. Writing/voice acting just isn't there. The only good voice actor was the girl-chair. *Hiring a writer is a good idea in a game that is literally carried by the writing*. Same with voice actors. The Stanley Parable is just as much of as a VN with 3D stuff, as it is an ascended source mod with good writing and voice acting. Mouse sensitivity doesn't cleanly map to other fps games - this isn't a big deal for anyone just playing a comedy walking sim, but it's annoying. The first time I nearly refunded was when I was going around incinerating things and there was a hidden incinerator. This wasn't fun, funny, or "aha." This was grating. Having to do that to get a glow stick to carry around with my stuffed duck *wasn't rewarding*. Have dark-stumbling be a one time brief thing and then have the walk back show ACTUALLY FUNNY THINGS. Consider a flash light. Have the flashlight show a duck or donut. Build up your brick jokes. tl;dr play Superliminal, The Stanley Parable, watch some actually funny Egglikes Vinny played - and take notes. Don't clutter the screen with chromatic aberrations or pointillist stipulated low-light-stuff, consider commissioning music, and for god's sake don't make someone get bored taking long walks that makes them want to watch a Let's Play instead of round two. A good game will have someone want to look up a LP to speed up finding more of the game; a bad one will have them just watch the LP and be done. You're already 80% of the way there - just work on pacing, turn off the UE5 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ (or at least let me, or make a joke out of it or SOMETHING) and make backtracking convenient. You *HAVE* to nail the comedy, pacing, and backtracking. Stanley *is* the pacing and backtracking as much as the writing and the VA. Pace your stuff, get some critical feedback, iterate with it, and keep trying.

Like many people, I've been awaiting this game for a while (I played the demo, which seemed promising), but I wouldn't recommend this. The humour doesn't really hit (lots of insulting the player and random things for the sake of randomness), the game doesn't react to your choices (waiting for the button does nothing, removing the sphere so it doesn't explode doesn't change or add any dialogue), and I encountered far too many bugs in the first 10 minutes that it didn't seem worthwhile continuing (dialogue cutting out or talking over itself, getting trapped in the writing section and needing to restart, objects falling through floors/walls). It's a good effort, but it disappointed me, and I don't think it's worthwhile in its current state, or for the current price.

Since Steam doesn't have a neutral option for reviews and I did have a bunch of enjoyable moments, I've picked "recommended" but I find very very hard to recommend this game in good conscience and here's why : - There are several games coming in mind that are much much longer and/or more polished for less money, 14€ for about 4h of gameplay (review will be marked 5h, I left the game for an hour to go eat then came back, and I explored all the secret rooms, I don't know why I didn't get the achievement, I did find the list of hidden rooms and got them all) feels a bit weak considering the other shortcomings of this game - The stock looped walking sound and jumping sound are unbearable, you just end up tuning them out eventually - The walking and sprinting speed are hella slow (was this and the long corridors on purpose because there aren't that many places to go around ?) - The glistening walls of the "facility" make it feel like a placeholder texture for an Alpha build (no seriously author, rework the hallways, they're painfully low effort looking) - There are "hidden" messages that look like lore but don't seem to be referenced anywhere as some sort of easter egg or extra stage or anything else across the rest of the game and I say hidden very generously because if you pass in front of one you will get a somewhat loud audio cue (totally unnecessary since there are also a couple visual cues that you can hardly miss) - Absolutely horrendous light mechanics in some places where you get pitch black shadows for absolutely no reason like in between the shelves in the Most Annoying Items' room or the extremely limited range of the glowstick you're given there (a phone's flashlight, hell, *screen* would be more powerful) - Weird technical issues, among them being the resolution selection, I tried 1440p borderless but now without some difficulty and the save/reload deperately needs reworking because I can save after doing things like getting the glowstick, reload after some messing around (like the Duck Pit) and reloading making me lose the glowstick for some reason (among other bugs around the save mechanic) And despite all this, I did like the game. I laughed at some of the bad jokes, found some clever interactions, enjoyed most of the minigames. But this seriously could have spent a lot more time in the oven or started as an early access because even though it's not a wallet breaker, I honestly don't think it justifies its price as it is right now.

好奇史丹利like能做成什么样就买了，但目前看来就是个粗糙的半成品： · 碰到各种各样的恶性bug被迫载入自动存档重置进度3次+报错闪退1次 · 简体中文至少20％内容都没翻译+翻译质量敷衍 · 制作水准肉眼可见的很糙，交互难受，很多细节都亟待进一步打磨 模仿痕迹过重但做成了纯线性的流程又比较无聊，几乎全程都感觉很尴尬，玩过和没玩过史丹利的都沉默了。jpg 而且这游戏有一种想到哪做到哪的感觉，前后期画风转变挺大的，整体也没什么逻辑性，就靠偶尔提及红按钮来生硬地串联… 总之还没尝过的朋友不建议尝这口了，要尝也放低期望并且…至少等修完bug吧（x

Definitely was not a fan. Tried making a video on this one, and not only did I wind up not really talking, the amount of sheer walking it took to get to places, merely waiting for things to happen, the game half-dying when you did things too quickly (like the "Real Or Cake" part, where if you don't give it a second to play out the sound file, it doesn't give you the achievement, etc). along with other parts needing an ENTIRE PLAYTHROUGH, just to explore... Plus, not to mention there is multiple instances where choosing to do something else, like prevent the sphere from dying in the tutorial, has zero difference in dialog at all, it still plays out like it died, and honestly, it's just far too slow to do the re-dos. Plus, when at the "Chair World", if you go down the hill, SPEND MANY MINUTES dragging the tables up the hill, and destroy them, it has zero affect on the dialog, and the same with the battle, and the voice acting honestly makes me want to fall asleep.... I get the game is going for a "Don't take it too seriously" vibe, but honestly. some things could have been a lot better. You can't carry the duck through the whole game, you can't simply retry some events at designated mission starts or checkpoints, you have to do THE WHOLE DAMN THING OVER again to do certain things. If you turn on the music in the Nihilism area, the pancakes have nothing to say, stepping on the one guy or not affects nothing besides a single boot-print... there's so many things like that in here. The majority of my time was idling to do IRL stuff, and the other was all the damn walking.

Pretty good game but it's not like the stanley parable.

I'm giving this a thumbs up because I'm pulling for the dev. This is a game inspired by the likes of Stanley Parable that falls short of the mark. It's not bad, it's just very obviously a project done by a solo developer still learning as they pursue their dream, and I can get behind that. It definitely shows some promise for what the dev might pull off in the future, and to that end I'm looking forward to seeing how The Milgram Experiment shakes out.

Very weird and fun, love it so much. Defenitely recommend!

能够看出《本游戏与大红按钮无关》和《史丹利的寓言》之间的关系，并且这款游戏能够理解成是对史丹利的寓言拙略的模仿。游戏更多像是探索包含独特主题和互动小游戏的数个房间，而非史丹利那样与旁白以及房间的互动。内容上刚开始还能体验到制作组试图在游戏里加入哲学相关的内容，但到了后期完全开始放飞自我，变得无厘头起来。流程较短且没有给玩家选择的空间，制作组似乎很喜欢这样的单向秀。总之，不是很推荐

may not be as polished as the stanley parable. but a fun little experience nontheless