Enthralled

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Игра 'Enthralled' оставила двоякое впечатление. Графика, хоть и простая, выполнена в приятном минималистичном стиле, что создает особую атмосферу. Геймплей сперва кажется незатейливым, но постепенно раскрывает свою глубину. Интересная механика манипуляции окружением добавляет тактическое разнообразие. Сюжет, хоть и не блещет оригинальностью, держит в напряжении и заставляет сопереживать главному герою. Большим плюсом является саундтрек, который идеально дополняет происходящее на экране и создает нужное настроение. Однако, игре не хватает полировки. Встречаются незначительные баги и шероховатости в управлении. Порой, сложно понять, что именно нужно сделать для продвижения по сюжету. Также, хотелось бы больше разнообразия в типах врагов и их поведении. В целом, 'Enthralled' - это достойная инди-игра с интересной концепцией и неплохой реализацией. Несмотря на некоторые недостатки, она способна увлечь на несколько часов и подарить приятные впечатления. Рекомендуется любителям головоломок и атмосферных приключений.

"Enthralled" is more of a walking sim than anything else, a short and unambitious exercise in making a game that looks orangey-red everywhere. There's a couple of lame puzzles/jumpscarey monster avoidance things, but no real substance behind the "experience" of looking at stuff. Games need a bit more than just lame atmosphere to capture people's attention. What do you do in the game? Very little. Walk around, avoid some stuff, get teleported back to checkpoints a few times, yawn, uninstall. The game is really simple and unambitious in terms of implementation, more of a tech demo or one of those cases where an amateur developer spends $100 to publish something on Steam Direct to see if it's possible. Yes, obviously it's possible. A proof of concept, tech demo, or something that's less than a little blip on the radar isn't offering anything truly valuable to gamers. I'm not sure if this is an asset flip, but it's one of those cases where the assets just look much better than the rest of the quality of the game... a glaring inconsistency. There's no evidence, but as always, the biggest problem with asset flips besides the plagiarism is the deplorably low quality of the other aspects of the game, and even if the game assets are genuinely created for the game, the quality of the rest of the game is indistinguishable from that of asset flips. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. They have their hand out for a $3 USD "donation" for this as you're expected to give them money from buying wallpapers from Steam... digital panhandling. Literally charging money for screenshots. No thanks. The poor quality of this game is also reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the game all-time peak user count was only ONE person. That's right, only one person ever used this at a time. When I tried this for the purposes of reviewing it, I equalled the peak user count for the product. OUCH. The only user activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 130 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality product is to be expected. Given that this free title won't increase your game collector count, is it worth your time to add it to your library? I think it's best to skip this download. While it won't necessarily cost you money, the time and hard drive space it requires could be better invested in one of the many higher-quality alternatives on Steam.