Escape from the Lockdown: The Demon Fortress (Steam Version) - Day 1

Игра 'Escape from the Lockdown: The Demon Fortress (Steam Version) - Day 1' оставила смешанные впечатления. Визуальная составляющая, безусловно, привлекает внимание: детализированные локации, жутковатые монстры и мрачная атмосфера создают напряжение. Однако, геймплей пока кажется немного сырым. Боевая система проста и не хватает глубины, а головоломки не всегда логичны и порой кажутся притянутыми за уши. Сюжет, заявленный как хоррор, пока не раскрылся в полной мере, сводясь к банальному "выживи любой ценой". Тем не менее, у игры есть потенциал. Интересная стилистика, неплохая оптимизация и намек на более глубокий сюжет позволяют надеяться на улучшение в последующих частях (если они будут). Пока что, это скорее заготовка для чего-то большего, чем полноценная игра. Рекомендую приобрести только если вы являетесь поклонником хорроров с акцентом на атмосферу и готовы мириться с геймплейными огрехами. Оценка: 6/10.

"Escape from the Lockdown: The Demon Fortress (Steam Version) - Day 1" is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "Escape from the Lockdown: The Demon Fortress". Escape from the Lockdown: The Demon Fortress is the absurdly priced DLC attached to this demo/advert... I'm not kidding, to actually play this game it costs you TWENTY NINE UNITED STATES DOLLARS, you have to buy all the DLC. Now, some games are worth even more than thirty bucks, but this is a crappy mobile app (that presumably got rejected by app stores, but the promotional videos feature some dude playing it on a phone). And wow, yes, FMV is welcome in games, but only when people can act. The video quality is atrocious. But this isn't completely relevant because this is not Escape from the Lockdown: The Demon Fortress, it's just an advertisment for it, the full game is DLC paygated, so it's not correct to try to review that completely distinct product. We must instead review this for what it is... an advertisement. If you enjoy advertisements, you can consume them for free on the web or on Youtube without needing to add them to your game library, download them, and then launch the advertising. It's impossible in a general sense to recommend people should do that over playing real, full games on Steam, and that applies here with "Escape from the Lockdown: The Demon Fortress (Steam Version) - Day 1" too. This is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser are. This is a game demo that's been dumped on Steam to advertise another Steam store page in the hopes of raking in some cash. Just because advertisements are free, doesn't mean they're worth your time. It's important to understand there's a formal process to create a demo/page for a game which hasn't been followed here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos While it might seem like an inocuous mistake, publishing demos and advertisements as if they are full games is misleading and in some ways harmful. This advertisement is taking up marketing space and visibility that would be better made available to a developer that's done the right thing and created a full game. Instead, that visibility is given over to a demo/advert that's been published incorrectly and is polluting the marketplace. It's unclear if this mistake was made through incompetence or a deliberate intent to mislead gamers. Often developers may choose to incorrectly publish demo/advertisements as separate games as a cheap way to bypass paying Valve for marketing presence on the Steam front page, which may seem clever to them, but it's harmful behaviour and it's not good for gamers. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 5 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Advertisements and incorrectly published demos don't add +1 to your game collector count, they aren't full games. It's impossible for me to recommend this incorrectly published advertising spam to gamers, you deserve better than adverts.