Inside the Crow´s Nest

The game looks promising and I really wanted to try it out but the controls are so clunky and intuitive that movement was so frustrating that I gave up. There's no way to configure the controls and the fixed camera angle added to the frustration. If they can add configurable control settings and a dynamic or adjustable camera angle, that would enhance the play experience 100%.

Wow this is so cool. Resident Evil in medieval settings. Nice. 8/10.

this game has tank controls. i hate tank controls. i wont play it. there should be an option to not use this scheme

"Inside the Crow´s Nest" is one of literally thousands of student projects infesting Steam. It's from ESAT. While student projects tend to be better quality than most "amateur" made games, we must still question what value such projects have for gamers. As with all student projects, this isn't really a fully fleshed out game, it's just the result of an academic exercise, and as such it has much more limited value as a game than a professionally developed game would have. Educational institutions should not be using Steam as a dumping ground for homework assignments (especially if the students didn't even pass the course). Sure, it helps their marketing and helps the students feel good about themselves, but this is another case of a business putting themselves before the needs of gamers. This looked like it might even have been a promising game, if it wasn't a student project. Sure, there's a lot of first person puzzle adventure games on Steam, but most of them are awful asset flips. This looked genuine and the students at ESAT did a professional job with the graphics, credit where it's due. Unfortunately, like all student projects, it's unpolished, short, buggy, and incomplete... it's just a tease for what might have been, but will never be. Worse, the students didn't even complete their rudimentary game here, and abused Early Access by launching incomplete software that they have no practical intention to complete... we all know after the course is finished and they got their grades, they're walking away. Once more I have to ask... why is that good for gamers??? The developers abandoned this 7 months ago. It will never be completed. This unfinished game is just polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuinely, completely made games. The graphics in this game are really quite good, which at least makes the game look more appealing. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. It would be unethical for students to try charge money for their homework assignments, so you don't have to pay any money for this. But you'd still have to spend your time downloading this, and "time is money", as they say. There's the other problem, too... as a student project, this wasn't made for gamers. There's no requirement for them to polish and balance the game properly, all they need is something to show the faculty so they can get their grade and move on. Let's once more ask... why is that good for gamers? It's obviously not delivering a solid product. Yet here it is, on the store page, and here you are, reading my review for a student demo that's going to waste your time. While genuine amateur developers who made real products get ignored because they have to compete with this stuff. In some ways, this deluge of student projects on Steam is harmful to everyone. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at [b]only 5 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Since free games don't contribute to your game collector badge and other profile stuff, is this a worthwhile addition to your Steam library? This is a "maybe" experience... if you have a lot of free time on your hands and nothing else to do, why not? But for the purposes of a review, this isn't something I can say everyone must try. It's not quite there. Valve doesn't give us a "maybe" option in reviews, but if they did, that's what I'd choose for this.

I really like it so far ! The artsyle is really up my alley ~~ Although Im currently stuck on the library puzzle bit so hopefully I can figure that out and continue soon haha

Very interesting disney like survival horror, reminds me extatica and the like, Need polishing and details to engage, but the backgrounds and changes of camera are retro and incredible., of the type i always want to see in RE. The progress and puzzles occurs with fluidly. Hope to see more developed versions but definitevely i buy this game if completed.