Kessler Syndrome

The game almost deserves a non-recommendation but it was still an enjoyable experience for me. Let me explain. The game starts with a nice cutscene giving you context to the situation you have found yourself in. You're alone on quite big space station. I felt very lost at the beginning but once I found a map and figured out what certain abbreviations mean I could somewhat navigate through it. The atmosphere is great, tension which building up day by day while trying to figure out what you are actually doing on the station starts to play with your mind when you hear strange noises from somewhere. And the ending fits the rest of this rather small plot that the game is trying to tell. But here end all positives about the game. First of all, there is no possiblilty to save your progress. This game MUST be completed in one sitting. And while time is not of an issue (gameplay takes roughly 50-60min), bugs are. I had problems with mouse control, picking up and placing objects. Other players seemed to have troubles with going to sleep even. It means that if any of the bugs occur during the gameplay, you're doomed and forced to restart the game starting all over again from day 1. This problem would have been much less significat, had the possibilty of saving the game been introduced. Second of all, it's just long enough. If there was one more day to survive, I wouldn't recommend 'Kessler Syndrome'. The atmosphere of doing dull tasks shows well how working on a space station looks like but on 6th day I got so bored I quitted while not knowing there's only one more day until the end. Had I known that before, I would have completed the game by myself instead of watching it on youtube. The game leaves me with bitter aftertaste. On one hand, the game's ending fits and is somewhat satsfactory once you figure out what cutscene shows. Daily, lonely routine on a space station is well conveyed while still keeping up the tension and rush of adrenaline sometimes. But on the other hand, bugs make the experience significatly worse. It's hard to immerse oneself into the story while the game doesn't work properly and forces you to go through the very same, mundane tasks if you wish to progress. And even if you do, the game barely keeps your interest at the very end. Personally, I would recommend to try it out but I don't think it's worth spending hours just to avoid all bugs and get the ending, just google it up and save yourself some precious time.

Первое впечатление о данном продукте было положительное, интро например. Но есть некоторое количество недоработок которые испортили мнение об игре. Здесь мы тут имеем игру в жанре VHS-horror, так что думаю рожать претензии по поводу качества графики нет смысла, другой вопрос по поводу оптимизации, потому что системные требования проекта немаленькие, например дефолтные настройки разрешения 2к, а что если у меня монитор 1600 на 900? Такого разрешения тут ничего нету. Да и самих настроек графики нет, можно было добавить хотя бы для галочки. А так это неплохой проект, особенно если он будет обновлятся.

Ничего не оптимизировано, ничего не работает.

Good art direction, good premise, unfortunately I think the dev forgot to make a game.

sucks even for free haha

The game has potential! The atmosphere and style are amazing. And the idea that you can move at any direction is very cool! But currently, the movement is frustrating: Mouse speed is dependent on what direction you are looking at. Very fast or very slow. Rolling (Q and E) feels stiff and slow. It has no inertia. Navigation around the ship is confusing, the colored wires and signs help. But it is still easy to get lost. I can't comment on the tasks because I didn't do a lot of them. Also I think I softlocked myself at the end of day 2 because I was unable to go to sleep after doing all the tasks. Perhaps I interacted with a wrong computer?

Was expecting it to be scary, nothing happened the whole 20 minutes I went around the whole space station trying to figure out what to do. Triggered 2 laptops and something in the gym room. It's way to damn dark, had to stop playing when my eyes started hurting from straining, no brightness option. Changing the resolution doesn't apply. 3/10