LOST INSIDE Act 1

this is an amazing and engaging indie game, it is enchanting and i suggest everyone tries it out <3

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"LOST INSIDE Act 1" is not a game. It's an advertisement for a product called "Lost Inside". Lost Inside is not even a product you can buy, and may never be made (given the dead cold reception of this advert)... but if it was, you probably wouldn't, it's positioned to be a very weak ripoff of Undertale without even bothering to improve the terrible graphics, yet with even worse writing and game design. No wonder the peak count for this advertisement was only three people (undoubtedly questioning their life choices). But this isn't completely relevant because this is not Lost Inside, it's just an advertisment for it, 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 "LOST INSIDE Act 1" too. Given the general failure of this advertisement to garner any interest from the gaming public, it seems unlikely a full product will be made... SteamDB shows clearly that there's no significant demand for weak ripoffs of Undertale. 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. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 3 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.

I really like this game, it truly is a fun time through and through, however I believe the minigames are a bit to easy for my liking and I was able to cheese them, if I could recommend one thing to be in the next installment I would recommend having a steeper difficulty level. The characters are fun and if you like games like Undertale/Deltarune you will definitely love LOST INSIDE Act 1

It's a short (about 2 hours of content), effective, creative, and endearing top-down RPG with a heavy emphasis on characters and narrative. The characters are cute; the minigames are funny; the battles have a steep difficulty curve, but are fun and engaging nonetheless; and the story is charming. It has a few rough edges, but it's a passion project--what do you expect? With so many games being made with a financial incentive in mind, it's refreshing to see a game like this getting some attention. It's authentic. It's fun. That's a yes from me.

I love this game