Paratopic: Overdub

Ok... So... The first game was amazing but left on what felt like a cliff hanger. This comes out and: Sweet! But bittersweet is more like it. They seem to have taken that perfect game based on the unknown and mysterious and turned it into some trash about aliens. No in game achievements, no answers. They cut some parts of the original and turned them into this witch hunt for extra terrestrials, which the first game didn't feel like it was about at all. I was sad when I reached the end of this. Honestly a bit of a disappointment.

Absolute treat for Paratopicheads. Doubles down on what made the original both loved and divisive.

I really loved the first game, it had personality mixed with a great and confuning story. This game is the first one but more, wich I also loved. There were some bugs like the camera inverting in sections where you can't move, and I would love the adition of achievements like in the original. But this game might be one of my favourites oat. Thanks to the team for creating the masterpiece that is paratopic.

in response to the "broken" aspects, i personally didn't have them in my limited testing, but there's no 21:9 aspects, so that's frustrating. added elements seem interesting though.

INCREDIBLE game. i havent played the original paratopic so everything that happened here was quite the surprise for me. i am incredibly confused and i love that. please help

A fantastic compliment to the original game

The original game felt like a love letter to David Lynch and Mulholland Drive, the kind of story that leaves you trying to piece together what you just experienced long after the credits. Overdub feels like a love letter to anyone who gave the original Paratopic a chance. It's really interesting seeing the developers try to explain some of the things from the original while arguably creating even more questions, all while leaning a lot more into the actual horror. It was incredibly satisfying seeing things start to just make sense. Things very quickly start clicking, especially when you take the order of the original game into consideration. The developers prove that a lot of the oddities from the original were intentional, and that there really was a story there the entire time. More importantly, I think Overdub finally made me understand what they were trying to convey, albeit just a little bit. The characters in Overdub almost feel like a mirror of us as the player. They're constantly searching for meaning in every little thing, trying to connect pieces that may not have an answer, and ultimately finding themselves stuck in the same place, like a tape endlessly playing on repeat. There's something really fitting about that, especially for a game that asks you to obsess over its smallest details in the same way its characters obsess over theirs. This was a fantastic way to spend two hours in a world I couldn't stop thinking about after playing the original, and somehow it left me feeling the exact same way again. I recommend this to anyone who loves the surreal.

A rough (and confusing, given how inconvenient and obvious some of the major issues were) launch, but the issues I faced originally seem to be resolved now. A nice compliment to the original and a great way to experience this weird game for the first time. I don't think it'd hurt the game to add a chapter system or something similar to mitigate crash frustrations or allow you to do more exploration around the various sections.