Phasebreak

Peak

FUN

This game is unplayable - trying to go to the options makes you lose your mouse cursor, forcing you to kill the game to get out of it - and the tutorial gets stuck on the "choose an action" step, where clicking the only action (the Move square) just highlights your character and doesn't do anything.

Buggy, unplayable mess. I threw an object at an enemy, and somehow that caused another enemy to glitch inside of the object. Eventually the enemy moved out of the object, but they somehow moved straight through the fence around the tutorial area I was in and ran about a mile away. My objective was to kill three guys, so now that #3 was unreachable, all I could do was pass my turn forever. The basic gameplay seemed fine, but the game-breaking bugs need to be fixed.

The game has a fun concept, and as someone who enjoys turn-based tactical games, I was interested from the start. The atmosphere is nice, and the dimension-switching mechanic is a creative idea that helps the game stand out. Unfortunately, I can't recommend the current version because I ran into several game-breaking bugs that prevented me from progressing completely. The biggest issue happened during the tutorial. Twice, as soon as the enemies spawned, my starting character became stuck and could no longer move or perform any actions. Since this happened so early, it effectively soft-locked the game. On another attempt, I managed to get further and started to enjoy the gameplay more. However, after switching an enemy to another dimension, the enemy tried to attack my character in the main dimension and the game bugged out again, preventing me from continuing. (got stuck on that enemies turn) In total, I tried three times and encountered progression-blocking bugs on every attempt. Because of this, I wasn't able to get past what I assume was the first level, making it difficult to properly judge the rest of the game. I do want to emphasize that this is clearly an early version of the project, and I can see the potential behind it. The core idea is interesting and there are moments where the gameplay shows promise. However, in its current state, the bugs have too much impact on the experience for me to recommend it. I hope future updates address these issues, because I'd be interested in giving it another try once the major bugs have been fixed.