Project Silverfish

Project Silverfish is basically a Scalie version of S.T.A.L.K.E.R., made by "essentially 2 developers", with stylized graphics that probably run on a toaster and still look amazing while showing you people shoot each other over a glowing rock 800 meters away. If you're familiar with S.T.A.L.K.E.R., you'll feel right at home here; explore an impressively big and smartly designed "Zone" with weird creatures, weather effects, anomalies, artifacts, and different factions to work for or against. With that in mind, the 2 devs have pulled off a more immersive and still enjoyable game than many others I've seen try. It may not sound like much, but this game manages to be both easy to get into and still highly immersive, punishing, and actually scary, with a variety of playstyles, options, difficulty settings, and more. As for the actual gameplay: You play as an Inheritor, a race of anthropomorphic lizards, and explore a large abandoned zone made up of many smaller maps and full of weird anomalies, creatures and artifacts with weird powers. You can pick sides with factions, do contracts and quests, and fight in the larger war for the zone while actively changing the power dynamics, or you can go solo and fight your way through the zone alone while paying off your suspiciously high debt. Either way, you'll do lots of looting, inventory management, fighting people and horrors, running away from both, and most importantly, exploring weirdly beautiful and terrifying places. While the pathing of some creatures could do with some work, the way creatures and squads from the different factions roam the zone and dynamically start fighting and influencing each other without your interference makes the zone feel much more real than any game I've played in some time. The game also features a longgg list of different realistic guns, calibers, gear, and things to find and stumble upon naturally, making sure you'll find new things even on your 3rd time in the zone. Even though it's still actively being worked on, it already has more than enough content and weird anomalies to fascinate you for a long time. If you like S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Scalies, exploring, way too detailed and realistic guns, being very scared, or just wanna have some realistic gunfights, Project Silverfish is more than worth a shot, and I can't wait to see what the future holds for it.

The game difficulty is completely out of whack with the latest update. Perdition (The main "Stealth" access route to the northern part of the map) has now become so impossibly difficult that you have to cheat to get through it. I'm not saying it's "You just need to git gud" levels of hard, I mean it's literally impossible you NEED to turn on godmode. There isn't a strategy when there's literally INVISIBLE enemies, 500 anomalies that take half your health on one hit, an INVINCIBLE TELEKENETIC ENEMY THAT ONESHOTS YOU, and to top it all off like 40 enemies spawn all at once in a tiny ass room that you NEED to pass through to progress. The game needs a severe rebalance until then it is currently unplayable without cheating. You'll be wearing the highest tier armor in the game and get domed by an enemy in pitch darkness without any indication where the shot came from, enemies can see through foliage like its transparent and at times act like they can see you through walls. Some anomalies are EXTREMELY unforgiving, several of them have no outside radius so you can't tell you're near one until you're dead and reloading. The game has horrible light balancing when you have multiple anomalies, light sources, and enemies all acting in the same scene it'll go from being completely black screen to being flashbanged for no reason at all. Some other issues: -Every character in the game is voiced by the same person and they all sound like they're so bored and uninterested it really takes you out of it. It's like an angsty teen did the voice acting. -Faction interactions are a joke they'll just push their way through each other and then literally explode into a firefight. There is no finesse. -Missions are 90% fetch quests -Weapons feel off, they lack the punch they did in prior versions. Buckshot to the face no longer kills an enemy outright. -Artifact hunting feels less like hunting and more like you're playing metal detector 9000, they don't spawn in meaningful ways and you'll find them in the strangest out-of-the-way areas. There is no artifact that you can't find in any random anomaly, they aren't tied to the anomaly in any way. -Inventory management feels clunky and unintuitive at times, there's no sort by weight/name so you'll be in a firefight digging through your inventory trying to find something and die. -Anomalies will literally SPAWN ON TOP OF YOU -Enemies will literally SPAWN ON TOP OF YOU or they just magically gain knowledge of your location, the game AI acts like you are the center of the universe and you're the main character in all their stories. Overall the game needs some serious time in the oven, I know it's version 0.4.5 but its currently just rage-bait until the balancing gets done.

Game is very good but very incomplete, just stay far far away from the discord. I got insta banned from it with no warning and no rules broken after being completely friendly for weeks for ❄ reacting someone that was going on about 4chan and how i need to step it back because i dared to question without insults the people ranting about nazis when they saw a pepe in an inoffensive meme. people also got triggered by a billions must die meme. the admins are also angry 24/7 and more than willing to abuse their power. just a very toxic and unpleasant enviroment. Im a leftist but i can only describe the project silverfish community as woke, it was like a different planet. I dunno if siris is like this but his fanbase and the people siris put in charge of it are.

Other than the trans furries it's on it's way to being a decent little indy game... but not $30 good rn

Maybe scaleussy is actually pretty freakin sweet

Это атмосферно. Атмосфера и основной геймплей лучше, чем в Сталкер 2. Звуковое сопровождение НАМНОГО лучше, чем в Сталкере 2. Стрельба и боёвка приятные. Дано (и нужно) копать могилы. Рыба есть, которая убить может. Так почему же отрицательный отзыв, раз всё так замечательно ? Так потому, что разраб - солнышко такое, делает обновления раз в вечность и качество этих обновлений смехотворно. Кучка нелепых фиксов, мизерный контент (если вообще есть) и прочие радости эгоистичных фурри-драконов (главным из которых Гаро является, просто апогей), включающие дискорд "только для своих" и "критикуешь - пошёл нах". В общем, советовать я её до 1.0 (которая вообще вряд ли будет) не могу и не буду, но атмосфера здесь шикарная и если есть лишние деньги, а на игру удобоворимая скидка - взять можно.

Good stalker like game. Graphics might look basic but exploration, itemization, AI, combat, factions are all well done. Thumbs down for pronouns in character creation.

Absolutely phenomenal game in the vein of Stalker Gamma. I'd definitely consider this over gamma depending on my mood

Still needs a lot of work and more content, but what’s here so far is really good