Prometheus Unbound

Fun, fairly short and it feels like there's a lot more game to be explored with the concept but there's enough meat to sink your teeth into if you get into beating the dev times and trials. Looks good, plays fun

This was very fun but way too short. For the price, it is okay but I wish there was a lot more, mainly because the story seems so interesting. The game world is set in an incredibly dark dystopian cyberpunk city in which the bodies of dead people are reanimated and turned into mindless cyborg labour drones. You play as Anala, one of those zombie cyborgs. During an incident at your workplace, you suddenly regain sentience. Having lost most of your memories and trying to find out what exactly happened to you, you escape the facility and look for answers, hunting down the only person that you recognize. This game is a mix between a stealth game and a fast-paced precision platformer. Anala is not very durable since she is mainly composed of rotting flesh and cheap cyberware, so guards in this game, armed with laser rifles, will quickly kill you. On the other hand, you can also quickly kill guards if you sneak up on them. The stealth mechanics involve sound, which is created if you run, but not while you sneak. You can also throw objects to create sounds which guards will investigate. You can even find grenades later, which not only are loud but also handy to dispose of multiple guards very easily. The platforming of the game is sort of a parkour system. Whenever you jump on a platform, Anala will grab the ledge and with some timing you can catapult yourself further away in the desired direction. What I like about this game is how clever the levels are designed. Every level was hand crafted in a way that you can either use stealth or the parkour mechanics to get around enemies, leaving it up to the player how he wants to progress through a level. The game also has a built in speedrun timer, which tracks your fastest time and even compares it to the dev time. Beating all the dev times is the ultimate goal here for completionists. In each level is also a hidden key card, which unlocks a challenge level. These are not required to finish the game and instead test your platforming skills. What really surprised me for such a cheap game are the animated cutscenes. The game has not many, but the ones that exist are very good and really underline the horror of this story. The art design was really well done here. However, on the oppsite side, the sound design is not very good. The music is very generic but worse, it does not even fit the cyberpunk setting. It sounds more like something of a fantasy game or some spanish soap opera. I guess the dev used royalty free music here, but some electronic music would fit much better with the aesthetic of the game world. What also could sometimes lead to frustration are the controls. The game constantly shifts between super fluid and clunky controls and I don't know whsy. Most of the time you can speed through the parkour sections very easily but at other times you struggle with the timings and the character goes not the way she is supposed to. This is more appearent in the very final level in the game, which requires you to do a massive platforming challenge in a limited amount of time. I don't like these kind of time restricted sections in video games and it feels bad here too. Besides those issues I think it's a good enough game for this low price, especially if you like dark cyberpunk stories. But keep in mind, that the story is rather short and leaves you with the desire for more.

fast movement feel good :D

amazing with beautiful player handling and mechanics, i absolutly love trying to speedrun the levels and its so fun to move around, still havnt beat the dev times :(, but amazing and fun game, also amazing art and an absolutly stunning intro on the tutorial