[b] P. S. If you have difficulties in the walktrough, this guide will be very useful: [/b]
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3561496240
[h1] L1VЕ SP1СЕ [/h1]
No matter how much you call a project garbage on Steam, it won’t make the actual garbage on the platform any less. But you can’t pass by this “masterpiece.” Games are supposed to bring enjoyment — either to the player from the process or to the developer from the creativity. In the case of Redemption: Saints And Sinners, neither happens.
The story and lore from the Steam store description are purely copy-pasted from Ward No. 6. Sounds like the setup for a Dead Space fanfic. In reality — there’s no lore, and no squad in the game either. The hero is completely mute, there’s zero context in the game itself, and believing in this nonsense isn’t possible no matter how hard you try. The game doesn’t even have a trailer on Steam, which already says a lot about the “highest” level of quality and trust the authors have in their own product. Gameplay? A shooter with a focus on lots of puzzles. In practice, it looks like a stoned and ultra-budget parody of a horror shooter.
Your entire arsenal in the game is just a pistol, a shotgun, and a rifle. But when it came to the puzzles, the developer really let loose, and it backfired big time. All you do is twist valves to shut off fire, aim lasers through mirror pillars, disable force fields via terminals, or throw explosive crates at them. There are also insanely annoying mechanics like rolling electric balls through mazes, sliding puzzles with bridges, and dumb guessing of the button-press order.
The main issue isn’t even that everything feels half-baked, but how ridiculously repetitive these puzzles are. By the third chapter, they start to choke you, even though the game only has seven levels. Because of this monotony, it feels like you’ve gone through ten stages, not seven, stretching the gameplay from three to five hours and turning it into a total grind. And don’t even get me started on the bugs—spawning and dying in front of checkpoints, camera flipping when taking damage—your real enemies after the monsters here.
The graphics in the game are a sort of treat: at first glance, they look glossy and modern, but in reality, it’s a cheap and wonky shell. The shooting is totally half-baked. In Free Fire, the sight is just an image, but here it kind of exists, though it’s totally useless since it doesn’t give the needed zoom at all. The guns themselves don’t feel like weapons—they’re plastic toys with no collision, ballistics, or any recoil at all. Enemies go down with a single headshot, no matter the weapon.
The shootouts themselves are kinda surreal. They play out strictly by the script: as soon as you finish a batch of puzzles, suddenly one of three wacky tracks kicks in (either lousy electronic music or cheap rock) and hordes of enemies start charging at you. The enemies themselves look hilariously dumb — just typical models grabbed from the first free Unity asset pack you run into. It totally ruins the horror vibe the devs tried to keep with a cool color palette. Add the wonky spawning and the fact that sometimes enemies kill themselves on lasers if you trick their AI — you can imagine how much fun that is!
Anyway, the puzzles are still kind of a mixed bag. On one hand, they’re logically designed: it’s hard to get really stuck, and the game even shows on the map which room triggered what. On the other hand, there are just way too many of them, and they overshadow any actual action and exploration. Plus, because of the weird cold filter and the monotonous color palette, some level elements, like stairs, are basically invisible — you literally have to peer at the screen to avoid screwing up. But the real question is, why couldn’t they make at least something like a proper quest, if shooting isn’t really their strong suit?
Redemption: Saints And Sinners is a grind full of pain and struggle. It doesn’t give you any fun experiences and only leaves you feeling dull irritation, basically making it one of the most suffocating indie games on Steam. The creators honestly deserve a medal for how stifling it is — they’re total pros at that.
[h3] Verdict: [/h3] https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3612049014
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