The Carcass

The disclaimer about the game being mostly AI-generated was added only very recently, after I've purchased it.

♥♥♥♥ AI and ♥♥♥♥ lazy devs. Don’t buy this slop, it’s riddled with AI garbage

месиво плохо читаемого одноцветого текста, после которого болят глаза. куча меню и подменю из которых нельзя нормально переходить туда-сюда и приходится каждый раз возвращаться на главный экран, вспоминать что и как называется, что ты хотел прочитать и только потом через ещё три подменю переходить туда. я понимаю, что это текстовый квест, но интерфейс можно было сделать гораздо удобнее. также есть очень серьёзные подозрения на то, что здесь всё сделано вайб-кодингом, включая историю и все тексты. по сути я мог не покупать игру, а сделать буквально то же самое в любой нейронке, и я уверен, что она написала бы такой же текст и лор. за 0.5-1 доллар можно было бы купить посмотреть и даже может получить мазохисткое удовольствие от интерфейса, ужасного текста и нечитабельности, но уж точно не за такую цену. также хочу отметить, что есть косяки с переводом, но это не так критично на фоне всего остального. рефанд.

How do you even call this a game? Full of bugs, AI slop, game crashes, everything nonsense. The worst gaming experience of my life so far.

I love text based games, I really do. But this one feels like someone has autotranslated it from an unknown language with a very poor result. In both my native language (polish) and english you can find frequent errors, typos and mistranslations which is a no-go zone in text game! It is therefore nearly impossible to understand what the devs mean and what player is supposed to do. Sadly I have to ask for a refund.

The weird way the store page was formatted gave me concerns, but the screenshots looked curious enough that I decided to give it a try, especially since my concerns were that an LLM was used in development and the dev supposedly didn't use it according to the lack of disclaimer (which was added after the purchase, so at the time I thought there was no LLM use). The fact that the studio's only other output is absolutely not related to this game in terms of genres, combined to that output also being also kinda bad should have been another warning sign. Alas, the premise was too interesting and I gave it a try in spite of reservations. The way the text was written already felt off and inconsistent and way too wordy in places (the intro says "this was a trap" like 4 times in a row) - the disclosure (added after I purchased and played it for a bit, mind you) claims the text was written by LLM and edited by the author, which feels even worse because at first I thought it was edited by an LLM (thus the oddities), not entirely produced by it. The music choice (which as I find out later was also AI generated) didn't match the tone at all, setting me up for an epic cyberpunk-ish confrontation and not a surreal cosmic horror. These little things unfortunately lead into the whole game into losing the mystique that was previously provided by its genuinely unique premise. Generally I would have just moved on with this one after being disappointed - I would have just assumed it's not for me (although realistically I wouldn't have bought it in the first place if I was aware of the level of LLM usage involved - I'm a snob and LLM writing at the moment is not high quality enough for my snobby ass). The lack of disclosure at the time of release that was added only after crossed a line for me so I took my time to produce a negative review. Was that disclosure maneuver deceptive or incompetent? You decide. Either way, it was not something that inspires confidence.