The Grave Digger

Overall a nice concept and I like the genre but I grew tired of the game after 1.8 hours and I doubt I will play it again. If you can get it on sale, it is still fun for a short time, so I am still going to give this game a thumbs up.

Although the gameplay is not to my liking, the game delivers what it promises. Actually more than I expected. I was surprised by the gradual introduction of elements and mechanics. The home-made voicing is ridiculous, but that's not a big deal, really. A word of visual warning though: For a while, I thought the book and tombstones were a farce. That was only because the game launched in such a low graphic quality by default that texts turned into smudges. You might have to visit the options to get the real thing.

Хорошая игра, не смотря на графику,и даже есть зародыш сюжета,и элемент головоломки не плохой...Но чёрт возьми!!! КАК ПРОЙТИ УРОВЕНЬ С ОЖИВШИМ ТРУПОМ?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First few levels, I was in. Delighted, as it felt like MediEvil but with less focus on actiony, hack-and-slash stuff and more of a graveyard vibe. I was ready to keep this, even after it initially set itself to the lowest quality (on my very good gaming laptop) so that I couldn't read any of the text/maps/tutorial instructions and the opening cinematic was dirt quality. Why not allow the choosing of quality before the game begins via prompt? Anyway, as I said, I was ready to keep this even after that (and the purposefully-awful dialogue), so long as the new morbid surprises and manageably difficult challenges kept coming. I only wanted to play on Hard difficulty to get map pieces to save up for whatever the treasure maps would unlock. But by the fourth and fifth level, I was frustrated, annoyed, bored of waiting for guards to slowly walk back, tired of it taking 2 whole seconds for my character to move away from a grave when a ghost was coming (that defeats the whole purpose of the suspense of it zooming in when you're digging. if you're just going to die anyway, what's the point?) If someone made a first person version of this concept with more action and MEANINGFUL stealth (like, snuffing out the lantern or hiding in already-dug graves to not be seen, instead of just "here comes a baddie so get far enough away or stand in a beacon of light until the ghost magically forgets about you"), it would be an amazing mix of light-hearted comedy and horror around a very unique concept of grave digging and robbing. I mean, there is so much potential in this concept, but the execution here becomes tedious at best and the novelty of the concept (i.e. the fun of the game) fades very quickly once the repetitive and achingly slow (and clunky) gameplay mechanics ramp up around level 4. That's not even 25% into the amount of levels, and that's why I'm getting a refund if Steam allows me to. The last thing I said before I rage quit on level five was "this is just monotonous"

Tags: Adventure - RPGMaker & Topdown Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Broken. Cannot progress All images are heavily pixelated. Mismatch between textures some being much sharper than others. Going into options has the graphics set to fastest and unchangeable. Tried interacting everything within the first room and all that was there was an unreadable tombstone, which I assume has a hint about how to progress, because of pixelization. I tried button mashing at everything and nothing happened. Removed for declutter.

Unexpectantly goofy, surprisingly difficult even on easy! I still haven't figured out how to get to the Grave robbers Graveyard because of all the baddies on the narrow pathway leading to it. Overall.... lots of fun!