Unbreaded

[h1] Unbreaded Review [/h1] [h3] Unbreaded Ungamed [/h3] [hr][/hr] Can a bread be unbreaded? Can a game be ungamed? Should you play this free game? The answer is no... but keep reading to find out why! [h3] About This Game [/h3] [hr][/hr] [h2] Storyline [/h2] The steam page says it is a “heartwarming yet perilous journey as a gingerbread man brought to life by a passionate chef, fights to protect his legacy from an evil corporation”. Seems interesting, right? Well, none of that is in the game... You start as a gingerbread in a kitchen, platform your way through 2 laps over it and exit. The end. No story, no cutscene, no voice, no text... [h2] Gameplay mechanics [/h2] It’s a buggy 3D platformer that does not play well. You are a gingerbread and your moves are: punch, dash, jump. The punch is slow and the range is too short. The dash is necessary for some jumps and improve your punch range, but it can barely be felt and the refresh rate is weird. The jump works fine. Your character can also detach the head to propel and be faster, and then you need to find dough to rebuild yourself. This mechanic is cool and works fine. It all starts at the entrance of the kitchen, but the rendering makes the game very jenky. If you move towards the pans, you will trespass them as if they weren’t there. The goal is to follow the path to the end. You go around the kitchen once, climbing obstacles and defeating a few enemies along the way. Then you go around the kitchen a second time from above to get to the exit. The fights do not play well, because the range of your punches is too short. And there is not much to it, just avoid enemies, dash punch and be done with them. There is not much of a pattern or challenge as well, they just follow you around to hit you (touch = hit, there is no attack motion). Steam page mentions puzzles, but there is none. Basically, you kill the enemies and the wall blocking the way disappears. It took me 15 minutes to beat the game and I could have done it in less than 10 if I wasn’t testing some physics. [h2] Visuals & Audio [/h2] Individually, the assets look really great! But there are rendering issues when playing the game. It gets jenky! I have seen this happening when the assets require too much processing, so that may be the issue. The game needs optimization! The audio is Ok, nothing memorable, but not bad. [h3] Pros [/h3] [hr][/hr] • Free. • Individually beautiful assets. [h3] Cons [/h3] [hr][/hr] • Way too short (~10 min). • Rendering issues. • Fights need to be more interesting. [h3] To Be Improved [/h3] [hr][/hr] • Fix rendering issues. • Fix hit detection from stage objects (you can go through many of them). • Improve the attack by adding range. Could do that using a candy cane as a weapon. • Include a clear beginning and ending motion to the dash. Could be through character movement or air movement around it. • Improve fights to make them more fun. Add some different attacks to the enemies. • Actually add the story into the game. • Include some puzzles to make it more interesting. • Add more levels. [h3] Conclusion [/h3] [hr][/hr] Unbreaded looks more like a clunky beginner’s project than a game. It is a descent first attempt, but there are many things to be learned from a game development standpoint. As it is now, it is not worth the 10 minutes. Time to beat: 15m Rating: 2/10 Played on SteamDeck Reviewer: [b] green [/b] I'm green 🍀 [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38888018-United-Critics/] Please follow [b]United Critics[/b] for more quality reviews.[/url]