Urbex Awakening

I'm pretty surprised this game isn't picking up much traction yet. The price probably has a lot to do with it. I don't think most people are really willing to risk spending over $10 on an indie horror game that isn't either really hyped, has positive reviews, or is from a dev with a proven track record. I took the risk though, and I'm happy I did. This was quite enjoyable. It had a decent story, and had a pretty creepy aesthetic most of the time. It took me almost 4 hours to complete, but I was goofing off streaming at the same time, so it could be beaten quite a bit faster I'd imagine. I did have a few issues. I got stuck where I wasn't supposed to be a few times. One of those times I had to restart from the checkpoint. Luckily I was basically stuck at the checkpoint, so I didn't suffer much there. Admittedly, I was purposefully trying to jump where I obviously shouldn't have been. It also isn't the most optimized game. It started off running really great, but by time I got to chapter 4 I think, I had fallen down to 20fps. The surprising thing about that was it was almost ok at that framerate with 2x frame generation on. I'm usually much more sensitive to lower frame rates, but it always felt smoother that other games at the same fps, by a lot actually. I won't go into too much detail about the gameplay, but I personally liked it a lot. It was far more challenging than this dev's last game, but still pretty easy in a good way, at least for me. I'm really happy I played it, and only have two real complaints- the performance and the price. And performance wise, I was easily able to get the frame rate way up by just changing one setting that didn't make the game look any worse, but I do like to crank all my settings up because I have a pretty powerful PC and should have no problem playing a game like this maxed out at 4K. This is just another of the poorly optimized Horror Engine games we are plagued with, not really worse than average, and even better in some regards. The price however, it's a bit steep. It would be nice to see it dropped by $5. I doubt it will happen, and I understand the dev wants compensated for the time he put into making this, but the indie horror market is cutthroat. Some of the best indie horror games ever are this price or less. On the other hand, it's not like it's an outrageous price, and I don't feel cheated by it. Really, it's the combination of the two. If it was either cheaper OR optimized better, I could swallow the other issue much easier. https://www.youtube.com/live/1PLeOMx9oG8?si=j9vgHEleCLVrVX_T

Played the game on medium settings on a AMD 6600XT which is a $160 card used and it was still chugging ad crashed after a few minutes of play.

I'm at the very beginning and the game keeps crashing.