WE ARE SO DEAD

Made me realise how bad me and my friends social and communication skills are XD The game Has potentional But it needs some changes I sujest: Some more real like maps like a talll building with many floors. Personally dont like the maze type map i prefer more houses and building type maps. Ouija board to have slightly easier movement (not asking for super easy) Little less writing on the screen as it covers too much and little overwhelming. The ghost to hunt a little less quick/slightly less frequent. the people that are a ghost to get a sound notification that there is a hunt. Me and my friends struggled for about an hour till we started getting better communication ideas. You could have difficulty levels to choose from with easy being a little easier to move ouija board and less frequent hunting? As I said good potentional but needs lots of work. Good luck to the developer! :)

This game has an interesting concept, but poor execution. Though this game may be fun for some people, the map generation and design is subpar and very one dimensional--copy and paste of one texture. IN ADDITION, the ouija board IS IN FACT BUGGY--so it is not a skill issue, developer! Most of the time the letters do not even line up with where you guide planchette (I have no problem with it not gliding easily, but the planchette displaying completely different LETTERS is a problem)! I was not going to write this review, but I just felt so encouraged after reading your last announcement! (p.s. if you want people to enjoy the game, I recommend taking accountability rather than disrespecting YOUR player base)!

Was looking forward to playing this game with a few friends of mine. Only some of us actually loaded into the game. We couldn't really understand how to play it. The Dev has just been a ♥♥♥♥ the whole time. Dark souls is hard but it explains the game mechanics and it's a functional game.

Not mentioning AI use in the description is crazy considering the massive amounts of generated text thats basically the entire UI. The concept is fun but executed so poorly it feels like you are playing a game a first year in game development would make... The map layouts are I think procedural which is a plus, but the rooms make no sense. Every room is just a square space with a bunch of (free?) assets thrown together and upscaled. It doesn't look like the screenshots in the steam store at all which is incredibly misleading, basically only the pictures of the black hexagon room are correct. Every floor the gameplay loop is literally the same. One dies, spell word, go room, grab object, put on table. Do that x times, then spell name, player spell name, done. No animations, nothing, just more text on your screen. The only thing thats different is the hunting mechanic, which is fun to try and communicate the first time but it never works. Then you all die and can just talk to eachother and make codewords for each hunt and the floor is suddenly way too easy. The hunts also dont really feel like hunts but more like simon says. Because the monster is invisible and there is no real audio or whatever, there is no tension and it's not scary at all. Sometimes you just die out of nowhere and then you're like "ok, what?". Then as a ghost you can finally see the monster and it looks like a cursed backrooms entity XD. All in all, I think the core concept of the dead helping the living is fun, but the way the games executed it right now is very poor. At the start of the game you are greeted with walls of AI text which is very distracting. The rooms are just a bunch of assets thrown together which make no sense and feel out of place. They also don't look like the steam pictures. Additionally the gameplay loop gets very repetitive and too easy on the second try. I think a huge step up for this game would be to make the ritual an actual ritual. Not just "grab food pot and camera and put on table". That doesnt make any sense. The players could for example need candles, ink/blood, incenses with specific smell, ritual daggers, salt, puppets, bones, ashes you name it but make it make sense. Itd be scattered throughout the map and the ghost tells the players what they need and how many. Then the investigators have a journal book with specific ritual symbols and set ups and the ghost has to communicate which one they need to lay out to banish the ghost. Then to banish, you could just use the name thing again and then add a cool animation and effects while its happening.

Trash. Don't waste your money. Poorly made and not fun.

I just want to be completely honest here. I know this game is in early access, and is still being worked on, clearly, but I don't usually take the time to review games. With this feedback, I can say the tutorial was added before I played with my friends, but I had to figure it out on the spot, because we were rushing, though I got the concept of the game and mechanics quickly. It was unclear how to even figure out which one was hunting. We didn't figure out till a little later how we would communicate, and to make it easier on us we didn't even use the Ouija board. the lights around the map were enough to actually communicate. When we used the Ouija board was the only problem, besides the ghosts getting me without any time to react, It was janky and the ouija board wasn't used correctly. The letters were meant to be in the circle of the planchette to spell out things, because that's how they are actually used irl. The fact that you have use top of the planchette to even point out the letters and that it only moves quicker if your mouse is on the other side of the screen is not good for the communication aspect. You will have better communication with the lights rather than the Ouija board. The monsters could have been better to understand as well, the fact that we have to find out that the mood for the monster is how we are supposed to react to it is ridiculous in itself. I give the game 6/10, because of the fact that it is still early access. If this was fully released, this would be a much different review. I do need to mention though, I looked through the reviews, good and bad, and the fact that the developer is generally saying people have skill issues is beyond me in some of the negative reviews, and they need to work on themselves as well. This is only my first review of a game ever, but I feel like I need to make it. Don't buy the game until it is in a better state. This may be harsh feedback in some way, but it is purely for a possible positive future for the game. Thank you for taking the time to read what I've had to say.

I really want to like this game. I don't mind an assetflip, as long as the gameplay and movement are good. We all gotta start somewhere and not everyone knows how to model/do other artistic stuff. That said; I cant recommend the game in its current state. The movement feels bad. It feels flabby/spongy. Running as a human feels very floaty and spongy too. Some of the accessibilty of the menu is rather low due to the low contrast between writing and background, the font itself is also hard to read. Turning off the FOV change when sprinting does nothing, it still changes your FOV when sprinting. + The camera movement is wonky enough for me to get nauseous. The oujiaboard planchette movement feels kinda jerky while also slippery. I would love to also be able to draw on the notepad and walls. As the game already puts focus on ghostly activities by opening doors and flickering lights. Also a demon that is able to also scribble on walls would be a fun addition. Crossing out other ghosts marking n all that.