BELOW

misunderstood in its time

10/10

Great game! If you're looking to kill sometime during the weekend definitely give this game a go. It has many of the (a)rpg and survival mechanics in a compact manner. The gameplay is very captivating.

As Above So Below

kinda ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ at times, but worth it

Great game.

I didn't read any reviews but saw some negative ones in their. I was so excited about the game cause I really lived the atmosphere and the sound designs and I was ready to get immersed in its world same as I did with Hyper Light Drifter and other atmospheric isometric games. After starting the game I noticed the cutscene at the beginning was something around 5 to 8 minutes (I don't remember cause I got distracted and checked other stuff) to a point that I thought either game has stopped working or it expects some input from me. After pressing ESC I noticed that this is cutscene. Then the game starteed slowly you jumping out of your boat. I started walking around and checking buttons to figure out the game controls. I started running around and picking stuff up even though I was stuck a little with E button for interaction. The crafting was vague at first and needed me to press "CLICK" instead of E button to craft and caused me 20 seconds of confusion. Then when I started to explore the map I had to keep holding Shift for sprinting and it got annoying so I opened up the options to find some toggle option for it. I searched around and saw the controls that said Shift (Hold) and it is not customizable. I said "ok maybe the game has some gameplay aspect around toggle running and it is some ability..." and tried the game more. I kept going around and all the time bugged about the holding Shift button. In the middle of the game I opened Steam overlay and searched in discussions someone complaining that game needs to add toggle run and it was from 2018, I bought this game in 2024! But despite all of this I kept playing and gave this game a chance. The exploring and slow speed of the game really didn't made me enjoy and I was frustrated and was thinking of all the reasons to why this game doesn't have toggle run! I was feeling bad for some poor guys that playtested this game (I even doubted that this game is play tested!) and kept playing. After getting lost and picking random stuff that I didn't know what were they alongside the running problem, I was thinking of a way to put a micro or find an application for toggling my shift then I just stopped caring and didn't want to continue the torture that this game made me endure and just wanted to die in the game. I thought to myself "if the developers don't put their time to add a simple toggle run to their game, why would I bother to find a way for it?". It doesn't make sense in anyway! If you don't add a simple accessibility and ease of use to your game like this better at least add an ability that makes the character run faster or something to compensate for this torture! YOUR GAME IS MEANT TO BE PLAYED MULTIPLE TIMES AND YOU MAKE IT SLOWER TO ANNOY YOUR PLAYERS?! AT LEAST TELL US YOUR VISION FOR THIS SLOW PACING IN YOUR GAME! TLDR; This game hasn't been much tested and pacing of it is wrong. The pacing is not related to gameplay or atmosphere of the game, it is caused by lack of play testing and developers understading of players. If you want to play this game, consider sitting on a stone for 2 hours for no reason just to test your own patient and see if you are capable to get tortured here. Refunded!