Despair

great game

El mejor simulador de probar a jugar con basura.

Mest händelselösa spelet jag sett, inte direkt läskigt heller, bara grymt segt...

[h1]A walking simulator with[strike] horror elements[/strike] metro trains addition[/h1] The name of this game is not just a simple title. It is a concept, a state of mind in which the player will be after 15 minutes of playing this game. After loading the game, you will be instantly met with the (unskippable) intro sequence featuring a facepalming woman: she probably knows in what circus she will be participating next. Also, the music was too loud for me, but that will be important later. After this, you will be met with a 'press to start' line so small that my shortsighted ass waited for next minute for the intro to end on its own. But it is an old game, and this one might just be a bad resolution scaling, so let's move on. Then I was met with a main menu with standard graphic/audio settings; the problem being that, when I went to the audio tab, my mouse cursor decided to go for milk to the next country's grocery shop. So I had to lower the sound volume purely based on my intuition. Also, the start button was labeled as 'despair', which was honestly kinda taunting at this point. The story of this game is basically nonexistent, but it has one very interesting mechanic. Namely, not only does our character have a stamina meter, but he also runs slower depending on how much of it is depleted. Adding it to playing as someone with a mobility of 70 years old with osteoporosis, you will be frustrated after the first few minutes of walking. Sometimes your character will decide to screw this and will start to move like a normal human, but I managed to glitch a cutscene during one of these miraculous feats. Truly a moment of despair. The game is described as one of the horror genre, but honestly, I was too focused on distracting myself from the overly slow movement speed by jumping like a hare during March, that I couldn't care about all of the 'spooky sounds' that were supposed to be filling in as the horror elements. That was until I realized that the flashlight battery is limited, and I can end up in a situation without any source of light. And kid you not - I couldn't see a thing without it. To the point that I missed the only actual jumpscare that this game has, simply because it happened during the battery change. And about dying: If you manage to achieve this feat, the game will give you 2 options: to try again, or to quit. They're the same option - game just closes. And if you load it up again? You will be met with the same unskippable intro featuring too loud audio, because the game does not save your settings between sessions. Also, the battery counter is written in Cyrillic. Wise words from wizard turtle: You can use the ancient spell called Altus Tabulus in order to farm steam cards!

Played for 20 minutes on Steam Deck as part of a project to skim across my backlog. Had to manually bind keys like Shift and B. This is a very rudimentary Unity prototype with, as far as I played, no interesting ideas. Will not finish.

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Despair від AGC – це не гра, а справжнє випробування терпіння. Сіра, нудна коридорна "жахастик" без атмосфери, сюжету чи бодай якоїсь цікавинки. Геймплей зводиться до ходьби пустими локаціями, а "страшні" моменти викликають лише позіхання. Марнування часу.