Hellpoint

Messy, buggy and frustrating. The best thing about it is its atmosphere. Cosmic horror is a theme that is sorely lacking in video games, and it's an amazing setting for a Souls-like game. Unfortunately, everything else is disappointing. Combat can be too easily exploited and the maps are too big for what they have to offer, making exploration slow and frustrating. The biggest source of frustration has to be the fact that you cannot freely fast travel between Breaches (this game's equivalent of bonefires) without using a very rare resource. This makes returning to previous areas a massive chore, as you will always have to manually walk through the level again. Also the overreliance on platforming, coupled with dubious controls, makes this even worse. You will die more often to gravity than any enemy. While following a main NPC's quest, the NPC kept bugging out, adding an unnecessary and constant layer of frustration throughout. As for the "Blue Sun" DLC, it's a much better overall experience. While the areas are still big, they are more compact and offer a wide variety of scenery. There are also more interesting enemies, weapons and armors. Even though the level design of the base game was good enough, here it truly shines, making this the ultimate experience the game has to offer. Although I didn't like most of it, I can definitely tell that it was made with love and, based on how much better the DLC was, I will be looking forward to what they create next. While it has a good atmosphere and its cosmic horror setting is underappreciated, unfortunately, I can't recommend it.

[b]Dark Souls in Space | KAMGUSTA's MINI REVIEW[/b] Yes, game is far from perfect. Yes, there are better Souls-like out there. Yes, in 2026, six years after its release, the score has to be lowered, as even better games have came out. But I had some fun playing it and the horror/space atmosphere was nice. [b]Best played with joypad Recommended buy price: 5$ Score: 6/10[/b]

i finished this game the 3rd time already, and this time with all the achivements too, i think for the atmosphere is one of the best souls like games, there are not too many variant bosses , and the difficulty is not the hardest, but i really like this game, sadly it have many bugs, cuz there are no updates anymore, but i gavent found bugs that stuck me, i still think this game is underrated

This is definitely a souls-like game. It reminds me of Bleak Faith mixed with Dark Souls in space. It has a moderate amount of weapons and catalysts. Each weapon has special movesets and unlockable skills/passives. I had no idea that my weapon was unlocking skills after defeating enemies. Weapons have their own skill bar in the menu when you highlight the weapon in your inventory. And many weapons unlock special movesets/powers that you'll have to slot in manually. Hold D-pad for left or right hand and you'll be able to slot in the new powers you've unlocked for the weapon. Those new powers for weapons use EP (energy points) which has no info in the menu on how much EP it uses. There's plenty of armor sets to try but many are too heavy and stat hungry. There is one armor set that has a special use on a certain map. The maps are great; there's so many branching pathways and ridiculous secrets. I've never seen so many secrets packed into souls map. You will need to look up guides on how to navigate some of these maps. There's just too many secrets and hidden items. Black hole hour and Accretion storm events are 2 different things. You'll need a guide on how to read the clock on the top left of your HUD. It's a cool mechanic but it's confusing when you first notice it. If you love souls games and navigating maps with lots of secrets, then this game is for you. In my opinion, the developers did a ton of work creating these sprawling maps that loop back to other maps. I couldn't discover all the secrets on my own, there's just too many secrets and specific things you have to do in order to find everything. There's janky things that happen sometimes but they're very mild. Great game from a small dev team. 7.5 out of 10.

it has a lot of problems and annoying things to it but also it has enough charm in it that in the end i think it was very much worth it

I wanted to love this game, as the world-building and level design showed a lot of potential.. However, Unfortunately, this all falls apart after a few hours of playing... Throughout my playthrough, I encountered numerous bugs, including enemy spells clipping through walls and my character falling through staircases. While the environments look interesting at first, exploration feels unrewarding; the maps are structured like tedious mazes with long, empty pathways devoid of enemies or points of interest. Armor sets are far too rare, and two of the three sets I managed to find were identical. It does feel like the devs put a lot of work into the game.. but I struggled to push through it...another issue is you have to have an item to link rifts together so you can teleport... don't have the item? well you can't go back to the central hub now or travel between rifts... the game just felt like a chore to play.

Pretty good game. the only thing I found VERY annoying is limited fast travel. It lets you pick which portals have travel between them basically but the travel devices are VERY rare and hidden. Like you'd have to have previous level knowledge to know which portals to activate. I am now in the DLC and with no fast travel it's very frustrating, makes me want to quit. Edit: changed my mind. I am in the DLC now and am basically soft locked. I made it to some dumb puzzle area which I can't be bothered to solve and I can't get back to the main game simply bc I have no fast travel items. I could take a 30 min trek back to the main checkpoint but nah, I 'm done. Giving this POS a negative, waste of time.

Liking it so far. I find the world and level design interesting. It's a bit janky but if you can handle Dark souls 1 this will be fine. Overall it's a competant souls like that feels like it was made by a small team, if you don't expect too much from such a cheap game you will find a fun game that will satify your souls-like urge.