Neverout

Great concept, but I don't understand why the camera controls are so restrictive. Because of the nature of these puzzles, I get that movement has to be grid-precise like an old school 3D dungeon crawler; there's no positioning half-on-half-off a square. That's fine. But why not allow strafing and backward movement like every other game that anyone has ever played? That wouldn't have conflict with locking the player positioning to a grid. And also, they should have allowed keyboard look as well as mouse look. Pressing WASD is second nature to most gamers, and it is JARRING AS HECK to have your camera snapped to a specific position when you press A or D when you're expecting it to rotate the camera smoothly or else strafe. Not a lot of thought was put into this port's controls, clearly. The only controls being "forward" and "mouse look" felt unnecessarily restrictive and clunky, and sapped my enjoyment. And also - would it have killed them to have written even a barebones plot here? Why are we here? What happened? What can we expect to encounter if we make it out? This game felt more like a "proof-of-concept" essay, around which they perhaps meant to develop a deeper game some day, but never got around to it. I wish I could post a "thumbs sideways" review. It doesn't deserve a "no", but it's not polished enough for a "yes" in Desktop mode.