Overgrowth

You make experimental games, which is great but inherently risky. Steam is not the reason they have not been a best selling success. While you may believe in them if your experiments don't resonate with as many players as you think it should, that's not the fault of Steam. Given how janky some of the titles are and the lack of polish around the combat systems and gameplay, I'm not entirely surprised either at the risk of sounding harsh. I played this for like an hour and a half and it felt like a tech demo, no voice acting, frankly poorly written dialogue and generic, indiscernible characters, trying to give the impression of an established world without establishing any of it, I failed to find the "hook" that made me want to continue. Suing Valve because your games didn't sell as well as you want them to is a failure in self-reflection. Also, XBox store takes the same 30%, where's their lawsuit? Oh, you didn't publish there.

I feel like Wolfire has this reputation of making tech demos that begrudgingly take the form of a game, and this is a perfect example of that. Maybe a turnoff for someone who is looking for an actual game, but as someone who works on games for a living this is like cocaine to me. The character controller (like everything else in this game) is extremely jank and bad by the standard of your typical character action game, but is extremely entertaining to play around with. The developer did a GDC talk on how he handled the character animation, and it's an extremely novel approach. I'll go as far as to say the ragdoll system blows Euphoria out of the water in terms of implementation. So if you're like me and like tech demos I'd highly recommend, but in terms of an actual game I feel like you could find much better for the price.

Instead of funding a stupid lawsuit against Valve/Steam you instead could have made a complete game, I was so young when I bought this game and after what I saw it didn't change much.

The game has been abandoned, or as the dev's call it: "finished". However anyone who's actually played the game will know that it has not been finished. Please be aware that you are not paying for a complete product. Nevertheless, an extremely fun and unique game to play. I'd recommend to pick up on sale.

TL:DR; Its very fun, but its much more of a tech demo than a proper game, and an overpriced one at that. The main selling point of this game are the combat/movement mechanics, and almost a decades worth of mod support. Both are worthy highlights, but unfortunately that's about all the game has going for it. It's missing so much that it feels like someone carved the most mechanically interesting parts of another game out and sold it as-is. If you're selling this as a finished product, it should cost 1/3 what it does. I would love an explanation from the Dev's what the plan was- whether it had more content planned but was aborted or if its more of a creative experiment with a price tag on, that kind of thing.

I like the game. Not liking the Developer stabbing Valve in the back.... maybe you should take your game elsewhere....

Watched a couple Youtubers play this game when I was a kid. I just got a job and this was the first game i thought to buy. It was wonderful. This is the kind of gameplay i thought it would be when i was a kid. Very Free moving and the almost janky physics and the way you sometimes just dont grab the ledge for absolutely no reason feels a lot like real parkour. 9/10 W Childhood experience