Sivi's Factory

Hours played at review time, across 42 reviews with recorded playtime.

positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up

Ah yes, another entry in the growing number of mascot horror titles. I get that usually, the first chapter is supposed to be short to get you interested in later chapters; but this felt like more like a rough beta than a finished "game". You're supposed to be able to beat it in less than half an hour or so (Key word being: "Supposed to", more on that later). The puzzles are all on the pretty easy (for the most part), though it is possible to softlock yourself if you interact with the wrong thing. Come to think of it, this game has a lot of possible softlocks (one of which I will discuss later). The main set piece of this chapter, where you're going around doing wire puzzles while you're running from the giant robot turtle thing is honestly more frustrating than tense; with the wires' janky physics [spoiler] (which actually caused one of the wire puzzles to spazz out solve itself during one of my runs) [/spoiler] and small hitboxes. I also found myself falling through the floor a few times when dying; and since there's no killbox outside the map I fell into the void until I restarted. The worst part though, is that I couldn't even FINISH this damn game, because it's just about IMPOSSIBLE to mash the use key as fast as the generatiors require to start up. I swear you'd need a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ autoclicker or something to make it work. I spent about 15-20 minutes trying in vain to crank those generators; but it's hopeless. Time to take this one back to drawing board, boys. This thing is so unpolished, that even for a free game, I feel ripped off.