Withering Realms

This game, like its predecessor, is a ⋆｡°✩ 𝕧𝕚𝕓𝕖 𝄞 ✩°｡⋆ You won't find anything else like it out on Steam story-wise and it gets a recommendation purely for that. The visuals of this game hit this really nice sweet spot of classic horror games that show off the horror but leave the hyper-realistic gore to your imagination. The gameplay is clunky (early-access) for a souls-like and there are some incredibly OP things (rocket launchers, spell that negates ALL damage), but that's a good offset for the clunky enemies who can push you into a corner and run a train on you while you get to sit and watch. The OST is 𝓹𝓱𝓮𝓷𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓪𝓵, it really goes well with the entire story. The sound design is good in many aspects, but the one place I find it lacking is in combat and that's more due to visuals. Sometimes enemies stagger on heavy hit, sometimes they don't, but you always hear heavy hit noise. In the environment the sounds you hear are really spooky and add overall to the entire story.

Amazing in every possible way, definitely my type of experience. It resonated with me a lot. It made me feel very safe in a world that is in shambles. I really like the aesthetics and attention to lots of small details that just make everything so much more meaningful. I hope more people get to play this and feel the things I did. I honestly feel too captivated to explain how I felt about it but I will try. THE LORE goes hard, I like both the aesthetics and the overall vibes until now. It is so difficult to make anyone care about lore, and I feel like being dropped into it where i get to be curious about everything just made me literally feel like I am in this game's realm. The soundrack is crazy good I think and it feels so refreshing to finally play a game that the gamedev put all their heart into. I feel that nowadays people make everything for the popular masses and everything becomes the same slop, and I am so deligthed to finally find something so well done and carries itself so well. I felt incredible amounts of CARE which is a word we are starting to forget. So when I say thank you, its not out of necessity, but I truly mean, thank you for this game. I feel every need to be respectful for this true art! I think this game feels like its own unique category and feel but if I were to describe it so far, I can talk about a few things it reminds me of. I think its reminding me a teeny bit of Little Nightmares series, with Dark Souls type of combat and I feel a lot of Tim Burton energy which I already do like but this game is on another level I think. There have been quite a few parts where I went wow and I really did get scared a couple times which I am a hard to scare person. Im gonna be completely honest, I think this game is way better than any of these games I counted- my personal biased opinion- and I think that it deserves way more recognition and people have to play this. It has this ethereal and puppet like vibes everything feels like its miniature and messed up in a very logical way when you get whats goin on. I like it a lot. Reminds me a bit of "Mad God" the stop motion film that is sort of forgotten now, if the dev is reading this you would have a blast watching that, I really like how you were able to contain a feel into a shell and put it as a game. A game with a real soul. I thank the dev a ton and I will keep playing this masterpiece because I absolutely love it so far, and I honest think even this small amount of time I played, it has been heart moving. How can I feel nostalgia for a game I never played? I cant stop thinking about this and it feels so interesting. I am a gamedev too and I try to make things that are fun, which is why I know how much effort and your own soul you need to pour into something like this to make it move a stranger's heart. This game is radiating a ton of emotions, and I really wish to make a game that makes people feel this way that I did, and maybe thats why I am so immersed by it all. There is something about this game that I really am captivated by and cant put to words, it has "care" and is fun and everything else. Definitely worth all the shots especially if you are curious enough to read this recommendation. Wish I could give all the likes from all the other games I own to this one lmao Sincerely, a new fan of Withering Realms