ODIA

This is not a good game, but it is interesting, and considering the low price (and short time investment), worth buying and playing as a curiosity. It's a bit more difficult than it should be because the AI pathfinding for your allies is terrible, and they'll just walk into walls instead of helping you advance. I think "possessing" an ally after death would've been beneficial towards cutting the downtime of having to travel all the way back to the frontline after respawning. Movement after spawning is pretty fast but after 10ish seconds, I'd start moving along at half the speed for some reason? It's pretty buggy, I thought I got hit with a gamebreaking progression bug because certain items just didn't show up in the game world, but that should be fixable just by exiting and rebooting the game (or in my case, reinstalling it). But the concept of being a small, weak soldier sent to die against technologically superior foes, with only your sheer overwhelming numbers as your advantage is an appealing inversion of the typical power fantasy video games provide. I hope that the idea gets another, better executed shot one day.

So many of these negative reviews are from people who failed to understand what this game was asking. Yes, the gun you have sucks. Yes, you die in 1-3 shots depending on the enemy. It's not easy! But each enemy can be dealt with simply if you try to learn what they suck at. This game isn't going to hand you a system to easily slaughter everyone. You can block bullets and you can roll. Those two things give you an extreme advantage over anything the enemy throws at you. It's best to look at this game like a puzzle. You can brute force through everything and get pot shots in before dying but it is less frustrating to analyze the situation. Is there an angle that makes it easier? Can I strafe around these guys? Once you starting asking questions like these you'll better engage with the game than any of the negative reviewers here. Genuinely impeccable and unique experience. Worth it if you want a challenge and you're open to some friction while you learn to play the game.

yeah it's jank, but should still be picked up with your spare change for the interesting-ish game loop concept and neato aesthethics

Hyper frictional experimental gun souls. Considered quitting after getting killed dozens of times in the first area. I'm so glad I didn't because it becomes really interesting as the map opens up. It's not without its issues but if you can deal with a lot of death and retries I'd say it's quite rewarding.

Good game, would love to see more like this from the dev

Not as good as it could be, in fact, It's very frustrating and slow.