Abeyance

A game that’s unoptimized, boring and riddled with bugs. It would be better to shut it down for a while, work on it and come back with version 2 that would be the true form this game is trying to achieve. It wouldn’t be the first to do it. I can run all modern games but this game is struggling to render a couple of empty rooms. Except for a box or an enemy, there’s literally nothing of interest in there. It’s just an empty bland square with trash on the ground. All resources are apparently wasted on your flashlight. You start with a tutorial that crashed my game. I entered a room and the game skipped straight to the end mission screen. Ok, that’s not too bad. But when I choose a mission, the game ended immediately with a failure. I had to start a new game and skip the tutorial altogether. The gameplay might be better later on, but the start is boring and not very encouraging. You play as a scavenger that has to explore randomly generated complex of rooms and search for usable stuff. Since you have a limited supply of energy, you need to be quick and still make it out alive. You do this by scanning the room before opening the door. If there’s a life form on the other side, you mi…

There are some good things about this game. The voicing for Abby, the general atmosphere, and some of the audio. But the gameplay is not ready yet. The turnbased combat is confusing as the camera is so close to the characters and popping around each shot, that you get no sense of what is going on. Elements of the graphic presentation are odd. The camera doesn't follow the character well, leading to jittering of the character. Every time you open a door, the character (seen from behind makes a sort of "well, ok" pose, and it gets weird seeing it *every time you open a door*. Things aren't focused well, and I find myself getting eyestrain. Between scenes when it needs to load (which isn't that often), we get the title page saying ABEYANCE across it, as if we need to be constantly reminded of the title. As a fellow game developer, I find it hard to give this kind of review, as I really do wish them the best of luck with their game. But some things are really going to have to be worked on before it's ready.

I want to start by saying I don't feel like the screenshots of this game fully portray the game at it's fullest. That being said it was fine... Pros: - Tutorial is easy enough - The premise was neat - It's got some cool concepts in regards to scanning and raiding rooms Cons: - The combat isn't amazing - The graphics were kinda meh - The beginning felt pretty stale. This game had good mechanics as a base but kinda seemed lack luster in other aspects. I give it 6/10 Trapped rooms.

Great new Indie Game, can be a bit hard at times but really hope they continue to expand on the Procedurally Generated environments and world building as it is interesting.

Very cool game, it took me some time to understand the tactics but after i did the tutorial 2 times it was easy to progress