Lempo

Not a bad game, can tell it's made with passion but just not for me, too open ended, not enough to do, very empty open maps.

Just not a very good game. The main reason for my negative review is the theme. So here are the cons: - I thought the game would make use of Finnish folklore, but it failed to do so. The monsters in the game seem to be like so generic blobs taken from some random library. What a missed opportunity to have characters like Näkki, Iku-Turso, Hiisi, Elfs, Trolls etc. No no, lets use some random goo-like blob? Or some spider-kind of thing as a swamp monster? - The theme is not consistent. At some point I'm at a forest (that sadly doesn't look like a finnish forest), and then suddenly there's some ancient roman empire stuff laying around. What? - Maps are not like empty-empty, but they are not filled with things to be found and doesn't really intrigue exploration. Something about the map-design didn't really work for me. Of course there are some things that I liked: - Kind of okay puzzles I guess? But thats not why I bought this game. I wanted to buy horror game with a finnish theme, not a game where you collect some random stuff to open a door somewhere and then kind of do it again, and again. - The game actually had a pretty good start. The part when you activate the Lem…

Lempo ate my save file and then sent his goonsquad to touch me in the forest while I was discombobulated, good game

No clue what I'm supposed to do.

8/10. Lempo is a fun game but very, very frustrating as you progress as it is not linear but completely open ended and thus no help with where and what??? Lempo does nail the atmosphere — the graphics are genuinely impressive and the story pulls you in enough to want to see it through. Unfortunately, that's fighting against some rough edges that make it a slog at times. The biggest issue is direction: it's frequently unclear what you're supposed to do next or where you're even meant to go, and several puzzles don't give you enough to work with — you can be staring at symbols or mechanisms with zero sense of what the "solution" even looks like, let alone how to find it. A little more clarity or in-world hinting would go a long way. Yes, there is a hint system but one should be able to ascertain what needs to be done from playing the game, not referring to a hint system. The save system was very frustrating also. You save at lanterns scattered through the levels, which sounds standard enough — but if you die, you don't respawn at your last lantern. You're dropped somewhere else entirely (in my case, a white room I then had to walk out of), and it's not clear where that puts yo…

Very good game, perfect balance between chase sequences and jump scares. The atmosphere and level design is what i liked the most. The puzzles were also very well done. Definitely recommending this.