Abyss Veil

Abyss Veil is a very low budget, story driven indie first person shooter made, as I understand, almost entirely by a single person. Which, for better or worse, shows. Abyss Veil's models and environments look like they predate Quake, the art in its visual novel style story sequences invoke MS Paint, it's dialogue is filled to the brim with contemporary teenage slang and, not to put too fine a point on it, typos, and its sound mixing is messy at the best of times. Abyss Veil also brought me a great deal of, thoroughly unironic, joy. Maybe it's because I'm at a point in my life where this sort of thing, a crude, borderline inscrutable passion project that feels like it was made by a single, likely queer, teenage weeb in their mom's basement (if that description is too far off the mark, or hits too close to home, I apologize) is just about the only kind of media that's still relatable to me. But this game is actually extremely fascinating. So, the story, as far as I could follow it, goes: It's the future and there is a war between Earth, a monarchy and Mars, its former colony, a Republic. Our primary protagonist is a Martian girl named Ivy Emberley, member of an elite military unit …

A very unique, strange and kinda uneven experience, that's so far (having just finished ch. 1) leaving me really curious to see what else this creator makes. ive been kinda describing it as like, "shoegaze / late soundcloud rap Cruelty Squad" to my friends, which isn't 1:1 exactly but kinda gets you there (mostly in terms of being much more lethal than you'd expect given the stripped-back presentation), you can really see the f.e.a.r. influence on the fps portion's sleeve. The writing is....clunky, especially in the first ~1/3 of ch.1, but deeply charming, especially as both a solo project and a first game. You can kinda see the dev work through "how do i write this" in real time as you make your way through the back half of the game, and I'd say it ultimately lands on its feet! even if, admittedly, the characters all have very similar "character voice" in terms of affects and general personality (although again, you see this improve as the game goes on!) Also, mech portions were fun! Kinda samey, but once you get the rhythm of them they Are pretty rad. Trailer theme drop during one of the later segments was genuinely awesome. (the music and backing, in general in this game, ar…

Fun game, fun shooting, silly writing with a lot of character. I love games that really feel like they were just made by a person. Have some vision they want to put out there and do it. Worth the play for that alone.

Silly Story, Fun gun play, and worth the 6 bucks.

Every mercy you offer is a cruelty to us

I LOVE KILLING PEOPLE. I FEEL VALIDATED. I FEEL LIKE I BELONG HERE. THE PAY IS GOOD.