Beyond a Total Loss
Pseudobug · 2019 · Dark Humor, Violent, 2D, Pixel Graphics, Story Rich
PC
Positive100% · 28
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About Beyond a Total Loss
STORY
John Harry is lost in the woods after driving his car off a cliff. He is attacked from all sides by strange vicious beasts and his prospects seem bleak. But then the local game warden comes to his rescue and offers him a gun to protect himself. He just has to sign a little contract…
It seems like his troubles are over, or have they just begun?
WHAT TO EXPECT
- BLOOD: Know your health by the amount of blood on your face!
- ALCOHOL: Mix cocktails and feel their effects!
- VIOLENCE: Shoot bullets from guns into horribly deformed creatures!
- INVENTORY TETRIS: Unleash your inner OCD by managing your inventory!
- LOVE: Fall in love, or just watch dirty pictures!
- ABUSE: Experience verbal abuse by people you hardly know!
- PUZZLES: Find out if the rusty key fits into the rusty lock!
- TALKING: Have a conversation with other weirdos (or just point your gun at them)!
- CHOICES: Choices sometimes have consequences and sometimes they don’t!
- MINIMAL HUD: Use your brain to remember how many bullets you have left!
- CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION: Buy new clothes with your booze!
- THE END: Experience three totally different endings depending on decisions you made!
- PHILOSOPHY: Find out if worms are moral beings!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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So I beat the game normally twice and then did the no gun run (it's not worth it, trust me) and tbh I don't know how to feel; specifically bc of that. If you just play the game normally I'd give it a 7/10 since the two main endings are not satisfying and basically a joke but it's a fun experience overall. I want to give it a thumbs down but I can't when it clearly engaged me enough to do such a tedious challenge run and also it's a single developer. The game is essentially Lisa Resident Evil, but all jokes no emotions (the jokes are hit and miss as well). And the writing and game design was good enough to make me want to get all the story. I really wanted to believe there was more going on than basically random events. But since there is very little information on the game online, I figured I'd need to do a gunless all truth run to get the true ending. And while technically I did, it literally is just a minute of different dialogue and an anti climactic "good ending". Nothing is explained of what was going on, there is little to no lore, and no character depth. And the run itself is so aggravating and doesn't feel like it was built to be an option. Essentially there is so …
The graphic style is a bit trashy, but okay has similarities with Southpark. :) The gameplay is pretty cool though, reminds me a bit of Another World / Flashback and I love both games, so I like this game too :)
A great game for alcoholics and people with social anxiety :D
"Beyond a Total Loss" is an action-adventure / survival-horror (with all its old inventory-management glory) where you play a middle-aged, alcoholic loser that finds himself in a devil-deal with an elusive and snobbish entity and thus shoots his insecure way through beasts, demons, freakish lab experiments and mutated-knight-cultists (?). The story is very low brow and doesn´t take itself seriously, and while the graphics are a bit amateurish, the core gameplay and presentation is solid and even manages to create an ounce of hilarious existential angst. Plus I liked the cocktail-mixing mechanic.
Hello?, Is this 911? I'm being jumped on and murdered by 2D animated FROGS! SAVE ME!!!!!
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