Breaking Bones

bad

"Catapult" and "Wolf" are my favorite features in a game since "RED CAR". Other than that, this is completely god awful.

Damn Son

This game really rattled my bones.

Breaking Bones is a small-scale first-person survival action game that embraces an unusual mixture of realistic environments and wildly fantastical enemies. Developed and published by Duplicator Studio, it feels more like an experimental indie project than a conventional survival game. Its defining visual idea is the use of photogrammetry and 3D-scanned environments, which gives many locations a grounded, natural appearance. Against these realistic surroundings, the game throws skeletons, dinosaurs, dragons, and other creatures at the player, resulting in an intentionally strange combination that gives the experience much of its personality. The central gameplay revolves around exploring hostile areas while surviving encounters through melee and ranged combat. There are more than twenty weapons to discover and use, providing enough variety to encourage experimentation. Weapons can be obtained from defeated enemies or discovered while searching the environment, making exploration worthwhile rather than purely optional. Bows and catapults supplement close-range equipment and give players additional ways of approaching dangerous creatures. The mechanics are not especially elaborate, …

Graphics are pretty good, I'll give it that. Combat is terrible. Considering this game's focus is fighting waves of enemies, combat really needed to be good. It achieved the opposite. Attacks from enemies cause damage before they actually hit you, which is really weird. I'm guessing you've got some sort of telepathic skeletons that are attacking you with mind bullets before stabbing you with their swords or smashing you with their hammer.