Entity Researchers: Prologue

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"Entity Researchers: Prologue" is not a game, it's an advertisement for the game "Entity Researchers", so I guess while I review this advert I also have to do some effort researching Entity Researchers (review on that to be forthcoming at some point). So this advertisement is for a GameMaker Studio game (ugh, I know, it's cancer), with some of the ugliest and most deplorable visuals I've seen, so I think a lot of kudos have to go to the developer for this, it's amazing to see video games being made by the legally blind. I mean, I assume that's the excuse for the graphics. Because no sane person would publish a game that looks this bad, so I assume the developer never saw what this looks like before mashing the submit button on Steam Direct. Anyway all you do here is fight enemies and wander around, and by "fighting" we mean grinding ridiculous circle clicking minigames that, well, just aren't fun. And apparently the full game is just more of the same, so you don't really need to go past this advertisement. Truly amazing that they managed to make the gameplay even worse than the visuals. This is only free in the same way that adverts on Youtube and banner ads in your browser …

ART " SciFi " Not for me. Thanks for the into to find this out :)

5/10 RPG/clicker in sci-fi alien setting TLDR: Looks like a mish-mash of different mechanics that don't match well. E.g. the combat here is about clicking a button at the moment when a slider moves through a pair of triangles. Onboarding is not great and the visuals/audo are largely a turn-off despite the intriguing story. A neutral vote Good: - free (prologue) - story starts off good with an XCom vibe - a seemingly developed system of RPG stats and equipment So-so: - graphic could be called stylish or atrocious depending on your approach or mood. It's big pixels and an 8 bit palette that probably will appeal to fans of NES era, like late 1980s - audio was pretty annoying to me, with sounds also from late 1980s - there is an isometric view of levels however it's mostly decorative because the actual combat takes place in a separate screen. There you just do clicks that have to be precisely timed - the tutorial is there but it's hard to follow. Mostly likely, the game wasn't playtested (enough) Bad: - actually nothing, though I felt this strange aversion to the game pretty early. I wonder if it's the gfx, the audio or the annoying time-based clicking, or the false resemblance wit…

All controls theoretically work with either controller or KB&M. In reality some only work with one and some work only with the other while a few work with both buuuuuuut really don't And the constant switching is annoying. The game story is... poor. Combat isa dumb, consisting of a series of golf meters and wait till it's aimed correctly skill tests,all of which are on one timer that ends your turn if you are still waiting for things to line up. Movement is basic and boring. Terrain has no bearing on anything I saw in my brief exposure. There is no sneaking and combat is completely removed from any terrain effects.The music is annoying form second one. Just everything here is bad. Do not waste your time on this demo or your money on this game. Sorry devs. I'd wish you better luck next time but this level of universal badness isn't a luck thing. Obviously, I do not recommend this ga... err.. demo.

Expected turn based combat - got weird clicking around on moving symbols combat.. Game looks really interessting, but the combat is pretty aweful.