Ethereal Rift

I will give the game a recommend even though it's not for me. If you are into old school RuneScape sort of aesthetic and crafting everything from scratch and starting with nothing...if low res polygons and proof of concept game play is your thing and you only have five bucks... Get this game. Also, since i am the first reviewer, everyone reading this has to give me an award. Any award at all. Even though I am not gay.

The game is not optimized very well at all. There is no reason a game like this should be pushing my GPU over 70 degrees. I imagine this has to do with the procedural generation, but that's just a wild guess. Sometimes pressing E on my keyboard to progress cutscene dialogue just doesn't register, The combat is janky, which could be fun, but this is the kind where trying to cast a fire spell never seems to go where you want it to (And as stated before half of the time won't register with a button press) The game's options has an "FPS" mode that does... something? Nothing? Who knows! I have Steam's FPS visible in the top left corner and toggling it doesn't seem to affect FPS at all. Am I missing something or is it just broken? In my first 15 minutes I had already encountered a typo, which is isn't a dealbreaker... but I also found it odd that each dialogue cutscene interrupts gameplay by freezing everything until you press a button to continue playing. Providing players with required info is important, but it's the execution that just ruins any immersion I could have had. Simply put: The game feels very unfinished. I imagine it could be quite enjoyable with all these wrinkles iro…

Shift for inventory? ok, strange. But I guess it's fair when you are in a hurry, and the inventory is really small Q.Q Top-down, is really top down, just as the pictures and the video. I would say this is a unfinished game put together. It really should be early access. I could not do one quest, cause, idk... and the big pumpkin did not disappear or anything, And I could "move" it around by just walking into it. I guess someone would like it, but eeeh.

"Ethereal Rift" is a poorly made tech demo of some kind, a simple and bug infested amateur attempt at a top down ARPG (very lightweight on the RPG) Diablo ripoff, only laughably worse in all respects. The "game" here, such as it is, is of a pretty low technical standard. The implementation is basic, minmimum effort stuff, more like a 'weekend project' rather than a commercial/professional product... it's bad even compared to most amateur made games. An experimental piece... and the experiment is "can I spend $100 on Steam Direct and then call myself a game dev?" While that $100 spend on Steam Direct probably made the developers feel good about themselves, we have to ask why this kind of thing is good for gamers. Even though the game looks pretty bad (and decent visuals are a minimum requirement for any game), we can be fairly sure this is not an asset flip. This is because the game assets look so bad, no self respecting asset creator would publish them. That's a fail. There's also the old adage that those who lack the budget and talent to make their own game assets of any level of quality usually lack the budget and talent to do the rest of the job of game development prope…

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didn't understand the objective of the game, once you finish a world, it returns you to the "lobby" but, doesn't count like you had finished it, it's maybe bugged or idk,