GULLET

Gullet is an interesting game. The core gameplay of managing your tether alongside other equipments works well once you get used to it and the game does an excellent job of making you feel small and as if you're truly exploring this strange eldritch mouth. The big downside to gullet though is the game has horrible visual clues to where the player should go, now this itself isn't much of an issue, but it does become rather critical once you discover just how far the automatic save points are. 1 hour in and i'm already facing stressful moments where i've cleared a relatively good amount of area only to accidentally die and having to restart the area i've covered all over again. You can feel tired of exploring this game and even playing through it when that happens enough times. Overall, Gullet is an interesting game with solid mechanics, but the far save points combined with horrible clues/visuals to guide or give ideas to the players as to where they should go next means each time you go down, is a chance to restart an entire section all over again.

Unforgettable.

Super underrated game, and the fact this is the first game from a solo indie dev is very impressive. One of the better executions of eldritch horror I've experienced in a video game, you really feel so small and meaningless, and your journey feels hopeless, but you continue on, and things just get weirder and creepier the deeper you go. It's so freaking cool. Not to say the game is perfect though, it can be pretty hard at times to discern where the correct path is, since its so dark and so geometric, your flashlight and flares honestly don't help very much, you usually just want to look for whatever lights are already existing in the environment and try to follow those. That and the controls, the controls are pretty bad, yes you do get used to them and once you do its fairly intuitive, but they are just so unconventional, lead to a lot of deaths and a lot of misplaced grapple points. But past these flaws the game is definitely worth experiencing, so unique and such great atmosphere, and such an impressive first showing from this indie dev, I'm excited to see what Joshua Allin does in the future.

I feel so small. Scary and difficult stuff! Excellent experience.

The game is surprisingly, purposefully, unnerving. The platforming mechanics, the limited resources, and obviously the hell world you're in all add to that sensation. It is hard to see (by design, I know, I know), but that doesn't make it less frustrating if you get stuck or turned around. It's rough, and maybe I'm recommending this game more as a concept, but I am recommending it.

After the most recent update, and the dev's discussion, I have flipped the review to positive! My biggest gripes were with how unfair and un-fun the previous climax/final section of the game felt. BUT that has been smoothed out. I still don't think that area is 100%, but its way better and less frustrating. Also this game f*cking RIPS!! one of the best horror experiences in a while. Once you get used to the controls it clicks. managing your resources, trying not to snap the rope, while dangling about the mouth of a cosmic horror, absolutely RAD. My clear video corrupted :((( its just a slide show, but i got the achievement for the speedrun, ill record another later today Deeper Thoughts on final/climax section: [spoiler] As the big send off to the entire game, it still feels weak. And I am talking about where the relapse ending leads you to, I have no clue about the second ending, I don't know if that's a different section. I feel like with the invisible walls, you can fully play with the maze aspect more, and put more branching paths, but adding more of a puzzle element into it. Mouthwashing had that psuedo-maze with invisible walls, but the code scanner revealed the path you…