Inescapable

NOTE: Exile's End, also available on Steam, is apparently a remake of this game with higher production values and some game improvements. Other than the price difference or curiosity, there is presumably no reason to buy Inescapable. A bad combination of boring and annoying. Despite the user tag and even the "About the Game" section of the store description, I wouldn't consider this a Metroidvania. This is more like a really old PC game, where you keep opening locked gates to progress. (Either "find the physical key" or a "hit a switch and/or navigate the platforming challenge" key.) Areas look boring. There is no music and little audio in general. Combat (when present) is dull. A lot of little annoyances just pile up. There just seem to be so many "slightly wrong" design decisions in this game. For example, at the beginning of the game, you take fall damage. (You also start with half health and no apparent method of healing.) Within a few minutes, you get a suit upgrade that completely negates fall damage, which begs the question of why the game ever bothered with fall damage in the first place. It might not even matter except there is at least one pixel perfect jump that…

Very basic, very short. Needs more meat.

Quantum Leap was cancelled after 5 seasons without notice. The producers allowed them to hastily put together a series of static flashcards communicating what happened to the characters. Quantum Leap has a better ending than Inescapable. Not to pile on "Mostly Negative" reviews, but honestly, after wandering around for 20 minutes thinking I was softlocked only to find a room I had forgotten about (there's no map, in case you're wondering) and drudging through another couple of minutes of who-cares gameplay, I realised when I saw the words "The End" that I had reached the end. I wouldn't have known otherwise. There are all these hints that there's going to be some Big Bad at the end of the game, and none of it pays off. It feels half-finished, if that. It's embarrassingly bad. I don't often say this, but really, just don't bother. When you have games like Sheepy, The Looker, Indigo Park, and whatever else tickles your fancy being released for free, £3.99 is too much. If I were the developer, I'd take this down, acknowledge that this didn't turn out the way I wanted it to, and start work on an actual game following the same broad proof-of-concept. That's not to say the developer d…

I really enjoy this little indie game 9/10 Interesting story with unusual ending solid gameplay good control nice graphic atmosferic sound Remind me games from Zx speccy, atari, amiga (another world vibe wink wink :) I actually play this game on release from groupees website like 10 years ago and it was fun even then and harder than today. I like developer make some "good tuning". The main reason i bought the game again on steam is because it's good and i wanted to give a positive review. I don't understand why the game has so many negative reviews. Unfortunately, nowadays it's "hot to hate" because of small things and everyone is a critic :/

1/10

Finally got around to beating this game. Some of the mechanics were a bit annoying, but I found it overall to be alright. Even though it has mostly negative reviews at the time of writing this, I'd still give it a chance and try to play at least an hour of this game before jumping to conclusions.