Lover (2024)

I hate leaving bad reviews, and when I do, I usually try to find some redeeming qualities of the game to mention as well. I can't do that with this game. There is nothing redeeming about it whatsoever, and it is my opinion that this game is as close to a scam as you can get. It ran so poorly. 30-40 fps no matter if I was playing at 4k High or 1080 low. The graphics were very mediocre. The menu was about as basic as it gets while still having a few almost pointless settings. I walked around in the same hallway of the house over and over again. I don't even know if there is more to the game than the lifeless first room and hall because I scoured the whole area over and over and couldn't figure out what to do. And just having a poorly coded game with nothing to do is one thing, and I would just chalk it up to being another bad indie horror game and leave it at that. The whole reason I feel compelled to write a review and think it is a scam is because this game is $25!!! WTF?!? Even if this game ran well, there is no world in which this game could even possibly be worth $5. Seriously, go look at the competition. To sell an indie horror game for $25, it has to be a masterpi…

I'm so glad I bought this on sale, I would be so upset if I paid full price. :( This is just another asset flip hallway sim where you are forced to play with headbob. Game reviewers, including myself, have been saying for almost 30 years that headbob NEEDS to be a toggle! The amount of people that struggle with motion sickness is alarmingly high. Please don't torture us by forcing us to play with headbob. I spent 20 minutes walking up and down a hallway feeling queasy because the screen is rocking back and forth like a ship on the seas during a typhoon. Zooming in on things is painfully slow. Why use the word painful? Because when you have to take a full 20 seconds to zoom all the way in on each small area/item to try and progress the game/trigger something. All of that time adds up and had me audibly groaning every time I was trying to examine anything. I post this review with a little trepidation as I fully expect to be verbally eviscerated by the Dev; but I have to be 100% honest when I say that it started feeling like a utter slog with no reward so I bailed. Sorry, not sorry. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk. XD