"Otherworldly: Beginning of the Rift" Pre-Alpha

This looks promising until you start it up and you realise most of the features are completely missing. This means that both the screenshots and the videos (trailers) are completely misleading. I initially thought it was my fault as I failed to find out how to make the car appear (there is an achievement for that) or change the settings and travel to several different planets (or parallel universes). An update that was released 2 weeks ago, however, confirms the missing features (including a story mode) will only arrive in 2025. What was the point of releasing this product in its current state back in September, then? You play as a scientist who is meant to travel to other locations. We start out in a garage with a teleportation device in the corner. Interacting with its panel takes us to another location (universe?) but we immediately die in case we haven't picked up the HEV suit. I'm calling it HEV as the sound effect for the interactions is identical to Half Life 2. But what do we find there? Corridors and rooms. No enemies and only cans (of food?) to pick up. I headed back and decided to sit down in front of the computer in the garage. Now, the only way to stand up and leave…

""Otherworldly: Beginning of the Rift" Pre-Alpha" is an overly ambitious attempt to make a first person puzzle adventure game, but it seems to be deep in development hell, having not really been updated since the game launched a couple of months ago. The game is absolutely an unpolished, clunky mess, and the question about whether the developers created all the game assets is prominent... this looks a lot like an asset flip to me. The game graphics look better than you might expect, but that's just because it looks like some or all of them are "borrowed" from asset stores or wherever. Gamers can tell... and it comes across as insincere. There's also the old adage that those who lack the budget and talent to make their own game assets usually lack the budget and talent to do the rest of the job of game development properly, too. It's free for now, but the developer intends to charge for this if it ever leaves Early Access... but considering the poor public reception, it's likely this will not be one of the 25% of games that ever gets finished and leaves Early Access. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game …

It seems like an awesome Idea but it is very much Unfinished, Waiting on An Update that can fix the bugs that the game is suffering from, Objects glitching, cant leave the PC, language bugs out stays in german. Issues with changing of sensitivity, outside of bugs that basically force you to alt+F4 just to get back to playing its a pretty cool game

[h1]"Otherworldly: Beginning of the Rift" by Klimav Vladislav and Klimava Katsiaryna (Belarussian)[/h1] Otherworldly seems to be a now abandoned project from two Belarussians. It’s hard to fathom what they were actually going for here. You play as the protagonist Mike, hired by a friend called Em, who is working for what appears to be an unknown SCP organization run by someone called John. Trying to close a growing rift in our universe by bringing a 20-year abandoned lab back online, requiring someone that won’t ask too many questions. This is what leads Em into recruiting us, suggesting a meet up, at an out of place outhouse in the middle of the woods. Once we time travel and awaken lab 15, the Ai governing the place makes itself known and gives us a tutorial on how the lab works. Thanks to a specialized transportation device and suit, from here we can travel to alternate dimensions. Ten of which have been labelled on a whiteboard. Our job seems to entail to visit each alternate dimension listed and identify it, by gathering an artifact and recording the dimensions readouts using 4 supplied devices and then entering that information into the main computer which will then unlock …

definitly need tutorial and a way to exit the computer. I warn do not use the computer no way to exit it once you use it.

The atmosphere and idea of exploring different worlds is interesting at first, but the experience feels very rough and unfinished. Gameplay systems are basic and don’t evolve much, which makes exploration quickly lose its impact. On top of that, the achievement system is broken: several achievements are currently unobtainable and one is bugged, making full completion impossible. For players who enjoy finishing games properly, this completely ruins the experience. Some moments feel more like a tech demo than a real playable loop, with limited depth and repetitive actions. Achievements: • The fast ones take only a few minutes • The longer ones are currently impossible to complete due to bugs Verdict: Negative — interesting concept, but broken progression and very shallow gameplay make it hard to recommend in its current state.