Pixel Game Maker Series MEDIUM-NAUT

A fun romp through a haunted spaceship. The game's mechanics make you choose carefully what upgrades you take, and there's plenty to explore and find. Be wary of jumpscares, and be prepared for multiple playthroughs of this short but quite good game to try out all the goodies.

Cannot recommend this (yet?). Control feels a bit janky, as in pretty long animation locks for some actions and weird feeling jump arcs and speed. The hint about your decisions having consequences seems to mean that upgrades you "buy" can overwrite upgrades you already have, meaning that you essentially wasted the cost of the previous upgrade you bought. But mostly I have issue with the difficulty: Many enemies are horrible health sponges. One pretty big regular enemy takes 24 (!) shots with my upgraded weapon, The survival horror aspect is not strong either, so far all I found was a few jumpscares. Maybe if you get used to the system and master the difficulty you can appreciate the game more than I did so far. Maybe I'll change my opinion in the future. But currently my first impression is that this game is not worth more than 5€.

Really fun. A lot of cool ideas and big replayability.

The concept of the game is fun, the level design is great filled with tons of alternative paths and short cuts, the art direction is cute and the music is fitting. Unfortunately the enemies are pretty uninspired and the engine is very jank/borderline awful. Tons of missables but the game is short and it seems to be expected that you play the game multiple times to see the whole thing. I don't really mind that aspect myself but some people might. $15 might be a little high for what's here so probably best to pick it up on a sale. I got it for 10% off and felt pretty satisfied all things considered.