Project: Ether

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"Project: Ether" is an LGBTQIA+ evangelism game pushing specific social agenda first, and being a game second. What do you do in the game? It's an extraordinarily badly made stealth game where you sneak around, avoiding gender dismorphia and evil robots while pretending you have magic powers. The game lacks polish and plays badly, but again, the primary purpose here was not to be a game. Whether we may or may not agree with the cause, it's my firm belief that politics and social agenda of any kind has no place in gaming. It does no service to gamers at all for political or social agenda to be shoved down our throats, no matter which side is doing the shoving. We're here to have fun, not get indoctrinated. Because the primary purpose of this product is totally unrelated to gaming, this really just makes gaming worse, and does nothing to further the developers political crusade. This is one of those things that gives amateur developers such a bad name. There's an overwhelming amount of mediocre Visual Novel/E-book style cutscenes in this game. The developers failed one of the most basic, fundamental requirements of game design.. "Show, don't tell." So you'll spend a huge …

Awesome game!! I love the multi-dimensional travel and the voice acting is engaging. Highly recommend!

Took a look at Project Ether and it has a lot of charm! I ran into an issue right at the beginning. When you're asked to investigate the door and then explore the room for clues, there's a folder you look at that seems to automatically open a folder but you can't do anything else with it :c Aside from this, the voice acting is FANTASTIC especially for just a small project. I was really invested to the conversations, hopefully the issue I ran into can be fixed, I would love to be able to check out the full game

[h3] I'm currently doing a challenge to play through a free game in every single category on steam. I then give an honest review using ChatGPT. [/h3] Game: 134 / 447 [b] Category: Time Manipulation [/b] This was supposed to be a 3D stealth game with time manipulation, but honestly, none of that actually worked or even showed up in any meaningful way. The game’s a mess. Dialogue and tutorial prompts repeat constantly if you try to explore or backtrack, which gets old fast. I got stuck at a door that said to "search the area," but the only interactable object bugged out, and I had to restart. Tried again—same result. No way to move forward. The time manipulation stuff? Barely there, if at all. Feels like they just slapped that label on without doing anything with it. It’s not just broken—it’s unfinished.

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