Roost

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Weird exploration game, kind of lsd dream simulator. Very confusing. Would give it neutral if i could.

Someone else said it first, but best: this is an endless loop of repetitive nonsense. I love hunting for achievements, but this isn't worth it for me. I feel cheated, and it was free.

I've spent most of my time with this game feeling simultaneously very confused and intrigued enough to keep coming back for more. If an experience like that isn't offputting to you, I recommend you spend some time with Roost. It's bizarre and creepy and rewarding, as long as you're willing to be persistent.

"Roost" is a rather garbage attempt to make a first person horror "art" experience, don't worry, it's not an asset flip, no asset creator would ever publish assets this bad. You move into a new apartment and it's spooky... yes, that's the whole plot, and the game seems to be the result of having Paranormal Activity stuck in the VCR on a loop. What do you do in the game? Wander around a crap environment in first person perspective, look at stuff... uninstalling the game was the best part. The "game" here is of a pretty low technical standard. The implementation is basic minimum effort stuff, more like a weekend project rather than a serious, professionally made product... and it's bad even compared to most amateur made games. An experimental piece... and the experiment is "Can I spend $100 on Steam Direct and then call myself a game dev?" While that $100 spend on Steam Direct probably made the developers feel good about themselves, we have to ask why this kind of thing is good for gamers. It isn't. The graphics here are particularly awful, low poly, low resolution garbage that makes PS1 games look like GTA:V, so bad that it actually stands out as one of the worst looking ga…

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