Sewers Adventures

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Decent experience, but 8 mins of gameplay is a bit *too* short. Hope the dev considers adding more levels.

Sewers Adventures is a small action-adventure game that uses a grim underground setting to combine exploration, combat, mystery, and light horror elements. Developed and published by Gremon Games, it presents itself as a compact experience rather than an expansive campaign, an important distinction when considering what the game attempts to accomplish. Its origins as a project created in connection with a Level Design programming course are reflected in its concentrated structure. Instead of filling the experience with elaborate progression systems or a massive world, the game focuses on guiding the player through a dangerous sewer complex where environmental atmosphere and encounters provide most of the entertainment. The story begins with the player taking the role of an investigator who ventures into a sewer system hiding something considerably more disturbing than ordinary underground infrastructure. Deep within these tunnels is a secret laboratory associated with a gifted but dangerously ambitious scientist. His experiments eventually resulted in the creation of unnatural creatures, and his inability to control what he produced ultimately led to his death. The player arrives …

This is definitely a video game but it was conceived of with no regard for game feel. The arrow shot is quite offset from the cursor when aiming horizontally but not when aiming vertically. The character totally stopping when performing an attack feels like crap. Monsters don't appear to take damage when they're located under the UI, lol. The jump has no sense of height. The final boss appears to have some kind of unexplained temporary damage immunity? The level design is maybe fine but the mechanics make it not. It works but I don't recommend anyone plays this.

Nice short action game. Different weapons allow for variety in gameplay. This was covered as part of this week's episode of Free2Play Weekly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScPE0ah1ldQ&t=634

Very fun game, not sure if there was only one boss or not but if that's all to the game then it needs more, a very great introduction to the game concept and would play it way more if there are more levels added or if there is already if I skipped something.