TESD: Into the Vortex

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This may end up being the only review I ever write on Steam but I gotta say: Curator, this was absolutely lovely to play. The dialogue I felt was spot on [despite the odd typo here and there ;) ] and there were so many references to enjoy! Anybody who doesn't enjoy this must be a foam face or have an IQ lower than 148. #YOHO

I love that this exists and we get to play it!

The perfect game for listeners of the podcast Tell Em Steve-Dave, or even Kevin Smith to a small point. If you do not listen to this podcast, I recommend you just scroll past. There is a section where you do need to know the show to progress... and if you are a Tell Em Steve-Dave Ant, you will get the references that no one else will get. A must play for the Anthill. And you don't have to be a serious gamer. The fight scenes are Pokémon style That one negative review for this game is not someone who is clearly in the world of tell em Steve-Dave and this game would confuse anyone who has no idea who the outstanding cast of characters are.

RPG Maker strikes again! "TESD: Into the Vortex" is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction. This is an insincerely made RPG Maker asset flip, although it does eschew the usual high school anime club dropout fan-fiction about the developers imaginary anime girlfriend, instead the developers just wrote a garbage fan-fiction for themselves starring themselves. How egocentric can people get? Anyway, this cringey fan-fiction starring the developers is full of crap, unfunny in-jokes and is largely just wasting space on Steam. As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the intention of RPG Maker is to make demos and small games to pass …

Really really loving it!