The Nom

"game" oughta be called The No

"Art" in game is clearly AI generated and not stated as such on the store page. 👎

The idea is decent - Carrion but a puzzle/stealth game - but it's executed in the most boring way possible. The levels are extremely short - literally seconds long, usually. They seem to be generated rather than designed, so there's no character or anything distinctive to any of them. After you've upgraded speed and armour a few times (maybe 20 minutes in) there's no need to bother with being stealthy anymore, you can stomp through and obliterate everything. At that point the game is just grinding samey, super-easy levels for gems so you can buy the next stage of your home base. It's pure busywork. Even in the very early stages, before you upgrade your blob at all, there's still very little requiring you to engage with the stealth angle - enemies are only alerted if you're right in their vision cone, and any obstacles in the environment are always things you can just go over or around. Again, the idea is decent, but somehow it's been turned into a boring, shallow, repetitive game that doesn't muster even the most meagre degree of challenge or engagement with its own mechanics. It becomes tedious after a matter of minutes.

The idea is great, but the execution is so-so. The stealth is extremely basic, enemies dom't hear anything they can only see you, and only when you're in their very short vision cone. We have a ton of health (except in Stealth mode), the difficulty doesn't really change. The levels are all very short, and in a straight line. The end of every level can be reached while mostly ignoring enemies. I should love this: it's a reverse horror game where we play as a shapeshifter. But the game isn't great.

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Perfect ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Okay ☐ Bad ☐ Very stylized ☐ They're what they should be for what the game is ☐ MS Paint could make something better ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Fantastic ☐ Good ☑ It's just gameplay ☐ Meh ☐ Bad, but playable ☐ Just go watch paint dry ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Amazing ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not to bad ☐ Alright ☐ Bad ☐ My ears are bleeding ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Babies ☑ Young kids ☑ Young teens ☑ Older teens ☑ Adults ☑ Old people ☑ Anyone with a decent maturity level ☑ Anyone with a lack of maturity ☑ Anyone that is alive ☑ No one, not even your dog ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Just average ☐ A little better than average ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Better than good ☐ Fancy Pants Rich Boy ☐ NASA ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Can choose your difficulty setting ☐ No difficulty needed ☑ Just press 'W" ☐ Easy ☐ Medium ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Hard ☐ Verry Difficult ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if you like to collect things ☑ Only if you care about steam achievements ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Only if you care about rankings/place…