XYLITH - Hostile Planet

It's like they wanted this game to be a miserable experience. Because they sure did a great job of it. This game is ♥♥♥♥. Don't buy it. I might have only spent $1 for this game but it's those 2 hours I'll never get back. If you're interested in knowing why this game sucks, well, it sucks at ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ everything. The movement is seriously awful and clunky. There's no key mapping. There's absolutely no explanation for anything in the game so good luck finding out how something works. I ate 3 clips of ammo trying to figure crafting out. Yes, literally ate. The enemies are whack. You need to use like 4 clips just to kill one enemy and don't get me started on the bosses. And no, ammo isn't plentiful. You start out with like 10 clips then have to craft more, and in the entire 2 hours, I had the materials to craft like 3. The cursor is made just so that you lose track of it every ten seconds because it's tiny, and blends into the environment. The doorways between levels trigger at the slightest touch which would be fine if it asked for confirmation to warp but nooooooooo it immediately puts you into a loading screen that takes like 15 seconds. Then you have to go back through the doorway…

I had fun playing this game: Likes: Pets - Amazingly fun to collect. Sad when they die. High Score Table - Pretty nice recent addition. Challenging Bosses Dislikes I only found 1 out of the 7 Super Bosses - Prepare to spend a lot of time playing this to get the high level pets.

XYLITH - Hostile Planet is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro pixel platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. This shovelware platformer is a somewhat cluttered Metroidvania/shooter with a para-science fiction theme (I think), plus grappling hooks and shooting and a consumable/inventory system... it's busy, to say the least. But throwing a lot of features into a game doesn't make it good (in fact it can detract from the experience when it's too convoluted). There's no tutorial either, so good luck if you want to work out all the obscure features in the game. It's also really, really clunky and unpolished, it doesn't look like any gameplay testing took place here. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics setting…