Recent reviews by Morklympious

Listen. I can't really recommend this game. Not just because I'm a coward that hates scary games, but as far as scary games go it kind of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks?

1. The whole "Be quiet, no yapping" is a nice concept. For a while. It's fun when puzzles require you to shut the ♥♥♥♥ up and not kick seventeen cans on your way to grab a plank of wood.
2. The whole "Be quiet, no yapping" while you sneak around is the entire ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game. That's it.
3. There's no tension of being "discovered" and running away to safety with the stress of being chased. It's just "ARE YOU LOUD? OKAY I GUESS YOU INSTA-DIE". And it's not fun? It just means when you're loud, you're dead.

The entire game is centered around "Don't make noise", which is COOL if the game does literally anything other than "You have to get [SOME OBJECT] to [ADVANCE FURTHER] and you have to [DO SOME INTRICATE WALKING AROUND QUIETLY].

But that's it. You do this like 17 times. The only thing that really changes is the scenery.
I'm actually writing a review of this game? That's how strongly I feel about it.

And yeah, am I loud? Do I yap? Yes.
But ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, Outlast looks like a MASTERPIECE compared to this.
This game is like if Alien: Isolation took a ♥♥♥♥ and it burned for four hours.

I think there are, or will be very few games like Absolver for me. Which is a damn shame. Absolver is very good. There is no game like Absolver. It's a game that actually prompted me to make a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ video essay about how much I love it, 4 years later.

Here's a quick list of things that make Absolver damn good:

1. Accessible two-button fighting controls
2. Customizable movesets
3. Fashion, fashion, fashion
4. The game is like 90% neutral play (you always have options in a fight)
5. 3v3s are chaotic fun (though they take coordination to set up)
5. Small community committed to helping new players improve

I've essentially played for 2000 hours and I'm probably one of the last remaining "active" oldheads that has seen Absolver since August of 2017. This game is very good. It's an accessible, essentially "two-button" fighting game with good sound design and a minor PvE element. That's the context you should approach this game with.

If you like PvE more than PvP, buy this game when it's on sale. Otherwise, buy this game, get into CTs and find someone to beat your ass and tell you why it happened.

This game is incredibly beautiful with a community of "tryhards" that are actually people who are always more than willing to tell you how to play better. Absolver is a game with flaws and I won't pretend it's not, but there's a reason that I still play this game into its fifth year: It's an original take on a fighting formula that focuses less on "character matchups" and more on "on-the-fly" adaptations against your opponents moveset and powers.

I'll tell you what I tell everyone until I'm blue in the face: PLAY ABSOLVER.