Recent reviews by Confused Rock

This game makes me feel like a kid again- because the physics in this version are so bad, that I feel like I have the dexterity I had as a child again. some basic jumps are nearly impossible because you have to spam the jump button to actually jump, with no way to tell when it'll actually launch you into the air.

i already owned this sucky game and now its free damnit

Sets itself apart from many other survival games with a similar focus by having its actual focus be on survival for far longer than most other experiences.

Regardless of anything else about the game, this game is the one game I know where dialogue is 1. entirely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ useless, talking to an npc will never give you information you want or even information that will tell you what's going on. 2. So interesting I talk to every NPC regardless. There is only one time in the game I remember talking to an npc meaning anything to me, where it told me that butterflies I would see later. Then I talked to a guy in an elevator talking about pyramid schemes and another guy telling me how children are just smart chimpanzees with no morals. It's all so surreal, and the game almost feels broken at times in every way, but I think that merely adds to the strangeness. The world always feels unwelcoming and confusing, I spent all of it just waiting for the part where everything makes sense, but I only understood it when I realised that moment will never come.

When I first played it, it sucked me in so deep I forgot every other game I enjoyed playing and felt lost after I finished all of the content. (Though the DLC adds an array of replayable content that would make it last far longer, and so it sucks me in again.) That said, this game has problems. Although there is much to enjoy about the gameplay, and I do, I'd compare it to pathologic 2 - the gameplay can be slow or frustrating at times, even stressful, but you don't play it just for that, you play it for the atmosphere, mood etc, which can make the occasionally frustrating gameplay feel much better than it would. The atmosphere is so good that I even consider regions, some traps, and most of the creatures as spoilers (particularly one blue/brown enemy, which is particularly frustrating yet atmospheric and intense) even if they have no real story relevance, because seeing them for the first time is so amazing.

I'd say the biggest problem with the game is the one seemingly impossible to fix, which is the camera- the visuals of the game require each camera view to be from a fixed position, meaning the camera *isn't* centered around you, and at times you have to get close to the edge of a screen before it moves. Usually this won't kill you unless you have really slow reaction time or run into things too fast without listening to audio cues, but it can be frustrating. I can think of just one situation where the camera system makes for an unavoidable risk of death (where the solution is to go through a different set of rooms entirely that lack this risk)

edit: mods have fixed the camera issue??????

like empyrion only you can disable the spiders

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the gatling gun reloading noise is rad

What no man's sky shouldve been

Has no dlc