This is deeply dissapointing!
How can you call this BETA 2? The game is just a huge mess!
The steam reviews are realy extrem bad and you are even accused of banning people for critism.
And you wiped your game forums completly?
Heres a review i saved:
[spoiler]I don’t typically write reviews, and certainly don’t bother with actually writing negative ones, but man is this a special case. With the sheer amount of garbage that is classsified under Early Access, saying a game is too early even for Early Access feels pretty damning and yet perfect for At The Mountains Of Madness. There’s a lot of jumbled thoughts to put together, so let’s break it down into points.
-The actual performance is terrible, sitting at about 22 frames on average. However, when I loaded my game after dying in the middle of talking to an NPC, the game dropped to a stubborn, stable 5 frames for no discernible reason. Turning down the graphics had no effect on the frame rate either time, just made the game look even worse. Of course, this is something that could be fixed in Early Access via optimization, but it leaves the initial impression that the developers have no idea how to go about doing that.
-The voice acting is worse than abysmal. Likely recorded by the devlopers and their friends, all of the spoken dialogue sounds like non-english speakers phonetically reading dialogue off a paper. This could be placeholder dialogue again, but based on the budget it seems unlikely that the developers will be able to replace it with different voice actors more familiar with english. Perhaps it would have been better to record it in the native language with subtitles?
-The gameplay is pretty awful and bland so far. There’s no explanation of the health, or what the white flashing that kills you is supposed to mean. I thought it was freezing to death, since you can collect firewood and start fires, but eating a can of beans made it stop so who knows. Once you collect the plot mandatory flashlight and walking stick and get into the main gameplay, you’re dumped in a dark, hideous looking ice cave. You need to find a fossil (which was just floating in mid air) and a hammer to extract it (from the air I guess?). This seems like the majority of the entire game, going into increasingly larger caves to find these fossils. It looks like there’s eventually combat, but I can’t imagine it being much fun at these stuttering frame rates.
-The developers themselves. While this isn’t immediately tied to the quality of the game, with Early Access the developers become much more important for determing whether the game will be able to improve. These developers seem a bit over enthusiastic for what was apparently originally a school project, claiming above that they’re confident they already have a solid game here. Furthermore, I was banned from the game’s forum for pointing out that deleting threads (or creating a Trash section to dump them in) with criticism is a pitiful, cowardly tactic that is frequently employed by indie developers on Steam who can’t face criticism of their pet project/money laundering scheme. That’s one thing that immediately removes any positivity or leniency for a developer, and the same is true here.
-It’s not fun. Ultimately this is the big problem that it boils down to. There was never an enjoyable moment in what I played, never a time when I went “Huh, that’s neat.” This felt a lot like many of the free Unreal Engine and Unity engine messes that I’ve tried, cobbled together from a pile of assets without any real design philosophy or concern for coherence. It’s a real shame, because I’m always looking forward to a good game based on Lovecraft’s works, rather than just inspired by them. But At The Mountains of Madness isn’t one of them, and likely won’t be for a year or more, or perhaps never. Save your money, wait for The Sinking City for a quality H.P. Lovecraft game.
It’s bad, and it likely won’t get better without being a mostly different game from what’s here. I’m refunding this, and I suggest you stay far away too.[/spoiler]
Heres an actuall older video of the game… wich was ok back then, we all understand WIP there. But you literally have made minor changes since then.
You are a Team of a few people and still your first level and presentation is so bad.
You charge 18 Euros for that??
Pls watch the video very carefully and fix your game. Its deeply dissapointing after all what i saw in earlier days when you guys started.