Mesmer

I love the theme, the atmosphere, the story... it's just so unfriendly to the player. After the first day you don't get any tutorials. You get told to go to a location which doesn't get marked on your map. You're told to get to a different part of the city, all of which are through checkpoints and I have no idea how to get through those as bribing guards for passes never seems to work. Being chased by the guards at night is a pain. It's a series of wonderful ideas let down by hostile game design which seems to want to put roadblocks in the players way. For example: I get told to go to the Mindbender Acadamy. My character says she knows where that is. Neither character tells me, and it doesn't get marked on my map. So. What am I supposed to do with the information? Wander around until I find it? It's probably in a different bit of the city so I'll just wind up arrested. It's unbelievably frustrating as this is the game I need from 2020 - participating in a righteous uprising against au...

The concept of this game is really interesting. I like the way the world won't bend to your every need, and move on with or without you. The game Pathologic does something similar, but the vibe here is entirely different. Mesmer is bright and colorful, almost to the point of being garish, but this style contrast against the more oppressive themes in an interesting way. I appreciate the character designs and I love how you get to know the people of the city. I did have some performance issues. Loading the game took me about five minutes the first time, but the game ran fairly smooth when finally loaded. Sometimes conversations would bug out, and selecting interactables would at times be a bit of a hassle. Overall I'd say give this game a try. It's not perfect, but I enjoyed my time with it!

I have been looking forward to playing this game since I first heard of it. The concept is quite original and really entertaining: Start a revolution! Recruit people for strikes, make grand speeches, run errands / do quests, collect information about people and use it for blackmailing, sneak around at night while trying to avoid the police. And every choice you make (as well as your mistakes) have consequences. I also love exploring the city and patting all the cats :D

I really wanted to like this game. It has a neat concept and enough lore to pull you into the world. Unfortunately, the game is bogged down by poor controls and arbitrarily timed quests alongside needless time management. Those things paired with no explanation of how the game works at all, is detrimental to the fun that could be had exploring this charming world.

Mesmer is a rough diamond in the best tradition of early-to-mid oughts console games I remember with great fondness (the same era is also evoked by the visuals) - janky but idea-rich with interesting design ideas that don't neatly fall into pre-existing gameplay formulas or a meets-meets equation ("it's like game X meets game Y"). Occasionally rough and coarse, Mesmer is worth your time and patience (the tutorialisation is relatively weak, but on the flip-side that encourages curiosity and exploration about the game systems that the right kind of player will find satisfying). If you do give Mesmer its chance to shine, the game proves to be a real jewel.

Lack of tutorial is one thing, making the gameplay predominately fetch quests is another and leaves the gameplay pretty dull. Anytime you want to complete something its a fetch quest.

Definitly worth playing especially for this price. It's a very unique and interesting set up. Altough i wish their was a bit more context at the start and a bit more tutorial.

I want to like it but it is just too vague and convoluted for me to stomach. If I just had instructions and the game was not seemingly missing functionality I might have kept playing and enjoyed it. The game is comprised of fetch quests to collect wealth. Talk to people in town to swing deals. Problem is the minigame for this makes no sense to me. Multiple wheels pop onto the screen and pressing the A button stops all of them with each pointing to a value separately as they are not synced with the other wheels. I can do missions for them instead, with no way of knowing if I can accomplish it before I accept it, or add valuables to have more wheels on the screen. But it did not change the fact that I did not understand what the game was supposed to be or how I was to play it. Am I supposed to be focusing on the top left one? Is there a different button to do one at a time? I got down to the last hour before curfew and trying to do my night missions for people but had no way to pass...

There is a function to pet the Cat without a need to aware the allergy: 10/10 Joke aside, there is a little bit performance issue on my PC (i5-6400 + GT1050ti). I didn't try on my laptop which spec is far higher yet, but considering what I saw in the game, the problem might cause by my CPU. (I will edited the review later after I try on another machine) Also, the in-game story background kinda relate to my country situation right now.

The mesmer experience thus far. I started a strike, held a public speech, rode a hog through town. Acquired a wedding ring for a worker. Broke in to a house and got caught by the police, after curfew when I collided with a wall. Then I ended up horsed. Mesmer is an immersive experience werehere I am trying to bring about the revolution. Through helping people, by any means, be it stealing, sabotage, staging riots, blackmailing and bribing the police. But everything takes time and I'm always on the clock. Can be a bit frustrating at times, since I have to start over every time I loose, in order to optimise my run and unfurl more of the mystery, while working towards a solution.