SIGNAL

Oof. Needs some serious patching, I would skip this until it becomes playable. I decided to give this game a try but didn't last more than 10 minutes as the game kept breaking. First, your character wakes up and you explore a sort of space ship. I'm not sure what happens next because I couldn't get out of the first area. I clicked on a door that needed some sort of numeric code. Since I didn't have the code yet, I tried to exit the prompt and couldn't. No matter what key I hit, I was stuck in a screen with a big red box. Well shoot. I wasn't very far since the game had just started so I clicked exit and started a new game from the menu. Now the main character wakes up, but cannot walk anywhere. I had to completely exit out of the game to regain the ability of movement. Then it crashed to desktop. I was done at that point. Sometimes a game just doesn't want to be played. I don't like to refund, but I can't even get through the first 10 minutes because things are so broken. </3 ...

Very short game. No real ending. Easy puzzles. [spoiler] You just enter the last room and a textpromt pops up telling you what happened next. [/spoiler] Cons - Clunky slow controlls - You get stuck all over the place. Had to restart the game at one point - The blue datapads on the walls gives me a Headache when reading from them. This because the whole screen turns a bright blue with white text on it, while the rest of the game is grey, dark gray and black. So the contrast is extreme, going from really dark, really bright then dark again. My poor eyes -.- Not gonna say muach abount the font. [spoiler] The author knows, he points it out.... [/spoiler] Pro: Good music and atmosphere.

[i] My Experience [/i] I tried to give SIGNAL a shot, as I generally like walking simulators where a character puts together what has transpired after the fact. Although developer RPavel did put some work into the atmosphere to make the experience unnerving, I just can't recommend this effort. [list] [*] The character's movement doesn't feel very good, especially the crouch command. [*] Sound is oddly room-limited. You may walk in one room and the sound is almost deafening, but at soon as you walk out you hear nothing at all. [*] It was difficult to understand what actually occurred when I pulled levers in the game. [*] The "space" font used by the game on terminals is almost unreadable, which makes it difficult to absorb story details. [*] The bizarre, flickering stock images that represent your character's memory of their co-workers just feels silly. Additionally, why does each co-worker have a key to a room other than their own? What sense does this make? [/list] I finally stopped ...

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good game and jump scares