Abermore

This game had a lot of promise, but utterly failed to execute on any of it. It's remarkably buggy, badly tutorialised, systems vary from nonsensical to nonfunctional, and you can't even see the controls in-game. I really wanted to like this! But this isn't a new Thief, this isn't even a new Thi4f. This game badly needs a patch, if not a complete rebuild.

I rarely write reviews but I bought this and have to warn other people off it. Currently is completely broken - level geometry doesn't line up, you can easily fall out of world, crashes are common and visual bugs abound. I really want to like it, potentially it could be really good - but in its current state I can't tell because it is not playable.

Initially, I wasn't planning on going too hard on this game and its developers. But after spending few hours trying to figure out performance issues that this game has and figuring out the source of the softlock in the tutorial level (which I have informed the developer about) and then spending good few hours playing the game trying to see how many other issues are in this game and if there is a chance it is ever getting patched, I have come decided otherwise. So here goes... THIS GAME IS NOT RELEASE READY! IT IS NOT EVEN EARLY ACCESS READY! And to pretend it otherwise is absurd! Furthermore, I highly doubt there was any QA done by the publisher - if there was, someone would have caught the softlock issue in the tutorial. It is literally in the first 10 min of the game. It's not even something that is easily missed in test environments (like improper character coding in system paths for example is). All you need is one person from a region, which uses a comma as a decimal separator an...

[h1]TRASH.[/h1] [b]Abermore[/b] is a thieving game that just effectively stole my patience. [table] [tr] [th]+ Pros[/th] [th]- Cons[/th][/tr] [td] Good idea[/td] [td]Not ready for release[/td][/table] [h1] Let's connect [/h1] [quote]•[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33562948/] Curating page[/url] • [url=https://discord.gg/aPbC35HQWU]Discord [/url][/quote] [h1]Not ready[/h1] [b]Abermore[/b] is the story of a thief, dreaming of building up his reputation to the status of Legend in a world that is not without reminding you of Dishonored. By joining one big heist, you will get to learn about the fate of the Hanged Man and your subsequent adventures to rescue her and potentially establish yourself as a famous thief. Graphically speaking, while it is certainly its own, the level design and the main city are definitely inspired by the Dishonored series. The gameplay integrates some interesting elements like tarot cards that give your character special abilities or crafti...

This game is for freaks only. Are you a Thief freak? Someone who will play anything that even remotely resembles the Thief games? If you said yes then this game is for you. Otherwise you might just get angry. Abermore has personality. Like the climbing system that I haven't come across anywhere else. Or the Gutter and its inhabitants, I just love the game's random NPC generator's tendency to create the most hipster looking individuals. All the environments are quite charming. The writing is generally nice and at times really good! A definite highlight of the whole game. The small nuggets of story and worldbuilding paint a picture of a magic realist place. It's clear the developers love immersive sims and their worlds. I had to download a Unity debug tool so I could access the game's files on runtime and save myself from situations that were game breaking. I had to rely on this tool more than once. Actually pretty often. This would be my recommended way of experiencing the game. It i...

I wish that I could recommend this game. It has some really interesting idea, which I would have loved to get deeper into, but it is absolutely riddled with irritating and immersion-breaking bugs, to the point where it is essentially unplayable In the first hour, I experienced bugs with the UI, level generation, achievements, the inventory, and held items disappearing/becoming unusable. And if you need to restart the game to fix a bug, you lose all progress on your current mission, as the only method of saving the game is an autosave at the beginning of each day (which the game doesn't warn you about when you try to quit) Possibly the worst part of all is that these bugs are so obvious, and seemingly so frequent, that there's no way the developers weren't aware of them, yet they chose to release the game in this state anyway, and to charge people for the privilege of figuring out just how broken it is.

Awesome idea, concept, and environment. So what went wrong? The game is unfinished. No description on what equipment actually does, buggy as all hell. Failed my first mission because my mission objective didn't spawn in. Really a shame the game seems like it would be awesome. I would say to hold out for it however I saw in a discussion post that the devs are actually abandoning the project. One of the members of the small dev team tweeted that they all went their separate ways so unfortunately this game will never be the gem that it could have been

This game is a mess.. so much potential lost because they just immediately abandoned the game. It's like thief and dishonored mixed together but then released a year before it was done. Hell there is controller options in the game menu but there is zero controller support.

I really wanted to like this game since I first saw an article about it last month but at the moment theres way too many bugs (including one that softlocked me and made me restart a long level because of it) so I cant recommend this game to anyone at the moment. Im really hoping they have patches planned.

I'd love to recommend this game, truly. It has so many unique systems and the gameplay loop is solid. It's *almost* a good time. I played three or four missions with the hope of "well I've unlocked more the game and things are getting a little bit more difficult, maybe it gets better? But it doesn't. This game is ruined by the fact that it probably needed another six months of development. Bad procedural generation means that elements clip in to eachother, bad alphas on the backsides of staircases, gaps between floors, and staircases that lead nowhere. Poor UI with few button prompts for things like viewing different floors on your map. Bugs with item duplication in your inventory and hit boxes. I was really hopeful that this would finally give a stealth & heist game worth sinking my time into but unfortunately, this is not that. I hope it receives some updates and that I'll be able to return to it.