Lost in Hell

Almost a guilty pleasure, it kinda feels like a discount Alone in the Dark, but maybe I am being too generous. Perhaps I could enjoy it with a lot of updates, but it's almost unplayable in the later stages because of how poorly he balanced the ranged enemies, not to mention all kinds of gameplay and design issues. I will say the game is not a troll, I am sure the developer was trying to make a decent game, there are lots of cutscenes and locations, it's a bigger game than you might expect, not that you would want to play it for several hours. The first 4 hours or so I was trying to be very forgiving, I attempted to finish the game to the best of my ability, but I just can't do it, the way ranged enemies attack you makes it very unfair, I died like 40 times in the office boss fight, and I can't utilize the stealth attack because they get aggroed outside of the vision. The first thing you will notice is how bad the navigation is, very often you can't tell where to go, and the objectives ...

EDIT (07/17/2023): The recent update improved some things. It added settings and keybinds which is nice, but for some reason it doesn't include volume sliders. The combat mechanics feel better for sure, but the game in general is still janky. There is also no interactable popups or hints on how to progress on most areas of the game yet. I raise my score from 4 to 5/10. EDIT: Since posting this review, multiple people including me have been banned from the developers discord server, although we are only trying to aid this game's development. Being a game developer myself, I know the developer, but I do not recommend this game in it's current state. I was an early tester of this game and many of the reported bugs and missing features were never fixed and implemented into the full release. Let's look at the negatives. The game is clunky, uninformative, slow, and has missing features: [list] [*] There are no settings menus at all, so you cannot change video, audio or control settin...

edit: i finally got the hammer in the dev's server despite wanting the best for him, dev is now trying to get people to review bombing this game so it gets out of the negative zone (which, so far hasnt worked yet), which makes this whole thing a fraud, beware of this. i will be honest here, this game took a huge dive. when i first saw it in development, it had its unique spin on survival horror atmosphere, and i did look forward to it until i fell out of touch for a couple of years. when i saw the release, i was congratulating the dev for his hard work, hoping that the game would succeed. but, my expectation was immediately shattered when the first thing i saw when i launched the game, was lack of accessibility. hell, even a simply audio slider would've kept me on the line, but there was absolutely nothing. no ways to tinker around with the audio in a game where the premise is that you will be interacting with npcs a whole bunch to make up the story, and since its a survival horror ga...

Very solid game for the price. You can tell it had some actual effort and care put into it, and I had a blast playing it. The art style and 2.5D shooter gameplay might not be for everyone, but it has a charm to it, and works for this game. Somewhere between and ingot and a gem amongst the rest of the garbage released daily to the steam store.

The game has a few really crucial problems, I meet the games minimum specs easily according to the store page, but there is no options menu to lower the default max settings that UE4 games often have. But it isn't just not being able to lower the graphics. The audio mixing is all over the place between SFX, Music and VO and there's no way to adjust this. Also after getting 10 minutes into the first mission I died from a swarm and had to restart the entire level. There doesn't appear to be any save menu either so I'm guessing we have to rely on checkpoints of some kind. The game seems very promising and I bought it because I thought it looked very interesting and well made but its actually lacking basic features. I will change this review if the dev fixes the aforementioned issues. A new save system isn't really needed, we just need more checkpoints especially if the game literally begins with an unguided 5-10 minute sequence where you have to figure out where you have to go before get...

Is it a good game? No, absolutely not. Was it fun to play and do i think it was worth the money i paid for it? Yes, i haven't laughed so hard playing a game in some time. It's easy to see that there was a lot of passion put into it, and there are glimpses of a good game, but the state it is in right now feels like it needs quite a bit more dev time. I gave up on ranged enemies, i have no idea how you're supposed to beat them if they agro from far away and kill you so fast you can barely do anything. But before that i enjoyed atmosphere, puzzles, shooting zombies, although level design could've been a bit more creative. I recommend it if you want to experience something quite unique and bizzare. I knew it was a gem when half of steam reviews mention they got banned in devs discord server.

I been playing for a bit and I feel like I should be honest for the game and what are my thoughts as well. My dislike: I think the game could use some work like in some part that I been though like this one part in the level that you have to press three buttons to use the elevator the thing is I didn’t know that those buttons do that and my character didn’t say anything about it or a note about it and the first boss I face is hard and questionable he can block all you guns but not explosions but the hard thing is that zombies aid the boss which made hard for me to process and there not health box’s so the health you got is the health you have. My likes: meanly the story 9/5/23 update Ok, i'm going to say this, the developer started to make Insults at me all because I stopped supporting him. And the Main reason I stop is because he was acting childless with the Negative reviews and started muting then and banning them from his discord sever, I don’t support people who acted ...

There was passion put into the game, which can clearly be seen, however controls feel unintuitive, your objective in levels is not clear at all, and some things that need to be done are just not explained. Typically investigation games at least show you a general location or objective, which this game lacks. Despite conserving ammo, I found it hard to have enough to take care of large waves of enemies. Possible fixes: - Keybind remapping - Objectives - General settings screen - Tooltips / consistent popups - More ammo - Better distribution of enemies I would love to try out this game again in a better state, but for now, it does not feel polished enough to be worth playing.

The combat system is horrible. The game is somewhat 2.5D where player can move up down left right but the combat is 2D where player can only face left or right. This makes it very difficult to align with enemy for shooting. Unable to move when attacking. Graphics-wise, the game has very outdated frame-by-frame style animation. Feels like a game made decades ago. The game literally says it has auto-save but 15 mins into the game, it hasn't even perform the first auto-save. Died at a horde of zombies and had to restart from the beginning with unskippable intro.

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