The Glow

This game is a short and neat little semi-roguelike game with some pretty polished graphics and sound (though a bit repetative). I say semi-roguelike because the game shuffles tiles around, but the tiles themselves are the same, just moved around sometimes. The randomness can be unforgiving, especially due to the fact that one of the primary gameplay elements is stealthing around wandering enemies. Many times I would enter a room and be immediately spotted, often starting combat due to not wanting to lose my precious food. The enemies are also fairly repetative, with overworld sprites often indicating the type of encounter you will have, ie: if there's only one person and its one of the other possible playable characters, you can recruit them. All in all, a pretty neat, short, punishing game. And I do love that this is not early access or anything like that. Why do I not reccomend this? The game is extremely mechanics heavy, with no real narative or mystery to really move it along, b...

I really like this game. It is, however, broken in a lot of ways. The dialogue and text sound, at times, as if they were written by someone who's first language wasn't english, ie. "Oh thank god! I thought I was goner!". The textures sometimes fault, and if you try to skip the pre-conflict dialogue by clicking, sometimes it will freeze the game and render everything unclickable. Your character stands against no enemy models, just hovering hitpoints. The game also occasionally just freezes. Sometimes you can still walk around but doors are unusable or things are unclickable. (NOTE: I believe the game is still being patched for bugs). Another mechanic I don't understand is sometimes if you are caught trying to steal from humans, you enter battle with them...but they're zombies now. As opposed to being normal, talking people just before. The game requires you to collect "Essences" to purchase extra trait points in game...however one of them seems entirely unaccessible. This could just...

RECENT UPDATE HAS LEFT UNLOCKABLES UNLOCKABLE I repeat, in this version, the unlockables do not unlock as they are supposed to. It treats everything as a failure. A recent update must have created the bug in the coding because I've seen playthroughs where it worked fine. If anyone knows how to contact the developer that'd be great.

The Glow initially holds a lot of promise and seems to be a fun game, and at first once I decided to stop complaining about the success curve it was... Until I realized it literally can't be completed. There are several bugs in this game, ranging from annoying to entirely game breaking. One bug, or perhaps simply poorly coded event, I encountered was the way in which the NPCs react to you. Being that the game relies on stealth elements, it makes sense that an NPC having a direct line of sight on you is grounds for some sort of event or encounter. However, there doesn't seem to be much thought put into how an NPC spots you. It seems if they happen to look anywhere near your general direction they will spot you, regardless of how far away you are or even if you are on the same row/column as they are. Another thing I encountered that upset me was rooms that are obviously capable of being entered (I can tell because when I move my cursor over the spot it turns into the boot icon that ...

This game is like a death simulator, You have to mostly collect items without being seen by the enemies. If you get seen, you eather get attacked or someone charcter will join your party.. or someone will force you to give your food to spare your life. I have died many times while playing this game and its mostly addicting for sometime. It now just sits there collecting dust in my library.

Sent this email to Steam Support for them to ignore: "Look, I'm not expecting you to refund me - I know it's way past due. But this game is busted and leaving it up on the storefront is disingenuous. The game files are either so broken or simply have not been created so that you cannot unlock more than 2 levels. Looking into the file, it looks like it's broken but the dev doesn't seem to care enough to pull the game, fix it or answer their emails. Please consider removing it so other people don't get duped."

This game is severely broken, both in mechanics and attempted story. Save your money, save your time, avoid this

The game looks fun enough. It crashed at the end of the first mission the first time I played, I will try again later. The dev seems to check out bugs, which is a good thing. I enjoyed the bit i played.

Nothing gets unlocked when you unlock it. Shame, as the game has some interesting potential.

So much promise, so fun at first, until you beat it a few times and realize none of the unlocks work; starting character is all you get. I'm not 100% hating the game, and will change my downvote if this improves, but, judging by the forums I should have checked before buying, it's the same for everyone, and has been for some time. Not really a review if I just mention that one, huge, gaming, glaring flaw, so I will say what I liked. It's a semirandom dark rpg where the map remains the same ,as far as I can tell, but the NPCs and items are different run to run. Is that guy over there going to attack, join you, or sell you stuff? You won;t know until you approach/get spotted. This has the promise to eat several hours of your time, if it can be made to work the way it is supposed to.,