Get on SteamAlone is a 3D Puzzle Sidescroller with heavy focus on environment puzzles. You wake up alone in your camp and find your friends gone. Set off into the seemingly nice forest to discover its secrets, but be careful not to lose yourself on the way.
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Reviews
- The game features a unique and artistic visual style that creates an engaging atmosphere.
- Despite its flaws, the game offers a fun and rewarding experience with challenging puzzles and platforming mechanics.
- At a low price point, it provides decent entertainment value, making it worth trying for fans of the genre.
- The controls are frustratingly loose and imprecise, leading to frequent and unfair deaths.
- Many mechanics and gameplay elements are poorly explained, resulting in confusion and trial-and-error gameplay.
- The game feels rushed and lacks polish in both presentation and gameplay, with repetitive music and a lack of detailed environments.
- gameplay15 mentions
- 20 % positive mentions
- 60 % neutral mentions
- 20 % negative mentions
The gameplay of "Alone" is characterized by straightforward platforming and environmental navigation, though it suffers from some mechanical inconsistencies, particularly with jumping mechanics. While the game offers engaging elements and intriguing puzzles, many players feel it requires additional polish to compete with other platformers. Overall, it provides a decent experience, especially for fans of side-scrolling games, despite some frustrations.
“Even though the game is fairly simple and doesn't have the depth of Inside or Limbo, it still provides a very decent amount of engaging gameplay to entertain the player.”
“The good news is that the game is short enough and the checkpoints frequent enough that the mechanics don't get too frustrating.”
“Alone’s gameplay is overall very straightforward; most of the things you will be doing are platforming and navigating the environment, trying to evade different traps or enemies.”
“I'm pretty sure they just looked at what was wrong with their programming and said, 'Alright... let's own our mistakes by making them gameplay features.'”
“I've 'played' it (as the gameplay is) for less than an hour, and in that time it feels like I've glitched or spammed my way around the level.”
“My major complaint concerns the mechanics of the game.”
- music4 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- -25 % neutral mentions
- 75 % negative mentions
The music in the game initially enhances the eerie atmosphere and creates a fun vibe, but it quickly becomes repetitive and tiresome, leading to a desire for more variety. Overall, while it effectively sets the mood, the lack of diversity in the soundtrack detracts from the experience over time.
“The environment is eerie, and the music helps to set the mood.”
“The music was fun; it created a good vibe.”
“This game does not list key commands, the interface for settings does not indicate which selection you just made, and the music is repetitive and becomes tiresome.”
“The environment is eerie and the music helps to set the mood (at least initially; it gets a bit redundant after a while).”
“Could use some extra music.”
- atmosphere3 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The game's atmosphere is consistently praised as one of its strongest features, contributing to an engaging and adrenaline-filled experience. Players appreciate the immersive mood it creates, enhancing the fun of the 2.5D puzzle platforming elements. Overall, the atmosphere is highlighted as a key factor in the game's appeal, especially given its low price.
“The game's biggest strengths are its overall mood and atmosphere.”
“Alone is a fun and adrenaline-filled adventure game with great atmosphere at a low price.”
“"Alone" is a fun and exciting 2.5D puzzle platformer with a great atmosphere.”
- graphics1 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The graphics are praised for their impressive art style, although some users feel that the loose controls detract from the overall experience, particularly in platforming segments.
