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Dissonance

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90%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
90% User Score Based on 117 reviews

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Dissonance is a single player casual role playing game with horror, mystery and science fiction themes. It was developed by TeamResonance and was released on April 27, 2022. It received positive reviews from players.

Dissonance is a top-down 3rd person adventure game. Players will encounter supernatural anomalies and creatures. Find and use specialized gadgets to aid you in your journey. Explore the abandoned research facility and reveal the secret of the organization that sent you here.

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90%Audience ScoreBased on 117 reviews
gameplay20 positive mentions
stability4 negative mentions
  • Engaging and fun gameplay with interesting mechanics and enjoyable boss fights.
  • Atmospheric and immersive story with SCP-inspired themes and intriguing lore to discover.
  • High-quality visuals and sound design for an indie free game, showing great passion and polish.
  • Significant performance issues including high CPU/GPU usage, lag, and low frame rates on many systems.
  • Clunky controls, lack of customizable keybinds, and confusing boss fight mechanics with poor visual feedback.
  • Short game length and linear gameplay with some glitches, bugs, and occasional unclear narrative or progression guidance.

  • gameplay

    36 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    56% positive mentions, 36% neutral mentions, 8% negative mentions

    The gameplay is generally praised for its interesting, simple yet engaging mechanics and varied level designs, providing a fun and immersive experience despite the game’s short length. Some reviewers note minor issues like performance stutters and occasional obtuse mechanics, but overall, the gameplay is seen as polished, straightforward, and enjoyable with a good balance of exploration, puzzles, and combat.

    • “The level designs are great with many different environments (sunny/nighttime vs snowy, dark indoors vs bright outdoors); the creatures and bosses are fun to deal with and/or fight, and the mechanics are fairly easy to understand.”
    • “There are many interesting mechanics introduced throughout the game, making it fun to explore each area for clues and to eliminate enemies you encounter.”
    • “Final boss is a great example of having the player use previous mechanics on waves of attackers, combined with an interesting new mechanic.”
    • “This game is pretty lackluster, the music, the gameplay, the ending twist... 100% GPU utilization and it stuttered, no VSync option either.”
    • “I did not really understand it, and the gameplay is nothing special, but hey, it's free, took under an hour, and looked good.”
    • “The mechanical bossfight was obtuse to figure out.”

  • story

    25 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    40% positive mentions, 48% neutral mentions, 12% negative mentions

    The story is a short, SCP-inspired narrative that combines mysterious lore and atmospheric exploration, often delivered through collectible notes and character dialogue. While it starts strong and is praised for its immersive and intriguing plot, some players find the middle section somewhat confusing. Overall, the game offers a thoughtful and original take on the SCP genre with a compelling story that leaves players wanting more.

    • “Game play is fairly linear with collectible lore notes around the place giving you insight into the story as well as the character's dialogue.”
    • “It's story and atmosphere lifts it to incredible levels.”
    • “[i]dissonance[/i] revolves around a special mission which aims to find out what exactly happened to another research team.”
    • “Game play is fairly linear with collectable lore notes around the place giving you insight into the story as well as the character's dialogue.”
    • “Neat little spooky story type feel of a game, reading the notes is a must to understand what's going on, so if you don't like that then skip this.”
    • “It's a nice and short game with a little bit of a story.”

  • graphics

    12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    83% positive mentions, 17% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's graphics are generally praised as decent to fantastic, with many noting polished and visually appealing visuals that enhance the horror experience. Some users highlight smooth performance and solid movement, though occasional frame rate drops in certain locations have been reported. Overall, the visuals contribute well to the game's atmosphere and narrative.

    • “For a free game, this experience is well put together and has brilliant visuals coupled with an interesting plot.”
    • “Extremely polished experience with straightforward, refined mechanics, a cool SCP-inspired narrative wrapper, and great visuals.”
    • “This game runs very smoothly and I find the graphics amazing.”

  • atmosphere

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    88% positive mentions, 12% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's atmosphere is widely praised for effectively building suspense and enhancing the story, creating an engaging and immersive experience. While generally strong, some users feel the atmosphere diminishes toward the end and could benefit from improved sound design and a more intense progression. Overall, it offers a well-crafted, enjoyable ambiance, especially impressive for a free, short-duration game.

    • “Its story and atmosphere lift it to incredible levels.”
    • “Dissonance is an atmospheric thriller that builds suspense while searching for your missing brother.”
    • “The game knows its tone and style and the atmosphere it builds does everything, amazingly well, to add to that vision.”

  • optimization

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    60% positive mentions, -20% neutral mentions, 60% negative mentions

    The game suffers from poor optimization, with frequent frame rate drops and performance issues even on low settings and mid-range hardware. This significantly impacts gameplay experience, causing frustration despite interesting mechanics. Users strongly desire performance improvements and additional features like multiplayer.

    • “Only issue I have is performance, I got low FPS, please fix and please make more games like this and multiplayer, please :)”
    • “Gameplay mechanics were interesting but because of performance issues and accumulated minor problems, I struggled to finish the game.”
    • “The game has major performance issues, with my PC struggling at the lowest settings and frame rate still dropping.”
    • “The game does have major performance issues though, with my PC struggling at the lowest settings for some reasons, and the frame rate still dropping.”
    • “Performance is really bad, depending on level I had 20-60 fps with Ryzen 5 5600 and RX5600 XT.”
    • “Terrible optimization.”

  • stability

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game experiences occasional lag, glitches, and clipping issues that can disrupt gameplay, particularly during object interactions and enemy encounters. Visual effects bugs, such as with the gravity gun, and achievement glitches further impact stability. Overall, the stability is inconsistent and may hinder the experience.

    • “I experienced glitches during certain parts where objects would slingshot around as if they were on bungee cords, and there was also a noticeable problem with clipping which made object interaction and enemy conflict needlessly tricky to respond to at times.”
    • “Just a bit laggy and buggy.”
    • “There are some VFX glitches with the gravity gun after the object you're holding gets destroyed by mobs.”

  • music

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    67% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 33% negative mentions

    The music in the game is widely praised for being perfect and immersive, complementing the dark themes and enhancing the overall atmosphere despite some criticisms of other aspects.

    • “The soundtrack alone is absolutely perfect and draws me in.”
    • “Beautiful game; the dark theme scenarios and history combined perfectly with the music.”

  • emotional

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The emotional feedback regarding this aspect is minimal and somewhat technical, focusing on gameplay mechanics rather than eliciting strong feelings or emotional engagement.

  • humor

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The humor in the game is highlighted by clever mechanical interactions, such as the amusing moment when using a magnet to open a metal door, adding a playful and entertaining element to gameplay.

  • grinding

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Grinding is described as requiring significant time and effort, to the point where players may feel they need additional resources or stamina to manage it effectively.

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1h Median play time
1h Average play time
1-2h Spent by most gamers
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Dissonance is a casual role playing game with horror, mystery and science fiction themes. Common tags for Dissonance include free to play, 3D, indie, linear, surreal and others.

Dissonance is available on PC and Windows.

On average players spend around 1 hours playing Dissonance.

Dissonance was released on April 27, 2022.

Dissonance was developed by TeamResonance.

Dissonance has received positive reviews from players. Most players liked Dissonance for its gameplay but disliked it for its optimization.

Dissonance is a single player game.

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