HOLE

“Devs refuse to fix issues with integrated graphics making most levels completely unplayable, making the game itself unplayable beyond the first level.”

“The development has stopped and it is noticeable that this is very lacking on many things like graphical settings (almost no settings in game, requires editing .ini). The performance is quite bad as it uses path tracing to brute force lighting (no baked lighting, making the game look bad if disabled), making the processing very noticeable and grainy/noisy, and running around the maps too quickly can make the game lag on lower end machines.”

“Bad optimization: you shouldn't just pray for the game to get the frames back due to the simplistic style of graphics. Add more detailed graphics settings so we don't have to go to obscure folders and files and do that in a weird, janky way. In fact, simplistic graphics can be a bit of a problem because people with low-end builds might think they can run it, but in reality it'll run very poorly, pretty much on the level with ultra-realistic games, so optimization is indeed required.”

“The game is an unoptimized mess to the point of being pretty much unplayable when you reach a certain point.”

“The development has stopped and it is noticeable that this is very lacking on many things like graphical settings (almost no settings in game, requires editing .ini) player controller feels very plug and play unreal kit, enemies are sometimes slightly 'unfair' with their precision headshots making leaning a complete useless mechanic, the performance is quite bad as it uses path tracing to brute force lighting (no baked lighting, making the game look bad if disabled, bad design) making the processing of it very noticeable and grainy/noisy, and running around the maps too quickly can make the game lag on lower end machines.”

“The visuals are pretty terrible, the performance is abysmal, and yet the core gameplay is pretty fun.”

“There is no story to the game; you are simply completing tasks to unlock new maps which help you get new weapons.”

“The storyline sucks mostly because it doesn’t really even have one.”

“- no lore: there is no story, no lore, and no explanation as to why you are in these places shooting at these enemies who are shooting at you.”

“The game heavily relies on its graphics; disabling them makes the experience much worse. Darkness is only created by global illumination, and turning it off essentially ruins the experience by making everything excessively bright and removing the atmosphere.”

“The atmosphere that encouraged slow, deliberate movement is replaced by a need to rush or stay constantly alert for the wrong reasons, and the open layout sacrifices what made the earlier design so compelling.”

“Unoptimized, slightly janky single-player extraction shooter that maxes out on atmosphere but starts off torturing you with California-compliant magazines.”

“- The game has no replayability once you unlock everything, which doesn't take much effort or time.”

“Replayability is also low because of that.”

“And there are plenty of mysteries to uncover too. I think it might be lacking a little bit of replayability once you complete the game just due to no new content releasing, but I also completely understand that, since the devs are currently working on another project instead!”

“The currency and data progression is tedious, and doing it once is already enough.”

“A bit of a slog on the later half as you're grinding for certain things in the same few maps but the atmosphere of the game is superb.”

“Unfortunately, the second and third stage lose steam incredibly fast, not only because the level design is too large and confusing to navigate reliably, but also because the formerly simple and vague mechanics give way to some pretty tedious goals with exponentially less interesting payoff every time.”

“There's no music, just the humming of lights, the weirdly pitched gurgling noises of enemies, gunfire in the distance, sudden footsteps that are way too close and you don't know where or if they spotted you, doors opening, your own footsteps feel like loud, location-pinging mistakes.”

“I wish there was the ability to add my own music that plays in the background because as is the lack of music is very noticeable and while I can just play music elsewhere, it would be nice to have music automatically play when I am in the hole.”

“There’s no soundtrack guiding your emotions—you’re left alone with the faint hum of flickering office lights and the occasional inhuman grunt echoing in the distance.”

“It’s not funny, it’s not deep, but it has a slightly uncanny vibe that I ended up liking for reasons I can’t fully defend in court.”

“The lighting is super buggy and dark.”

“This game will tank low end PCs despite its minimalistic graphics due to ray tracing, as well as having a lot of weird and buggy animations and near constant clipping.”

“You can grab onto ledges and climb up onto them, but in some places this will cause weird glitches where your camera is briefly almost a third-person view; I assume the camera isn't synced properly to the mantling/climbing animation.”

“The absence of an elaborate story or character development means the player’s attention remains firmly fixed on overcoming the gameplay challenges presented by each stage.”