Larva Mortus

“The gameplay can become monotonous over time, especially due to the similar environments and enemies.”

“While some effort went into fleshing out the gameplay, it gets stale very quickly and is very repetitive.”

“Gameplay is boring, with lots of weapons that are mostly useless, random drops for achievements, and graphics that are plain bad.”

“The game's design and visuals transpire blandness.”

“It's a shame it's not optimized graphically to run at later resolutions and doesn't seem like it ever will be.”

“Though the graphics are bland and the textures are repetitive, it features pretty solid mechanics and a grand variety of monsters (each with different abilities).”

“The audio quality overall is just horrid, with missing tonality, sound effects that have no place there and even worse sounds that should've been there and they are not, and just that one song that keeps repeating again and again, and again with different effects added on the background when you enter a boss room or get overwhelmed by enemies, but even with that added, you still have to listen to the same tune that was bad to begin with.”

“The music is well done, brooding and dramatic orchestral arrangements, but again only a handful of them, and which after you listen to them for hours - you guessed it, they get a bit tedious.”

“Gameplay is boring, lots of weapons while most of them useless, random drops items for achievements, gfx plain bad, music almost non-existent.”

“Most annoying thing I found is when grinding, if you die multiple times, all your experience is lost and you have to start over. It's frustrating to say the least, and the difficulty is insane if you bump it up from easy to normal. It's completely unbalanced, so I just played it on easy rather than be utterly angered by the jump, which offers no extra experience that I found and tested. There was no reason to play on higher than easy, and honestly, it was actually playable and enjoyable on easy, which felt like the normal level for this game. Normal was, as mentioned, utterly broken balance-wise.”

“It's basically a twin-stick shooter (without controller support) where the player scuffles through randomized (but persistently unstimulating) dungeons, fending off flocks of uninspired enemies to tediously grind through a few repetitive mission objectives, all tied together by the most perfunctory of stories.”

“Boring, grindy, and repetitive.”

“Limited storytelling – while the atmosphere is strong, the game’s narrative is minimal, which may leave some players wanting more depth.”

“The atmosphere wears off quickly.”

“This game isn't horrible; it has some good things like the setting and the (sort of) creepy atmosphere that hangs around the game, but it has too many bugs and glitches, like screenshots not even coming out properly (just a black screen) and when I alt-tab out of the game it goes all wonky. I can't even use the Steam community in the game because typing is really laggy for some reason. Oh, and also my laptop hates the fog in this game, even though it shouldn't lag on that; it drops the game down to 15fps from a solid 50.”

“There is a good game buried deep, deep, somewhere in the decaying bones of Larva Mortus, but eleven years after its initial release, it's just not worth digging through the buggy rubble to find it.”

“There are lots of mechanic glitches and shortcomings that impede progress, such as being in a dungeon and then finding yourself on the map, having to start the dungeon again and losing your total score. Keep a careful eye on the score, and if it happens, exit the dungeon, and your score will be where it was. The instructions are difficult to understand, and there is a lack of any sort of in-game help.”

“This game is littered with small bugs and glitches, and while it has a cool art style and a nice setting, the mass of errors and weird design decisions make this game annoying really quickly. You do the same five missions over and over, which is not fun or dynamic. This is a cheap game from a small company, so maybe I'm a bit harsh when I say that the game sucks.”

“It gets a bit repetitive, and I'm expecting low replayability from it.”

“A competent old-school top-down slasher that lacks true replayability due to its unengaging storyline, lack of real random level generation, and overall lack of content.”

“While there is some replay value with the dungeons being procedurally generated, it ultimately feels limited.”

“The story is a 5/10 – minimal narrative, offering little in terms of plot or character development.”

“Character development is simple, as it should be.”

“The sound effects are poorly optimized; they feel more like a distraction than an enhancement.”

“The game's performance is severely lacking, making it frustrating to play.”

“Optimization seems to have been an afterthought, resulting in a clunky experience.”