Spark in the Dark

“Often enough if you get attacked with the crossbow in hand it breaks your gameplay - you cannot switch or use some or all weapons anymore, in-game menu becomes unresponsive, rest doesn't work, you have to kill yourself or reload. This totally breaks your experience, especially devastating on higher difficulties when you put in the time to clear an area to progress, then somebody attacks you and everything is broken and you need to start again.”

“Combat mechanics: constantly getting stuck and caught on spiders' legs, table corners, doorways, not possible to choose between multiple interactables on top of each other. If only refund was more than 2 hours.”

“Gameplay is tedious and repetitive, amounting to spinning your camera 90+ degrees every 2 seconds to kite around enemies, hit them once or twice, and repeat ad nauseum.”

“With its captivating setting and a story full of mysteries, Spark in the Dark doesn’t offer much beyond that.”

“No map, no compass, no quest track, you have to explore the labyrinth by yourself.”

“Modern game: cutscene, show the path from and to the activation point, update quest status, show quest mark.”

“Almost no graphic or video options are offered, no variety of difficulty sliders, etc; there's almost nothing for a player to adjust.”

“This is very reminiscent of old school games, but with somewhat modernized graphics and controls.”

“At first glance, it wears its inspirations on its sleeve, utilizing a dark, atmospheric aesthetic that dungeon-crawler fans will immediately recognize.”

“But at the same time it can become tedious, sometimes you'll be running in circles trying to find a door for which you didn't have a key but now you have that key, but you forgot where it was so you spend an hour trying to find that door again. It makes sense since you are in the absolute dark and shouldn't be able to easily find your way, but it can be a downside to some players.”

“Gameplay is tedious and repetitive, amounting to spinning your camera 90+ degrees every 2 seconds to kite around enemies, hit them once or twice, and repeat ad nauseum.”

“-Stepping on the green spiders is basically impossible to avoid and every time you do, you have to run all the way back to a light source so you don't die from poison. After 50 green spiders, this just gets tedious and ruins the game.”

“I know this is early access and is going to have bugs and performance issues, but please keep working on them.”

“Performance, because there's little difference in FPS between the 3 available quality settings, at least on my machine, and I got drops to 30 FPS in one place, and often around 50-60 FPS on lowest settings.”

“Or performance issues.”

“I like the game but it randomly freezes my PC, running this on Linux Mint.”

“Immersive, simple, no fancy magic, dark, gritty, unforgiving, a bit buggy.”

“Great combat as well, although enemy and player collision can be buggy at times.”

“So replayability is very low.”

“Medieval vibe while providing replayable value in a dungeon crawler as well having to work within the dark which both has its pros and cons.”

“There's quite a lot of content and replayability already, but, being an early access title, it naturally needs a bit of polishing, balancing and fixes.”

“No volume controls; you can only turn the music volume up or down but not the effects.”

“Audio lacks distinct background music.”

“There's a music slider, but it's not even available unless you're actively in a run.”