UnEpic

“The plot is your run-of-the-mill 'a nerd is somehow transported to an actual fantasy and demonstrates his knowledge of fantasy tropes to become a true hero', but it portrays the protagonist (and, by extension, all geek culture) in an extremely ugly, cringy, unfunny, unlikeable, and pitiful light.”

“The story is shoddy, filled with unlikable characters and completely unfunny references to the stereotypical nerdy works.”

“The concept and the gameplay were solid but the story had some serious cringey parts, enough so that I couldn't enjoy it.”

“The actual gameplay is where the game seriously starts falling apart; the controls are a bit stiff and take some getting used to (jumps are not adjustable at all; you will always jump exactly the same height and distance, making platforming sections either painfully boring or painfully difficult dependent entirely on whether the developer decided to give you their standard half-body-length margin of error or cut it down to pixel-perfect); the combat is slow and boring, despite there being many weapon types (they all feel pretty much the same--attack speed, range, even animations--making the game way more about raw stat values than personal play style preferences, and making you wonder why the game forces you to choose a weapon group to spend points in to raise your proficiency when it all seems so arbitrary, especially when the game throws out the window any sort of sense it had been making before, when it starts giving you daggers that are stronger than axes of comparable level); enemies, while having many different appearances, tend to fall into very general categories (runs-at-you, shoots-at-you, doesn't-move-at-all, or ignores-you-and-patrols), making the already slow and boring combat now also tedious; boss encounters are incredibly boring, having very basic attack patterns you learn in just a couple seconds and essentially being damage sponges with unfair expectations of positioning using the stiff and monotonous jumps to avoid attacks that deal 30% or more of your maximum hp.”

“Starts out strong and challenging, and continues to be decent fun for a good while... until you reach the latter half of the game where it takes a steep nosedive: the gameplay becomes nothing but a chore, seemingly for the sake of wasting time, and the game turns utterly unenjoyable.”

“The jump mechanic is terrible; instead of pressing a button to jump, you press up on the directional pad/joystick, and it's amazing how many times the character just decides to leap into lava, an abyss of spikes, or similar fatal traps when you absolutely didn't want that.”

“Visuals feel unpolished and inconsistent.”

“Some rooms don’t fit the game art style.”

“Very cheap graphics, tiny spritework that makes it nearly impossible to see what's going on, mediocre controls and interaction responsiveness.”

“Boss music is a 5 second loop that made me mute the music.”

“Music is ok but could be better, especially since the loops in the tracks are very short and the repetition is quite noticeable, especially in long boss-battles.”

“The music is also well composed, but it's nothing special.”

“So, with no way to go, no way to progress, no way to level since I hit a softcap and no way to upgrade or prepare without spending several hours grinding for potions and materials, this is where the guy's quest ends.”

“Also, the low responsiveness of the combat system and physics make the grinding for leveling a true affliction, considering, also, that enemies vary strategy so often that you'll always have a problem fighting because you don't have the specific weapon/spell/potion/skill.”

“If this was a game that presented difficulty elsewhere this would be fine, but in a game where most strong melee goons can be held off by pointing a spear in their general direction and holding space, the bosses' difficulty spikes just bring the game to a grinding halt without providing any useful reward except permission to go back to the platforming segments that the game's actually passable at and the jokes that clearly were the devs' focus when making the game.”

“Even though this creates a fair level of replayability, nothing else about the game world or enemies therein changes, making repeated playthroughs dull and uninteresting in comparison to the first time around.”

“There is only one save point in the whole map and the game quicksaves without warning you (there's even an item you can buy which alerts to the fact that the game is about to quick save), this is an attempt to artificially design replayability.”

“The game has no replay value, yet success requires that you make all of your important decisions upfront.”

“Rogue-like atmosphere, but maybe not mechanics.”

“The humour in the dialogues was sometimes just a bit too crude for me, but overall it adds a light touch to the dark dungeon atmosphere.”

“Spoiler: after the first few minutes you can find a checkpoint to save & rest without worry and continue later. As you delve deeper into the dungeons, it makes you feel like you are in Diablo 1 Catacombs. The atmosphere is sinister like that, which I love, but the jokes are just okay; Zera will make some punny quotes.”

“The game starts okay enough, but the smug overly self-aware humor wears thin quickly, the difficulty isn't worth the payoff, and in the end I uninstalled after a mid-game boss battle caused glitches that caused losses of too many of my resources to be worth continuing.”

“I tried to play it on Ubuntu and Windows, and both are buggy.”

“My biggest problem with the game are the glitches that prevent you from doing what the game wants you to do, such as lag issues starting you in danger of the next map, and the inability to toggle the targeting feature on or off which we have yet to figure out the cause.”

“While you have non-linear character development, you have a very linear storyline and skill set required for progression.”

“Played it through, but considering the possibilities of the character development, it is worth playing again.”

“The character development also offers a number of hooks to become invested in either the player character or its unlikely sidekick.”

“You get delays that are like 1-2 seconds long and you get randomly teleported across the screen. Projectiles and such are all calculated from the host without any leniency for lag, so you can guess how that will be. The game's code does not feel optimized for multiplayer at all.”

“Side-note: advertising the 'next developed' game inside your 'first developed' game is really tacky.”

“Having this game in my library caused me to have un-deletable spam ads in my inventory.”