Very interesting so far. But it feels almost too hardcore due to the troublesome level generation. It’s also extremely dark so I can barely see anything. There’s glowfruit to use as lanterns but you ALWAYS have to use them because it’s so dark. The entire game shouldn’t be worse than shaded citadel in rain world, maybe half of it but at least not all of it. It’s too easy to slip into a pit with no way out and no possible way around it if you managed to avoid it. You also get damaged extremely easily. You’re even more delicate than a banana. Because you get damaged so easily you can barely see anything from the overwhelming visual effects. And it’s dark so you can barely see anything anyways. I don’t want the game to be much easier though, just a tiny tiny bit lower damage and more light in the environment. Wall jumping is important but feels awful and is difficult to figure out. You also become exhausted very quickly, and overheat/freeze very quickly too.
I would love to see where this goes. This has a lot of potential.
I hope we get to customise our guy eventually. We need to be able to make our ocs and watch them suffer. Customisable blood colours too. Maybe some kind of customisable body plan or internal biologies because of the genetically altered creature thing if the dev think that fits. Probably too complicated but I don’t know their plans.
I can only dig about 6 blocks before getting the first tier of exhaustion, maybe 12 blocks would feel a little better for gameplay. We’re furries with claws too. Different level generation would make this less annoying anyways.
I don't mind the 'can't dig much barehanded', but at least make it so tools open up strategies for digging instead of just being slightly better for a quarter total weight capacity.
Cool game though, look forward to seeing it develop.
I learned how walljumping works now and it’s not so bad. I just have to hold space and I will automatically bounce off of walls. Here’s some more random critique I’ve just thought of.
I’ve gotten a bit better so I think most damage feels fine but some damage sources are still a bit too much, especially barbed wire, I stepped on a tiny bit of it and started bleeding out of every body part. It’s really easy to overdose on fentanyl because it injects so quickly, the slightest tap uses almost too much. Realistically it is quite powerful but in medications it should be easier to correctly dose because it’s balanced for users. If it was not medical then it should be the same as it is currently. The inject speed for everything could be slower. Sometimes being near a note is annoying because I keep accidentally reading it while trying to escape. Another random thing is that people in this comment section have mentioned losing body parts but I’ve only ever lost hand function. I haven’t lost anything else even if I land on a landmine several times in a row. Maybe it’s not obvious, the health screen doesn’t really show anything but 0 health for those parts. It’s not obvious that I’ve lost a hand until I look at my inventory. Another thing is that it’s difficult to figure out how to trade with survivors, and I seem to get stuck on an option after clicking on it. I don’t know if this is intended or not.
Played the tutorial, left the game open, locked the PC, came back, loged into my pc, screen went black with the sond still playing,restarted pc now it just opens a zero dimension window with no picture or video and only the sound plays
Yah i would love to be able to play as the other types of animal human hybrids, also good choice the oranges are good for that reason plus they're super strong and tanky.
As the stupid chud I am I would have instantly dismissed this game if it were not for the fact that its fucked up bruh, having your leg blown smoove off by a mine to then be launched from the explosion into the soundblact from a soundcannon to then slowly freeze and drown to death in a pool of oil while wearing a life support pump is kinda nutty, this game cant be properly surmissed in a simple review so I plan to make a video on it but I give you my congratulations for making this and I actually look foward to its updates.
Someone helped me with it but considering documenting some stuff from the game... just remind yourself to take breaks... don't get burned out... Or perhaps enjoy the thrill of the unknown, it is in the new name... May the exe show you
Both are very fun depending on how you like the game
this is a very, very good concept that i am going to follow, but i have some constructive criticism to offer from the perspective of someone familiar with this sort of gameplay experience.
1) the world generation is veeery rough at the moment. call it a skill issue but i can't even get through the gravel pits because of the alternating unpredictable chasms of death and impenetrably-thick walls. it's so, so easy to put yourself into a pit too wide to walljump out of where the only way out is to dig, dig, dig, fast forward to rest, repeat. not fun at all, especially with no quick method of restarting a run. this isn't even mentioning loot that's effectively totally inaccessible due to worldgen.
2) it is far, far, FAR too dark. i know what you're trying to go for by making light sources necessary, but it's literally impossible to see anything that isn't already surrounded by glowplants or holes in the wall. this combined with the eye-searing bloom of light sources makes visual clarity suffer greatly, to the point that even in lit places i'll walk into shade crawlers that i can't see through the VFX. i think giving the glowfruits a slightly wider radius, lowering the bloom, and making them spawn a little more spread out would do some good, as would lowering the overall blackness. having the caves start off relatively well-lit and THEN progress into pitch-dark would probably improve the experience as well and keep players actually searching for sources of light as they progress instead of harvesting dozens of glowfruits to throw like flares from minute one.
3) back to "no quick method of restarting a run," an actual pause menu with options other than 'main menu' is probably the absolute most necessary thing right now. ending up in a pool of dirty water going into shock repeatedly from blood loss and pain effectively ends the run and with no way to start a new one other than going all the way back to the menu, it makes failing early on or with good loot FAR more irritating than it should be. a settings tab to adjust things like max framerate and/or the bloom and gamma would also be deeply appreciated by many.
TL;DR -- excellent concept and framework, but ultimately too player-hostile at the moment to be easily approachable. and this is coming from a noita/baro/zomboid/dayZ/tarkov/rust player. that said, i'm INCREDIBLY excited to see where this goes and i'm going to keep trying it out on and off to see if any of these issues are simply a me problem. thank you for sharing your work, and keep at it.
Hi everyone, before I say anything I just wanted to say this game is 1000000000000/10 the person behind this did an amazing job they should be proud of themselves.
I Just had a brutal death yesterday probably one of my most, I just spawned wondered around for a little, I jumped down off a cliff to what I thought was a trap free area but no I was very wrong there was a spike trap, I Landed right on top of it went off and went clean through my head, my neck was destroyed, my jaw pulverized and my brain was half gone somehow I was still alive and was able to stand up unsurprisingly like 30 seconds later or less I died.
Btw this all happened in a span of like 5 minutes (quickest death I've had)
Also sorry for the long and possibly confusing comment I'm horrible at communicating what I mean sometimes.
I've done a few rounds of this now, on one run I somehow opened up a chatbox that gave me access to admin commands, couldn't figure out how to close it and started messing around with it cause while its open I cant move, discovered the explode command and heal command, free pass down to toxic wastes while spamming explosions and heals,fell into cave system and my head hit a ledge in such a way it ripped my head off, no healing that apparently. Now I can't figure out how the hell I opened that chatbox up, do love that I can make him say things tho. Also found a jetpack on one run, very fun and easy to use and quite powerful cause you can even use it while ragdolled
Created a Account just to talk about this game just to say that the many ways to die are hella brutal. The many different afflictions your damned-to-die canine can get are endless.
Some of The many different ways Experiment can suffer is:
-breaking your jaw, or your ribs, or your spine
- Accidentally stepping on broken glass
-Literal Brain damage
-Shock from Agonizing pain
- Getting blood into your lungs leading to Hypoxia
- "Accidently" overdosing on Heroin
-Accidently mixing sleeping pills with other drugs, leading to respiratory arrest
-Opioid Addiction
- Getting permanent hearing loss (Probably, but it would be funny to add.)
-And, my favorite one, getting Traumatized, leading to depression.
(Dont forget that you can permanently lose some body parts, like your jaw(I don't think you can lose any actual limbs, i hope.))
This game actually legitimately made me sick to my stomach. watching this little guy die slowly and agonizingly. This game, in all of its pixelated glory, is literally not for the faint of heart. You will die, as there is no end, and unless you go back to menu (Couldn't blame you), you can only do nothing but watch as that red circle showing your brain's final moments makes its one and only slow revolution as those afflictions at the bottom bob up and down, taunting you as Experiment's final death rattle finally takes its soul out of its mortal plane. And you can only see the corpse, one of literally thousands of others strewn about on this forsaken planet, waiting for another poor soul to encounter your dead body, and loot what you had when you died.
Also this game has a dope soundtrack plz listen to ittttttttttttttttt
This game goes hard, I got dejawed from falling on a spike funny.
The hurt sounds actually got me feeling bad the first few hard falls.
I love how the character is constantly talking about things, and how sometimes your character seemingly directly calls you out (wonder the implications of that), because of that the consequences really hit me when I used mindwipe.
Soooo, I made it to the toxic wastes for the first time
>be Expie >lvl 1 EZ >lvl 2 EZ >Desert for the first time >OH GOD WTF IS THAT FLESH BLOB >irl scream >reflexively jump of cliff >second irl scream >bush MLG >eat cactus coz hungry, thirsty and hawt >make it to *safe* space >depressed nap >get down to ASAP to cycle back to first lvl >oh wait, lvl 4: toxic wastes >okay, just keep going >nap, wake up coughing >keep going down quickly >fall, hard >try to bandage self >Subject shows signs of resistance >get high on painkillers >bandage self >sonic cannon. >fuck. >at least Expie too dumb to be sad >keep going down at breakneck speed >reach end, but exhausted >find "safe" space >floor covered in oil >fuck. >too tired to move >too tired to dig >take nap in oil
Sweet dreams, Expie. May the afterlife be graced with your soul.
My first run lasted all of 30 seconds. I dropped in, tried to say hello to the nearby drop pod inhabitant because friend, and then got evaporated by a trap i didnt even see.
Finally... a game that makes me feel 1% of the suffering I feel with WarThunder.
Addictive and very unforgiving. One second I was rolling, the next, I rolled off of a cliff, causes internal bleeding, and now I am breathing with blood in my lungs. Highly recommend
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who tf is shipping raw algae water??😭
delicious
so i turned my computer on, went mining, fell, punctured a lung and died, then went to hell. then i played scav prototype
this is so good. maybe if there were more difficulties options but i don't judge. maybe port the crying sound option from gunsaw?
nice
Great concept but sadly killed by level generation, its impossible to traverse the level
you can mine through the rock
Real tough, but I think I'm addicted already. It's got a lot of systems going on and great "one more run" potential.
Someone told me of this one, "reminds me of Cortex Command but controls feel alright" so now I gotta check it.
well well well
Very interesting so far. But it feels almost too hardcore due to the troublesome level generation. It’s also extremely dark so I can barely see anything. There’s glowfruit to use as lanterns but you ALWAYS have to use them because it’s so dark. The entire game shouldn’t be worse than shaded citadel in rain world, maybe half of it but at least not all of it. It’s too easy to slip into a pit with no way out and no possible way around it if you managed to avoid it. You also get damaged extremely easily. You’re even more delicate than a banana. Because you get damaged so easily you can barely see anything from the overwhelming visual effects. And it’s dark so you can barely see anything anyways. I don’t want the game to be much easier though, just a tiny tiny bit lower damage and more light in the environment. Wall jumping is important but feels awful and is difficult to figure out. You also become exhausted very quickly, and overheat/freeze very quickly too.
I would love to see where this goes. This has a lot of potential.
I hope we get to customise our guy eventually. We need to be able to make our ocs and watch them suffer. Customisable blood colours too. Maybe some kind of customisable body plan or internal biologies because of the genetically altered creature thing if the dev think that fits. Probably too complicated but I don’t know their plans.
"You also become exhausted very quickly" I would love to see you dig a tunnel through a solid rock wall with nothing but your bare hands
I can only dig about 6 blocks before getting the first tier of exhaustion, maybe 12 blocks would feel a little better for gameplay. We’re furries with claws too. Different level generation would make this less annoying anyways.
I don't mind the 'can't dig much barehanded', but at least make it so tools open up strategies for digging instead of just being slightly better for a quarter total weight capacity.
Cool game though, look forward to seeing it develop.
I learned how walljumping works now and it’s not so bad. I just have to hold space and I will automatically bounce off of walls. Here’s some more random critique I’ve just thought of.
I’ve gotten a bit better so I think most damage feels fine but some damage sources are still a bit too much, especially barbed wire, I stepped on a tiny bit of it and started bleeding out of every body part. It’s really easy to overdose on fentanyl because it injects so quickly, the slightest tap uses almost too much. Realistically it is quite powerful but in medications it should be easier to correctly dose because it’s balanced for users. If it was not medical then it should be the same as it is currently. The inject speed for everything could be slower. Sometimes being near a note is annoying because I keep accidentally reading it while trying to escape. Another random thing is that people in this comment section have mentioned losing body parts but I’ve only ever lost hand function. I haven’t lost anything else even if I land on a landmine several times in a row. Maybe it’s not obvious, the health screen doesn’t really show anything but 0 health for those parts. It’s not obvious that I’ve lost a hand until I look at my inventory. Another thing is that it’s difficult to figure out how to trade with survivors, and I seem to get stuck on an option after clicking on it. I don’t know if this is intended or not.
Why does the intro when the game launches have to rape my ears?
nevermind i fixed it by asking chatgpt,its incredible that it actually managed to fix the issue.
game.exe -screen-width 1920 -screen-height 1080 -screen-fullscreen 1
Played the tutorial, left the game open, locked the PC, came back, loged into my pc, screen went black with the sond still playing,restarted pc now it just opens a zero dimension window with no picture or video and only the sound plays
i got to the stage where radioactive stuff spawns in and i got randomly jumpscared and died instantly
that's the sound cannon
playing as an orange with 4 arms would go hard. banger game
Yah i would love to be able to play as the other types of animal human hybrids, also good choice the oranges are good for that reason plus they're super strong and tanky.
Higher resistance, 2 more arms but lower consciousness by default.
Sounds dope actually
🔥
I'd be happy to buy this on Steam once you're ready to publish there.
As the stupid chud I am I would have instantly dismissed this game if it were not for the fact that its fucked up bruh, having your leg blown smoove off by a mine to then be launched from the explosion into the soundblact from a soundcannon to then slowly freeze and drown to death in a pool of oil while wearing a life support pump is kinda nutty, this game cant be properly surmissed in a simple review so I plan to make a video on it but I give you my congratulations for making this and I actually look foward to its updates.
Hopefully being burned alive in that pit of oil will be added eventually.
Someone helped me with it but considering documenting some stuff from the game... just remind yourself to take breaks... don't get burned out...
Or perhaps enjoy the thrill of the unknown, it is in the new name...
May the exe show you
Both are very fun depending on how you like the game
this is a very, very good concept that i am going to follow, but i have some constructive criticism to offer from the perspective of someone familiar with this sort of gameplay experience.
1) the world generation is veeery rough at the moment. call it a skill issue but i can't even get through the gravel pits because of the alternating unpredictable chasms of death and impenetrably-thick walls. it's so, so easy to put yourself into a pit too wide to walljump out of where the only way out is to dig, dig, dig, fast forward to rest, repeat. not fun at all, especially with no quick method of restarting a run. this isn't even mentioning loot that's effectively totally inaccessible due to worldgen.
2) it is far, far, FAR too dark. i know what you're trying to go for by making light sources necessary, but it's literally impossible to see anything that isn't already surrounded by glowplants or holes in the wall. this combined with the eye-searing bloom of light sources makes visual clarity suffer greatly, to the point that even in lit places i'll walk into shade crawlers that i can't see through the VFX. i think giving the glowfruits a slightly wider radius, lowering the bloom, and making them spawn a little more spread out would do some good, as would lowering the overall blackness. having the caves start off relatively well-lit and THEN progress into pitch-dark would probably improve the experience as well and keep players actually searching for sources of light as they progress instead of harvesting dozens of glowfruits to throw like flares from minute one.
3) back to "no quick method of restarting a run," an actual pause menu with options other than 'main menu' is probably the absolute most necessary thing right now. ending up in a pool of dirty water going into shock repeatedly from blood loss and pain effectively ends the run and with no way to start a new one other than going all the way back to the menu, it makes failing early on or with good loot FAR more irritating than it should be. a settings tab to adjust things like max framerate and/or the bloom and gamma would also be deeply appreciated by many.
TL;DR -- excellent concept and framework, but ultimately too player-hostile at the moment to be easily approachable. and this is coming from a noita/baro/zomboid/dayZ/tarkov/rust player. that said, i'm INCREDIBLY excited to see where this goes and i'm going to keep trying it out on and off to see if any of these issues are simply a me problem. thank you for sharing your work, and keep at it.
You can actually restart the run by pressing 0, as in other games from this developer, but the game doesn't tell about it being an option
Do not play this game at 0 AM. I warned ya :> [10 Runs out of 10]
Hi everyone, before I say anything I just wanted to say this game is 1000000000000/10 the person behind this did an amazing job they should be proud of themselves.
I Just had a brutal death yesterday probably one of my most, I just spawned wondered around for a little, I jumped down off a cliff to what I thought was a trap free area but no I was very wrong there was a spike trap, I Landed right on top of it went off and went clean through my head, my neck was destroyed, my jaw pulverized and my brain was half gone somehow I was still alive and was able to stand up unsurprisingly like 30 seconds later or less I died.
Btw this all happened in a span of like 5 minutes (quickest death I've had)
Also sorry for the long and possibly confusing comment I'm horrible at communicating what I mean sometimes.
I've done a few rounds of this now, on one run I somehow opened up a chatbox that gave me access to admin commands, couldn't figure out how to close it and started messing around with it cause while its open I cant move, discovered the explode command and heal command, free pass down to toxic wastes while spamming explosions and heals,fell into cave system and my head hit a ledge in such a way it ripped my head off, no healing that apparently. Now I can't figure out how the hell I opened that chatbox up, do love that I can make him say things tho. Also found a jetpack on one run, very fun and easy to use and quite powerful cause you can even use it while ragdolled
Oh sweet, free digital trauma. Don't get me wrong, this is some great stuff so far, but it just hurts to see the poor thing die from my mistakes.
Created a Account just to talk about this game just to say that the many ways to die are hella brutal. The many different afflictions your damned-to-die canine can get are endless.
Some of The many different ways Experiment can suffer is:
-breaking your jaw, or your ribs, or your spine
- Accidentally stepping on broken glass
-Literal Brain damage
-Shock from Agonizing pain
- Getting blood into your lungs leading to Hypoxia
- "Accidently" overdosing on Heroin
-Accidently mixing sleeping pills with other drugs, leading to respiratory arrest
-Opioid Addiction
- Getting permanent hearing loss (Probably, but it would be funny to add.)
-And, my favorite one, getting Traumatized, leading to depression.
(Dont forget that you can permanently lose some body parts, like your jaw(I don't think you can lose any actual limbs, i hope.))
This game actually legitimately made me sick to my stomach. watching this little guy die slowly and agonizingly. This game, in all of its pixelated glory, is literally not for the faint of heart. You will die, as there is no end, and unless you go back to menu (Couldn't blame you), you can only do nothing but watch as that red circle showing your brain's final moments makes its one and only slow revolution as those afflictions at the bottom bob up and down, taunting you as Experiment's final death rattle finally takes its soul out of its mortal plane. And you can only see the corpse, one of literally thousands of others strewn about on this forsaken planet, waiting for another poor soul to encounter your dead body, and loot what you had when you died.
Also this game has a dope soundtrack plz listen to ittttttttttttttttt
This game goes hard, I got dejawed from falling on a spike funny.
The hurt sounds actually got me feeling bad the first few hard falls.
I love how the character is constantly talking about things, and how sometimes your character seemingly directly calls you out (wonder the implications of that), because of that the consequences really hit me when I used mindwipe.
Huge Rainworld, Barotrauma, and Starbound vibes.
Soooo, I made it to the toxic wastes for the first time
>be Expie
>lvl 1 EZ
>lvl 2 EZ
>Desert for the first time
>OH GOD WTF IS THAT FLESH BLOB
>irl scream
>reflexively jump of cliff
>second irl scream
>bush MLG
>eat cactus coz hungry, thirsty and hawt
>make it to *safe* space
>depressed nap
>get down to ASAP to cycle back to first lvl
>oh wait, lvl 4: toxic wastes
>okay, just keep going
>nap, wake up coughing
>keep going down quickly
>fall, hard
>try to bandage self
>Subject shows signs of resistance
>get high on painkillers
>bandage self
>sonic cannon.
>fuck.
>at least Expie too dumb to be sad
>keep going down at breakneck speed
>reach end, but exhausted
>find "safe" space
>floor covered in oil
>fuck.
>too tired to move
>too tired to dig
>take nap in oil
Sweet dreams, Expie. May the afterlife be graced with your soul.
My first run lasted all of 30 seconds. I dropped in, tried to say hello to the nearby drop pod inhabitant because friend, and then got evaporated by a trap i didnt even see.
Finally... a game that makes me feel 1% of the suffering I feel with WarThunder.
This game fun!
я хочу играть месте с другом и сохранение
мне нравится эта игра но я хочу играть вместе другом и сохранение
holy peak..
floating shade crawler
very fun game met 3 sound cannons while crawling around the wasteland layer
Addictive and very unforgiving. One second I was rolling, the next, I rolled off of a cliff, causes internal bleeding, and now I am breathing with blood in my lungs. Highly recommend
Really good, water geyser slipping into barbed wire :( so true
Anything else?
Me after "tripping" and falling down a solid 500 meters while hitting every rock face possible to "slow my fall".
you missed low stamina and opioid overdose. And depression, probably
Just short of the "How did we get here?" achievement lol
I accidentally touched barbed wire
And the next thing i see is my character turning from black to dripping yellow mess
10/10 game, i love it
Amazing game, amazing community, hope to see the game grow!
pro tip for players! drink the oil it heals you /j
thx
given this game, surprised it doesnt cause a laxitive effect.
Dang this game has improved alot splended work hope to see more updates, I really enjoyed playing Scav <3