I played 1 run , i think i made it at least midway through the game bcs i believe i played it about 15-20 mins at least but couldn't beat it. Kind of rage quit when one of the monsters killed me with a critical hit when i had 7 hp :)
I'll start of with graphics. I think you went for a PS1 kind of aesthetic, sci-fi horror game. There is a strong atmosphere in the game but i found the low resolution and FOV jarring. Especially FOV. The metrics and proportions of the level felt somewhat off to me as well. I think lighting and shadows contribute the most to the atmosphere of the game. Especially shadows. I think you mostly used baked lighting in the game.
Free camera mode with right click works well but it's also glitchy a little. In combat you can normally select the cards with mouse but sometimes a bug occurs where you have to hold RMB to select the cards. Also after battles you choose to boost one of your stats. You have to hold RMB on that screen to click on buttons too.
I think combat is the part of the game which deserves praise the most and i think that's where most of the effort was put on but it's not without problems i have to say. The artwork on cards look really nice. System works well for the most part. The roll die thing looks nice but from a player perspective i think it slows down the game and make it much more random. Deck builder combat is already random, i don't think there is a need to add more randomness to it. Also that randomness can yield very undpredictable results which can be frustrating. Enemies were dealing 4-5 damage max then suddenly it spiked to 7-8 dmg. My total HP was 9 and i gave points to HP on every level up. We start with 5 HP which is too low.
I think the map is pretty big and it was hard to navigate without a map. Darkness makes it even harder. There are some bugs in the game i found.;
- When i took the power sword after the sniper rifle, the latter was disappeared from the inventory
- Back button doesn't work on the settings menu on main menu scene, you have to restart game when you enter settings
- When you press switch weapons button, you can select only one weapon in the inventory even if you have more than 2
- There are some minor UI bugs where menus overlap eachother. Some texture glitches here and there
It was fun for me overall. I enjoyed playing a sci-fi horror crawler game with a good atmosphere. Nice work!