Recent reviews by SpellShell

This is a review on a game and not a steam version in particular because the steam version is an unplayable garbage and I've finished this game on the epic store version.
Gameplay may catch your attention if you like turn based games and tacticals like Jagged Alliance, but be wary because this game is just a mess and the deepest mechanic related to tactics here is an overwatch.
You spent more than half of the game with close ranged and light guns and in the last third you'll get the rest of the arsenal with a neckbreaking phase. In the last quarter of the game pretty much everything except energy weapons would be useless. You need to grind random encounters which was never a thing in fallout. Missions with vehicles was a chore instead of an interesting addition to the series. Lack of barter between characters in your squad and terrible handling of any ladder by AI is annoying. And don't even get me started on gamebreacking glitches like endless PC turns upon revisiting areas with enemies or straight up non working escape grids on easter egg encounters. You may need to start over the whole game depending on how you use your save slots if you get one of these bugs

Very interesting project for single indie developer. For me personally it was a disappointing expirience. I was expecting this game to be a dungeon crawler with quest elements, but it's just a quest. There's no grind and few enemies overall. There's basically no gameplay loop - you just solving puzzles in order until dissapointing endings and battle system felt like an afterthought.

It's borderland experimental and it's fine. More fun than tons of indistinguishable trash

How does developer expected from players to suffer throught this terrible UI and fonts is beyond me

Nice. cozy and free.

That's kinda funny to see projects like this and Alterverse (both changed names btw) began all the way back in Steam Greenlight and got a second wind after Metaverse/AI bubbles. Huh at least grift like that still alive compared to ambitious projects like Life of Rome

Quality of this released game is somewhat between alpha and beta build

I'm glad EP 2 finally out! As ambitious as this game is I understand why relesing EP 2 took almost a half of year more than promised.

Most of the game you just read descriptions and watch transition cutscenes. You can only speed up a text by holding "right". Text speed is agonizingly slow and there's no options to change it or show whole thing instantly.
In my opinion typewriter text effect should be used only to emulate dramatic pauses or specific character's spech patterns in dialogues. This game decided to use it for descriptions which is infuriating.

Fell in love with atmosphere and scares, but survival mechanics was too punishing. It felt like I beat a half of the game, but I've just barely got everything for a working stove. Main issue was a map. It's disorienting and game doesen't gave me enought shortcuts in my poinion so I need to do alot of backtracking with a map like that. I've just dropped it after I've reach a basement, because suffering throught another disorienting maze of a map was too much for me