Dieses Spiel hat starke Tendenzen zum Survival-Horror, besonders durch die teils stockdunklen Passagen, die mit einer Lampe erhellt werden müssen. Zudem habe ich es auf dem Hardcore-Schwierigkeitsgrad durchgespielt, also konnte ich nur an sehr spärlich platzierten Schreibmaschinen speichern.

Ressourcenknappheit war auch ein sehr stressiger, aber durchaus spannender Teil des Gameplays – Batterien, Munition und Heilflaschen waren sehr rar, was bei mir weitere Horror-Assoziationen geweckt hat, die ich im Vorhinein nicht erwartet habe. Generell war die ständige Angst vor der nächsten Ecke oder Treppe in düsteren Innenräumen ein nennenswerter Bestandteil meines Spieldurchgangs.

Für mich war die Story leider ein wenig unverständlich, das Ende kam auch sehr abrupt und hat keinerlei Fragen geklärt.

Die Maps waren oft gerade so fertiggestellt worden und abseits des Hauptpfads nur sehr spärlich eingerichtet. Grafisch ist es sehr ansprechend für ein Indiespiel, das Raytracing ist da noch ein netter Bonus, der mal mehr, mal weniger ins Gewicht fällt. Der Gegner-Stil erinnert teilweise an Bioshock, die Umgebung hingegen sehr an Half-Life 2. Besonders schön fand ich die Zugfahrten und den bedrohlich rötlichen Lichtschein der Lampen auf manchen Gegnern in stockdunklen Treppenhäusern.

Zuletzt noch zum allerschwächsten Glied der Bewertungskette – der Technik. Die Performance des Spiels ist generell extrem bescheiden, sobald Raytracing an ist, ich konnte nur dann 60+ FPS erreichen, wenn ich DLSS auf High Performance gestellt habe, was einige feinere Texturen verschwommen aussehen lässt, was ich aber noch verkraften konnte. Nicht auszuhalten waren jedoch die mittendrin fehlenden Übersetzungen, fehlenden Wörter, Wortdopplungen und generell Glitches überall – eine ganze Szenerie lang musste ich z. B. laute Geräuschen von im Boden steckenden Ragdolls ertragen, die trotz erneutem Laden nicht verschwanden.

Insgesamt also ganz knapp vor der Negativ-Wertung, aber durch das gute Gun- und Gameplay eine Überlegung wert.

the highlight of the industria was no doubt the traversing through the city gates towards the countryside. a long train ride, somber and quiet, gazing around you as the environment changes. collapsing down too the narrative of your pursuit of your lost love with brent's own love lost. delicately done, the pace of the ride giving us enough to feel a duration of time, and the freedom of our camera left me to look behind me once i had past the city gates. i stared at the city as brent's passing words gave momentary hope but greater longing for something else. a regret, maybe, at the thought of leaving.

what is disappointing is the larger framework around this game failing to do much of anything narratively at all. the totality of the game almost spoils the aforementioned moment with its purposeless ambiguities that feel more for the sake of allowing a sequel if the economics aligned.

Deeply flawed and extremely inconsistent from level to level, but a clearly promising start from a small group of developers whose talent is obvious.

Environment design ranges from gorgeous and almost AAA-quality to "unfinished Source map" with random fullbright props, badly authored LODs, and weird render occlusion problems. Ray-traced lighting is very pretty but also drops performance to 15 FPS on an RTX 3080 Ti - but only on some maps. On others, it's fine.

Despite the visually intriguing setting, the story fails to raise any interesting questions, which is just as well, because it doesn't answer any of them either. At least two of the three (3) characters are likeable and have personalities.

I think this game is fantastic, I was immersed from beginning to end, and being immersed in a great game that you're playing for the first time is one of the greatest feelings a game can give you. It's short, at about 3.5 hours, but it's paced in a way that the game feels like it's not missing anything and the price is fair for the length. The graphics are great even with ray tracing turned off, but the game is currently pretty hard to run, the devs seem to be working on optimization so this may be fixed in the future, but I held a mostly solid framerate on my PC with RTX and DLSS off and everything else on maximum so I didn't mind the performance issues. I loved playing this game, and if you have powerful enough PC I can't recommend this game enough, it's one of the greatest FPS games I've played in a very long time.

Industria is such a clear passion project by a tiny team, so its really hard to be upset with the final result. It's a love letter to Bioshock and Half-Life and it functions as a pretty short little FPS campaign that offers a cool 3-5 hour experience, with a side serving of jank. Unfortunately, I do think it has a few too many issues for me to give it a higher rating, but this is one of the highest 3 star scores I've given.

Combat wise, the game is actually decent, and while the encounters are never that complex, the fact that each enemy has a weakness you can figure out through experimentation is cool to see for such a small game. I decided to play on the "Hardcore" difficulty, which gives you less resources, less health, and only allows you to save when you find a typewriter. And for my money, this is the way to play since its short and isn't really that hard to begin with. The lack of saves actually offered some tense moments, and the constant conservation of flashlight batteries helped make the experience feel a bit more dynamic. This is also helped by the exploration being decent, as there are a few times where you can straight up miss a typewriter if you didn't explore the whole area. And while most of the gameplay is survival horror style, there are about 3 fully combat focused sections. 2 of which I think are actually solid, and then 1 of which has an unbelievably stupid design choice that is very frustrating. Thankfully its only one section, but when the game is only 3-5 hours long, it does stand out a bit more.

Visually, Industria has a really cool robo-dystopian vibe and it does a great job incorporating eastern European architecture into a futuristic setting. The game also features several raytracing settings, which is nice to see in such a small game. Unfortunately, these settings do come at the cost of very inconsistent performance, ranging anywhere from 40-120fps with RTX on (Running on a 2080 and Ryzen 5800x at 1440p). As a result, I opted to mostly play without RT just to make things consistent, but the ambient occlusion and shadows are noticeably a bit worse that way. However even with RT enabled, the indirect lighting is basically non-existent which is a bit disappointing to see, especially since large portions take place indoors.

From a narrative standpoint... yeah its there I guess. It's just pretty vague sci-fi mumbo jumbo that isn't really explained or developed much, since the game is so short. It's not bad, and there are a few interesting plot points and ideas but it's so sparse that its kinda impossible to feel much of a connection to it after only 4 hours. It's better than nothing, but I won't be recalling Nora's emotional journey any time soon.

For what it's worth though, I think the devs managed to craft a very competent experience that is certainly worth checking out if you're a fan of the style. It's rough around the edges, and suffers as a whole from it's short runtime, but like I said in the opening, it's really hard to be upset with this, considering this small team was barely able to even get it released. So for that, I applaud their efforts, and I'm now even more excited to see if Atomic Heart can tackle some of that Bioshock vibe we've been missing.

For such a short game, I do have a lot to say on this. The game feels like a child of Half-Life and BioShock, not really in all gameplay aspects for either, but in tone and setup. Gameplay is mixed primarily of FPS segments, platforming, with some basic puzzle solving. I have to give kudos for this game being one to put me on edge a lot. Ammo and health is so scarce that I always felt like I was just getting through.

In the end though, the game has major flaws. It's short, absurdly short. I finished it in around two and a half hours. This hurts the game in more ways than one because of how many questions are left unanswered. This feels like it should have more, but it doesn't.

Do not buy this game full price. Effort is clearly there, but this game has zero replay value and again, is absurdly short. I highly recommend picking it up on sale though.

This game is currently in the Humble Choice for September 2022, this is part of my coverage of the bundle. If you are interested in the game and it's before October 4th, 2022, consider picking up the game as part of the current monthly bundle.

A walking simulator with puzzles and shooting.

During my first half hour of Industria, I assumed this was just a simple walking simulator. While the game has difficulty levels, the game is mostly about exploration and even in the later sections, it appears exploration is the goal of the game. As time goes on there are puzzles and enemies but nothing that would be too hard, at least this early.

However this is a 4 hour game, and people do say on harder difficulties the AI is still very easy. The story is interesting at first, but after teleporting to another world the narrative didn’t grab me as much as being in Berlin as the Wall was being torn down.

Pick this up if you are up for shooting, puzzles, and a lot of walking. I imagine this will appeal to some people, but after an hour I wasn’t feeling a strong desire to return. I know this is made by a small team, but I feel like the story is the place that could have been enhanced, and I similarly wonder if the shooting was necessary

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At one point in the middle of my playthrough, I had a thought about what kind of people the developers of this game are. My conclusion back then is that they're a bunch of good ordinary folk looking to fill a hole in the world. The thing is, games like Industria are quite rare these days. A slower paced singleplayer FPS game in the year 2021 would stand out easily, as the market is simply filled with wacky crazy fast paced shooters. Industria certainly does a decent job of filling the void, despite having more than enough flaws to warrant descriptions such as "janky", "low budget" and "unpolished."

The story is... weird. It does have a strong emotional moment near the end, and the ending makes it more interesting, but overall it's nothing worth thinking too much about. It's quite a short game (4 hours), and the story felt decent enough to engage through that timespan.

The game takes place in mostly urban levels, and you'll be using your flashlight often since it can be quite dark at times. The level design is just fine for the most part. There's an occasional feeling of things being too spaced out or empty, but that's it. There's barely any unique models which makes the environments (especially indoors) feel samey.

Gunplay feels very loose, as most of the enemies you'll fight will attack in melee range. The guns here feel more like a luxury, as there's barely enough ammo to use against all the enemies. You're encouraged to use your pickaxe to save ammo, and save the guns for when things get chaotic. Enemy variety is not great, since as said before, most of them don't use guns. I guess they do it to hide the weak gunplay. The overall difficulty is good, as you won't be feeling too comfortable at any point, but it's also not too punishing.

Graphically it looks decent on PS5. It's certainly not an AAA game. The game runs okay for the most part, although at the time of writing, there's an alarming level of model pop-ins. Also, The feedback of shooting your guns is just okay, although the sound effects are pretty good.

At this point, I realize that the game sounds more bad than good, but it is what it is. It's one of those games where you know it's not very well made, but you still enjoy it a lot. Like I said before, the game felt like it's made by a bunch of good folk doing their best. It might not be worth $20 for most people, but at a discount, it's worth the shot.

PROS
+ Interatividade absurda com o cenário
+ Armas que soam muito bem e são muito boas de usar
+ Ambientação fantástica e bastante única

CONTRAS
- História Fraca
- Combate Corpo a Corpo péssimo
- Variedade baixa de Inimigos
- Personagens sem motivação e mal explorados
- Péssima otimização

O Jogo é uma experiência bem diferente de muita coisa que eu joguei, se inspira fortemente em Half-Life e isso fica visível durante muitos momentos do jogo, mas a curta duração e a falta de motivação dos personagens junto com a péssima otimização (RTX 2070 e I7 10700K chegando a 15fps em momentos sem nenhum inimigo) dificultam bastante a experiência, se o jogo ficar por volta de 15~20 reais, pegue e aproveite a experiência que o jogo proporciona mas não espere o Half Life 3, uma experiência que demonstra o quão promissor a desenvolvedora é

Played it two times, even though I rarely play singleplayer games twice.

I love everything about it; Graphics, Sound, Music, Gameplay, Atmosphere, Mood, Pacing, Voice Acting, etc.

It is a love letter to HALF-LIFE² and you can see it in every pixel.

This feels like a piece of good scifi short fiction in game form. Great melancholy, mysterious vibes, but just a little underbaked feeling in the end, like it could have used another couple months of polish with regard to performance and some of set-dressing of the later levels. Performance issues aside though its a really gorgeous looking and sounding game and I enjoyed my time with it, and I will def keep an eye on what Bleakmill does next. More short games that swing as big as this one did production-wise, please.