probably the most "eh" game ive played this year. it has intresting concepts but the writing falls flat for me or feels a tad simplified at times.

i dig the combat/reward/limited resources in theory but like the concepts i didnt feel like it was executed in an engaging manner.

the characters ARE the highlight but the interactions we dont get are enough for me to be satisfied.

i suppose i expected more! but alas.

We haven't gotten too far in, but this just feels like a really watered down Lethal Company in nearly every single aspect. The environments, while a cool idea, are so bland and boring that everything meshes together into a labyrinth of pure headaches. I'm sure it was on purpose, but it's not much fun to deal with when everything is so grey. In Lethal Company I can at least have fun exploring the depths of the mansion map or go to Embrion during eclipse for shits and giggles to keep things fresh, this doesn't really have anything to keep it from getting stale. One thing this does have over Lethal Company would be the emote system, which is something that the former desperately needs outside of modding at this point. I know I shouldn't be comparing this too much to Lethal Company, but I couldn't help but do so the entire time we played. Maybe it'll get better as we play more, if we do.

This game has a lot of potential, but I feel like the initial concept works against it. It’s a bit more mean-spirited, where you kind of hope something horrible happens to everyone and it actually needs to in order to progress. It’s a concept that unfortunately rips away all of the scariness and hilarity that most people would probably be looking for. Aside from a well-timed spawn, there’s nothing to be afraid of. Unlike the other game that this one will be compared to until the end of time, there’s no chance of organic comedy coming from your friends who are avoiding danger rather than looking for it. The point here is to hope that something kills everyone and that the camera man isn’t dicking around somewhere else while it’s happening.

I played the game for about 2 hours and feel like I’ve already experienced everything it has to offer. The upgrades it sells you are mostly cosmetic and the amount of views you get per video seem completely arbitrary. You’ll have some rounds of gameplay where everyone dies in the first 5 seconds, leaving you with 60% of film left and others where barely anything happens at all. The environments don’t really give you that much to play with and there’s no reason to wander off because there’s only one camera. Every day ends with an awkward movie experience where everyone sits around looking at the unedited footage and maybe sometimes you’ll hear a light chuckle under someone’s breath. It’s nice that they offered it for free, but I probably won’t go back to this one until it gets some major updates.

A nice Lethal Company clone, but it felt a lot more boring than its spiritual predecessor, simply due to feeling far less scary, isolated and teamwork centric with even more repetitiveness than Lethal Company. The juxtaposing artstyle is very well done, and I see the vision of the developers but it really doesn't appeal to me in the same way since you don't really achieve anything besides the recordings that, as a trans woman with vocal dysphoria, I don't like listening back on the recordings, wasting the main element of the game for me.
Definitely worth a shot when (hopefully) more updates roll in giving players more to do but I would recommend playing with multiple people, since going duo or solo feels extremely boring.