The vibes are good.
Had a lot of fun with this.

So much missed potential, and it genuinely makes me sad that I have to refund after this game's amazing first impression.

I cannot stress enough that the Ideas Guy™ for this game absolutely cooked and then some. It just sucks that the gameplay isn't fun in the slightest. Like, it's absolutely criminal how they had all the ingredients for a smash hit, only for it to be so extremely boring. Though me and my friend did only get to like floor 10 before we decided on refunding, so bear that in mind.

+ Graphics and sound design are great. Everything is grimy and fleshy, and it's like you can hear the whole complex creaking around you. The first few levels feel claustrophobic in a good way, because it really does make you feel like you're some random prisoner sentenced to an inescapable suicide mission.

+++ Getting assigned random bonus stats based off of whatever crimes you're convicted of is absolutely genius game design. Shame that many of those stats don't really feel that impactful in moment to moment gameplay. Enemies getting pushed back or crates instantly breaking when you run into them, now that's a buff you can feel! That's something you like seeing. Who cares about 13.6% more penis size or whatever? The point is that I wanna hear someone moan on it! So get some more impactful buffs.

- The first few levels are too small and the stuff you find is too disinteresting. What you use that stuff for feels unclear, but not in the way that confusion supplements the horror elements. It's just annoying. Claustrophobic environment is good for horror, but not exactly super fun if you have one monster taking up a whole entire hallway.

- Monsters are more annoying than scary too.

- Buggy as hell, but it's Early Access, so I can forgive that.

- I think having random effects like mist is a really, really cool concept. But again, afwul and unfun implementation. Who thought it was enjoyable that you have to stop and stand still for like 20 seconds every now and then, because you literally can't see anything any more?

I'm giving the devs (or whoever's responsible) a lot of flack, but only because it's painful how many great ideas you can pack into something that's this boring. I hope they decide to improve this in the future. Much love to the devs, because it's obvious they have some crazy talent on their team.

Panik