It has potential. It's a buggy mess, though, and the POV slips around everywhere, making it hard to control where you aim. I may check it out later, but it's not ready right now.

I recommend this game for singleplayer but not for coop (in its current state)

The game has a lot of promise and I think as a SIngleplayer game it likely already works quite well.

However me and my buddy wanted to play it in coop and it is borderline unplayable in coop > in the second stage enemies just keep respawning and you run out of ammo, you cannot load saves in coop (your buddy gets kicked out of the lobby) so if you die you have to start all the way from the start, some interactions cause your friend to be pulled into your camera view (whilst oddly enough still in control of their own char they see things through your perspective).

I love where this game could go and clearly it is inspried by dead space quite a bit which is one of my favourite games ever.

For now however I will refund this game as Coop is unplayable.

To the devs: Please do not take the refund to heart, I like where your game is heading and would love to play it with my buddy but there are quite a few issues to resolve and only so much money every month to be spent on games.

I will keep an eye on the game and will repurchase when those issues are resolved as I like quite a lot of the mechanics (such as the insanity for instance).

Gameplay with issues here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcqZf7GYHCY

First Impressions Video: https://youtu.be/mZr24up6gsk

Upon completing Chasmal Fear I can readily admit I do not like it. I've been thinking about it for awhile, and it's hard to make a determination on whether or not I like it enough to recommend it - or dislike it to the point that I do not recommend it. And, after hours of contemplation I simply do not recommend it.

It feels strange to tell you that there are things the game does well, because it tries very hard to erase those moments from your memory in the second half of the game. And to be fair, the game isn't even that long. You can probably finish it in 3 hours or less.

The first half of the game is a fairly strong start. An introduction to a creepy underground city of sorts. Monsters, an eerie vibe, enough ammo to make you feel like it'll be alright but also with a bit of tension. Health sporadically placed that keeps you on the edge of your seat. And then, it just goes to hell.

Once you leave the starting area and end up in the Promenade it's like you've left the carefully thought out layout from before - and now are in this random hodgepodge of corridors and rooms tossed together to create the world's worst undersea mall. There are maps around the level without a real sense of orientation, so it's easy to get lost. And you start running around in circles, aimlessly trying to find out where you're going next. And this is where it started to fall apart for me. Why? Enemy respawns.

Well heck. Enemies respawning? Maybe that won't be so bad. Maybe there'll be some more respawning ammo, or health. Nope. And that's just infuriating. It serves no purpose other than to punish you for not being able to navigate this poorly mashed together maze of an underwater city. It became so irritating that my option was either to quit the game altogether or find a way to give myself more ammunition. I lucked out and found you can edit the save files to give yourself more ammo. I had no choice but to do that, otherwise I'd never finish the dang game.

Combat never really becomes much of a challenge. You have a handful of enemy types that occasionally spawn out of nowhere or burst through doors/cracks and such. Sometimes it'll be enemies that explode with no real way to escape. Or spiders that sneak up on you and attack you. Or the dog seals. And the game'll throw them at you at a blistering pace towards the final moments, and it makes me wonder how anyone is supposed to pull it off if they aren't cheating the system to have tons of bullets. Because your knife attack will not get you through it, unless you're super skilled and patient.

And, if you're unlucky enough you'll die. And you'll be shot back to a save point which happens to be 30 minutes earlier. And, I don't hate the save system. I hate how it is implemented. If we had a map that made it so we could find our way back to it easily enough? Not so bad. If enemies didn't respawn all the dang time? Not so bad. But, no. That's not how it works. And heck, later on if you die you'll almost certainly find yourself loading up at a different save station than your last save.

To continue the shenanigans that make me say, no I do not recommend... The bugs in the second half.. It almost feels like the second half of the game is this mystery area nobody has ever been to before. The sewers? You can skip them entirely if you get lucky enough for the floor to not break. There are also random walls you can find yourself walking through down there, so that's... a thing. Enemies respawning after you kill them and walk out of that room and come back. The knife's ability to stop enemies from mutating that only occasionally works, with a serum requirement that's about as clear as being told there's a jackabellon outside and you should take it to the zoo.

I'm not thrilled to leave a non-recommendation here. Heck, this is a game I was looking forward to playing. I love the idea. It's like a Dead Space meets Bioshock mash-up that had every reason to excel. But it was full of so much frustration and irritation that I had to spend most of my day trying to unwind with my cat before jumping into anything else at all.