Psihanul Reviews

[quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/quote] Psihanul wass a Digital Homicide style asset flip, or what Valve calls a "Fake Game". The "developer" paid for/pirated a few Unity asset store packs, dumped them all in a blender, and submitted it to Valve as if they're real game developers. It's important to also note the "developers" here didn't credit any of the artists and real, actual game developers who created the assets here, so this is plagiarism, as well as cash grab shovelware. The game is broken completely as the developer blanked the game manifest to spite gamers, who had rightly identified this as an asset flip/scam, but they left it up for sale on Steam, to continue to try scam PC gamers. Because the manifest is blanked, if you buy this game, it won't download any files and cannot be played. The poor quality of this game was reflected in the general public reception. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 2 players. That's right, only 2. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in the game is to be expected. Gamers just didn't take this low quality game seriously, and for good reason. Unethically, the developers have left this on the Steam store in an unplayable and broken state. This is harmful to Steam and to gamers, because it takes a share of the marketing space and visibility away from other games. It's polluting Steam and making it harder for gamers to find genuine games and for genuine indie developers who put months or years into making proper games find an audience. Psihanul is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. [b]Note:[/b] Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures for the game to date. Until this status changes, this game will not count towards your Game Collector counts, achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game. Also, the fact it's a broken, unplayable asset flip scam should pose as a deterrent from any purchase.

Game developer is improving the game. The game has significantly improved over the last week. It's still quite janky, but on the way to being something you could play for 15 to 30 minutes from time to time. I was asked by the dev to send screenshots of things that do not work properly and most of them have been fixed within a day. For being a one man project and almost being removed from Steam by the dev, it's nice to see he found some motivation to again work on his project. 2560X1440, 144Hz is now supported, game runs at around 120 FPS on Proton GE. A few community comments and E-Mails more and we might get a working game. It's playable as of now, but might not be up to your standards. OLD REVIEW: If you haven't noticed from the trailer, this game is trash, and I'm here to tell you everything wrong with it. Graphhics options consist of "Graphics quality" (Maximum resolution you can set is 1680x1050) and an option "Ultra Graphics". Whatever their definition of ultra is, sure doesn't look astonishing by any means. Game title says "Psihanul", in the trailer it says "Illuminati" and the buy option says "Hephaestus", not very consistent with the game title. The loading screen seems ripped straight out of Fallout 3 / New Vegas, but at least they changed the color to pink. The controls are sluggish, lighting is bad (dark corners you can't see anything in) and I'm pretty sure they use copyrighted music - if it decides to start playing that is. Ontop of that, for whatever reason they decided Dubstep and ACDC were good choices. I'm not sure what's worse, the controls or listening to ACDC. There's absolutely no sound besides said music, enemies sometimes do T-posing. Guns have no real recoil, nor any proper reload animation. Slides on pistols have no blowback, rifles no moving receiver (Guessing that hasn't changed from the trailer). The point system shows NUMBER/ - but no goal behind the / you should achieve. It does so at least in the first room you start in. In the second room it shows a goal of 4000 points. Game freezes as soon as I try picking up the pistol in the second room. I'm guessing that's it and you won't ever get any further than that. Multiple attempts, same result. Shitty games can be hilarious, but this is just sad - and in no way worth your money. Devs announced the wanted to remove it from the Steam store, but cancelled the removal - claiming they will fix it within a week. Will review it if said updates takes place soon.