Aethernaut Reviews

This was one of those games that was very hard to decide if I would recommend or not. The core gameplay of solving puzzles was very well done, and had some impressive ideas with the challenge increasing over time. However, towards the end game, I found myself hitting the "Complete Puzzle" button quite often because the combination of time travel plus teleportation plus alternative dimensions was way over my head, and I also found the length of the game dragging on. Note that not all puzzles need to be completed in order to finish the game. I was simply stubborn and wanted to collect every puzzle, so I can blame myself a bit for making it drag on. The story was interesting although it's delivery could use some help. I do appreciate the immense amount of voice acting that was included, even if it wasn't the best. The graphics aren't fantastic but what bothered me more was the copy paste of random assets just to fill each room. It made the areas seem cluttered and I honestly would have preferred if the rooms were clean and open. They just didn't add to the atmosphere for me. I ran into a few bugs (which was mostly me jumping out of bounds and breaking puzzles) but nothing game breaking. I did have trouble with a few of the time travel puzzles, as it would highlight objects in green meaning if you interacted with it, it would break the time loop, and certain assets would stay green even after resetting the time loop. I'm not sure if this was a bug or a failure on my part to understand how the time looping system worked, but it was part of the reason I got frustrated with certain puzzles. Music was fantastic. No notes. All in all, I enjoyed my experience even if I kind of rushed the end. Was I saying "Oh god please let it be over soon"? Maybe. But I decided to give a thumbs up because I recognize the cleverness in the puzzle design and the heart that was put into the game. I hope this might help some people on the fence about purchasing. Cheers!

Excessively mid, way too much talking, garbage world building, disjointed story telling. the puzzles are fine but have too little testing and its way too easy to softlock. many puzzles can be bugged to solve. dont make another game without getting more testers