SIGNAL Reviews

What the ...?

good game and jump scares

[i] My Experience [/i] I tried to give SIGNAL a shot, as I generally like walking simulators where a character puts together what has transpired after the fact. Although developer RPavel did put some work into the atmosphere to make the experience unnerving, I just can't recommend this effort. [list] [*] The character's movement doesn't feel very good, especially the crouch command. [*] Sound is oddly room-limited. You may walk in one room and the sound is almost deafening, but at soon as you walk out you hear nothing at all. [*] It was difficult to understand what actually occurred when I pulled levers in the game. [*] The "space" font used by the game on terminals is almost unreadable, which makes it difficult to absorb story details. [*] The bizarre, flickering stock images that represent your character's memory of their co-workers just feels silly. Additionally, why does each co-worker have a key to a room other than their own? What sense does this make? [/list] I finally stopped playing after my character froze into place when interacting with a keypad on the wall. A small window opened on the screen that would allow me to input characters, but I didn't know the code and could not get the window to close so that I could continue exploring. I quit the game in the hopes of continuing from a previous checkpoint or something, but when I tried to "continue," the game started from the beginning again. Although I wasn't particularly far, I was certainly not interested enough in what was happening to replay the few sections I had already completed.

Oof. Needs some serious patching, I would skip this until it becomes playable. I decided to give this game a try but didn't last more than 10 minutes as the game kept breaking. First, your character wakes up and you explore a sort of space ship. I'm not sure what happens next because I couldn't get out of the first area. I clicked on a door that needed some sort of numeric code. Since I didn't have the code yet, I tried to exit the prompt and couldn't. No matter what key I hit, I was stuck in a screen with a big red box. Well shoot. I wasn't very far since the game had just started so I clicked exit and started a new game from the menu. Now the main character wakes up, but cannot walk anywhere. I had to completely exit out of the game to regain the ability of movement. Then it crashed to desktop. I was done at that point. Sometimes a game just doesn't want to be played. I don't like to refund, but I can't even get through the first 10 minutes because things are so broken.