Escape From Monsterland Reviews

I actually got recommended this game by my college tutor. One of his former students made this as a project for HIS class with his father. I kept my standards low with that knowledge, but the game's unfortunately bad even by those. -The window formatting is hot garbage on any resolution besides the max; the screen just crops out, rendering some menu buttons unusable on a low-enough setting. -The combat is way too unfair even on Easy. I only made it as far as the third major "boss" in the game before dying, on my FIFTH TRY. They also show an intro (as well as admittedly-funny names and grave pics), but never where they come from. I usually just resort to button-mashing in their general direction when they're already on me. -Visuals and audio aren't the best. I mean that as in; they seem to be patchwork. Just stock assets slapped on there without enough care, and sub-par voice work. This is a minor gripe, though. -THE WORST PROBLEM: ABYSMAL FRAME RATE!! Because you're essentially FORCED to play at max resolution, even if on Windowed mode, my game only consisted of (est) 3-5 FPS. The button-mashing was caused by that problem, and I couldn't properly see where I was going or what I was doing AT ALL. As a fellow Game Design Major, I WANT to like this game, even if it's just a college project. And I hope the student got a good grade on this. But as a marketable game, this is an absolute joke. The guy definitely has admirable passion, but REALLY needs to get more experience before he can even HOPE to put something on Steam properly. Good thing it only costs $3 USD, so it's not much of a waste. 1/5 Stars from me. I wish the guy luck in his career, but PLEASE REFINE YOURSELF BETTER FIRST!!

Don't let yourself fooled by its cartoonish look! This is another awful amateur game lazily made with Unity. The game starts with a silly but somehow funny 1 minute intro featuring our hero, a blue-greenish crab-looking alien with four eyes, a high pitched voice and a laser pistol telling how he got into deep trouble. So far, so good. But once we're past the intro, things go downhill very quickly... First of all, the Main menu is not even adapted properly as the Start and Exit buttons are cut offscreen. Hmmm, maybe the game was made with 4:3 ratio in mind? Okay, then. I change the ratio but see not improvement. In fact, the issue is even more noticeable so I switch back to 16:9 ratio. This is bad omen... What comes next is a horrendous third person shooter plagued with poor shooting mechanics, clunky controls, poor level design, forgettable encounters as well as performance issues. Laser pistol, shotgun and machine gun act pretty much like hitscan weapons with cheap SFX. Movements are very stiff and the fact that our character can get stuck so easily makes the experience even worse. Levels are narrow and flat terrains that simply consist of walking straight toward the exit. Enemies cannot be shot at until they have been "agro" and don't flinch when taking damage. Not to mention that their walking or running animations look more like sliding than anything. As for the technical aspect, the framerate will sometimes drop below 30fps. I made it through the three first levels but couldn't complete the last one since I didn't know what to do. Gamer beware... You're in for a fraud... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AfgfKDfl1o&ab_channel=NoTasteGaming Rating: 2.5 / 10