Ortheo Reviews

I finally bought and played the game like I've wanted to for about a year now and it's a really solid experience all throughout, solid gameplay and art and animations but it feels a little buggy and confusing at times, like a couple of levels had more gears than the hud said it did and a part of the ice level was kinda confusing, as well as the levels feeling like a tech demo. for 99 cents, it's a really fun and great game

Ortheo Is the best game ever. Makes me smile! It's a really good game for when you want to run around and collect coins and gears In real life but you can't. currently I am not able to run around and collect things and now I can! Ortheo Is so good. Play It.

Ortheo combines aspects of Skyrim, Darksouls and Minecraft to formulate a game that takes the player on a trip unlike no other collecting gears to help Ortheo's father repair his truck thank you Ortheo, thank you.

One of the only 3d platformers ive played to completion, and I enjoyed it! Music was fun, game was quick, momentum was fun and finding out that jumping on multiple enemies at once exponentially increases your vertical height was rrly fun. Def would be a fun game to pick apart and speedrun/exploit the movement mechanics The walls you can run up in the 2nd Level were a lil buggy! Eeyikes! Game could be improved with some polish here n there but I enjoyed it.

Even for a game that costs only 99 cents, it has a lot of issues. First off, why does the game look different on the Steam Store page? Aside from the first video, the game looks very different. Especially the first level. It looks a lot better on the Steam Store, but in-game it looks like a very badly made Gmod map. The story is pretty simple. Ortheo is looking for his friend, but while he's doing that, his flying ship breaks down. He will have to pick up gears from various levels to fix up his ship. The story is alright, I'll just skip to the gameplay and levels. Ortheo controls pretty good. He's able to jump, double jump and dive. I don't think I've ever really struggled with the controls, aside from the camera. The levels however are all very empty and ugly. Gears are way to easy to get and the enemies are pathetic. They can kill you in one hit, but it doesn't really matter cause you can just avoid them easily since you're gonna be platforming on high areas most of the time where the enemies can't reach you. There's also only one type of enemy in this entire game, they look slightly different in each level, but they still do the exact same thing. Imagine a Mario game, but the only enemy you fought were Goombas. That's what this game is. You can also collect coins, but they're very worthless. They don't really do anything and for some reason they only spawn in the first level. Lastly, we have the final and only boss in this game. His design looks neat, but the fight itself is lame. All you do is dive into him 3 times while he spawn those Goomba enemies. Once again, too easy. Dying also doesn't reset the boss' their health, so you can pretty much play without risk and still win. This whole game, including the bonus levels took me 25 minutes to beat. I guess this is why the game costs 99 cents. Other issues I didn't mention yet are the buggy menus, which can sometimes freeze on you to the point where you have to close and reopen the game just to get it fixed. The gears you collect are not centered when they're spinning around, which can be very annoying when you try to jump into them. All the achievements are also broken. If there's one thing that I liked, then it's the soundtrack. The snow level and final boss theme sounds really great and the rest of the ost is good aswell. Overall, even with the very cheap price and it being an indie game, this game really disappointed me and I honestly don't think it's even worth the 99 cents. I really hope the devs turn this around when the sequel releases.

Ortheo's latest update has transformed a broken game into a enjoyable experience. The new controls are fluid and fun to use, the level design is a massive step up, and the OST goes crazy. The biggest glowup of 2023.

considering the lack of polish within the design and errors this imo shouldn't cost money.

It looks like a sandbox test... at least for now, a test that went wrong. Awful camera controls, lots of bugs... I don't like leaving bad reviews, but the main reason is to try to get the developer to improve the game. This game is a missed opportunity and I hope the developer fix the game someday. In its current state, the game is not enjoyable.

if you are coming from cross impact, no, this is not an obscure classic indie game you thought you had just never heard of. I like the idea and the character, but this is a hat in time meets the gameplay of mort the chicken, and even then that game looked and played better than this 99 cent game. heck this game looked better in the early trailers for this game? where did it all go? Why is this just a gloried roblox game?? for a literal 1 dollar game, I had to get my money back on this for both this experience and what I've heard the dev do for his other projects (I'll get back to that). I will say this, I will buy the sequel... like straight up. This has so much potential to be something good if enough time and budget is spent on making the platformer fun and graphics good. Stick to a style that makes it look good, consistent, AND easier to work with. If you are gonna have enemies, make some sort of combat. Make the menus and cutscenes on par with playstation games. Most importantly, Focus on the gameplay and how you want it to go because this shows a collect-a-thon in small open world areas where you dash, jump, and gain speed would have to be executed really well to work. for ortheo's movement kit i personally would love to see either a open world game with the level design of Celeste where you instead of going to one big area to find collectible, you go to multiple areas to get a collectible each HECK you could have it so its one huge level with multiple obstacle courses that each have a collectible and you could have multiple routes and ways that a certain order could be done for even faster runs THERE IS SO MUCH YOU CAN DO THIS IDEA! but you need to execute it RIGHT. Now, I know this game because of Dallen himself DMing me about help he needed on fraymakers. I was curious and checked his bio to see he made all of these games. months go by and i find out about cross impact and see ortheo on the cover, seeing appear in other games and official mods at that, I was curious and wanted to see what all it was all about. I messaged Dallen I bought Ortheo with him saying that a nintendo switch verison was planned too, So I DMed him I had started the game with good views, and then never DMed him. Thing is when I said I played Ortheo, I said i was the exact same time in other discord servers, and in one of them showed me all this stuff Dallen was accused of as well as when i started to stream beating the game and a guy I will not name described their experience with working on cross impact and Dallen. I never DMed Dallen back because like... what would you even say after that? I thought this this person was a bad person just because I was told they were so I refunded the game and my reason pretty much dissed the heck out of the game and Dallen. I later had a conversation back in the fraymakers server and luckly other people who worked on cross impact started to defend Dallen on how he isn't a bad person. Dallen if you are reading this, I don't know what else to say honestly but I hope your future projects get better. I haven't bought Cross Impact but I played the demo a few times and have come to appreciate it a little more as I am a sucker for platform fighters (shameless plug but like I mean have you SEEN the stuff I've made in roa and fray? I know what a good platform fighter is and Cross impact has potential if it gets enough polish. I want to end this ramble on a good note, as this game could be a whole lot worse.

I hate giving independent developers bad reviews especially on 3d platformers but I can't in my right mind recommend Ortheo. The Platforming while having the foundations of a solid idea felt unfinished especially on Controller. The camera is always inverted and super sensitive with no option to change either. Ortheo the character is great but the environments don't look great to be honest. Enemies are sparse and buggy alongside a lot of the collision. The final boss was also not fun. I will say though do look out for Ortheo 2 when that comes out as what I've seen of it looks way better than this.