Venture to the Vile Steam Charts & Stats

A game that looks great on the surface, but has issues that keep it from being something worth playing. I saw a trailer for Venture to the Vile a good while before it came out, and I loved the look of the game and the ideas behind the story. After having played and completed the game, I unfortunately have to say that it's a let down in every conceivable way. First, the look of the game is very different from the way the game is advertised in artwork. The artwork games it look like this is going to be a stop motion styled game, but it's instead a rather bog standard indie game look. Second, the way they portray the characters and the world makes it seem like there are interesting questions that need to be answered. Why do the people wear animal masks? Why does the MC survive his encounter with the vile, and receive powers from it? What IS the vile? these are things that are really cool bits about the game, but none of them are ever answered. ALL of the interesting bits about the games story are just never addressed, and this really kills the interest in playing the game. Now, you might be someone who doesn't really care about story, it's all about gameplay. Well, the gameplay too is a let down. The game gives you 6 different abilities to navigate the world with, but there is no real synergy between them and they don't really make combat more interesting. In fact, some of the abilities you get will end up getting you killed early on. You will get the ability to tether to certain objects, and you can upgrade it to allow you to tether to enemies. The issue is that this tether pulls you INTO the enemies, causing damage. The same thing applies to many abilities because none of them afford you any I frame. The music and sound in the game is also very odd. The sound effects of most enemies and in game events is either far too low or just missing. Also, there's a moth that sounds like a grown man huffing after a run, so even sound effects that exist and are loud enough don't sound good. The music is nice, but it's closer to ambiance than music, so it's very forgettable. Lastly, an likely most importantly, the game runs incredibly poorly. You'll see in the discussions about the game that people with low end rigs and high end rigs both experience near constant stuttering, and none of the in game graphical options really help. Any time you kill an enemie, it will spawn in the main in game currency. Both when this currency is spawned and when this currency is absorbed by your character, you'll run into a MASSIVE frame drop. Hitting enemies also tends to hit your frame rate. This leads to the game CONSTANTLY being choppy and stuttery. There are people who find it so bad that the game physically makes them sick. It seems that the game has an issue with rendering particle systems (which to be fair are poorly optimized in Unity). I would suggest that the game developers should add in the option to turn down or turn off particles to help with the performance issues, but as it is, this game runs terribly. All told, this game isn't bad, it was fun enough to complete, but with all its short comings, I really think you should avoid this game. This really sucks, because I really wanted to like this game, and it just isn't very good