GameDev Trash Reviews

I hope we get more content in the future, had a blast playing this game!

The game is solid, occasionally fun, and occasionally cringy. But I sti;; recommend it.

Cannot remap keys. Will not recommend. Try using WASD with a missing ring finger. I do have another finger which is appropriate, however. Is there at least a text config file I can edit? Probably not, it's Unreal Engine. Edit: The game looked promising enough that I decided to use a program called Autohotkey that allows me to remap keys under the normal input driver. This works perfectly in scores of games where devs are too uncaring to allow key rebinding. However, for this game, it doesn't work. Looking at AHK's debug information, I see AHK is doing what it should. E.g. I have 'R' mapped to 'W'. When I look at the debug info, I see that AHK detects the 'R' and sends a 'W'. However, the game doesn't see that 'W' so I can't change the keys. The actual WASD keys are all you get. This is probably another case where Epic thinks they know more than anyone else, and that they're so great there's no reason to use the existing, totally adequate keyboard driver. Instead they write new code -- which adds another place for bugs to breed -- that is totally unnecessary, for who knows what reasons. A perfect, literal case of "don't you have *anything* better to do? Like more testing?" I can see preventing in MP, but absolutely not in SP. This is like Epic deciding to "cook" config files, making them unable to be edited without a special tool. Why? There's no way any dev will give you the ability to change *anything* in the config, things that might, say, work around a bug with your system, or REMAP KEYS. Many olde UE games *need* config tweaks to run on newer hardware at all. But nope, hands off peasants, we know what's best. "We've taken care of everything The vars you use The way you play The resolutions that give pleasure to your eye ... We are the Priests of The Temple of Epic ... All the gifts of games are held within our code." -- Apologies to Lee, Lifeson, and Peart.

This Trash game features multiple genres rolled into one. The writing was pretty funny in spots and obviously text to speech in others. I do appreciate that there are voiceovers in the game. I only made it to the open world RPG part but I had a good time with what I played. The worst part of the game is that it doesn't even save your progress. Even after clickin' on the "save game" button it doesn't seem to save it. Now I'd have to play it from the tutorial level which is oof. To make matters worse ya can't even skip the beginning dialogue. Oops idea right there. Overall, I thought it was a decent experience. Game play here (soon): https://youtu.be/bhxapeiSvho

It's a pity there isn't a neutral review option on Steam, because this is exactly the situation where the game will only appeal to those willing to wait. The game is already quite interesting, at times funny, but it's still very raw! There are many bugs, many shortcomings, a tedious intro, yet it's still enjoyable! I genuinely had fun playing, even in its current state. I'll be eagerly awaiting future updates and hope the game won't be abandoned!