Escape Machines Reviews

Surely, being in Early Access state since 2015 with promises to swtich to UE4 should already made you suspicious about this "project". While it's a solid "Alien Shooter"-like game based on Flash Player, it's literally 15-20 minutes game with no promising future (duh).

3 levels. Will never leave early access [url=http://steamcommunity.com/app/363490/discussions/0/527273452873247212/] Devs straight up lie [/url] Don't buy this game, even if it's on sale

The game crashes frequently and is filled with love and bugs. Mainly bugs... The game doesn't even have content (3 crappy levels, 5 - 15 minutes gameplay), so I regret spending 0.19$ for this....

[h1] Oh, only 4 levels game - 30 mins maximum [/h1] After half an hour in the game receiving this: [i] "You played Escape Machines beta version 0.3 In this version there are 3 levels available. Please visit our forum to see the latest editions...Most probably next version will be already on Unreal Engione 4...." [/i] Developer check the date it's 2019 already

It would be nice and almost worth the 99 cents it costs if it didn't ask me to share my score with Facebook and then crash after every single level. Oh, also, it's another early access game that the developer will never finish. But that's a normal thing on Steam nowadays.

shows potential as a classic overhead arcade shooter but right now it crashes randomly, its literally a Flash game on Steam, the inventory system makes no sense, the enemies are too tough, and the developers just took pictures of themselves and made those cutscenes

I was super excited to see where this game went back in 2015. I paid a buck something CAD then and enjoyed the small snippet of what could possibly come but unfortunately the developer is scam and continually moves projects, Ive spoken to him personally. The last time we spoke it was an excuse of developing another game to pay for this one, Promising that work would continue and sent a 300 mb updated (1/11/21, 11:45 AM) "build" which shows little improvement. And pushing for development of tale of the black prince. Offering full access to patreon to people who paid 50 cents or more. this is in 2021 " I added trees moving on the wind and also I have grass moving on winf, I will place it in mountains and make awesome cut scenes" what a joke Considering i had spoken with him since 2017 this is absolute trash. simple money grab. Alex if youre reading F*** you, your lies, and horrible practices. This item along with quite a few others in this catalog should be taken down from steam and the money spent refunded. Its a shame to see people take advantage of the accessibility we have these days like this! I will come back and continue this lengthy write out

Wow... I don't write a lot of reviews for games but this one is by far SO bad that I would say don't even play it if it's free. There's so much wrong here so let's start with the basics and work our way from there: Firstly, the game itself crashes between every level. It crashes when you die and try to play the level again. It shows error message after error message in the middle of levels. It crashes when you shoot too much stuff in one level. It crashes with pretty much anything you do. So that in itself should deter you from getting this game as you can't even play it like a regular game. Secondly, the battle system. It has a very basic old style rpg shooter battle system. You just go around and shoot things by clicking. You're given a nice startup gun which you can upgrade to be a little better. The battle system is so simple that I kind of feel like a little kid pointing and clicking at things. You get to get a life pack, which renews every time you die so you only really need three max in your inventory because they come right back afterwards. They are SUPPOSED to automatically be used when you run out of life. Although one of the fun glitches is that if you run out of armor sometimes a life pack will be used just for the hell of it and revive 3 HP. Thirdly, the dreaded inventory system. I like the idea behind it, I've seen it before, it makes sense. You are given an amount of space to drag and drop things. You can only fit what you need in that space so you need to make sure you use it carefully. Problem is this: you must be carrying a gun at all times. This would be no problem if it let me just take guns out and put one in and only show me the warning when I am trying to start the game without a gun. But no that's not the case. The gun takes up a good 50-70% of your beginning inventory space. You can see very fast how this would be a major problem if the game requires you put a gun in before you can take one out. You usually need to sell everything in your inventory in order to fit a gun in to swap out. This is very inconvenient if you don't enjoy spending 5-10 minutes between every level to rearrange your inventory. Fourth, the store. After every level (or when you die) you get to rearrange your inventory and it has a handy store on the side to buy things and drag to your inventory. The glitches here are fairly minor but still not what I expect any game regardless of release stage to have. For one, if you don't buy the second gun, you can't buy the third gun. It doesn't warn you at all about this. In fact, if you try to buy the third gun it will say you can buy it and then you click and you won't see anything happen. I found out myself you must buy all guns before the gun you want to buy in order to actually buy it. The store lets you upgrade your guns and armor, as I said previously, for a price (of course). Problem is, this "price" is more of a general guideline. By that I mean it depends on what glitch you are fortunate enough to have at the moment of buying upgrades (and trust me you are guaranteed at LEAST one glitch at any given time). That being said, I'll explain: Let's say I just bought myself a laser gun. I had never owned a laser gun. This gun tells me it costs 20 "mints" to upgrade per time. I don't have said mints. Therefore, I go to the next level, get some mints, and come to upgrade the gun. I get back to this inventory/store page and go to upgrade my gun. Except this time it's only 5 mints to upgrade. That's really convenient! So I go crazy on the upgrades (thinking I'm paying 5 mints per upgrade). By the time I'm ready to upgrade the next thing I realized it charged me 10 mints per upgrade. Why is that? I have no idea. Fifth, the storyline. Okay okay I understand it's an intro game or whatever the storyline isn't a major issue. Liklihood is you just are here to shoot stuff so skip the story. Either way, I have to say the pictures of people on bad backgrounds that make this look like it belongs in some 1990's era $0.50 game from the garbage bin makes me feel a little cheated. Least they could do when they release a game is give it SOME storyline with SOME kind of graphics, not some crappy posted picture a guy took of himself on a cell phone. Sixth, (I can't believe you read this far and haven't already told yourself you don't wanna buy the game but whatever. There's more stuff to be said), the battle system (AGAIN!). Yes, I know I've already talked about the battle system but this time I'm gonna talk about the reactions of the things you are actually fighting: The robots. So these "super artificially intelligent" robots are about as intelligent as a two year old with a laser on it's head. They stop following you the second they lose a line of sight. I mean they will flat out just stop if you go behind a car. It's that easy. Just step behind a car and they stop. And they move at the speed of like... idk... 0.001 miles per hour. They're just hella slow lemme just put it that way. So escaping them is really no big deal. These robots also don't really have a great idea of what "line of sight" means either cause sometimes they won't see you but you definitely can shoot them. This is great when you just hide behind a car and sneak around the corner, and shoot them till they die with no retaliation whatsoever. The robots are also VERY basic. There is no fancy anything about it. No special place to hit them or things to do to really destroy one robot but not another. It's just flat out shoot and kill. And while some robots have a little more.. mobility and can hit you faster, most of them are easily taken down by just circling like a shark and shooting. It's something anyone 6 years old and up can do. All in all what I'm trying to say is buying this game is a HUGE waste. I feel more sorry that I had to take time out of my life to download this game and try to play it and have to make a huge review based off of what I played in less than 30 minutes than the price. I guess if you still are thinking about this game after this review then go for it, buy it, waste your time, you'll be in the same place I am now and think "wow did I really just waste my time doing this stuff". Please just save your time and money and go somewhere else. There are no improvements to this game. It's so far down that no one can save it. It would be cheaper to just scratch the whole thing and start a new game. Something tells me whoever made this probably stayed up one night making some cheap game and thought "this is how I am going to make money" and then releases it. It's really just sad, don't take the effort.

The Game was a good time killer for 0.19€ but it keeps crashing, giving errors, that it made it not enjoyable to play. Else I would've given it a thump up Lets see how the game runs in the future, and if he'd manage to remove all those bugs. Runs Smooth 1/10 Kills Time 7/10 ------------------------ Overall Price/Game 4/10

The game promised to have tons of upgrades within 6 months but it hasn't updated for quite some time. It's extremely generic, has no variation in enemies, and rather boring. On the bright side, I bought it for only 19 cents. It's not like it could get worse. Also, don't try reporting bugs to the developer. Their forums are just full of malware and fake accounts. EDIT (10/6/2016): Alright, over a year later and still no update. 19 cents is still too much.