ALPAGES : THE FIVE BOOKS Reviews

Well, well, well.. What can I say? I have played a total of 7 minutes and can say that this game is pretty damn trash. Zombies are way to strong, even tho they are one hit. The are way too strong because they spawn unreasonable and in high amounts, make too much damage and basically just appear behind you. The game has no options or pause menus, you can't even change the volume! The game gives you no explanation what to do and.. You know what? I'll make this a bit quicker... DON'T BUY THIS NO MATTER HOW CHEAP IT IS! ...except you want a high game count on your fancy dancy steam acc <:

Absurdly murky, absurdly difficult. And not the slightest bit "fun". Yet another incoherent, slapped-together mess of minimal, random assets meant to pass as a "game". The only notable thing about this particular entry is that it's one of the earlier trend-setters of this rather dubious and uber-modern approach to "game design". Nowadays, such products are legion. I, for one, am glad that I waited several years before finally opting to experience its myriad displeasures. In 2015, I would no doubt have given this at least a half-hour before writing it off; in 2019, ten minutes was all I needed to fully fathom what I was dealing with. Hell, I had a pretty good idea at the [i]two[/i]-minute mark. All hail lazy, unimaginative devs! May they live long yet never prosper (but hey, if you wanna be silly like me and foolishly waste 50c or so of your hard-earned dosh, go for it)!! Verdict: 2.5/10. (PS If you enjoyed this review, feel free to check out my two Curator pages: http://store.steampowered.com/curator/9284586-ReviewsJustfortheHELLofit/ http://store.steampowered.com/curator/10868048-Truly-Horrible-Horror-Games/?appid=398210 Cheers!)

This asset flip has you fighting waves of asset flipped zombies on a single map while doing a couple of fetch quests... even as far as asset flips go, this one is badly assembled and plays terribly. Only a bare minimum of effort was put into putting this together... it's a true testament to just how harmful Steam Direct has proven to be to the average level of quality of all video games on Steam, with shovelware like this pulling the average down sharply. Needless to say this asset flip has zero real value for gamers as a product... and the kicker is, this isn't a free tech demo or anything, the developer genuinely wants your money for it! It's also, amusingly, proof that Microids don't bother vetting games from their indie program to see if they're asset flips. Ouch. Two notable criteria for what makes an asset flip instead of legitimate use of stock assets are whether those assets comprise the majority of the game, and whether the "developer" properly credited the people who created most of the assets in the game. This game fails both of those tests. The "developers" here didn't credit any of the artists and real, actual game developers who created the assets here, so this is plagiarism, as well as cash grab shovelware. Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game, it doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 8 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam? ALPAGES : THE FIVE BOOKS is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, and the questionable ethical nature of the developer and/or their associates (as outlined above), this is impossible to recommend. Remember that if you buy a game from an unethical developer, you're putting your money at risk.

It's 99cent and I don't know if you manage to stay alive longer than 3 minutes, but if you do, you are probably a god. The enemies spawn just everywhere, the graphics are a huge plus tho, I kinda liked them and didn't expect them to be like this. Get it for the memes.

You know a game's promising when they have to hack it to stay at 100% hp for the trailer I bought this game just to point that out Not quite sure if that supports them or no

I bought this and wasn't expecting anything. It wasn't [i]as bad[/i] as I thought it would be, was still pretty bad though. The main menu lacks any control options, no way to change your sensitivity. Graphically it's a mess, ammunition pick ups are [b]massive[/b] and so are the books. The lighting, is atrocious, it's hard to see in some places, bright in others. The animations for the guns are atrocious, the textures in this game arew absolutely horrendous! Sound was very bad as well, thankfully it wasn't ear-poppingly loud, but there is no option to adjust the sound regardless. The music seemed to be all over the place, the zombie sound effects were very stock, to the point I actually heard quite of a few of them in songs I listen to. As for Gameplay, it's just Slender The Eight Pages, but with guns and zombies. Honestly, it wasn't super bad. Not great or even good, but the concept is sort of different, I guess? Overall, yes the game is very mediocre, far from the worst thing I've ever played, however. I don't suggest buying it even on sale.

Alpages: The Five Books is an indie horror arcade title by Nicolas Bernard, the same developer that created Terror Labs. SnipZ, and Showtime 2073. As its genre and store page suggests, you run around killing zombies and other supernatural creatures, all while trying to find 5 books. Each book has a unique enemy that spawns somewhere on the map after you pick it up, the kicker being that they are invincible. Let it first be said that there are absolutely no worthwhile features to this game. Everything from the poor title screen that has an abundance of spelling and grammatical errors, to the uninspired gameplay itself. Enemies spawn atrociously fast, meaning that if you actually spend your time playing the game the way that the developer intended, you would be doing nothing but fighting zombies, picking up health, and replenishing your ammo supply instead of making any progress toward finding the books. It's best to just keep on running around the needlessly large map instead; it took me about 15 minutes to find 3 of the 5 books. That being said, I had to turn my attention away from the game and in doing so I instinctively pressed ESC to pause. When I came back to my PC some two minutes later, I found out that the ESC key isn't pause at all, it actually resets the whole game. I have no idea what kind of crap that is, but the developer needs to change that, and fast. It's just the ugly corn-filled turd on the crap cake that is Alpages: The Five Books. Even the HUD is boring, and for some reason when you collect 1 life, you get two, but when you die you lose two lives as well. There are multiple instances of this type of attention to detail missing from this game. Alpages: The Five Books isn't even worth the $0.54 CAD when it's on a 50% off sale. The world and atmosphere are bland, the gameplay is tried and true but somehow even worse than most indie zombie shooters, and it's set at an unnatural and unfairly high difficulty. To put it bluntly the game just isn't fun in any aspect; unless running around a huge, empty map collecting books, lives, ammo, and health with endlessly, and frequently, spawning zombies that hit too hard is your idea of enjoyment. [h1]Rating: [b]0.5/5.0[/b] - Abysmal, avoid it like the plague.[/h1] The Horror Network [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/28221963/]Curator[/url] | [url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/thehorrornetwork]Group[/url] Click for Gore

Complete rubbish! The gameplay in this game is ridiculous. Monsters that can not even be seen spawning at stupid frequency with very poor vision. Heading straight to the refund queue.

Game is awful, comments deleted from forum ..All the issues remain , zombies spawn at a ridiculous rate, cant play more than 5 minutes because this is just awful. I finally get to use the refund option. Do Not waste your time with this one

This game has no redeeming qualites as of the writing of this review. There is no interface, and you are dropped into a hastily made map where zombies once in a while attack you. This is someones for fun project, and not a real game. There are plenty of real games on Steam for a similar price. Do. Not. Buy.