Crash Landing Reviews

The game is so boring...

Should be Early Access. Lots of promise but boy, is it ROUGH around the edges.

This game has potential but is simply abandoned mid production and no one has ever finished testing this. Sad.

Good game. Can tell the developer put a lot of time into it. Great art style. Few small things I would recommend changing: - The protagonist voice acting is pretty dull. Would recommend looking at that. - Auto-reload of weapons. I think it would make sense to do what other games do: reload weapons automatically. - Doors opening automatically when player is in proximity. I sometimes have to bump into doors to open them. - I didn't like the bugs showing up behind me in rooms I had already cleared. But overall, I like the artstyle and there are some slick elements to the game; especially for an indie. Would recommend checking out.

Crash is an appropriate word to use in the title of this game because crashing is most definitely what you will experience. This game is highly unstable and littered with major bugs such as escaping to the menu during the game often causing the game to lock up in a flashing blank screen and then a crash to the desktop. The resolution in this game also defaults to zero and does not save, so you have to reset the resolution every time you start the game. You also cannot play this game in 4k resolution on a 4k monitor or HDTV and you have to lower it down to 1080p or the frame rate will drop to around 10 fps when escaping to the menu during the game. The voice acting is also bad, there is no inventory system to manage, you cannot skip the intro cutscene, your character clips halfway through doors, pressing remapped keys works sometimes and sometimes it doesn't, melee is absolutely worthless, gunfire is just firing in the general direction of the enemy and hoping you hit it, you cannot zoom in and out, you cannot sprint, and every place you go looks exactly the same. I believe it is obvious by now that the developer has abandoned this game and did not properly test it. I cannot recommend this game at all.

Update: I requested (and received) a refund for this game. This is honestly the first time I have ever requested a refund on anything. I sincerely hope the developer works to patch this game and make some much-needed improvements. My original review follows: When I read in the description that this game "follows in the footsteps of...Alien Breed or Shadowsgrounds," I was super-psyched. The two Shadowgrounds games and three Alien Breed games are my favorite top-down shooters of all time. However, my excitement quickly gave way to disappointment and, after about 70 minutes of play time, I cannot in good conscience recommend this game. There's a lot of potential here but the game feels like an unfinished late-alpha or early-beta release. The setting is good (if unoriginal) and the beginning of the story is somewhat intriguing (if uninspired) though I don't think I played long enough to evaluate how any of that pans out. Even so, it's hard to care much because of the horrendous voice acting. The ship's AI seems to have more emotion than your character does - you seriously sound indifferent that the ship has crashed and the rest of the crew is likely dead. The controls are clunky from the get go and movement is terribly slow. There does not seem to be a way to run - the control for "dash" causes you to roll forward, like an evasive maneuver. There is very little to interact with in the environment - what you can interact with will be glowing, including pickups, computers, door controls, etc. Not sure what to think about weapons. You start with just a pistol but you find weapons components along the way, yet there's no indication what they do, if anything. I did not play enough to find and try any other weapons. There's no inventory management at all - the few items you can have are displayed in the HUD. Another criticism is the save system - you have one save slot, regardless of which difficulty level you play. There's simply no excuse for that in a modern game. I should also mention that, in just over an hour, the game froze twice, forcing me to kill it and restart. I could go on and on about everything that's wrong with this game and how disappointed I am but I think I'll cut it short. In conclusion, this game has a ton of problems. It's a combination of being unfinished and bad design decisions. The game most definitely needs some severe patching but even that won't fix some of its issues. And it will certainly never rank up there with Shadowgrounds or Alien Breed. NOT RECOMMENDED.