Breathedge Reviews

Great game, comedy is pretty silly but there are parts of this game that were solidly funny. About 30 hours of entertainment. If you want some fun but still need to think a bit with the puzzles this game is a must.

I quite liked the start of this game, but about midway through the game the distances between points expands and while you can travel long distances an annoyingly large portion of the game's problem solving will require one of the many tools that you generally wouldn't carry with you. So you either keep every tool on you all the time taking up 1/3 of you inventory or hit a roadblock where you need a niche tool and travel home to get it. This is made a bit worse since all the tools have very low durability and while the scrapper has upgrades other tools do not. Several times while exploring I had my scanner break so I needed to make a trip home to build a new one and come back. All the problems in the game get worse in I believe chapter 5. Almost all the puzzles are explore until you hit a road block. Walk home to craft the new item you can now make to solve this problem. And then apply new item to the roadblock. It actually makes a fast travel joke at one point that I think I would have enjoyed if I hadn't made multiple walks back and forth to my crafting station to make a new tool/ replace a broken tool/ get a tool I didn't think I would need while exploring already. Overall I liked the first half of this game but it starts to feel like it doesn't respect your time with winding hallways to nowhere. Long distances to travel. and jokes that start to devolve into "ha ha I bet you didn't expect that" I have high hopes for breathedge 2 hoping that they learn from the mistakes made here but I don't think I'll reccomend this game to friends. First half 8/10 but overall the game is a 6/10 for me

Breathedge or as I like to call it, Breath-edge-of-my-patience—starts off as a hilarious space romp with plenty of charm. But somewhere along the way, it crosses the event horizon into Repetitive Resource Management Simulator 3000™. Once you're knee-deep in crafting, refilling, repairing, and babysitting every oxygen tank and space doodad, the fun kind of floats away... like your will to keep playing. And don’t get me started on the jokes—they start off cheeky but eventually feel like they're being beamed in from a dad joke black hole. I couldn’t bring myself to finish it. I wanted to explore space, not spend hours joyriding in a space Roomba while listening to a sentient chicken roast me for the 100th time.

te·di·ous /ˈtēdēəs/ adjective too long, slow, or dull; tiresome or monotonous. "a tedious journey"

Breathedge gets a solid recommend from me, but with the caveat that it's definitely not for everyone. In most survival crafters, you start with basic tools a workbench (or make them out of sticks and rocks) and scavenge for supplies while maintaining your food/hunger/whatever meters and grinding your way through the tech tiers. In Breathedge, you start with a workbench in the back corner of the map and a 20 second air supply with which to make horrible, painfully slow trips out for water and materials. It is tense, and quickly becomes frustrating. This is not an accident. The feeling of always being able to see your next goal, but not being able to make it there, is the driving force for the first half of the game. You can't get there not because you need a golden axe or a high-tech scanner, but because your oxygen will run out and you move too slow. Tool/tech progression does play into the first half of the game, sure, but it's mostly about increasing your speed or extending your time on the other side of the airlock rather than dealing with tool-specific progression blockers. I say "first half" because once you get access to the base building mechanic, Breathedge starts to play more like a traditional survival crafter, where you hunt down materials and explore new areas to upgrade your base and subsequently your tools and equipment. The game could have started there, honestly, and it would have been a solid if unremarkable survival crafter set in a giant space wreck. But the first few hours you spend inching your way through just one corner of the map makes it hit completely different. When you get your first vehicle (well, it plays like a vehicle anyway) it actually feels like you've broken out into real freedom of movement, rather than it just being another speed buff. So, "not for everyone" because you [i]will[/i] be grinding your teeth by the end of that first section. You will most likely want to quit. Don't. If you're the type who actually read this review in its entirety instead of skipping straight to this sentence, you will likely find the gameplay and long early stage of Breathedge as rewarding as I did (and probably enjoy its oddball humor as well.)

Subnautica in space, with humor... And a chicken. What's not to like XD BUY THE GAME NOW!

This game makes absolutely no sense. It is asking me to make a Debugging Station but I have no idea what that is and the game will not tell me what that is or what I am supposed to do.

Practically unplayable on controller, kept switching to M&K moving the mouse to the right in the inventory when I wasn't touching anything, playing on a laptop so there's no fucking reason for that, buggy as hell I tried to make the in game Debugging station but it just took the resources and didn't make the item so I gave up on the game after 3 reloads

When other reviews talked about how bad the humour was, I thought they were just over reacting. But no, Its just unending poop and sex jokes from the beginning. Could have been a fun game without the south park-esque humour shoved in your face at every turn

Worst thing about breathenge - it tries to be funny too hard. Sometimes it succeeds but most of the time it's that brand of mean 90s humor I really though we left far behind. At first it's just eh, but after meeting yet another "haha there's a man in woman's clothing / makeup, what a freak lol!" or "this person died like a complete idiot!" I just started dying of secondhand embarassement and dreading new commentaries. And they kept on coming endlessly... Otherwise it's just a mediocre Subnautica descendant with some weird gameplay desicions and exploration hindered by lack of beautiful landscapes to discover and missing sense of mystery. Worth it on a significant discount and if you're able to tolerate adolescent cringy humor.