Degeneration Reviews

Janky ass game.

I can not get through the boss stage - any advice?

I really really enjoyed this game until the stupid gate. I dont how to make it raise faster but anyways the music is sick, storyline is legit. Heres a little gameplay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-YYNDbjxQs

[h1]Broken[/h1] [b]Story Text and Language[/b] Though understandable, the English is broken, but that's not the worst part... some of the already difficult to understand text is cropped at the screen's boundaries, so even if you manage to make sense of the story, you're still going to miss some parts, and it just takes you out of the immersion. [b]Graphics[/b] The game only runs in full screen, and despite there being a few controls to adjust the resolution, anti-aliasing, shadow quality, and post-process, it's still jittery, and the game's speed is based on the framerate, so when there are drops due to CPU throttling (even in almost realtime scheduling priority), the music, and slide delays are sssttrrtreeeetcheeeeedddd. The graphics, especially the 2D ones, are hit-and-miss, some are alrigjt, but others are just plain bad. The 3D world, or at least the bit that I've seen of it, isn't all bad. It looks like they had a decent 3D artist, but the game feels like it was made by a bunch of friends under a flat hierarchy where nobody had the heart to tell anybody else what to do, how to do it, or that their work wasn't good enough and to go back to improve on it. While that's stomachable, the rest isn't. [b]Gameplay[/b] Speaking of frame delays, there's no way to skip ahead, so you're stuck progressing at the speed the game manages to run at, and even if the game starts showing you what keys to press, that doesn't go on, and you're eventually confronted to an unexpected monster that you have no idea how to deal with until you start smashing all the keys on your keyboard at random to try and figure out the rest of the controls (no, there's no "controls" menu, either, just a basic graphics options). The game saves automatically at checkpoints, and doesn't allow you to save at will, either, so if by some strike of luck you manage to understand the level designers' logic, and jump throught the very narrow hoops the programmers have laid out for you, you should be OK, but if you're like me and you didn't actually make the goddamned thing, you'in for a nice, somewhat pretty, and kind of appealing world of frustration. [b]Conclusion[/b] This is in pre-alpha state, and shouldn't be on the Steam store. There is at least a good three months of work to put in this to be able to call it a "game"; until then, it's a broken mess nobody will be able to play to the end, I'm sure... You have to very, very, very determined to be willing to play this past the ten minutes mark. Very.

Great world and aesthetic, even the poor English is charming. However, the terrible game design makes it nearly unplayable. I would love to find out more of the game's story but the actual gameplay is frustratingly broken. Would not recommend.

I can t recommend a game when I cant finsih it. Basically there is a boss fight that one shots you and you have to shoot them 6 times. I spent almost 2+ hrs and got to 5 and 4 once. If it would just maybe be the normal 3 shots it wouldnt be bad but 6 is making it near impossible. Shame its actaully got a lot of good qualities, maybe if it is revisited i will change my recommendation.

I'm usually player of competitive online games but when i first played degeneration, atmosphere of the game made me curious like "what is going on in this church?" or "Why people are disappearing without any clue?". So i kept playing and the comics were good enough to keep me in atmosphere. The music was great. In the end i got a satisfying ending and a story. If you are looking for a good story, i recommend you to play. By the way don't forget to check my gameplay video : https://youtu.be/TR35405sAv8

If you're in the market for a sidescroller that scratches the itch that "Inside", or "Limbo", left you I can say that this might be the game you're looking for. The story appears to be more ambitious and at the same time equally ambiguous from what I can see. Expect some bugs, glitches, and shoddy translation in your quest however. There's also some odd gameplay mechanics. But in short it's a solid sidescroller, and it was money well spent on my part. 6/10. Here's some gameplay https://youtu.be/KjR3xUvtqOw