Ancient Abyss Reviews

Great game, needs more content. Also the notion of space in this game is not so intuitive, always there is a chance that you can stuck in some bush or wall or something else. There are still bugs in this game, for example It happened to me to stuck in a chest room, because some of the mobs disappeared, he made noise, but he could not harm me, that's why I need to restart the game, I could do nothing with it. Overall game is good, I like the pixel art, mob design, main character design, music is good, it needs more diversity, for example two hands sword and one handed sword have the same effect the difference is color and speed, make it different please. I didn't like that you need boots for passing long empty distances, make it a special skill or something, The gloves are not precise, it's hard to predict where will you arrive using them. But game is beautiful and is full of potential.

if you enjoy 2d isometric action adventure games, this is a good one to pick up on a sale. As you will read in the reviews the translations are not great and the story might as well not be in the game at all, however the art style and the combat are entertaining and pleasant which makes it a fun game to play for 20 -30 min every so often.

I don't want to be too hasty because it is still in Early Access so I will come back and edit this review once I have more hours. That said I believe this game has big potential, and this is because of their mechanics. I feel that the music for stages are appropriate and nice. The mechanics can be clunky at times, such as only being able to move left, right, up, and down but once again its in Early Access. I will definitely be here for the long run to see how this game develops and where they lead it.

I wish I could say this is currently a good experience, but so far, the game feels very unfinished, the developers should have waited some time before putting the early access, since I've found several bugs and glitches that were game-breaking for me.

So far this game feels really good as far as rougelike goes, the multitude of risk and reward is there and makes you want to keep grinding on to the next even after you fail. The combat feels a bit weird, with mouse and keyboard I had a hard time playing because the game mostly uses keyboard aside from aiming thrown objects with the mouse . Even navigating the menus you weren't able to use your mouse to purchase items or close out selections which felt strange and uncomfortable. The music also feels out of place with this game it sounds like it's just one track from an 80's stereo album repeated along the whole way and becomes quite annoying after a while to the point I just had to turn music all the way down. There were some game breaking bugs like my dodge was locked even though I had stamina and no effects on me, there was also one instance where I was in the middle of a run and I went in to a room, the door shut behind me, there's nothing to kill just an old man with a bag of meat, frozen bombs, and a oil barrel telling me that i should grab what's in the bag. If that was a puzzle then it was a sick joke as a puzzle. Some parts of the art style also don't blend well for instance I feel like the fire should have more of a pixelated look to it rather than this weird almost stock fire look there are also some perspective stuff that don't match up that seem out of place. The puzzles are really nice and easy to follow as well. Overall I give this game a 6/10 Pros: - Good rougelike mechanics - Combat styles are fun Cons: - The music needs alot of work - Add some mouse controls - The fire art looks out of place Also; remember this is early access, bugs are going to happen no matter what.

Personally for me the game felt too slow and clunky there are neat mechanics and cool interactions as well as good art style and atmosphere but I feel as though the player should move a little bit smoother and faster as a whole. Additionally there were a couple bugs where I would die in a cut scene because there was bombs, fire, or poison on the floor effectively ending my run. Also there would be some significant frame drops when there are a lot of particle effects going on the screen even though my build is overkill for the specs that the game requires. However with that being said I do hope that over it's development it becomes a more polished game as it has a lot of potential that it needs to fully fleshed out.

There was great potential here, sadly, it's abandoned. Don't bother buying this unless you don't mind getting an unfinished product, the last Official patch was in 2022.

Not worth the money or time at the moment. I almost never write reviews for games ,but this game is just so unpolished and generally bad that I feel I have to. The "upgrades" in this game are way too RNG and some are just insanely overpowered that if you don't get them in your run you might as well reset and start over. The weapons are all clunky and some upgrades say they do this or that when they don't even work at all.

I would recommend a game despite abysmal translation if the core mechanics were good.. but the combat feels clunky and the mechanics feel uninspired. I love a good challenge in a roguelike where I have to beat my head against the wall to get further than the last run or finally defeat a boss, but the combat needs to make that process feel rewarding.. so far this game doesn't provide that. I know it's early in it's development, but outside of major overhauls to the core gameplay, I couldn't imagine this being a standout amongst so many great roguelikes coming out nowadays.

I don't recommend this game. Translations are horrible and combat seems a bit clunky. Wish the dialog box actually fit with the style of the game. This was not what i expected when I purchased the game, I thought that it would be similar to the game Zelda, but apparently thats only accurate style-wise. This is simply a dungeon crawler.