So, I was unaware of this, but marble run is a popular hobby where you make a track and just let the little marble go through it. By the way I just described the whole game in one sentence, what do I type next?
Well, you can create and save the tracks you made, or load in other peoples tracks. What's bad about it? Everything is too simplistic, and it doesn't feel or look like a game at all. It looks like an engineering program to be honest, and you know how fun those are, right?
Every game based on player creativity I've yet seen is designed to respond to the needs of the designer/player. Marble Run is the opposite: every design is required to meet the limitations of the game. Measurements fail to sync, and the “variety” of provided parts is so sparse as to turn MR into essentially a puzzle game, to find the one “possibility” that the beginning and end pieces might end up miraculously connecting.
Basically steam reviews are saying that before it had a game breaking bug, one of the biggest they ever saw. And that even now there are a lot of bugs that the developer doesn't want to acknowledge. Therefore, I think he abandoned the game, because I actually don't know how this game can get up from this state.
STORY
RATING: -/10
VISUAL PRESENTATION
RATING: 3/10
The tracks and marbles look OK I guess, but the background is so dead... the only way the dev could have made it worse was if it was pitch black. Just no, atleast add some kind of a background.
AUDIO PRESENTATION
RATING 3/10
It's really simple so I'm just gonna say - Meh.
FINAL SCORE: 3/10
Not into the game at all, but hey, maybe someones a fan of marble runs and wants to play a video game version of it, you're probably gonna be disappointed but, if you have some extra money just try it I guess.
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gologames
Glad to hear! The rewind feature is a great idea, but, unfortunately, we rejected it in the early stages of development. Not sure if it was the right decision : )
Your article helps with understaning what impression the game makes. Thanks and good luck you too with your efforts!
April 03, 2024 -
Alexkayl
Thank you for the compliment, I have enjoyed this brain-teaser quite a bit, well done! Curious to see what those ideas will be, I'm hoping one of them to be the rewind feature. Good luck for the launch!
April 01, 2024 -
gologames
Thanks for thoughtful and detailed of Halver. It was interesting to read and we even and we even picked up a few ideas!
April 01, 2024 -
John Pope
I just purchased Microsoft office 21 and need to get instructions to load
March 29, 2024 -
Laurel Ann
Thank you. I'm sure you could probably tell from reading the article, but Out of Sight is a game that feels particularly personal for me, partly due to my state while playing it, but also because I had been waiting for a Prey sequel for years and will likely be waiting forever.
I hope I was able to keep my objectivity - I tried!
I would love to return to Prey sometime for a review.
I'll have to see if I can track down a copy when I'm done with my current projects.
November 22, 2023 -
SlipSlot
As someone who also loved the original Prey but tried hard and failed to enjoy the 2017 release (not a bad game, just not for me), I thought this article was really well written. Maybe one day you'll consider doing a retro review of the original?
November 22, 2023 -
SlipSlot
UPDATE: There are now 100 products in the Trove. Of course, the majority of these are smaller or novelty titles, as there's no way to purchase OP points and fraud up to now basically cut away the little profit we made from things like quests or ads, they're essentially reskinned giveaways, so there's only so much we can list for "purchase" there.
The store will include both Trove and standard products, so is the place to look for any more premium games you might want - but again, as per the article, this is majorly being stripped back and will hold limited titles moving forward.September 20, 2023 -
SlipSlot
The Trove had already been cut back, the store is where the bulk of the work needs to be done as this can't be done automatically like we could with the Trove.
That said, we expect to be able to add more to the Trove once the store work has been completed so it should actually increase a little.
September 18, 2023