ANOMALITH Review Summary

Its unique anime-inspired setting, deep gear customization, and engaging survival horror TPS blend are undermined by a steep price, stiff controls, and technical performance issues.

Unique anime-inspired setting: The anime style, supernatural setting, and SCP-like anomalies give the game a distinct identity and appeal to niche fans.

Deep weapon and gear customization: Players appreciate the detailed gun and outfit customization, including attachment reuse, noise characteristics, and transmog systems.

Interesting story and worldbuilding: The story is found interesting and solid, with distinctive personal touches and gradual information reveal.

Satisfying progression and gameplay loop: The loop of exploring, fighting, gathering loot, and upgrading equipment is very enjoyable and offers lots to do.

Engaging survival horror TPS blend: The mix of classic survival horror, third-person shooting, and RPG mechanics is appealing and captures the feel of older Resident Evil games.

Price considered too high: Many players feel the price is excessive relative to the amount of content and overall quality, citing specific figures like 8000 yen, 50 euros, and 300+ for standard editions. This is the most frequently mentioned issue.

Stiff and janky controls: Multiple reviewers note that character movement, combat, and shooting feel awkward, stiff, and unpolished, with animations appearing robotic or like ice skating.

Technical performance issues: Players report poor optimization, including low framerates on Steam Deck and high-end PCs, stuttering, V-sync problems, and frame drops in specific areas like the main base hall.

Numerous bugs and glitches: Reviewers encounter various bugs such as black screens after quests, cursor issues, and unfixed problems from the demo. These significantly impact the experience.

Misleading marketing and genre: The game was advertised as an anime-style Resident Evil 4 remake but is actually a roguelike/dungeon crawler with a small hub and repetitive levels, disappointing many players.

Extraction shooter gameplay: The game features extraction shooter mechanics where players are dropped into zones to explore, fight creatures, and collect loot. It blends extraction gameplay with survival horror and RPG elements.

Third-person shooter action: The game is a third-person shooter with action-oriented combat. Multiple reviewers describe it as a basic third-person shooter action game.

RPG-like progression: The game has RPG-like gameplay and narrative elements. Progression includes skill trees and equipment upgrades.

Appearance customization: Players can customize their character's appearance with clothing options. Equipment appearance can be changed or hidden at any time.

SCP-like setting: The game is set in an SCP-type world with anomalies and strange creatures. The story involves investigating anomalies and rescuing survivors.

Performance varies by hardware: Some users report excellent performance at 1440p 144 FPS on RTX 4090 and stable 120 FPS at max settings, while others experience bad performance and optimization issues.

Traversal stutters at max settings: Stutters occur while running around at max settings, but do not happen during combat, suggesting traversal-specific performance issues.

Steam Deck optimization poor: Players report that the game cannot maintain 30 FPS on Steam Deck, indicating significant optimization issues for the handheld platform.

Frame drops to 40 FPS: Players experience framerate drops down to 40 FPS, significantly impacting smoothness.

Cannot stabilize high FPS: With a 2K极高 setting, the game cannot stabilize 165 FPS and stutters, indicating poor optimization for high refresh rate displays.

Try the demo first: Multiple reviewers recommend trying the demo before deciding, as it helps gauge whether the game suits your preferences. Positive demo experiences often lead to purchase recommendations.

Wait for a sale: Many suggest waiting for a discount, with specific thresholds like high 20s to mid 30s, 70% off, 60% of original price, or below 100. Price sensitivity is a common theme.

Recommended for Resident Evil fans: Fans of Resident Evil, especially those who miss the old gameplay era, are likely to enjoy this game according to multiple reviews.

Novelty, cast, and soundtrack praised: Reviewers highlight the novelty, cast, and soundtrack as reasons to recommend the game.

Honest pricing compared to AAA: One reviewer feels the price is honest compared to standard AAA pricing, offering a positive view on value.

Community fair range: $25.00 - $35.00.

Game completion: 18.0h.

Session length: 1.5h.

Early impressions are positive, with engaging story and atmosphere plus a low learning curve for genre fans, but one report says novelty lasts about two hours before repetitive padding takes over.

Friction: High price relative to content.

Liminal Horror Atmosphere Seeker: Explores for ambience, lore, and aesthetic novelty rather than competitive extraction pressure. Motivation: Immersing in retro liminal-space and SCP-style horror atmosphere, character design, and soundtrack. Stance: buy.

Resident Evil Nostalgia Veteran: Plays action-focused, raid-like extraction runs with an old-school RE feel. Motivation: Recapturing classic Resident Evil and Raid Mode-style action gameplay. Stance: buy.

Chill PvE Extraction Shooter Fan: Solo, story-driven PvE extraction in a dark horror setting at their own pace. Motivation: Enjoying the extraction-shooter loop without sweaty PvPvE pressure and at a relaxed pace. Stance: buy.

Resident Evil comparisons: Multiple reviewers compare the game's gameplay formula and design to Resident Evil titles, especially Resident Evil 4. Some describe it as an anime-style spiritual cousin.

Control inspiration and similarities: Reviewers note the game borrows concepts from Control, with some calling it an anime-inspired Control. It shares themes of anomalies and liminal spaces.

Demo availability and differences: A free demo is available with additional content and replayability, but demo save cannot be inherited. The demo experience differs from the full game in some aspects.

DLC and crossovers: The game has DLC adding weapons and armor, plus a free crossover with The Lost Item Control Agency. Crossover skins appear to be unlocked via quests.

Furyu pricing practices: Reviewers mention Furyu habitually overcharges for their games and note this title is priced lower than previous Furyu games. Working with Furyu is also considered risky by one reviewer.