🔬 VaporLens
Positives:
Immersive, nostalgic, and promising experience
Intricate level design rewards exploration
Captures classic dungeon crawler essence
Rewards player ingenuity
Unique and enjoyable magic system
Negatives:
Clunky, unsatisfying combat experience
Poor navigation, lack of direction
Poorly explained game mechanics
Incomplete, short early access content
Empty, unrewarding world
Gameplay:
Old-school RPG dungeon crawler
Combines mechanics from classic games
Unique rune-based spellcasting system
Interactive physics and crafting
Cheesable enemy AI
Performance:
Generally smooth, optimized performance
Settings reset after loading
Noisy surface audio is jarring
Close weapon viewmodels
Air jump spam consumes stamina
Recommendations:
Strongly positive overall impressions
Support the solo developer
Evokes classic RPGs/immersive sims
Good value for the price
Not unique, overly punishing
Miscellaneous:
Unreal Engine, modding potential
Experimentation and thorough investigation
Lacks ambient soundtrack
Detailed, gritty graphics
Interactive NPCs, branching dialogue