Recent reviews by The_Chad

It's freaking dope! Hard to explain how cool it is. It's like you're playing an action movie. And there is an actual dark story to it if you pay attention. Yeah, aiming is difficult, but is something that you can overcome. It eventually clicks for you. It's not like an fps e-sports game. It's more realistic than that. It like you're an untrained gunman(or woman) with their adrenaline flowing. It's how people would actually shoot in that scenario and it makes sense for the game and is fun...eventually, like I said, once it clicks. I hope this studio does another game just like this but with 3x more missions because I found myself really wanting more once I beat it.

FINALLY a decent horror game where you play as a dog. There have been a few of these release over the years, but all have been pretty abysmal. I'm happy to say this one is actually pretty good. It definitely has its flaws, but is generally fun to play and I can't wait to play it more.
One thing I noticed pretty early on while playing was that this game has been thought through thoroughly. So many indie horror games feel like they are made just for the sake of making a game, and all of the absurdities in those games make it apparent. I was very pleased as I played through and discovered that there is coherent reasoning to everything.
The game is also optimized well...most of the time. I'll get back to that. But I was able to play at 4k with the settings all cranked to he max with around 90fps average. Controlling the dog also feels good and smooth...most of the time again. And the gameplay loop is addictive with a lot of upgrades to be had. I think you might be able to call it a rogue-lite(but maybe not). It is session based. You can get upgrades between the runs. Upgrades include different tools you can use in game, and also dog breeds and coat patterns. There are also tons of mechanics in the game that are intuitive and easy to get a feel for.
Now for the flaws- combat could be improved. At least with the monsters that require direct contact, I would like the combat to feel a lot more XXX. It would also be nice if the dog could jump and do tricks, you know- dog like stuff. I said the performance was generally quite acceptable, and it was, there were some areas where dropped frames made it almost unplayable, even with the settings turned down all the way. There is a major optimization problem un those areas, and it's not really GPU "horsepower" related. I would also like to see a larger variety of maps and monsters. I haven't got bored of the current stuff in the game, but I worry I will before I would be ready to move on from the game otherwise. I sure hope this game is successful enough for this studio to encourage them to keep adding to it.
So while it's far from perfect, it's also really fun. On one hand I understand why this game would cost what it does, on the other, I kind of wish it was a little less given there are only 3 maps right now.
Here is my first look. https://youtu.be/1pXPMYpOwXA

They did it again! This is going to be one of the scariest games of the year. It is a really short demo, but it did exactly what a demo should do- make you excited for the full game, which we don't have to wait long for luckily. https://youtu.be/r_4oUTqrpNg

HOLY SMOKES! This program is a game changer! So far it's' compressed 23 out of the 1200 games I have installed and has saved me 50GB. I compared it to using the Windows Explorer compressor, and there's no comparison. This compresses way faster and way more. Windows compressor only works on a single thread, but this will use all of your threads. On my 24 thread CPU, it took me about 20 minutes to compress a 110GB game down to 76GB. That same game took windows multiple hours hours on 1 thread and only compressed it down to 103GB. Not every game has shrunk a lot though.
I've also lost no performance in any game. I've tried compressing my games within File Explorer before and I noticed worse performance. This program decompresses the game when it's launched I guess, which is how they still run normally. At least that's what I'm inferring from the toggle in the settings called smart decompression/no lag mode.
I did have one game crash upon the first startup after compression, but it fired up perfectly and ran fine after that. That was a single crash out of the 10 or so games I've launched after compressing so far, so I don't think it will be a major issue, but if any specific games give you problems, just toggle the compression button and it will uncompress it.
It's so awesome and easy and perfect and everyone NEEDS it! Once it's' finished compressing my whole installed Steam library of 4-5TB, I'll update this review to let y'all know how much space I saved. https://youtu.be/BN7wd09crOc

Oh man! I just flew backwards like 5 feet from one of the scariest jumpscares ever! Needless to say, I'm really loving this game. It's oozing with integrity. The story is deep and I'm feeling really emotional as I uncover it all. Aside from the story, the gameplay is smooth and intuitive and the optimization is great. I'm unfortunately too tired to finish it all in one go, but I'm excited to finish it tomorrow. Two thumbs up 👍👍
*Update* I finished it and HOLY SMOKES, it's so good! The scares are awesome of course, but the story is where this game really shines. It's one of the best, most well thought out storylines I've experienced in a game in a really long time.

These guys always knock it out of the park! This was pretty freaking scary. It also ran really good. Way more optimized than most indie horror games. It's buttery smooth. There aren't many graphics settings, but it does have the necessary ones like resolution, v-sync, overall quality, inverted controls, etc. The coolest thing is that it's like 5 mini games in one that all have different mechanics, but they made it coherent and it made sense they are all there. It is a bit pricey for the hourish of gameplay, but it is higher quality than a lot of indie horror games that try to charge this much. I'd try not to wait and get it at the introductory discount price. fhttps://youtu.be/V9jRiOh9kDU

I LOVED this demo. I'm not going to get all into everything in this particular review, but it looks great, runs great, the sound is amazing! You should DEFINITELY wishlist this game! Do it right now!😊https://youtu.be/J5GJrz4yXkI

This has to be the best Easter themed horror game. I always try to find horror games themed after all the holidays to stream or upload let's plays of, and it's hard to find Easter ones. Since that's the case, I really appreciate this dev making this. It is also reminiscent of a recurring nightmare I had as a kid, so it scared me pretty good. It ran quite well and looks beautiful. The stealth mechanics in this game are solid. You have different types of movement that effect how intensely you're hunted. I kind of YOLO'ed and ran most of the time and still made it out, but I played it on easy. It also has quite a bit of replayability. It's a permadeath game with no checkpoints that changes every playthrough. You also get rewards for doing certain things in a run. This will probably be my backup game going forward for every Easter if no decent Easter games end up dropping.
https://youtu.be/BRx46mch6gM

For a stealth horror game, this was quite good. I usually don't like stealth games because I have no patience thus I suck at them. I found this game to be balanced quite well and therefore was quite enjoyable. It was fairly easy to stay alive and I kept progressing the game, never getting too lost or confused. It's just a dang decent game at a fair price.
https://www.youtube.com/live/FDowiSODgZo

I actually ended up liking this. For the first little while I didn't really think I would though. It was jarring. Nothing like Chuxie at all. I don't even know how this can be a sequel to that and don't know how they're related. It was also really frustrating that there were no remappable keybindings and that it's primarily 3rd person. There is an "experimental" 1st person mode that is worthless. Like obviously this dev can make decent 1st person games. But the benefit to being 3rd person is that you get a lot of nice up-skirt shots😅 But after I got used to the 3rd person and the fact that it just isn't Chuxie-like at all, I started to enjoy it. It's janky of course, like Chuxie was, maybe more, but you get used to it. I do think the price is a bit steep for the quality of game, but it's understandable considering the size. I just hope next time this studio makes a game, maybe they make the game half as long and spend more time polishing it. https://youtu.be/crBMoRcclQc