Works pretty well. Had to look up the controls a few times, which was sometimes a hasse because when hitting ESC the last selected menu was still active. So when trying to look up controls i had some settings open, confusing me. Was expecting to always get to the pause menu from the game. Wording is inconsistent in that matter too: the menu item is called options, but when clicking it its called settings. The options/settings have a "back" button, but the controls have a "return" button.
While writing this i had the game running in the pause menu and the music stopped at some point. Resuming the game didnt restart it. I think in my first playthrough it never stopped playing?
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Gameplay recording:
- Have to juggle keys to exist dome from upgrade screen. It'd be more straightforward if Q was the dedicated key for quiting and dropping stuff.
- Resource rich rocks were unrecognizable at first glance on my first playthrough. It took me a while to understand that rocks I ignored actually hold iron.
- Hard on the eyes especially in full screen. Background decorations on the ground are almost as bright as mineable blocks and have similar patterns to resources or damage indication. It looks very "noisy", there's no visual gradation to how important an object might be.
- Scale seems fine in windowed mode, but in full screen everything feels way too big.
- I liked how the gun handles. It's slow, but I wasn't annoyed by it. I think the inertia makes it feel satisfyingly massive rather than slow.
- Either my mouse is broken or special dome upgrades pick themselves automatically by hovering over them for too long.
- Retrieving the upgrade from a broken dome was kinda cool and mysterious.
- There's this weird issue with OBS where the game is mirrored and rotated by 180 degrees in the recording.
You can see my mouse is flipped in the recording because I fixed it in OBS, but on my screen it was normal. This is so bizzare, I'm not sure if it's something wrong on my end or something weird with the game. - I feel like double-clicking the upgrade should buy it.
- Audio settings allowed me to deep fry the music if I set sliders to max.
- There's a weird graphical bug, see screenshot. Everything works normally but textures are all messed up or stretched.
I managed to replicate it multiple times:
1. start a game normally
2. change window mode/full screen (doesn't matter if during game or in main menu)
3. quit to menu
4. start a new game
5. bug
I'm freshly after playing Dome Keeper few days ago so my impressions are colored by it.
The gameplay itself seems good, but it felt too slow. Like I was having an unlucky run in Dome Keeper. What I mean is in DK your first iron deposit usually gives you 4 units so you quickly get an upgrade. Here you need to find 2 deposits. I ran into unbreakable blocks that forced me to change my directions very often. It's very easy for a clump of resources to plug the tunnel, something that rarely happens in DK (individual resource can get stuck but not whole pile of them).
It just feels like there are speed bumps everywhere.
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