Hello! I was one of the streamers who took part in Feedback Quest, and I'm here to leave some comments I had while playing.

I need to preface this with an apology. I may come off as an asshole in my comments. I don't intend to, but there are things about this game that legitimately pissed me off. I'm going to focus on the gameplay first before I get into that part, though.

This game made me think of Doom with its graphics. However, I didn't feel like it was as fun to play as Doom. Enemies often took way more shots to kill than it made sense to take (especially considering you're using a futuristic weapon) and there were times I couldn't find where to go because the structure of buildings hid pathways unless I looked at the right angle. If the game featured more weapons, it would potentially be more interesting.

Now to get into the meat. So this event is an international event. It has people from many parts of the world in it, and among those people are going to be differences in opinions on stuff. Because of this, a game that features real world political elements is generally not a good idea to submit as it can create flaring tensions with people who are against those political elements.

From here, I'm going to cut the crap and just state things clearly. As someone who lives in the West, I do not appreciate a pro-Russia & anti-West game. This isn't to say I'm anti-communist and pro-capitalist, because I'm not. I'm a believer in both systems and think that a combined system where the state controls common use things (like electricity, water, housing, internet, etc) while things that can have more variation and aren't necessities for modern day life would be made in the private sector under strong regulation. My issue is the fact that this is pro-Russia at a time when Russia is waging war against another nation that wanted to connect itself more to the western world. The tone of the game comes off as insulting to me as someone who lives in the western world. I could not in good conscious play this game beyond a certain point, nor can I give it a fair rating. I am biased and I acknowledge that.

This is nothing against you as a person, dev. This is just my opinion of the story of this game and what it pushes. I do see you have made other games, and in the future I would recommend avoiding putting a game with a blatant real world political message built into it.

Perfect game

Okay, I managed to jump over the first hole. Since I don't have a PC, I played in the web mode (Firefox). There were some major bugs:

- After an interaction (reading a text, e.g.), everything started spinning until I regained control of the mouse by pressing ESC. Same happened after every mouse click.

– When facing with my back to a note and pressing E it was still read out.

– Changing the view direction with the mouse was limited to the size of the window and that only accounted for maybe 90 degrees rotation. I could use arrow keys to achieve this, fortunately.

There were a few other points I have noticed until I died a gruesome death – twice:

1. At first, it was very unclear to me what the floating things in the lab are. Wormholes? Aliens? I tried to interact with them by clicking on them or pressing E. Ultimately, something worked, but I still don't know what, and I tunneled back to 1917 (I guess?). But then again: if so, where are the Nazis? And whom do I shoot there? Liberals? Anyway. They are evil. I guess.

2. It would be helpful to add some short tutorial that at least explains the main keys. Maybe I'm dumb, but shooting with the control key was not the first thing I tried. 

3. The guards' AI is weird: You can kill their comrade: no reaction. You can shoot to their left and right: no reaction. You can jump on top of them: no reaction. Only when you hit them, they start shooting at you.

4. I was lost to what I was supposed to do in the past. Shooting the evil guys, okay, but what else? Maybe some kind of mission statement would be helpful.

On the positive side, I think the overall story idea of having to go back to the past to repair it and somehow secure the future is nice. (Kind of like "Back to the Future".) I still haven't quite understood the story yet, but that's probably okay, as the player will uncover that later on. I think SU-notalgia enthusiasts will also like the premise of the game. Graphic and sound have strong nostalgia vibes too.

The political aspects – well, it looks like we won't agree on that. Most players might not care at all for whom and why they are fighting as long as the game is fun, so that's probably a minor point for that. I know people who would be personally hurt by the way the game presents history or by its SU-nostalgia, given that such nostalgia has been abused for many bad things recently, but one might argue that we shouldn't care about politics here and that these players can simply play something else, so I don't want to press these points further.

I hope this feedback was helpful for you.

Game kept moving where i was looking when I tried to play so i couldn't do much, Interesting game though. not really fun with that bug but nice stuff so far from what I got

This game is fantastic, from the story to the actual gameplay, and I like the game editor too. I don't have a chance to play multiplayer because I don't have anyone available to play with, but I'm sure it's as good as the single-player mode. Keep up the excellent work!

I was wondering whether this is an elaborated parody and dipped into the game, but it looks like the devs really meant what they wrote. OMG. The victims of communist rule will turn in their graves, but anyway, just one more game that glorifies some terrible human history. Been there, seen it.

If I'm wrong and the game is meant differently, please correct me...