A Hilarious Alien Horror Game. Rating is (5.8/10)
But all jokes aside let's talk about the game.
(LOTS of Bugs): Randomly being kicked out of your van, The abyss at the river side, Audio glitches all over(Car going at high speed and also the TV), The entire world changes if you exit your car in the wrong way.
(Btw you should tell the player inside the game that they can bring up the phone by right clicking)
Story : None (I really don't understand the people who say this game has "great" story. If this is great then "The Quarry" is peak fiction.
Visuals: For the love of god please add a setting to remove the CRT. Also I would suggest to balance the gamma and the lift so everything isn't neutral or at least give the player a gamma control setting
Jumpscares: Now again I don't know if it was intentionally meant to be funny or not but if those jumpscares are meant to be scary then I don't even know what to say. Either way this game isn't really a horror game. Even if let's say this game was meant to be a horror game with those jumpscares and let's for a second ignore how bad it is. This entire game's horror element are just those two jumpscares and one shadow figure. Like the shadow figure thing wasn't bad but again that's the only thing this game has to offer.
Atmosphere: This game has nonexistent horror atmosphere. General atmosphere is great like in the sense of if we are talking about the scenery.
I should say that the drunk visuals was pretty good and the music that was used on that part of the game
Listen I know the public reception on this game has been great and most of the reviewers are positive on this game and the "story". But I just have to be fully honest. This game is not great nor good. It's a very poor execution for a first episode of a series. This is the reason why I think the itch io community being positive on every game on this site no matter if it's poor or great is bad. To be fair most of the game in itch io is slop so when a little bit better game comes out people start calling it a "great game". But as I was saying calling a bad game "great" gives the game developer a mentality that their games are actually good and that puts them in a cycle where they think they just make endless itch io slop games with slight improvements per project. Because they think their game is good. I acknowledge that you are actively trying to get feedback and fix bugs but this game won't reach a good level even if you fix all the bugs. Again I am writing this review in the mindset that you think this game is great but that might not be the case. Hopefully you take all this criticism properly rather than being blinded by all the positive comments. But yeah on the final note and advice you are probably a new game dev like many other in itch.io. Acknowledge this game is very bad (not 4 stars bad*) and see how you can improve for future projects (or not this series) (Also your trailer isn't really a trailer, It's very messy and doesn't get the message across that this is even a video game. I'm not saying the style of trailer you wanted to make is itself wrong but if you want to make a trailer in that style then you need a way bigger trailer and better cuts and better music sorting and in general better music. Your trailer music itself ignoring the bad parts makes it sound like it's one of those supermarket simulator games.
If you need someone to make a trailer, you can reach out to me. No cost of course*.I will say I don't have any experience with making trailers and in terms of quality it will probably be around a 5.5/10 to 6.0/10 but better than nothing I guess.