Game Review: Violation

Jan 17

Written By Rainbow

January 17, 2022

Upon first glance, this game looks promising yet bare. Its Keymailer description features only a few lines, which can be a good or bad thing depending on your optimism levels for the day.

According to Keymailer, “Violation is a First Person Horror Game that takes Place in many other worlds…You get lost in a Forest. Now you search a Way back to the road…But while you are searching the way back, something is happening, something that isnt (sic) even real anymore. A Monster came up and attacked you. Now you try to Escape the Monster and find the Way back to the Road to Escape that Place”. It features “jumpscares, puzzles, inventory system, horror atmosphere, and AI”. That is the description in its entirety. Originally, I was intrigued by the screenshots and description because it left a lot to the imagination, but I soon realized that it left a little too much on my imagination.

Upon booting up the game, the only options were to adjust the visuals to low, medium and high. I could adjust the volume but nothing more. I could not control the keyboard controls or anything else, which I typically do in every game I play. Proceeding forward, diary entries were flashed on the screen, but I didn’t have enough time to read them out loud to chat. The same happened when the controls flashed on the screen. I was not able to see them again so I was wandering around trying to figure out how to move and operate in the game.

During the gameplay, I was able to get to the third chapter of the game (I have no idea how many chapters there currently are during time of posting) where the main character has to escape another monster in a maze. I had to stop at the third chapter because no matter what I tried, the monster would keep patrolling the area I had to go through. I don’t know how many times I died, but the monster’s AI simply would not leave, which was incredibly frustrating.

Please let me be clear, I don’t hate this game. But it needs some serious work. Overall, I’d give this game a 6/10 because there were some fearful moments but most of the time, I was laughing at the AI or lamenting to my Twitch chat my utter confusion.

Note: Steam says there will be a patch update sometime next week so I would be curious to see what gets updated and/or fixed. There is potential here but AI needs to be adjusted as well as sound direction and the inclusion of more settings (to allow visual, audio and control adjustments).

You can watch the full gameplay here.

FiveDead Interactive was founded in 2018 in Germany and employs around 100 developers.

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