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RatingsPoor (−1.9)11 ratings ?

Playtime29 minlength of the session recording

AnsweredOct 16, 1:50 AMUTC

1Session 1 recording· 29 min

Think-aloud transcript· 29:12

00:01All right. So, this is play testing for Ashworth.
00:06So, I came here and I realized that it's super hard to see the bar.
00:15And I don't want to like click it anymore because like when I like I so actually like you know I press some of this and it made like the
00:28the screen completely dark.
00:31So, I really don't want to do it. I don't want to I don't want to do it again.
00:38I just
00:40close
00:43W S D look camera movement interact torch
00:50crouch sprint open settings.
00:55Okay. So, they have PC and controller version.
01:04Control.
01:06So, this back so I was like looking for where's the you know go back button.
01:12So, this one is not super visible for me and I think it would be nice to put it somewhere that that doesn't overlap with the list of this controls.
01:26I'll just reduce the volume a little bit I don't want to be like
01:33And also like it different from other like menus.
01:39This back button over here doesn't show any effects.
01:42So, it doesn't look like it's it can be like interactive.
01:49Hey game.
01:53Where am I? Yeah.
01:55What is going on?
01:57Okay. It's pretty dark.
02:01Interact. No.
02:04And torch was oh I can turn off the torch.
02:14It's like a maze over here.
02:32Okay.
02:34Interact.
02:38Nothing is working.
02:42I think that's something that I
02:47so I guess
02:49shift was bashing.
02:55Was it shift?
02:58Where's the settings in controls?
03:02Yeah. Shift was a sprint but it wasn't sprinting.
03:07Okay. Crouch.
03:12So, I need to
03:15I need to press C again to release from crouch.
03:31Okay.
03:34I don't know where I'm going. And none of these objects are like interactive.
03:48Can I jump?
03:50I don't think there was a jump.
03:54There are just objects.
04:00And
04:02doesn't give me any like directions or what the goal is.
04:10Doesn't have any interact.
04:12Oh, this one works.
04:15I'm pretty sure that that those like tables and you know stuff should be you know interactive and wonder whether I'm doing something wrong.
04:26Or whether I'm like not at at the right position
04:31to interact with it.
04:39Was there like another key?
04:42Settings controls interact torch crouch new camera movement.
04:51Okay.
04:53Torch
04:56interact interact.
04:59Nope.
05:07The torch is not super helpful.
05:09I can't see.
05:15Okay.
05:20Nothing's working.
05:24And like what?
05:27I think it's too dark.
05:28I can't even see like where I'm heading to.
05:34Or like whether
05:37I've been just working or like walking the same spot again and again.
05:44I think I was here before, right?
05:57Okay. More barrels.
06:14This makes me a little bit dizzy.
06:16Um
06:18I mean
06:21I usually get these kind of game.
06:23Uh I usually get dizzy with these kind of games but uh
06:30uh
06:31so far nothing has happened.
06:37Okay.
06:40There was a creature but it disappeared.
06:46Um I wonder whether the Okay, I'm going to like rest a little bit because I get too dizzy.
06:54Uh the graphic wise um like this is like a random spot but like um it looks like it you can definitely tell that this you know these two images are not like rendered together like
07:08nicely.
07:12Um
07:22Okay, I think that might have
07:26uh opened like a new like uh like new space or door like that.
07:35Oh, there is something.
07:39Use the pit to relight your torch.
07:44Okay.
07:49Uh okay, how do I close it?
07:53Tap? Nope.
07:55ESC? Okay. Okay, so um it wasn't clear which uh button I should press to close this message.
08:10Uh
08:28Will work again? No.
08:31The interaction is done.
08:36Is there something else?
08:48Okay, chest.
08:54Okay. Uh yes.
08:57Okay. Uh
09:00so uh here like I can't point my mouse cursor lower uh and I had to like move back to aim this
09:13syringe. Uh
09:16okay.
09:19Wait.
09:24Hello.
09:27Take her away and throw her to fulfill her destiny.
09:32What about the next one?
09:35Your turn when it's her time.
09:40What are they talking about?
09:42Uh I think you can make that text box a little bit bigger or like nicer.
09:47I realize they are using me.
09:50They are using me for that.
09:54Know this can be if you are reading this you are also a part of this.
09:59Try to free yourself. Do not give in.
10:02Do not dot dot dot.
10:05Okay.
10:07Um what else?
10:18So I think I came to uh very somehow like I feel like the sensitivity of the mouse got have gotten like a lot
10:32like
10:34more sensitive.
10:37Uh
10:39I don't know what that does but let me just light up all these areas.
10:50Uh
10:52Okay. Hello.
10:57Okay, something moved.
10:59Um
11:02Let's see whether
11:04any of these move ducts are Oh my god.
11:42Okay.
11:44So it's like a
11:50What?
11:54Okay. So it's like a
12:00like what is it? Escape room.
12:02I cannot
12:05like light light it up again.
12:09I don't know whether I'm like heading straight forward too dark.
12:26Yellow too.
12:38Just keep walking.
12:42Find a way to open this door.
12:49Okay, it's uh it's not a game but like um it's just me getting so dizzy.
13:03Okay, is this working?
13:15Think something is coming to me.
13:21Uh
13:23green one, yellow two, green one.
13:28You should not give what?
13:30What?
13:32What's that? I think the text is too fast um for the users.
13:37Um it'll be nicer if
13:41them to like um continue the text messages by their own pace.
13:53Okay. Green
13:56one.
14:02So there should be yellow
14:07somewhere.
14:13Is this one that I found?
14:18Uh
14:26I came back to green again.
14:30So I must have missed yellow.
14:36Where is the Oh yellow too.
14:41Where is yellow?
14:46Wait, is this the corridor that I already have passed?
14:54I think I was here.
15:00Blue three. Yellow two, blue three.
15:04Oh, here's the yellow. Yellow one.
15:09Uh
15:12Hello.
15:16Wait, it doesn't work.
15:23Okay.
15:25So yellow only
15:28was able to rotate once and blue three, I think.
15:32Blue three.
15:40Yellow too.
15:43Where's blue?
16:19I wonder that whether the torch is getting like weaker.
16:24Oh, I feel like I'm like just
16:27hip circling around the same area.
16:47Is this the green blue?
16:52Where is blue?
17:07Rest resting time.
17:11Uh
17:30Okay. Uh this is the corridor that I passed.
17:49Walk.
17:51What the
17:54Oh, here is the blue.
17:58But again, I wasn't only able to rotate it once.
18:06Now I need to find a way to go out.
18:16So
18:18green one, yellow two, blue three.
18:26And am I trapped again?
18:31I think so.
18:34Come back to blue post.
18:42Yellow, yellow too.
18:45Okay, now I need to find a way to go out.
18:54Green one.
18:58And oh, this I don't think I've seen it.
19:05Oh, never mind. I saw it.
19:19Blue, green.
19:27Yellow.
19:29Where is the
19:33Where should I go?
19:37Okay, now I'm back here.
19:40But this doesn't work.
19:58Oh, there's a red too.
20:03Okay, that opens a new chamber, I think.
20:09Now, but there was like a new there was no message for red, but I'm assuming that it would be four.
20:18Is this yellow?
20:29Green, yellow, blue, red.
20:42Okay, I'm back to the red post.
21:06Oh, new chamber.
21:14Can't interact with uh, I cannot.
21:17Wait, the error message is gone.
21:39So it was able to Can't interact this lantern with right now.
21:44What?
21:47Okay.
21:49Oh, how should I Should I crouch?
21:56Uh,
22:02okay. Should I go back?
22:14There's the same symbol thing that I saw before, but it's not interactable.
22:35Oh,
22:37it worked.
22:41Uh,
22:43so let me go back and see whether I can light This is too dark.
22:50I can't even see and like I don't know where I am even.
22:57Hello, where I am?
23:04Like I feel like I'm bumping into a random object cuz I can't see.
23:13Where I am
23:23Okay, I came back to
23:29that fire pit is
23:54Um, what is this?
23:56Is this just a wall?
24:07Did I make a or did I just turn back?
24:12Can't even tell whether like which direction I'm heading to.
24:17It's just completely dark.
24:21And I don't know whether I'm like moving forward even.
24:29It's hard to tell.
25:02Okay, so the gameplay is not so fun because
25:07I think I feel like
25:11lost in the map.
25:15And I guess like one of the like one of the theme of this game is like put you in the put you in a maze
25:26and make it like you know
25:29find yourself way out.
25:31But I think still like
25:38it's a little bit hard for me to like even navigate through.
25:43And
25:46I think one of the reason is that the camera perspective is like
25:53doesn't show much
25:57much environment of the game at once.
26:02And also it's too dark like way too dark to see like anything.
26:09And right now I can't even tell whether I'm like
26:14like I can't even tell the direction of where I'm heading to.
26:22So like here like I'm I'm very confused whether this is the you know this is the fire pit that I already saw or already I passed or I was just accidentally like you know turned back and
26:36like came back to the same spot.
26:42I
26:43I
26:46I think you need to more like I I don't know.
26:50I think there should be more direction of
26:56where to go or should be like to and especially in the beginning of the game like
27:05you are just like thrown in this environment and there was no direction at all
27:11which
27:15I think as a first time like experience it'll be nicer for you to give for for me to like you know get more information about the game or what I should expect.
27:28I don't know whether there is like a saving.
27:31I don't think there is like a save feature in the in the game yet.
27:38I think this is not definitely you know like the type of game that you could like finish in one hour.
27:46So I think you need to add like save feature so that so that people can play
27:55like you know even after they leave the game like they can come back and continue and pick it up from wherever they
28:05they start. Let me go to the main menu.
28:12Oh, so the game will resume from the last checkpoint but I don't know what the last checkpoint was.
28:19Okay. Also the loading is here chapter 0 to 3.
28:28Oh, I guess I completed until 1.
28:35So a couple of UI thing like for example this back button doesn't seem like it's clickable.
28:43And also as I said in the beginning like like this bag is like you know hidden by this list.
28:53So I wasn't able to like spot it out in the beginning easily.
29:01I think that is most of my comments for this game.
29:12Yep.

functionalAudiovisual appealThe game looked and sounded great.Disagree (-2)
ChallengeThe level of difficulty felt just right.Disagree (-2)
Ease of controlIt was easy to figure out which buttons and keys did what.Slightly disagree (-1)
Clarity of goalsI always knew what my goals were in the game.Strongly disagree (-3)
Progress feedbackI got clear feedback on how I was doing.Disagree (-2)
psychosocialAutonomyI had the freedom to choose how I played.Slightly disagree (-1)
CuriosityI was curious to see more of the game.Disagree (-2)
ImmersionI felt fully immersed in the game.Disagree (-2)
MasteryI felt like I was playing well.Disagree (-2)
MeaningPlaying felt like time well spent.Disagree (-2)
enjoymentEnjoymentThe game was fun.Disagree (-2)
Reviewer noteI had a frustrating time with navigation and orientation throughout the playtest. The environment is far too dark, the torch barely illuminates anything, and the tight camera view makes it very easy to get lost and feel motion-sick or dizzy. On top of that, there is almost no direction or guidance given to explain what I should be doing. The menus also have usability issues with hidden back buttons and unclear interactables.

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