Gridberd

10 na 10

Bardzo słabe, nieporozumienie i w dodatku drażniąca klatkująca grafika/
Stanowczo odradzam.

Gridberd is a first person horror game that lasts roughly about an hour and half. We explore the abandoned Johnson Mansion and figure out the reason for the recent mysterious deaths surrounding the old building.

Let me start off by saying, I will not be mincing my words here.

Let’s start with the story. I will try not to put any spoilers. So the gist is there’s a vengeful ghost, Kary. Filled with rage, he locks up the player character, Sam Rogers, with the intent of killing him. However, before Kary can kill him, the spirit forces Sam to witness some of Kary’s dreaded past and later on, we learn a terrible sin Sam had commited, which plays a part in why Kary’s spirit hasn’t move on. So instead of killing him quickly, Kary toys with Sam, taunting him with several corpses strewn around in the mansion. Oddly enough, these lifeless bodies bear a striking resemblance to Sam. Spoiler: I believe Sam is already dead while we’re playing as him and perhaps Sam himself needed some closure because he might have felt guilty for participating in the death of Kary. He might have also had a hand in the death of Kary’s son but I’m not really sure

Kary allows Sam to explore the old mansion that once belonged to the specter, giving him a chance to investigate the recent tragic events and search for the truth. Kary narrates the story, with notes and the radio broadcasting the news supplementing the narrative. The storyline is compelling enough but then towards the end, it left a bad taste in my mouth. I just feel as though it is rushed. That’s all. As a side note, Kary’s voice actor is just trying too hard to sound ominous. It fails and he probably needed tons of throat lozenges after the recording. The other voices are fine actually.

Now let’s move over to the “scare factor” of the game. How much did it scare me? On a scale of 1-10 (1 being, “me looking for something to scare me but couldn’t find it, no matter how hard I tried” and 10 being, “I ♥♥♥♥ my pants, I should’ve worn a diaper”), Gridberd was a 2. The only time I genuinely felt dread was when I saw a couple of spiders and I don’t think those little guys were the main threat. There are jumpscares but they aren't startling. There aren’t too many ambient sounds (it was mostly silent throughout the game) and the music feels out of place sometimes. It’s too epic sounding. Like you’re going on an adventure and it had no place in the setting of the story, in my opinion.

In the features of Gridberd, it’s written that there are “riddles and puzzles, as well as hidden paths that can reward you in the most diverse ways.” I played through the game twice (I had to play offline because my internet cut off so my playtime is more that what is shown) and found no riddles and barely any puzzles. I also scoured the Johnson mansion for any diverse pathways but I couldn’t find them. Maybe, I’m just blind. May I also add that the walking speed of Sam is atrocious. It’s so bloody slow! I don’t know if it’s like that to build tension but at the times where you have to backtrack, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, my patience meter went off the charts. It made exploring tedious since sprinting isn't available. There is a silver lining to the sluggish walking speed. It made the boss battle hilariously entertaining…that’s all I’m saying.

The graphics is decent. It’s on the CryEngine. I have no problem with it, in terms of framerate drops, but I’m reading that some people are struggling to maintain their fps. In addition to that, the game is littered with terrible texture glitches, bugs and strange character models. The subtitles are way too fast, with multiple spelling errors and sometimes the characters talk on top of one another. The voice actors have an accent and their English for the most part, is understandable but the subtitles help when they’re pronouncing a word that might sound different than what I’m used to. These might seem minor, but it’s distracting, for me at least. Bugs can be fixed with patches and I’m not expecting a perfect game but I’m simply calling it how I see it.

Lastly, with the length of the game (1.5 or less) and its price, coupled with the various problems mentioned previously, I cannot recommend Gridberd just yet. I want to because I can tell the developers worked hard on it. I enjoyed the story but most people probably would not play a game mostly for the story.

That’s my input of Gridberd. Thanks for reading :)

TL;DR

Pros:
- Compelling story
- Decent graphics

Cons:
- Buggy, glitchy gameplay
- Short game (<1.5 hours of gametime)
- Not as scary as I would like
- Walking simulator (slow walking speed)
- Optimization problems (people are reporting of low framerates)
- Sound problems.
- Price tag might not be agreeable to some

By the way, when you have the time, this is my video of me fooling around in Gridberd.

Gridberd Video

Słaba próba papugowania po silent hillu, do tego liczne błędy animacji postaci, mnogość zupełnie nie potrzebnych momentami efektów, długie łądowanie nawet krótkich scenek/filmików.

Mimo wszystko ma potencjał ale w takim stanie gra nie warta tych 10e.

Don't buy this game!!! it's a one and big mistake, abomination and so on, how developer can ♥♥♥* up so much, it is in a pre alpha state, graphic settings don't even work, medium high low ultra, all the same, I set it on ultra...and yes graphic is beauty but it look the same on low.... no sound option, you hear nothing beside the music, no footsteps of yours, nothing it's just the music and annoying axe murderer gibberish at the beggining of the game.... it's like the guy behind the voice were just reading line after line from a paper, no emotions to it, like a machine, with some little vocal effect.
It has been a while since the game was released and no patch to it? still in 1.0 version..... well for me it's a still unfinished alpha. Don't know how long is it, steam refunds saved my money again from a incompetent developer, I think i was in the middle of the game and then gave up, only thing that keeps you going is the graphic and design of some parts of the hause, game has it's own emotion very much of a potential even for a short game but not like this, it could be a really fantastic and scary (but short) thriller with 2 hours of gameplay like some good movie, but they made this, THE GRIDBERD, no sound, no graphic settings (they are, but not work.) no working voice acting, almost nothing in this game is on the right place, only visuals, but paying only for that? what if the hardware will not handle it? another steam refund? developers have the chance to fix the game.... but i think they give a ♥♥♥♥ about it.

I might have liked Gridberd more if I had done like other reviewers and never played it.

With sharp graphics and sound, Gridberd builds a thick, dark atmosphere. The story is ok, and the developers obviously cared and worked hard, but bugs and design choices blow it. It's like someone set me a beautiful dinner table - with candles and music - and then served me poop.

Whether you're accidentally walking on water, or crouching to overcome an invisible wall, Gridberd throws so many irritating goofs at you that I can't list them all, so I'll just illustrate with *JOURNAL PAGES*. If you see a journal page in the environment, a visible key-prompt appears ( [F] ) which lets you pick it up and read it. But often, standing in front of the page and looking at it doesn't elicit a prompt. I repeatedly had to scurry about the floor randomly, waggling my head, until a visible key prompt appeared - often at the corner of the screen. But occasionally, it was wasted time because the page turned out to be non-interactive. And once (in the dining room) I was able to read a page by pressing the interact key after completely failing to find any visible prompt.

Gridberd is a few months and some tough feedback away from being a solid, very scary game. But once you serve me poop, I'll be eating out, thank you :)

Seems like the developer who made this game either has friends who got this game and are thumbing it up to help him or he has some fake accounts saying this game is awesome, but let me tell you this game is pretty awful. The lighting is terrible and hard to see which doesn't make the game tense or scary it just makes it dark. the graphics are ok they may be better but it is hard to see them because the game is dark. The first few minutes of this game told me what to expect with the bad controls and the first puzzle didn't work at first until a few minutes passed then finally I got through the doorway, I clipped through myself and had 4 feet at one time climbing down a ladder and then the screen went black when climbing up another ladder. There is no run at least not yet anyway. I walked slowly down a hallway until I saw the poorly designed axe murderer and the lights went off and he was gone so I kept walking down the hallway and died. Time to get a refund!

This game isn't even in early access and should just be scrapped and the developer flogged for making such a poor excuse for a game.

This has a lot of potential; but as it is, both the story & progression feel very gummy and clumsy somehow. The atmosphere while not original had a very good feel to it albeit I have to wonder why the heck everything seems as moist as an inexplicably horny Sponge Bob.

While there aren't a lot of controls, just the simple act of moving feels incredibly awkward and there isn't really all that much to do in the game save for reading a few notes and listening to a few, extremely runny radio recordings. The story feels flimsy and nonexistant - however, on occasion a horror game can get away with such if it makes up in playability. And having said that the only frightening thing in this game are the mountaineous piles of beer cans (we get it, the floaty, glowy eyed muzzle masked bad guy is an alcoholic, thank you) and questionable layout of the Hotel.

Feels like wasted potential :/ it had the strong elements to be good but fails to deliver. It's also agonizingly short and left me with a "...that's all?" vibe. Wouldn't recommend it, unless it gets a proper shine up which probably won't happen.

Well, as expected many negative reviews. Why? Because it is a first person horror walking simulator! It offers a creepy, dark atmosphere, decent sounds and graphics.
I can't confirm the buggy and glitchy gameplay experience and I had no clipping issues.

There are no real puzzles, just find the key and open the door to the next area. But that’s fine with me, because you are not alone in this mansion: We got company! So yes, there are action sequences with possible fatal outcome.

If you liked “Lex Mortis” and the above mentioned conditions, you will be fine with “Gridberd”! (Save game / check point system is fair.)

I'm going to have to give a strong Not Recommended for this game. There are a number of problems that go beyond the somewhat dysfunctional Main Menu and its annoying movement between screens or the stability issues. There's also the fact I couldn't easily locate the option to adjust the audio, so I'm assuming it's not actually there. I used my Volume Mixer.

The horror doesn't stop there. You'll soon discover the gameplay is bland and unimaginative. You'll do plenty of walking in a beginning area that might remind you of PT. After that, prepare to do some more insanely slow walking and even slower crouching through the game's mansion/hotel/castle. It all boils down to walking around, jumping occasionally when you're stuck on something, and locating keys to locked doors. Aaaaand having some trouble interacting with objects. At least it looks somewhat nice with the engine it's using. There are some good textures in place.

Then there's the writing and voice acting. I don't really mind the voices very much, but the writing and subtitles could have used some proofreading. The subtitles were also off with their timing, usually resulting in them disappearing too quickly. There were some cases where they didn't match up with what was being said by the characters. I could not

It feels like an unpolished and amateur effort that's hardly even worth your time. I would suggest spending your dollars and finite amount of minutes elsewhere, but hey, have a video of the gameplay if you're -really- curious:
https://youtu.be/NS6-z6olVIU