Agryos: Recovering Eden features beautiful environments, an intriguing plot, and exciting combat. I highly recommend this game to anyone who enjoys third person shooters and is seeking a fun, short challenge!

Motion blur cannot be turned off. Aggressive anti-aliasing and post-processing makes the game blurry even when not in motion.

In this review, I’ll judge this game through my own set of eyes in the three aspects of gameplay, environment and dialog. Which are all important aspect of game design. And to let you know, I am a picky gamer.

Firstly, regarding the gameplay, to a fair extent it was fun. The scatter shot was fun and strong and not boring unlike the carbine. The disruptor could use some more computer magic to look fancier. The death sound of the robots sound like a balloon popping, the tanks look like it's from command and conquer. Those flying little ♥♥♥♥ are extremely annoying, they are tankier than the tanks with treads and they shoot more than the tanks. They are breaking the game experience, pls remove them devs. In the boss fight, the small fries are very annoying as they spawned as if there's not a population cap or the cap is very high which made the boss fight annoying. It would be greatly appreciated if the boss health itself could be raised and the small enemies to be removed. I appreciate the vertical game play.

Secondly, regarding the environmental aspect, to some extent it reminded me playing minecraft when I was young and in my dad's car, 10/10 nostalgia. In my opinion, it looks like I built a house in minecraft with the majority of material being sea lantern and giving an accent of emerald blocks through the vegetation. And as a whole, I feel like I’m eating chocolate mint in a sci-fi dying planet as the setting stated. Due to the chocolate mint and lack of glass looking texture, I was not able to relate to the concept in the setting that I’m an armed middle eastern in a greenhouse beating up robots. Though very cool concept indeed, could use some more polishing, but definitely tickled my nostalgia spot in my bum-hole.

Thirdly, regarding the dialog, I respect the choice of the name moss. As a game revolving around the concept of using plants to save the planet Terra, nice Warhammer reference. Using the name moss, which in it's biological definition as far as I know, is very close to vegetation, which is the core ideology of this game, which in my opinion is masterfully done as a reference to your game, in your own game. This is some inception level tier gamer move. However, despite the gamer move I see you devs pulling off, the audio of the dialog leaves some to be desired. In the game, despite your effort in literally muting the SFX sound and only playing the audio sound, I was still unable to focus on the dialog as it was in the middle of a fight. On top of that it was to a smaller extent, muffled. I would appreciate if the game temporarily froze when the dialog appeared so it would be easier to understand and immerse yourself in the game world. So I can’t really comment on the dialog aspect as I couldn’t quite catch the dialog itself.

Lastly, regarding the translation aspect, as a native Chinese speaker and a fluent English speaker I condemn the translation in this game. From my tri-lingual ability I can sense that there weren’t a lot of care and effort being put into the translation work from English to Chinese. The content of the spoken English dialog did not match up with the text that was showing in the introduction screen, when the female voice is talking about spaceship technology electrical aboogaloo, the text showed simple Chinese four word phrases that in my opinion failed to truly express and transfer the setting of the game that the female dialog is trying to transfer to me like Xi Jingping is trying to transfer it’s troop to Taiwan. On top of that, in the ending screen, not the credit scene, when Moss called Neziha and claimed he will call a shuttle for Neziha, the shuttle was translated to Horse-For-Rent / Taxi-Horse / Uber-Horse, something along the line of that in Chinese. This sloppy amateur translation truly disappointed me, as I expected highly of you guys as quality devs. To see such disrespect brought upon my oriental language, I shall curse you with my fortune cookie.

So in conclusion, the gameplay was fun, could use some more explosive to act as crowd suppression tools to use as a counter measure for the high enemy spawn count. And the environment of the game triggered my nostalgia, but chocolate mint both as a flavor and architecture direction/theme/ideology is not liked by me personally. And the dialog is meh. The most disappointing part though is the translation. This is all personal opinion, no hard feelings. In the choice of the two alternatives in-between a binary decision of recommend and not recommending this game, I make the difficult, heart-wrenching decision of choosing recommend.

Short and sweet arena shooter with a nice story and fun movement mechanics

shoot robots

Damn cant believe Sony stealth released Returnals PC port

It's short. It's simple. It's made by an incredibly small team.
It's fun! It's free! It gave me nostalgic joys from years past.

100% worth downloading. Excited to see what these devs can do in the future!

Short Gameplay and the game mechanics is super cool i enjoyed it

The enemy bullets and combat are all pretty slow and underwhelming.

AGRYOS is a genuinely impressive student project, from its voice acting to its combat to the little details all throughout, like the animations and particle effects on every jump. You play as Neziha, working your way through abandoned facilities, defeating enemy robots as you go. The game description's comment about taking inspiration from bullet hells is well deserved -- but while I got close to death several times, I was always able to work my way out of it, taking advantage of the dash, double jump, and level design to make my way out. The aesthetic and voice acting helped take that combat and round out the picture into a tight, polished game. AGRYOS came together great, so congrats to the team, and take some time to play their game!