BEWARE - DO NOT BUY!!!
You cannot even set you native resolution cos the game automatically scales it down to a fraction!

Resolution scaling is not working and DLSS option also. Overwriting in ini files does nothing also for some reason, I have a 5090 and would like to use DLAA or at least 67% DLSS. DLSS presets do not work either.

It is incredible you even had the audacity to release this broken mess at triple A price. This is a 20 Euro early access beta at best. Nothing works, what were you thinking??!
I am refunding!

(Played for 25 mins)

First of all. it loaded up and ran perfectly fine. no issues. even 3840 x 2160 res despite people falsely claiming it only had 2560 × 1440.
so it runs perfectly fine.. BUT there are literally no graphic settings yet.. motion blur is TOXIC in 2026 going forward and this has it turned up to 3000%.. vile.

combat is so lame.. spamming 1 button and it does random attacks. and just feels ultra sloppy and the npcs have the same attacks over and over making it a snooze fest.

NPCs in the world look disgusting and move so janky, on repeat lol

the voice acting.. not a single human being was used

the.. filter the game has over it is so blurry and fuzzy it looks.. like a utter trashy reshade

the menu.. you are so blurry like a ps2 game lol

there is no jump... no jump in a game like this in 2026 lol.. forcing you to run around EVERYTHING you can break.

sprint animation THEN into combat.. dreadful also.

every single asset in this game has just been thrown together from UE5 store and chatGPT has made the game for them

the only people who are enjoying this game literally have no other games in their library. buy literally ANY other RPG "like" this and you'll be better off.

the game needs either 5 more years in the oven to cook, or its just a trashy cash grab. the price is a scam too..

avoid at all costs

Alright, I have played a bit less than an hour of this game, wanted to initially play more but holy hell guys... Just as a heads up, I have playtested many different games, all stages of development and worked with multiple devs on improving their game. This one, full stop, one of the worst playtests I have had. At the same time, this is also the furthest along in development I have playtested a game, which is odd.
To start, lets get the big thing out of the way, what the hell is the logic of charging $50 CAD when AI voices and textures are everywhere...? Some performances such as the dying woman in the house at the start I can almost believe are real performances and I am welcome to hearing they are real people, but some of them are so obvious I am frankly shocked it made it to this build! The first boss has sound effects that sound entirely different to his actual dialogue, and the main protagonist/narrator, along with various thieves dotted around sound so awful it is deplorable! Much of the inventory textures and loading screens I would be quite shocked if they are not in fact AI generated. Like seriously guys, you DO NOT get to charge this much when there is this much garbage AI in here! That fact you guy's aren't immediately clarifying some of these voices are in fact AI, whether or not they are placeholders or not, is insane! Especially when at minimum, this games already made upwards of 5k! Go hire some VA's on the cheap, I would do it for free, being a freelance voice actor myself which makes this especially appalling!

There is absolutely no graphics options to tweak for performance, and no ability to disable to upscaling which is seemingly rendering the game in an extremely low resolution to run it optimally, resulting in an extremely fuzzy image which, even then, has quite big lag spikes on occasion. Compared to the trailers, this looks absolutely nothing like it, and I don't have graphics options to tweak to make it look closer to that version. Lighting appears to flicker and fragment on occasion, most obviously in the cave of atonement where it was extremely pronounced with large jagged triangles of shadow.

Combat and movement feel especially clunky, with me getting stuck on terrain every few steps, the movement itself feeling bizarrely snappy and unnatural. With combat, locking on is strictly required as any attack or attempt to strike without will assuredly result in getting hit. Locking on however pulls the camera up and in an odd position making it difficult to see the enemy, that is if the camera itself doesn't get stuck on terrain or shoot under you, completely blocking visibility in combat. Blocking often feels delayed and unreliable, and I've found can result in consistent lag spikes on a perfect parry which really breaks up the combat. Enemy AI itself feels underbaked, often just throwing themselves at you with extremely simple to read attacks. The invisible walls and weirdly hitboxed terrain make it extremely difficult to navigate at times, and I am thankful I haven't ended up like others who seemingly quite frequently get stuck behind them blocking vital items and areas.

On environments, there is a disconnect between the goals of this game, the loading screen art and trailer material, and the actual game. There is a lack of direction, which is fine for a free roam style game, but with how much fog there is, and how unclear certain paths forward are, it can be extremely confusing to figure out where to go or what to do next. In relation to this, the game lacks the color and vibrance seen in the trailers, seeming much more faded and lacking in a strong color direction. There is also a bizarre pattern in the NPC's, their animations, and dialogue and their cohesiveness with the rest of the environment. For instance, in the image attached, there is a woman crying in a really odd position, and a woman seemingly either trying to start a fire, or warming her hands right into the crying woman's crotch area which looks..... Weird as hell. 2 times, dying characters speak in a very casual manor, seemingly just pausing their dialogue for a moment to represent their dying breaths, which just sounds and feels off.

To conclude, if this was $10, $15, $20, even $35, Much of my critiques would be negligible as a small devs first big game, and will be ironed out with time. I can even forgive the AI use as long as its express purpose is as a placeholder. But this is a $50 game. Regardless of it being listed as early access, this is absolutely not worth the price as its given state, and its insane that it was acceptable to anyone to put a game out in this state AT $50! There is technical issues galore, a large lack of proper direction, and a massive amount of performance tweaking and improvement that all need to be fixed before this gets even close to $50 and even then, most early access games of BIGGER standards and projects wouldn't even price their game like that. I find it extremely disappointing that this is what Perp dedicates time and assests towards; an AI filled underbaked basic souls-like which is a dime a dozen now, minus the AI stuff because even then most games don't have this much obvious AI dialogue without expressly admitting so! Please, if you really care about making a fun game and want this story and game to reach more people, lower the price, hunker down, and fix the dang game! Because if you don't, I am sure there is not a large audience willing to pay $50 CAD or whatever that translates respectively to their currency for this. I have already processed my refund because frankly I don't support this whole mess, the usage of AI has completely soured me from this project, and to not have it listed on Steam is very much against current TOS standards on their platform.