Initially this looked like it might be another shovelware title on switch. Pretty fake screenshots for a game that actually looks terrible and plays terrible. Instead, I found a surprisingly competent shooter that is only held back by some rough edges.

There is a surprising amount of enemy variety, the visual design is pretty consistent and cool (love when games take visual inspiration from Beksinski), the soundtrack is appropriately a combination of gothic ballads and cosmic buttrock, and the gunplay feels just good enough to be enjoyable.

I think where the rough edges come into play is primarily combat and level design. Hit detection feels randomly calculated leading to some shots that can be instant kills where the same enemy next to them may take 4 shots from the shotgun. Similarly damage to your character also feels off. Where some hits may take most of your health away because it was just a pixel closer to you than another. Meanwhile most melee enemies barely do damage at all and the spiders are just annoying to hit. I wouldn't say the game is hard personally, but the offness can definitely cause some weird scenarios where you feel like it's not working correctly.

With level design it can just be a little tedious going through some samey rooms and they can feel a little haphazard. It's nothing egregious and I think it shows effort on the devs part, just needs fine tuning.

All things considered for a roughly 5 hour game, I think this was overall solid! I'm curious of the dev's other games and hope to see polish their combat engine, because I think there's good bones here!