Outliver: Tribulation - Two Minute Review!
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Outliver: Tribulation - Two Minute Review! (Free from Epic games October 10th to October 17th 2024)
Outliver: Tribulation - Two Minute Review! (Free next week from Epic games)
Title: Outliver: Tribulation
Summary: Outliver: Tribulation is a story-driven survival horror action game set in a supernatural realm of African mythology about a soldier on the run who mysteriously finds herself in the middle of an ancient ritual.
Release Date: July 18th 2023
Rating: Rating []
Developer: GBROSSOFT
Publisher: GBROSSOFT
Platforms: PC
Genres: Survival, Third Person Shooter
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Outliver: Tribulation is a third-person shooter with light exploration and puzzle-solving elements. You play as a soldier who stumbles into an ancient temple and must complete several trials to escape. The game centers around a hub world that branches into three small levels, each with a boss, a puzzle room, and numerous objective items to collect — often in a specific order.
Combat is straightforward, with a mix of shooting and dodging that are decent. You start with an assault rifle but soon gain access to a mythical gun that functions as both a shotgun and rocket launcher, with unlimited ammo but a cooldown mechanic. Additionally, you can unlock charms that offer healing, attack, or protection, again with cooldowns. While these mechanics are solid, enemy design lacks variety; there are only a few spongey enemy types, which often spawn directly on top of you and bombard you with hard-to-dodge attacks. The boss fights, too, are basic and repetitive, with simplistic attack patterns and fail to add anything novel.
Unfortunately, the game is held back by its lack of polish. The audio design is abysmal, and the levels are claustrophobic and overly simple, with heavy asset reuse that makes them feel indistinguishable from one another. The repetitive puzzles add to the monotony, and there are occasional glitches that can disrupt the experience. The story, rooted in African mythology, is intriguing but hampered by long text dumps and poor voice acting that fail to engage, and are tagential to the gameplay. Moreover, the ending is completely unsatisfying.
Despite its rough edges, Outliver: Tribulation has a decent core game buried beneath the flaws that I actually enjoyed. It’s a short, three-hour experience that doesn't get bogged down, but it’s hard to justify calling it a “survival horror” or “Souls-like” game as advertised.