Deception

It's pretty good. Nice atmosphere. Very puzzle-oriented. Good exploration. No combat. I had made good progress on the game, having poured about 19 hours into it and was really enjoying it. Unfortunately my hard drive died and since this game has no cloud saves, when I replaced the dead hard drive, I was faced with starting Deception from scratch or abandoning it. I chose the latter - I couldn't face wasting 20 hours...

6 found this helpful, 2024-11-01

This underappreciated gem has flown under too many people's radars Deception is an aptly named 3D Sokoban Metroidbrania puzzle game in which you use a limited number of 'tools' to traverse your way through (and hopefully out of) a seemingly endless claustrophobic dungeon. • The first third of the game isn't anything massively special but after this, progressing further and further introduces exciting twists whilst...

5 found this helpful, 2024-11-25

I appreciate a good puzzle game, but the controls really get in the way of themselves and can make it hard to execute on what you want to do (eg putting blocks down in the wrong place, an extremely short interaction distance, and so on and so forth). The puzzles themselves are all right, but the controls make them a lot more frustrating than they need to be. Note for anyone who gets stuck on the Grandstands: you can...

1 found this helpful, 2025-03-09