Reviews

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  Farrier

  Nov 2, 2022

  For a cheap game with lousy graphics, it's a surprisingly good game.

  Why is it a cheap, lousy game?

  In 8 hours of playing, I lost count of the number of times the game crashed or hung on me. It was about once per level. Save every level! Several times! And there are plenty of non-crashy bugs, too. Fortunately, restarting the game and reloading is fast. The game uses few assets (mostly free), so comes across as bland, especially at first. Save, load, & level-load doesn't save the currently-equipped weapon, so you have to keep switching from the pipe. Sometimes dying will take you to a game over screen; sometimes to the beginning of the level.

  Why is it worth playing?

  It seems to be essentially a single-dev indie game FPS; priced low because that's all it is. There's a very traditional selection of weaponry (melee, pistol, shotgun, smg, assault rifle, alien weapon, grenade launcher), though I never really used some of them. Ammo and healthpacks are plentiful. Keybinds are the usual PC ones, though can be changed through a config file. Fully voice acted. 22 levels of action. Story isn't stellar, but serves to drive the action. Music is good and thematic, though the changes of music can be jarring. Atmosphere overall is good: I was successfully jumpscared many times, by critters I *knew* were there and was waiting for, in levels I'd played a few times before. Sound cues to warn you of upcoming enemies are a nice touch, because they build the suspense. The game gets quite a bit better as you go along, so first impressions may not be telling. Initially, the AI sucks. So, early in the game, if you're around a corner from an NPC, they'll get stuck on the walls more often than they don't, as the AI starts out as purely "move directly towards the player": you can block them with a table. But as the game progresses, the AI becomes more complex, running away, using cover, etc. Initially, the levels are bland, featureless, and repetitive, using a single set of tunnel pieces to make the levels. But as you progress the levels themselves get more detailed, with more clutter, and more complexity. There are no achievements, so 100%ing can be considered just making it to the end of the game. HowLongToBeat says 2 hours to complete, which seems realistic, at 5-10 minutes a level. It apparently took me 8 hours, but I left it running while doing gardening, etc.

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  MJN

  Jun 16, 2016

  Unpolished, i.e. buggy and unbalanced.
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  MrPoopyButtholeBaby

  Jun 28, 2016

  Well. That was interesting, I suppose. Firstly, I must say, please stick to the 2-D RPGs, man. This is an alright game if you really out-played anything else in your library. All in all, its a good game and such; but really I have a large fancy for old games or seemingly-old games. The voice acting is a bit off, and the fact you can't change the control scheme is a bit aggrivating; as with "Enter" to use, and "T" to pick up weapon. But man, I did enjoy that sweet Candy Apple Glock skin. Would I reccomend? Well hell no unless you appreciate all works of games, or just want to look at the sweet sight of a Candy Apple CS:GO skin without paying $0.42 in level 2.
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  Bret

  Jul 8, 2016

  I thoroughly enjoyed Insincere! First of all, The game almost gave me a heart attack with all the jump scares. Secondly, The graphics are really out-dated, However... I liked them, Put together with comical dying poses, Enemies getting stuck with their heads through walls, Various bugs and a great soundtrack, It took me back to my first gaming experiences, Playing on a SNES or an N64, Where nobody cared about any of that stuff, Nobody complained about the graphics, or the bugs. They just played the game and got on with it. Now, There are a few things that could be improved, For example: [list] [*] There is NO autosave. Now, me being a dumbass forgot about that, and went through half the game only for it to crash and force me to start over. [*] There are no options whatsoever. You get what you're given, There's no settings to change. [*] The game crashes quite often, For me it crashed 6 times before i finished the game. [*] The game is fairly short. I happened to get really into the game, only for it to end abruptly [*] It's quite easy, I made it through the entire game having only died once, and even that was because i made a mistake, as opposed to enemy difficulty. [/list] Despite the above, I really did enjoy this game, It took me back to my childhood. And sure, it doesn't have trading cards or achievements, But who needs those when you have a game as good as this! I highly recommend playing this, It's short, sweet, and worth the time! (In my opinion) 8/10
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  951Jimbo

  Jul 10, 2016

  Lol, this game doesn't even have an options menu, have fun playing in stretched out 800 X 600.
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  Marquise*

  Jul 23, 2016

  This was part of my Astronomic Bundle marathon. Really risky gamble at it! I loved the game despite numerous flaws that I best start upon, - ENTER is used to open doors and pull switches on and while caught by the action we would asume something might jump on us while having one or the other hand midway of their usual position. - Sadly it crashed at almost each 4 levels. Fortunately, saving a lot is helpful there. - Reloading a game is a bit long and sometimes at scene changes we get damage and we always return with the lead pipe as weapon. Nothing to really hate the gameplay, but it kinda not reassure us about the stability of the game. - The voice acting got a bit chopped in the cutscene and I'm happy it rolled in chopped slow-motion to read what was stuttered before about 4 sentences later. It however didn't happened systematially but froze my game about twice! - I got cornered by mobs from behind that hinderd my character to move or shoot! - Some of the ennemies just looks like your ally... (Maybe it is a plot twist) The goods, - The developper of Astronomic Games specialise in story heavy and tactic heavy RPG and that was what got attempted here on an engine that is NOT made to be cooperative for that type of use (Read above also how just cooperative is the engine in short.) and really shown a lot of hardwork to just get his vision trough. - For the very little we can use of the voiced charaters in a shooter environement, we got very nicely around them and intrigued to continue the game. (At the exeption that it took me two floors to realize the AI wasn't talking to me when I heard a guard or two warn me someone was close!) - I got trapped in a logic map near the end trying to grenade every wall apart... So in about 3 floors you get to puzzle your way a bit and same with 3 or 4 tactical traps. - I would had LOVED to bring back all enrolled bots with my charater because well... :D Some things to think about if this is first chapter, When the story ends as not really an end, there are still loose ends around. Was really the AI helping the guy? How/why did he made such a mess? If in the end we have the answer of what he might be, why wasn<t he be more honnest with himself? What really served all that secrecy purpose with the AI? Why monsters? What is that facility all about anyway? So I know it is hard to dose a shooter as a RPG but when finishing a chapter before introducing new elements especially when it is unsure folks will return back, please... No loose ends! It is a very good game in a bundle to spend, waste half a day on it! Sorry Matt, but I would get this in a bundle only and, if possible in its very own bundle beause so many questions! (This could had been so much fun in a Mass Effet/FallOut 3 engine! Just grabbing stuff getting notes menus and options... You know.)
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  roughnecks

  Jul 30, 2016

  Personal Rating: Fun and simple sci-fi shooter Classic Rating: ★★★✬☆ Insincere is quite a good game, it's really straightforward though - linear FPS, old-school gameplay, simple but neat story, decent voice-acting and soundtrack. What it's not so cool is the game engine, "FPS Creator". I had loss of frames and lagging in different parts of the game and cutscenes are just as you see in my recordings (link below) - not a very pleasant thing for the eye. Texture and models are what they are too, but that's not a big deal. There is no settings' menu, so you can't adjust graphic, sound and key bindings in game but devs wrote a post in discussion forums about that: i.e. it's still possible to change resolution and keys by editing the setup.ini file in game dir. http://steamcommunity.com/app/467000/discussions/0/357286532030856073/ I really spent some good hours playing, recording and editing my gameplay and I feel like recommending "Insincere" to adult gamers like myself. If you're interested in the game, you can take a peek at or even watch my full playthrough on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LNeR8yw8vo&list=PLePnXvVxuuX9T9tJQT6JkQhK-TpnN9ENH
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  Karithay

  Sep 10, 2016

  I can forgive, and even embrace, graphics that look like they are from the late 90s, especially when the game moves smoothly, like it did here. However, I cannot forgive the inabiity to change key bindings or adjust mlook axes in this day and age. There's no excuse for that.
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  Direporcupine

  Sep 18, 2016

  I got this as part of a bundle during this summers steam sale and didn't have particularly high expectations for it. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it performed like an old school FPS with a passable story line. I got a solid evening and afternoons enjoyment out of it and at far less cost than a pizza, a 6 pack of beer, or a movie, the metrics with which I measure my enjoyment dollars.
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  Robodude

  Dec 3, 2016

  I liked this game a lot. It's not even close to being state of the art by today's stadards but it was a lot of fun to play. The plot was seemingly random and almost meaningless to me but the potential of the AI leading me into a trap was intriguing.
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  dcxdemo

  Jan 11, 2017

  This game is too badass - Steam crashed when I tried to play the trailer. And it wasn't even running. Now imagine what will happen if you'll launch it.
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  atomicmutilator

  Jan 13, 2017

  No ability to change grahic resolution or switch to windowed mode, which is a real bummer. Alt+Enter doesn't work either. Game itself has terrible cinematics, its just the in-game graphics but magically worse. Voice acting isn't great either, very cliche.
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  keirt

  Feb 25, 2017

  [h1]This is a neutral review[/h1] The game is just okay, neither good nor bad, it has classic fps elements that can make me feel nostalgic. ✔ I think the story is good, and have a little bit twist ✔ enemy placing that could give me heart attack from jump scare ✔ short, and the chapters/levels is so short that like classic game. It is linear and the difficulty increasing each level. ✔/❌ it has decent puzzle elements ❌ is it deja vu or am I seeing the same room all over again? (you know what it means) ❌ it has bugs, lot of bugs, annoying bugs (like stuck or fall in corner), crash bugs ❌ no option for resolution and keybind, you have to edit .ini file [b][i]How much I like this game[/i] score:[/b] 6.5/10 if they can fix those bugs, that is really anoying, [u]otherwise I only rate this game 5/10[/u] And... They said this is first game of the series, I'd looking forward for it, hopefuly the next game have less bug. [b][i]How much I want to recommend this game[/i] score:[/b] 5/10
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  ttv.BerkzyHD

  Mar 8, 2017

  Love this game! I love those games that are so cheap and have you put in their own mini world and story its hard to explaine but this game has done a very great job and shooting enemies in this game is so satisfying! The only downer that I saw personally was the bad voice acting. It's obvious that someone just recorded their voice, thi goes for the main character only but the robot that you come across that guides you doesnt have this problem. Well and all a very good game!
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  Nightwalker

  Mar 27, 2017

  While it is a classical FPS with a nice story idea, there are too many issues to really enjoy this game: - Interact-Key is "Enter" which means you need to move one hand away from your regular controls to interact with stuff - Sound effects are sparce and weren't placed in the 3D environment properly. On headphones this means I heard an enemy snarl on my right ear only when it was right in front of me. I can't hear my gunshots or if I actually hit the enemy. But I do hear that I'm hurt. - The attack distance of the melee-Enemies you encounter right from the start seems off. It feels like they have arms longer than rendered and can attack you from a distance way too far away. This is only a minor thing though, since it just affects the difficulty of the game - I stopped playing on the fourth level or so, because an enemy pushed me through the wall into the void, effectively killing me. - After I died, I had to restart entirely, because the game does not save automatically for you. Not even upon reloading new levels. I know this was rather common back in the day, but being used to modern game mechanics it is something that should be indicated to new players. To sum it up: - Bad controls - Misleading sound rendering - Strange melee distances - Clipping errors lead to insta-death - No Auto-Save
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  Tren AKA hamza4f

  May 26, 2017

  [u][h1]Arabic:[/h1][/u] [b]"قصة حلوة وغريبة اسلحة متنوعة بس الأوبتمايزشين تعبان شوي وخصوصاً بالكت سينس مع شوية غباء بالقيم بلاي"[/b]                                          [h1]المميزات[/h1]                                               [olist] [*]الأسلحة يلي فيها متنوعة وكل شوي بيعطوك سلاح جديد [*]قصة قوية وغريبة وفريدة من نوعها وبتخليك تفوت بستميت حيط حتى تفهمها xD [*]فيك تسيف امتى ما بدك بدون تشيك بوينت ولا شي وبسرعة (Quick Save) [*]طول اللعبة حلو وما بيخليك تمل منها [*]الساوند التراك او الموسيقى يلي باللعبة ماشي حالها بتعيشك جو شوي [/olist]                                          [h1]العيوب[/h1]                                               [olist] [*]الكت سينس او المشاهد السينيمائية باللعبة خرا لانها بتشتغل بعشرة مدري عشرين فريم اتوقع هيك فيها بطئ وتعليق غبي مع انو اللعبة شغالة بستين فريم بالقيم بلاي العادي [*]الأعداء عددهم قليل بكل مرحلة بتلعبها بالكتير احتمال تلاقي فيها بس عشرة تقتلهم [*]انواع الاعداء باللعبة قليل 4 بس وبيتكررو معك طول الوقت وكلهم متشابهين (الوحش الغريب, الجنود, البنت, الأليين) بس الحلو انهم مختلفين شوي عن بعض [*]مافيها حفظ تلقائي او أوتو سيف وهالشي ممكن يورطك وانت عم تلعب اذا نسيت تسجلها ومتت بدك تعيد من اخر مكان سجلت فيه اللعبة ما فيك تعيد من بداية المرحلة [*]مرات بتكرش اللعبة وبيصير ارور لانو ما بيقدر يحمل الكت سينس (انا تقريباً كرشت معي 5 بالتختيم كلو) ا [*]صوت المساعد الألي يلي بيحاكيك وانت عم تلعب مو مفهوم كتير ومافيها سب تايتل او ترجمة تحت بالانكليزي مشان تقرأ الكلام يلي مو مفهوم [*]مراحلها قصيرة كتيير يعني لو يقللو عدد المراحل ويكبرو من حجمها ووقتها بيكون احسن [*]مافي واقعية باللعب يعني بيكون معك رشاش بتضل عم ترش ساعة ما بيروح من عدد طلقاتك إلا عشر طلقات xD هالشي بيساعد بس مو حلو كتير بيخليها سهلة [*]مافيها قنابل بينما الاعداء عندهم قنابل [*]مرات بينزل عدد الفريمات من ستين ل30 او 40 وبيضل هيك لفترة بدون سبب !! [*]مافيها أتشيفمنت [*]مافيها نظام عرض مراحل مثلاً المرحلة الاولى والتانية والتالتة يعرضوها قدامك لتختار وحدة منهم وتلعبها حتى لو كنت مختم اللعبة اذا بدك تلعب مرحلة معينة مالك غير انك تكون عامل سيف فيها من قبل ومحتفظ فيه لترجعلها اللعبة لو كان عليها تخفيض قوي او لقيتها بشي بندل بتستاهل تجيبها وتجربها لو ما عندك مشكلة مع الالعاب يلي الجرافكس تبعها قديم لح تستمتع بالقصة وبالقيم بلاي رغم بعض العيوب يلي فيها [spoiler]للمعلومية القصة ما انتهت لسا إلها تكملة والمطور عم يشتغل على جزء تاني منها[/spoiler] تقييمي للعبة: [b]6.5/10[/b] [u]الوقت المتوقع للإستمتاع باللعبة: حتى تخلص تختيمها :)[/u] [h1]English:[/h1] [b]Good Story, with alot of weapons, Few enemies, Not bad gameplay, and bad optimization on Cutscenes[/b] [u]Expected time to enjoy the game: until finish the story[/u] [b]6.5/10[/b]
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  Nyet Diem

  Jul 15, 2017

  Forever condemned to the "Stupid" category. Bad writing, bad enemies, just took itself too seriously.
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  Foxysen

  Apr 22, 2018

  Well, I thought that this is going to be a complete shovelware. But well, despite using the godawful FPS Creator engine and stock assets, it still seemed that dev was there for a proper effort, putting in a story through cutscenes and using assets logically, instead of just trashing the Steam store. So I guess I can somewhat respect that, in comparison. Yep, we are that low. Of course since it uses FPS Creator the base gameplay is totally butt and I don't think that dev was a person who was into FPS core gameplay development. Clunky buggy butty. And of course it still uses stock assets so it's just bleh. And it kept crashing or freezing every few levels, kept restarting and reloading. As in, I still don't think it's enough effort to be on a Steam store. Many devs put many years of effort in order to create a complete game only to get not enough exposure due to Steam store cluttered with lower effort ones. So eh. So instead of expected 1/10 it's more like 3/10. Or 2/10.
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  Big Mac

  Mar 6, 2019

  Error at startup; unplayable.
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  Shadow Ops

  Jan 31, 2020

  Insincere fast game with modern day graphics with easy controls that moves from location A to B to C and so on, good game. Personal Suggested Purchase Price: $0.49 Or Less During Sale