He responded on the official Discord. He can't reproduce the multiplayer bugs. He needs more people to send their logs over. That said, I don't know if he's working on fixing other bugs, or new content. No word on that.

When stating I hope he didn't ghost us again. Kyle and a Discord mod were fairly annoyed by that statement. It's a valid concern. *shakes head*

引用自 TGC Ocelly：

He responded on the official Discord. He can't reproduce the multiplayer bugs. He needs more people to send their logs over. That said, I don't know if he's working on fixing other bugs, or new content. No word on that.

When stating I hope he didn't ghost us again. Kyle and a Discord mod were fairly annoyed by that statement. It's a valid concern. *shakes head*

Yeah, I want to have faith in Kyle, but the lack of communication on Steam where the majority of the audience is located. Then you also throw in the fact how the discord is mostly quiet, just makes it hard... Even just a simple post/pinned topic here in the discussions section or an update that says "Hey, I'm not sure what is causing this bug some people are having. Those with issues creating or joining a lobby, please send me your files through the official Obsideo Discord server." Would have sufficed.

I get that he's one guy and game development is hard, especially going from one game engine to another. On top of that, I can even understand that maybe people being quick to downvote the game with negative reviews (again) after these issues arose might have impacted his mental health (again), but the guy needs to either directly communicate with the community and let us know what's going on or have a community manager that can be the go between him and the general audience. People are on the edge with how this game is being handled, especially after his last disappearance act.

I'm at the point where I went from excitedly checking every day for a new (possible) update to now I'm thinking I'll just wait till November or December again to see if the game gets another update soon (though I'll still check back for replies because I don't want to leave the discussion hanging).

Called in my review on the 28th of April 2023.

Stay away, only "updating" to appeal steam rules about sales.

It's funny because I remember this game as kinda fun to mess around in but way too unpolished and rough to keep playing, so I put it down for a while. Came back way later to find a whole string of updates I missed out on and... a completely dead game with no easily findable word from the developer.

I pegged this game as a pump-n-dump the first time and it's sad to see it suffer such fate twice in a row. Here's hoping he comes around and uses steam more often.

引用自 Ume Ito：

It's funny because I remember this game as kinda fun to mess around in but way too unpolished and rough to keep playing, so I put it down for a while. Came back way later to find a whole string of updates I missed out on and... a completely dead game with no easily findable word from the developer.

I pegged this game as a pump-n-dump the first time and it's sad to see it suffer such fate twice in a row. Here's hoping he comes around and uses steam more often.

Yeah, I'm hoping he comes back and fixes the game as well. As I said before, I want to root for him, and have faith, but as I also pointed out... The lack of communication and deafening silence is just killing whatever hope I have in this project. Even just a simple, "I'm still here, aware what's happening, and trying to figure things out." or "Hey, I'm not in the best headspace again so need to take another little break before I figure things out." would have been sufficient, but we can't even get that. It's very frustrating.

Also, off-topic, but I watched the video in your review and died of laughter when you came across the lights in one location of the house and was howling when you found out all of the light fixtures were stacked on top of each other in one location of the tutorial house.

Bug reports, chat, etc, have been deleted entirely from the official Discord. The channels are empty. Only off-topic discussions and "game help" still have posts in them. I find it especially odd that they removed all bug reports. Even if he's aware of all the currently reported bugs, simply purging those channels seems unnecessary and extreme. Add to that his habit of mentally breaking down, and I think it might've happened again. I guess we'll find out in 2 years, no? He said he had things in place to handle it better, but he still isn't communicating with his community, so we don't really know for sure.

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/profiles/76561198006124165/recommended/1708460?snr=1_5_9__402

That's all there is to say really.

I don't understand how people who have owned this game since 2023 or longer don't get it. The mixed reviews (sitting at an astonishing 69%) might even lead to further sales for Kyle, which are totally undeserving. It should be mostly negative and I encourage more people to down vote this game.

He needs to work on the game in a 1 year cycle so Steam doesn't kick it out, and that's what he had been doing for the last 2 years. Don't be fooled. Just review bomb it.

If, and only if, he comes back to ACTIVELY work on the game you can always change your review...

引用自 Bellowoods：

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/profiles/76561198006124165/recommended/1708460?snr=1_5_9__402

That's all there is to say really.

I don't understand how people who have owned this game since 2023 or longer don't get it. The mixed reviews (sitting at an astonishing 69%) might even lead to further sales for Kyle, which are totally undeserving. It should be mostly negative and I encourage more people to down vote this game.

He needs to work on the game in a 1 year cycle so Steam doesn't kick it out, and that's what he had been doing for the last 2 years. Don't be fooled. Just review bomb it.

If, and only if, he comes back to ACTIVELY work on the game you can always change your review...

You can't make an assumption on morality without hard evidence. Kyle himself stated that the game wasn't healthy for his mental state, so he stepped away. When it came back, people complained a lot, so I think that sent Kyle off the deep end again. I do hope he gets better.

引用自 ULTRANEONGODPET：

引用自 Bellowoods：

https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/profiles/76561198006124165/recommended/1708460?snr=1_5_9__402

That's all there is to say really.

I don't understand how people who have owned this game since 2023 or longer don't get it. The mixed reviews (sitting at an astonishing 69%) might even lead to further sales for Kyle, which are totally undeserving. It should be mostly negative and I encourage more people to down vote this game.

He needs to work on the game in a 1 year cycle so Steam doesn't kick it out, and that's what he had been doing for the last 2 years. Don't be fooled. Just review bomb it.

If, and only if, he comes back to ACTIVELY work on the game you can always change your review...

You can't make an assumption on morality without hard evidence. Kyle himself stated that the game wasn't healthy for his mental state, so he stepped away. When it came back, people complained a lot, so I think that sent Kyle off the deep end again. I do hope he gets better.

Yeah, I think the fact that the last update broke everything, and then people started swarming the game with negative reviews to the point it's back down to 'mixed' instead of waiting for him to fix things just sent him spiraling again. It's a bummer, but I doubt we'll hear from him again until he's (hopefully) able to get himself back together again.

My hope is that if he does disappear again and the game "dies" again that he'll listen to what Insym said when he played the game when it first came back. He needs to quietly work on the game (while we think it's dead) and get the game back to where it was with Unity... in fact get it further than how it was in the Unity version and everybody will be happy.

Again, I just wish he'd at least give us some form of proper communication of where his head is at/how things are going instead of leaving us guessing and losing faith in this game. All it would take is just some text from him or a community manager, but sadly we're still stuck here wondering what's happening.

引用自 MySummerJob：

引用自 ULTRANEONGODPET：

You can't make an assumption on morality without hard evidence. Kyle himself stated that the game wasn't healthy for his mental state, so he stepped away. When it came back, people complained a lot, so I think that sent Kyle off the deep end again. I do hope he gets better.

Yeah, I think the fact that the last update broke everything, and then people started swarming the game with negative reviews to the point it's back down to 'mixed' instead of waiting for him to fix things just sent him spiraling again. It's a bummer, but I doubt we'll hear from him again until he's (hopefully) able to get himself back together again.

My hope is that if he does disappear again and the game "dies" again that he'll listen to what Insym said when he played the game when it first came back. He needs to quietly work on the game (while we think it's dead) and get the game back to where it was with Unity... in fact get it further than how it was in the Unity version and everybody will be happy.

Again, I just wish he'd at least give us some form of proper communication of where his head is at/how things are going instead of leaving us guessing and losing faith in this game. All it would take is just some text from him or a community manager, but sadly we're still stuck here wondering what's happening.

At this point, I don't care about the game; I care about Kyle. I hope he gets some serious help.

The fact he hasn't made even an inkling of an effort to say anything is why it's easier to believe this is simply being maintained for money rather than any "I was in a dark place..." excuses.

If this game truly was as bad for his mental state as it was, he'd just take it down. Simple as.

For me that excuse does not work, first it was school, now its "toxic" feedback and depression. I am sorry if I come across cold hearted, but he could work on the game behind the scenes and drop huge updates every 6-12 months. That would decently please the remaining followers of this game. Instead we got a ported version to the Unreal Engine, which probably took no more than a week, which basically broke the game due to the half ass'ness behind it.

If the community for this product is too toxic, he has but one to blame. Nobody forced him to become a dev, but when you sell a product you are open to criticism, especially if said product is broken. Hire another person who works on it or hire a community manager. There are other options aside from just excusing oneself and do nothing.

To me he currently comes across as a digital scam artist. If the above is too much to ask for, he should take it down and stop sales.

引用自 Bellowoods：

For me that excuse does not work, first it was school, now its "toxic" feedback and depression. I am sorry if I come across cold hearted, but he could work on the game behind the scenes and drop huge updates every 6-12 months. That would decently please the remaining followers of this game. Instead we got a ported version to the Unreal Engine, which probably took no more than a week, which basically broke the game due to the half ass'ness behind it.

If the community for this product is too toxic, he has but one to blame. Nobody forced him to become a dev, but when you sell a product you are open to criticism, especially if said product is broken. Hire another person who works on it or hire a community manager. There are other options aside from just excusing oneself and do nothing.

To me he currently comes across as a digital scam artist. If the above is too much to ask for, he should take it down and stop sales.

Literally this.

Kyle is not mentally fit to be selling a product or running a business. If he wants to have his little ghost game pet project then fine, but don't sell it on Steam. The only dev I've seen worse is Wollay who made Cubeworld and we know how badly that went.

We can't get refunds and he continues to sell it, he ripped me off. I'm at the point where I'm fairly confident he probably isn't paying taxes on his income, seeing as he's barely able to do the basics of game dev communication, so I'm just going to report him to the HMRC.

Kyle may not give a toss, Steam may not give a toss, but you can count on the tax man always having time to come shaft you. You earned this Kyle.

I discovered a dev build in the game files that lets you play the game. I was able to load into one of the maps, get some evidence, and died to the ghost. Didn't test anything else so I don't know if multiplayer will work, for example, but worth a shot, right? The build was at this file path for me under the name HorrorGame.exe:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Obsideo\Obsideo\Binaries\Win64

Worth noting that since it's a dev build, things could be broken, there might be weird lighting if some areas hadn't been baked yet or if settings were being tweaked, etc.