At first, I thought it was a rare, polished game since the theme was coherent. Then I realised I’d seen these characters before, they’re Kenny assets, which is fine if the game also didn’t make me first pass off the UI as "potentially" human made. But seeing the assets made me second guess that since the assets are just there to mask the potentially AI made UI. These revelations also stemmed from my immersion being broken when I heard those GOD AWFUL ai lyrics, at which point I snapped out of an addictive trance, only to realise that a majority of the game’s features are potentially just AI made. And for some reason, they put in a random music player feature, which features AI music 😔 Sometimes, less is better. And again I'll say it here, this is nothing new, if I wanted to play tile swap, I'd just play tile swap.

The game looks alright, however, my problem is that your batteries run out like instantly, which is annoying cuz I'm here to play a horror game, not a survival battery hunting game. Also, I got merked like 5 seconds in. I walked into the building, and what I can only presume was some sort of clown (the torch only shows like 1 meter in front of you, the rest is pitch black) flipped a bunch of chairs over and then beat me to death? Dare I reiterate what the game is called: "Paranormal Observation", implying that we observe paranormal events. I went into this thinking it would maybe be a chiller Phasmophobia, but sadly, it's just a ghost-beats-you-up simulator (I couldn't even see him). ANOTHER thing is what I would consider "bad load times." The load times aren't actually bad, there's just ONE MILLION loading screens. ofc the default s&box loading screen, followed by a splash screen, then a flash transition loading screen when you click play, then the loading screen when transitioning between scenes then another like starting game splash screen... again... then when you want to go drive your car... there's one (technically 2 because you have to drive back) loading screen(s). The last thing I'd like to mention as well is that when I was hit by... a clown or whatever was beating me violently while laughing, my controls either turned off, inverted, decreased greatly, idk what happened, but my character was walking really slow, limping, and walking in a completely wrong direction. So even if I did want to escape the thing beating me, I couldn't. It just walked me into a wall and let the thing beat me over and over. Oh actually, there’s one last thing. I could be wrong, but I’m like 90% sure the UI is made with Claude, and the song in the store is AI generated with Suno... so...

I ONLY HAVE 60 SECONDS TO WRITE THIS BEFORE I GET BLOWN UP, THIS IS LITERLALY JUST 60 SECOND THE GAME BUT COPIED AND NOT EVEN TRYING TO HIDE IT. ALL IT TOOK WAS 60 SECONDS FOR ME TO REASLISE THAT THIS WAS SH*T (I OWE MY FRIEND 20% FOR THAT). DO BETTER AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Fun for like 20, then u never touch it again, not worth the time

It's not bad, it's just not good enough. Objects floating off walls, skirting boards misaligned, the garage door is too small for it's own frame, the kind of polish issues that break immersion the moment you spawn in. Some cars have floating lights because parts of the body hasn't loaded in or hasn't been set up correctly. There's an upgrade system you can access to get upgrades for your car which doesn't seem to exist, it says "go to the office PC" but I've looked around the starting area 3 times and there isn't one, which leaves me to think I need to grind around 20 runs to get a new car and hope there's another area past this one with the PC in it, but that's just speculation. Showing cars you don't own and can't access yet makes no sense. The UI looks like it was made with Claude. It's out of place, generic, and indistinguishable from half the other games on s&box. The core gameplay loop is holding W. That would be okay... if it felt good. It doesn't. Zombies Jolt you car on impact in a way that feels broken rather than satisfying, which somehow makes the simplest possible game loop feel bad. I was also going to say "not a bad concept" but someone else's review pointed out that this is just an Earn to Die clone. So it's a stolen concept executed poorly. s&box is dying and it needs developers willing to actually raise the bar, this doesn't however.

Literally just Cut Grass from Roblox but uglier and UI which looks like it was made with AI and somehow running worse on Source 2. The worst part is this was like one of the only games people could come back to at launch, this was s&box's showcase. Grass looks terrible which is funny considering that's the whole point. Map is bland, runs like ***, end game players can spawn camp you into oblivion. Gambling systems is just time padding dressed up nicely. Basically for 30 year old white guys who say Roblox is kids then boot this up. It's literally just a Roblox game ported onto s&box.