The Nameless City

I was interested in trying out the game as I had gotten it in a bundle, but I was disappointed when I noticed the AI art. I realise you've already clarified that you made this several years back when AI was just a novelty, and that you don't support AI being used to replace artists but I think saying "we didn't have the money to hire artists anyway" is a bit of a weak excuse for using it. For one, you didn't have to include any art where you've used AI. Even if this game was made with all storebought assets you clearly are able to utilise them in a way that creates art, and could have done something creative with those instead to make something similarly eerie. I think it also misses one of the other reasons why many people object to AI, which is that it is powered by stolen assets. There's nothing you can really do to un-steal all of the artist's works that were scraped from the internet to train the model. In addition I think there's an issue that for every instance where someone rationalises the use of AI art, that helps others to normalise its use which is a problem because AI image generators are environmentally ruinous, as they take a massive amount of energy to run just to produce a handful of images, and so every business that decides it's ok to use AI art is helping to accelerate climate change that much faster. I am not saying that you are a big business or anything, or personally responsible for accelerating climate change, I just want you to understand that your use of AI has larger consequences than just one artist being unpaid. Please replace or remove the AI art, it's not worth keeping. If nothing else, it will put off many players who similarly dislike AI art

Loved the game, fantastic stuff. Made a little video of it, check it out if you want to. Or don't. Can't wait to see what Paradnight Studio does next!

I would like to thank the creator for inviting me to play the entire game as it is definitely an honour on my end to play the full game. This was a really interesting horror game revolving around the main character investigating the mysteries and darkness in the Nameless City. As the main character gets deeper and deeper in the city, he uncovers the dark truth and secret of the city through the use of glyphs.

The game has a really cool storyline and a lot of effort was placed into telling the story of the world and working on the game mechanics of glyphs in the game. It made the experience more meaningful and fun especially with the inclusion of glyphs and great storytelling. I felt that the game could have made greater use of the glyphs instead of just using it for opening sealed areas and sealing the wind statues as I found the glyphs very interesting and it was definitely the main attraction for me other than the storyline. 

It would also be cool if more horrific events or other events happening in the game as the main part of the game became more of running down the stairs and not dying due to psyche overload. 

Overall, I enjoyed the lovecraft experience and the amazing adventure into the depths of the Nameless City. Will be looking forward to more games in the future. Thank you for reading my comment and I wish you good luck in your future endeavours.

will you be adding an option to invert the vertical mouse axis? only thing keeping me from playing

Excellent game! A wonderful and magic dream from which I didn't want to wake up!

My most sincere  congrats to the devs, the best tribute to Lovecraft I have ever played!

Really enjoyed the demo and was not disappointed by the full version. I still love the weird images and the atmosphere of the entire game. 

A short but very interesting game. Journey into a city lost in time, and discover the secrets lurking in the shadows. An absolute recommendation of a game, and true testament to cosmic horror done right.It runs perfectly well on Steam Deck as you can see by pressing the link below:

Great job on the game! 

I just bought the game and I'm really looking forward to playing it. However, I am running into a bit of a bug where WASD and ESC keys don't work. All other inputs do work funnily enough. Hopefully there's a fix to this. 

 Thank you for the game, I enjoyed it very much!! Here is my full playthrough:

This was a solid psx! Nice work\

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Wow! I loved it! For a demo, I can see all the hard work you put into it, I can't wait for the full release!

Loved it!!! You can sense the eerie Lovecraftian atmosphere...

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Just play it :o]

Well done and kudos to all involved!

This was so beautiful! I love the retro style, and love that we get to use the words to explore different parts! I look forward to more! 

great short game, probably one of the weirdest PSX game i've ever played lmao. keep up the good work! 

This was fuckin great. I got some Eternal Darkness vibes from the runic casting mechanic. The way the sky/day/night changed quickly was definitely unsettling. I loved it.

I truly enjoy Lovecraft's work. Great short indie game. Keep up the great work.

I can't wait to play the full game!! the voice acting, the visuals, the atmosphere was all AMAZING!!! I had a blast playing! I can't wait for more!! Heres my blind reaction to the game it starts at 10:30!! Thank you!! 

Very cool. I loved the whole visual and audio environment. Very creepy. I especially loved the... other visuals. I think it might have giving me some inspiration for something I've been dealing with in a game I've been (very slowly) making. 

Excellent work, good to experience a horror deeper than jumpscares! Not anything wrong with them, just great to mix it up!

Such a fantastic game with such a wonderful atmosphere. Lovecraft is a favorite, so I needed to play this one.  

FOV meter might be something to consider for future updates as it becomes difficult to navigate in certain areas. Overall though, beautifully made game that really kept me wanting more. 

You've nailed the atmosphere. The Nameless City was always one of my favorite HPL tales. The extremely low FOV was hurting my eyes though as the demo was ending. Perhaps future updates could address that as I'd love to see this as a fully finished experience.

Love the fact that is inspired by H.P Lovecrafts works. Keep it up, I want to see a full game out of it! 

Nice Game

This was a really interesting horror game. I enjoyed the setting of an unexplored temple in the desert. Great work! 

This was a pretty fun little game, I liked the concept and visuals, good work :)

Really great atmosphere going on here, so claustrophobic :)

The game looks really awesome. Love the visuals, the mystery and the atmosphere. 

Here is my opinion about the game so far. I do love the retro style to me cause the less crazy graphics are easier to process and not get overwhelming to look at and it is more of a classic style game feel the images when picking up the artifacts were really creepy and I kind of got some cool creepy haunted vibes of an unknown abounded society.

Some things I think could use some fixing was first I felt like the vision was zoomed in too much and in the tight spaces, it was too hard to see where to go for a bit. I also think the book with the symbols using them to say things were a bit confusing to open those gates and I felt like I just clicked and figured it out in the future try adding more like a feel of that the sounds combine together a lot more. There also were some cracks where I could see out of the boundaries of the game so maybe seal them up with a wall or something else the locations were when getting the second artifact and when you left the temple after getting both of the artifacts.

Other than that I'm trying to not be negative about this project and was giving you ideas for fixing and helping the overall project and I could see some good effort made into this game and felt like a good small title to try out a great job.