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Reviews for "The Shovel"

I hate to say, this game lags rather badly for me, even with everything else closed. On top of the lag making the game nearly unplayable in the first place, my Flash player crashed while I was playing, so I couldn't finish the game. My computer can run graphically intense games on high graphics settings; having constant lag while playing something on a good computer is a problem that needs looking into.

Even if I could have played the game without lag, although this was fairly well put together artistically considering it only took a few hours to make, the story wasn't the least bit interesting and I felt the ending would be pretty predictable.

I'm pretty sure the lag isn't just me (and I tried playing this on my laptop to verify that there is indeed a lag issue), and I noticed lag in your most recent Dead Detention episodes too, so you should probably look into what could be causing lag in your content.

More importantly, you should probably avoid telling these types of stories. Universe .08 related stuff is pretty good, but this was just a crappy, uneventful portrayal of generic cultists to me.

JackAstral responds:

Did you try playing at a lower quality?

It doesn't seem to be lagging for me at all...I'll look into it!

Such obscure story, make me feel like giving a shovel to satan.
6/5 would Bury again

JackAstral responds:

lol thank you :-)

Hello
Your new project is pretty nice but not perfect. In you work i love this nightmare atmosphere and horrible music what i must say made me upset. Story very secretly but not much to reveal.
One thing what made irritating what footsteps. :D

Scary game is +
atmoshpere is +
soundtrack is +
story half +-
irritating foodsteps -

JackAstral responds:

Ha ha, I'll lower the volume of the footsteps in the next patch!

This is a really nice idea. Atmosphere is good. But sadly there isn't more to it. I would love to see a more fleshed out version of this.

JackAstral responds:

Thanks, I'll look into fleshing out the story a little more. Maybe I'll add in some extra locations and objects

Simple game done well. The story was good, nothing compared to your other games that are so story based.

There wasnt much gaming involved really. Could of used a jumpscare or two in my opinion.
One of the rooms in the church was completely too dark to see anything.
Regardless Im impressed youve made this in 4 hours.

Would LOVE to see you expand on this.
You're already an extremely talented developer and horror is right up my alley.

JackAstral responds:

Thanks! I definitely want to expand on this kinda idea in future projects- I think the genre suits me!