The Deer God Reviews

Lovely game, poorly realized.

palabrajot

I wasn't familiar with The Deer God on other platforms, but I thought the premise was so intriguing that I gave it a shot. The visuals are very pretty, and the low-res aethetic is reminiscent of the Superbrothers game, which I enjoyed. I can't say that this has been a pleasant experience for me, however. In fact, I'm not sure where all these glowing reviews for it are coming from. I suppose it is different nowadays to experience a game that doesn't hold your hand through every challenge, but it's the gameplay that's supposed to be challenging, not the controls. It took me two deaths to stumble across the jump button, and all the while, struggling to discover what my character's purpose is. But despite its lofty opening cinematic of your player, a hunter, forced to live as a deer, don't look to this game for anything deeper than a standard platformer, and a platformer with awful controls and deeply frustrating gameplay. Like blind jumps? Well, you'll be doing a lot of that. And landing on spikes half the time, while a musical stinger plays, undercut with the grating noise of a ten-dollar alarm clock, just to hammer the point home. Enemies appear randomly, sometimes chipping away at your health while you're talking to characters. You'll die frequently, and when you do, get used to sitting through an interminably long fade to white, after which you may or may not come face-to-face with the titular Deer God, who will arbitrarily demote you to a smaller, even more defenseless mammal than a newborn fawn, OR ominously warn you that you have one life left, which would mean something, if the game didn't let you die dozens of times after that. I got stuck in the map once, starved to death while frozen outside a cabin, then respawned, still stuck, and by that point, I was used to such frustration from this game that I wasn't surprised and didn't care. This is a beta. I was duped into buying a game that was barely tested. It gets two stars instead of one because it's at least trying something different. I would have loved to play the game that is struggling to talk to me through the stammering and static of its own crappy control interface and contentious level design. I only hope that there will be updates coming soon, because trying to play it as is makes me want to skip my phone across a lake like a rock.

May need to give refunds

AcidicJoker

I enjoyed the story but problem is that I don't understand what's with turning into something else when you die, controls are awful, and it eats battery power faster then the hotdog eating champion of the world. I'm sorry but I would really like a refund please.

I DEMAND A REFUND

Trace941

I WANT A REFUND ALL IT DOES IS GLITCH AND SPAWN ME IN SPIKES AND I SPAWN WITH ONLY THE BACKGROUND I DEMAND A FULL REFUND!!!!

Nice idea, but terribly glitchy

Johannpi

It's beautiful and atmospheric, but the play-testing is embarrassingly inadequate. I'd love to give this game more stars, but in the first fifteen minutes of playing it, I've got stuck twice and been forced to restart. Given the price, this isn't acceptable. This is really a shoddy effort.

Update now or pay us as beta testers...

Radicalundoing.com

This game at it's core displays beauty, creativity, and a compelling gaming experience. However, it was released much too early with too many bugs at too high a price. The bugs: I've played up to 20% and about 20 days into the game three times now. Each time, it reaches a point where the screen goes white, and then only the background landscape and controls are available. It becomes a side-scrolling landscape adventure of nothingness. The song plays on, the sun and moon continue their dance, but the foreground-including even the boy-turned-deer character my attention wants to inhabit has disappeared. Is it a game about nihilism? The higher levels above 20% don't even exist? To remind people that their dreams are just as fleeting as their hours spent trying to become a deer God? Whatever the case, another bug is the momentum of the NPC animals, like the baby deer, makes it a pretty sad game when you watch your doe lovers and their babies die a red death on the spikes--simply because they couldn't slow down quickly enough. When you're trying to do running and timed jumps or attacks, the sudden complete stops to have a snack of berries often results in more death on the spikes. I do love the game. I just wanted to believe there was a 100% in there somewhere. Onward, and thanks in advance for the coming update!

Difficult but fun

sinrenity

I bought this game thinking it wouldn't be that hard, and it was just an endless runner about messing around.But let me tell you, it is nothing like that.The game is hard enough to enjoy and has a decent storyline.It's a little finicky to do some jumps and sometimes you jump into spikes because you can't see down.Even so, I really like this game.Art and music are nice.As frustrating as this game is, I'm always feeling at ease whenever I'm playing it.

The controls are absurd

MsCatherinePer

This game is gorgeous, simple, and unique. I love the idea, and I'm trying really hard to love the game itself but it's really difficult to. The controls are super wonky - jumping is fine, moving around is decent, but I have no idea how to properly attack. Thus, I keep getting killed very early on in the game. I can't make it past the ghosts/ghouls or the alligators simply because I can't fight properly. Please fix the problem because otherwise I've wasted like $6 on an app that is useless.

Controls

Great, love it

I can see why people would complain about the controls it is a little difficult. But the game is enjoyable I like it. I had to check out why the majority of the people were complaining. If you go into settings you can switch the attack button (which was a big help I enjoy the game a lot more after that.) it should complement your character controls a lot better All in all the concept of the game is nicely done I give the game a five out of five. The controls aren't the best but it's okay. That's why my overall view is a four for this game I hope you all fix it to work better the iPhone. This game has potential.

Great game that needs an update

BrainSaladSandwich

This is a good game that could be made better if it didn't contain so many bugs. I've been experiencing freezing when I play and I receive a phone call or I switch apps. It's frustrating to pay for a game, enjoy it, get half way through it and then to never be able to finish it.

Great update!

queasyroberto

Fixed all the major bugs I was seeing, and this continues to be an awesome game. Thank you (Deer) God!

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