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Lights Out
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/21/2016
“Glare” is the first, last, and only (non-mobile) title by Swedish Indie developer, Phobic Studios, which closed down in 2014 after a reported 6 years of game development. “Glare,” which released in 2013, was the studio’s only real effort at making a traditional game in a traditional genre, though it was never released on any platform besides PC, and suffers from a lack of polish that will never be addressed.
Presentation
“Glare” is another in the increasingly-common 2.5D platformers, that is to say, 2D games built in 3D polygon engines. “Glare” uses the Unity Engine, as so many do, and its biggest problems all stem from this fact. The visuals are, at least unique and stylish, though things do tend to be the same colors and have a tendency to blend into each other. …