The art style will take some getting used to but as this is a Metroidvania, I will keep an eye on it for now. I will wait for some reviews to come in before I decide to wishlist it or not.

Steam seems to like it from a small sample size of under 50.

I spoke to the developers and they told me that they were waiting to hear back from GOG. They use Steam backend services for things like all the asynchronous online features that the game has and wanted to know if those would still be functional if the game were released on GOG. That was on the 15th of October of 2016. They were still waiting to hear back from GOG on the 18th of November of 2016. GOG either never got back to them or told them it is not possible. I will keep waiting but until it is released here, neither GOG nor the developers will get my money.

For what it's worth, I haven't had any trouble distinguishing the player character from enemies or anything else. I really like the silhouetted look. Each enemy has a different silhouette, so you always know what you're fighting.

Yeah, the game is difficult, but that doesn't mean it's artificially difficult. The enemies have clear animations and patterns, so you can deal with them if you know what you're doing.

What save file nonsense?

Upon investigating, I found this: Seriously? That also explains why the game does not have cloud saves. I won't keep the same computer around forever. I understand why the developers did it (save file sharing), but this is ridiculous.

How did this shit get past curation ? while so many other games don't

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Although I would not call this game "shit" just yet, the save file nonsense is not my cup of tea either. That, along with what I posted regarding Salt And Sanctuary up above, makes me one of many who question the person or people who make these curation decisions here at GOG. More options are always nice, but do not reject games that have proven themselves amongst reviewers and gamers alike, GOG!

I'm surprised how many people can criticise such graphics for a lack of effort. The pixelated style doesn't have to be to everybody's taste, but I think some people just see a low resolution and conclude "lazy programmer art". It's not as quick and easy as it looks.

Also, about the price… this seems to be a one-person project, which makes it a lot of work for just one guy. Likely more than just a little side project. If you invested, say, three months of effort into something like this, how much would you have to make back from it to not lose money over it? How would you have to set the price if you can't expect to sell more than a few thousand copies? (Most indie games, even the critically acclaimed ones, don't sell more than 5,000 copies). It's the price of a lunch. This is entirely not my kind of game, but if it was, it would seem worth it if it entertained me for a weekend and was fun enough to replay later. Indie games' market value has dropped way too far.

Yep,it's Unworthy.

I kind of like the visuals of this one, though. Particularly the animations are definitely not someone's first attempts. Those are quite tough to get them to look even remotely decent.

Of course there are levels. There are some developers who definitely are bad enough at doing visuals, to the point that they should really hire an artist. I don't think that this one falls in that category, though. Now, on the other hand, if you look at the screenshots of about 95% of Indie releases on Steam…

I agree that Spiderweb Games look pretty decent, but personally disagree strongly on Moraffware… not to criticise his games as such, but even back in the 90s I always thought the Moraffware titles were some of the ugliest-looking on the Shareware CD-ROMs. I definitely think Unworthy looks miles better. And knowing that I'm in the minority, I also don't like Knytt's visuals too much. Compared to Unworthy, they look to visually disjoint and concept-less to me.

Edit: Jeff Vogel actually doesn't seem to do his own graphics anymore. At least their About page says that they're always looking for contractors for graphics work.