Mayhem in Single Valley

I was drawn to this game by the somewhat unique graphics style and at first was a bit disappointed as I expected more of an open world combat focused game which it clearly isn't. You can't actually kill opponents and initially you can only outrun or at best stun them. Later you can cure them by shooting fitting food at them that was treated with an antidote. This is a somewhat uncommon idea, but works our pretty well later. Actually the game is more of an action adventure with some puzzle elements. The world consists of scrolling smallish areas with transitions between them. There is a bit of persistence regarding bigger objects and so on, but thrown objects disappear when leaving an area and also cured animals/people might turn "Z" again when returning. The game has a classical progression system where you move from area to area without being able to return when passing certain transitions. So if you miss some collectible, you'll need to load an older savegame or restart from the very beginning. At least there is some savegame handling even though the manual slots are very limited and the autosave slots only go back a few rooms. You have an inventory which is mainly needed to store food that you can shoot at animals/people. There's also an RPG element where you can improve your shoes, backpack, slingshot, and shield by collecting clones of yours. The game is actually quite polished with a lot of attention to detail, i.e. stuff you can move around. It's not very hard and most puzzles are pretty logical and straight forward. Towards the end, it gets a little exhausting and the final boss fight is somewhat stupid. Also the story is forgettable and there is no really satisfying ending. The only bad thing I can say is that ran into one major bug (hotdog car went havoc) which nearly left me stuck with corrupted autosaves and I had to quit and restart to be able to continue. But I good had fun most of the 12h I put in it and didn't regret to have bought it for a second.

Mayhem in Single Valley is a fun little puzzle/plattform adventure. The Visuals are realy cool, I like the overall style of it a lot. Gameplaywise it's good, nothing outstanding but well done. When playing the game you'll get into a flow and I enjoyed the flow alot. I recommend playing a demo. If the demo gets you into that flow, this game will most likely be one you'll enjoy. Story was interesting and served the game realy well.

Short, but enertaining. Worth $5ish dollars.