Asemblance

 PlayStation 4
User Score
5.3

Mixed or average reviews- based on 15 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 15
  3. Negative: 5 out of 15

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  1. ourtimehascome
    Jan 22, 2017
    1
    Regardless of Nilo Studios' intentions of continuing Asemblance with more episodes, I have to emphasize the lack of substance. In the game, you aren't told who you are and what you are supposed to be doing. You're someone who wakes up in some sort of memory machine. Beyond this, nothing is clear. Things happen and as a player I never felt as though I was connected to what was happening.Regardless of Nilo Studios' intentions of continuing Asemblance with more episodes, I have to emphasize the lack of substance. In the game, you aren't told who you are and what you are supposed to be doing. You're someone who wakes up in some sort of memory machine. Beyond this, nothing is clear. Things happen and as a player I never felt as though I was connected to what was happening. It's simply a game playing itself, at most a walking simulator. As a demo or an idea, Asemblance shows promise, but as a fully fledged game, it falls short.… Expand
  2. lalrs
    Aug 8, 2016
    0
    WARNING, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!!!!

    This game was complete **** So much hype over nothing. I read a lot of good reviews "omg such a good thriller/horror game" "great story" etc etc. I'm really sorry but the reality is that this is a walking simulator without any reward for playing it. In fact, the developpers think it's cool to make the actual ending IMPOSSIBLE to even achieve. I tried    WARNING, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!!!!!!

    This game was complete **** So much hype over nothing. I read a lot of good reviews "omg such a good thriller/horror game" "great story" etc etc. I'm really sorry but the reality is that this is a walking simulator without any reward for playing it. In fact, the developpers think it's cool to make the actual ending IMPOSSIBLE to even achieve. I tried about 20 times. It's just impossible to get the white screen ending. It's a big **** you towards the players. It's an unrewarding **** walking simulator. At least that game "Gone Home" gave you an actual finished story. Also, that game was free, just like P.T. This game cost me about €15. It's a total rip-off.

    Don't buy this game, I really believe that all the positive reviews are made by people that either made this game, are family of the people that made this game OR people that got paid to say this game is "deep" and "cool". It's ****

    I can't tell you enough: don't buy this game. Any other activity you can think off is better than buying this game. At least shooting yourself in the nuts will provide you with some action and some laughs by the doctors at the ER. This game has NOTHING. It's ****

    Good day all. Use your money to buy a couple of ice creams. It'll even last you as long as the game. Half an hour max.

    DONT BUY THIS GAME!!!!!!!!    … Expand
  3. BrupcatBR
    Jul 13, 2016
    4
    Asemblance is a psychological mystery thriller, and while it contains surprisingly smart points, it overall feels too underwhelming. It contains good graphics, moments that legitimately creeped me out, and while it brings good curiosity, and as mind-bending and smart the storyline is, the overall game experience, even with the very smart puzzles, it feels very annoying. And it isn't thatAsemblance is a psychological mystery thriller, and while it contains surprisingly smart points, it overall feels too underwhelming. It contains good graphics, moments that legitimately creeped me out, and while it brings good curiosity, and as mind-bending and smart the storyline is, the overall game experience, even with the very smart puzzles, it feels very annoying. And it isn't that much of a scary game, i wouldn't call it horror, but a thriller. While it doesn't clearly contain much danger or disturbing imagery, there are moments that legitimately made me feel scared, and the voice-acting and sound effects are great. It contains a superb soundtrack, and an intresting but overall mysterious premise of our surroundings. We can barely know the universe we are in, but we know that people can have fake memories implanted into their brain, and things as such, it all feels very mysterious and intresting, but it's all usually up to interpretation. I really liked the ending, but it was rather confusing. While i enjoyed all the things about the premise, storyline, ambientation, universe, voice-acting, graphics, sound-effects, atmosphere, but there is one problem which is what overall pushes me away from this game. The puzzles. As smart as they are, they're overall annoying. They feel insanely annoying, and you'll be stuck in many parts of the game, While it forms a great mystery and suspense, once you look back, there is only one moment that truly makes you feel uncomfortable and frightened. From what i said, it seems good, right? Well, yeah. It is very good in my perspective, but what the game actually shows you overall creates a lack of emotion that you develop for the game. When you look back, it's overall truly amazing, but when you look more into it, it's not really as amazing as it seems. There isn't much that the game offers, but even as mind-bending the story is, the information you actually get in the game makes it seem underwhelming and not as good as it seems. It truly is amazing, but when you play it, it's not that amazing, but it will be once you look back into it. The biggest problem here is the lack of information, and at a first playthrough, it'll be infested with annoying, but smart puzzles, and it may seem really bad. But overall, once you look back into it, Asemblance is a mind-bending psychological mystery thriller, one that brings you not as much fear or thrill, but the eerie atmosphere and moments of the game overall make you feel uncomfortable. The storyline, is truly amazing, but in the game, it's not so amazing, as of the lack of information, but by looking back into it, it is amazing. There isn't much left for me to say, but i overall give Asemblance a 4.5/10. It's not really worth it, and it's not bad, the storyline and everything is surely mind-bending and smart, aswell as mysterious and somehow emotional and intresting, but when you actually play it, it's not really that good. What ruins it for me is the annoying puzzles, and the lack of information, causing a lack of emotion aswell. Is it good? No, not really. It has really good points, but overall it's just not worth it.… Expand
  4. Nathan1423
    May 16, 2017
    3
    What IS there is only okay, there's practically nothing there, a non-game, and there's an ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM of 2 hours play time if you get all the endings, which you have to do by looking it up online, you would never ever guess white ending.-----------------------------------------------------------------

    More importantly, people compare video games to movies and other mediums, and    What IS there is only okay, there's practically nothing there, a non-game, and there's an ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM of 2 hours play time if you get all the endings, which you have to do by looking it up online, you would never ever guess white ending.-----------------------------------------------------------------

    More importantly, people compare video games to movies and other mediums, and cost ratios, and say a 2 hour game is okay for $15 or $10 or $7 dollars, because of how other mediums cost, but let me tell you, If you or I went to go see a movie, paid full price, and this game was the movie, there would be a public outcry of people wanting their money back, all review outlets would be 0/10, and people would be issuing public service announcements warning you against this scam of a movie. That is to say there is simply no content here, you have to absolutely SCRAPE the content off the floor by zooming in and reading every little memo you see laying around, and i would rate the memo reading portion of this game about 6/10 if you're someone who really enjoys reading memos in video games. *crickets*

    If I'm going to pay even a movie ticket price to clunk around in a game for merely 2 hours, that better be the most riveting, beautiful, immersive, mind-bending, paradigm shattering, butt-smacking 2 hours of my life, or at least that month, because the medium of film is inherently more entertaining than a walking simulator, as it evokes about ten million different techniques to engage the viewer, as opposed to walking around in first person view, listening to a voice over, reading memos, and occasionally having some visual distortion like a fax machine is having a stroke.

    Also, the story is not explained at all, it's ambiguous, finish your crappy story. I enjoyed one single moment of this game, and that was when you go to turn off the A.I. and it's self preservation kicks in and tries to tell you not to, and that lasted about 4 seconds.    … Expand

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61

Mixed or average reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 13
  3. Negative: 3 out of 13
  1. Everyeye.it
    Jan 4, 2017
    65
    Asemblance tells us a surreal story, full of mystery and suspense: a short but intense psychological horror game, in which the gameplay comes second.
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  2. PSNStores
    Jul 18, 2016
    60
    The ending isn’t completely satisfying, but as a pilot episode of an ongoing series I’m totally on-board to see what comes next.
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  3. Brash Games
    Jul 8, 2016
    60
    Asemblance is a special experience. It has the serious overtones of something dramatic but plays like something simple. It’s thought provoking but not a huge commitment.
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