Hey thanks for checking Corpus Edax out!! And thanks to everyone for being so understanding and still seeing the potential even when its mired in bugs. This version in the video was from February, I have since then fixed/changed a lot of stuff - AI pathing, crashes, save bugs, added a tutorial level as well as one NPC in the starting area to help you with game mechanics. I'm working on it day and night, I want it to be good and it was really great reading your comments. Morale boost!

Silent scream is the most artistic metaphor for working fast food I have ever seen. You serve a shadowy, faceless and ethicless being that is legally a person according to the government. You have to do unspeakable things in the bathroom, corporate is sucking the life and soul out of people in one form or another. Either it is you or your customers. And ultimately there is no escape from your fate.

It's weird how the first game, though janky as all hell, legit has some good things that if improved, could make for a good indie game

In the early demo for Corpus Edax, if you broke a window while someone was next to it, the room would depressurize and they'd get sucked out. I nearly pissed myself laughing the first time it happened.

I like how he looks at Corpus Edax, an indie Deus Ex clone, and names every game BUT Deus Ex as an influence lol

The husband/wife team thing is so cute, you can really tell they're putting their heart into it. Who knows where they'll be out, skill-wise, in a few years if they keep at it. You love to see it.

I'm really glad you shifted to doing these "Good games on steam" format rather than "Worst game on Steam" Feel like you can get more passion and positivity for something thats actually pretty interesting rather than the wrapping of the video being "Its shit."

This is why I love Wicked; he gives every game a fair shot, tries to enjoy them, and gives honest criticism.

"I should be able to finish my shift by satisfying the dark lord" -Every major brand worker, every single day.

Wiz didn’t notice it, but I really liked how during the deer ending the “Bus Stopping” sign turned into “No Stopping”

Wasn't feeling the Night Bus art style, but then the deer demon just goes and sits in the back and it won me over. We need more polite demons like that now.

corpus edax is pretty sick with it being inspired by deus ex and dark messiah, glad you shared it!

Corpus Edax is awesome, I love that thing with all my heart, the physics and improvised melee are easy sells to me. Also, the dev is very passionate and active, it was a pleasure to be a backer of this one, I really hope this game gets the exposure and success it deserves. Ty Luis!

First passenger being picked up at busstop 661, I knew it would kick off 5 stops later.

For some reason I always read those titles as "5 000 good games", which confuses me beyond human comprehension.

_"Welcome to your first day at bus."_

NGL that second game looks fire. A horror version of overcooked would be insane

For Night Bus it really looks like everything being scripted is what ruins the horror if you replay it for the other endings. The greatest fear is the fear of the unknown, and conversely if you KNOW what's coming it can't really spook you. So what it really oughta do is randomize a couple things, save some scares for a second playthrough, tweak timings, move passengers around between the bus stops and so on. Also a game starting you with EVERY WEAPON just screams "we forgot to turn off a dev cheat before hitting the 'release on Steam' button"...

It's a completely normal door in the lab and a sci fi door in the wooden hut

Ah yes, a jallapeeno burger. No, I'm not complaining... It's simply the best pronounciation. It's magical, because a wizard did it!

"You can't kill me. I'll keep coming." *Bonk* Comedy Gold.

One thing I find with hobby game developers is that they like to make huge worlds that don't benefit the game play.

With the second game, the Yellow King is referring to Hastur, one of the Great Old Ones of the Cthulhu Mythos, his abilities are; Immortality Death manipulation Higher dimensional manipulation Parafrosynikinesis Omnifarious Reality warping Telepathy Mind control Tentacle extension

The first game, Corpus Edax reminds me of Deus Ex: Invisible War.

39:04 Money goes through their head. Those are classic asset flip games, buy (or steal) cheap assets, put them together quickly to a "game" and sell the game for some bucks. doesn't matter how buggy those games are as long as they are somewhat playable.

I really like the wholesome and encouraging critiques of these games instead of just putting them on blast because they clearly aren't made by professional game developers with a massive budget (yet). The politeness is infectious, and I'm gonna go tell someone to have a nice day now because of you.

I like your sense of humor and your focus on the flaws of the games, as well as your honest opinions. Keep up the great videos. It is a pleasure to watch your content!

Bloody hilarious 🤣 Missed ya Wiz. I truly love seeing your reviews of games I'd never otherwise encounter. Night Bus looks so charming.

That 2nd game Silent Scream, and the Night Bus game, felt like horror-comedy games, rather than horror games! 😂 Imagine if these horror comedy games had Wicked Wizard voice acting the main protagonist in these games, and the protagonist said the same things he said in this video! It would be perfect! 😂 But this video is good enough by itself 👍.

A bug driver for paranomal entities and cryptics is actually a hilariously and yet a bit creepy idea for a game lol. It just needs a bit of sass and some comedy and raunch to make it perfect

Story of the Olivia is Red Dead Redemption if it was made by a high school drop out...

all the gun holding is just bad socket work or whatever its called in whatever engine they used. essentally, a socket is a point in a mesh, other meshes can be attached to it. if you havent configured all your meshes correctly, some of them will show up wrong in the socket, you generally change this by adjusting the origin or the mesh. the origin is the center of the mesh, the point of which it rotates. the easiest way to thing about it is with a door, with a door, the origin is where the hinges connect to the wall so that the entire mesh rotates out and it looks like the door opens, if the origin was in the center, you would have a door that is rotated in the center, so it goes open space, sideways door, open space instead of rotating at the hinges. so anyways, they set up some sockets for their weapons and didnt care to make sure each weapon fit correctly in the sockets, it something that you would do while proto typing, it would be a waste of time to make sure every finger is perfectly on the mesh during the point, as if you make any changes to the mesh, you will need to redo it. that is something that you would do in your final polishing pass, you would make sure all the meshes fit on the character and stuff like that before releasing

for a first project, Beyond the Fringe is absolutely fucking amazing. The amount of polish that is there and lack of game obliterating bugs is just applause worthy. It definitely falls short in most aspects, but for a very first attempt with a two person team, they did fantastic. I hope they keep at it and keep learning from feedback and experience.

6:20 "I'm not here. Nothing here about me." Love it 😂

The horror burger joint one was already done, I believe, at least 5-10 times overall. Maybe some of them were a coffee place or some other fast food thing, but the idea is matured already nonetheless. The guy just needs to put some work into a story, and it could rival those. (Not sure if you're familiar with Bawkbasoup, but he plays pretty much all those indie horror games.) The bus one follows the same art and storytelling styles of those games (horror burger joint, horror motel living, horror this or that) as well, with a weird Five Nights at Freddy's twist (the whole "check cameras, look behind your shoulder" thing), but it's definitely another idea that if matured a little more could have turned into a pretty decent indie horror. The problem with that one though, as pointed out, is that everything is on rails. Your first run will be the same as the fourth, so it loses value ENTIRELY after getting the ending achievements (before that actually, but I'm a completionist so in my case it would be after the achievements). Overall, there were some good contenders this time around. The two horror games aside, it felt like the choices this time at least came from people trying. They definitely tried to reach a little (WAY) too far from their grasp, but you could at least feel a sense of "wow, they added an actual mechanic" here and there. As an added note, I think Corpus Edax actually has a future, janky as hell or not. Of the lot (again, horror ones aside), I'd say it's the only one that didn't try biting more than it could chew. Although, even as I say that, and even for a demo, it does still need A LOT of polish. But the guy at least has what seems to be a solid foundation. If it's a one person job, I'd say he could scale it down, maybe do away with the open world, make it a linear level based game. And I'm going to be honest here, even if it looks like his inspiration is Deus Ex, if he did away with the game trying to take itself seriously those insane deaths and punts would feel awesome.

Tbf the Night Bus looks awesome

You can tell that the developer behind Corpus Edax is very passionate

Corpus Edax looks really good tbh, like that Chronicles of Riddick game meets Deus Ex

Great video man, I found you about a year afo and your videos always crack me the hell up. Keep it up!

great video mate i love your content , keep it up

Wahoo youre back. Editing pays off that's for sure

thanks for another vid wiz stay wicked

Man I love your videos. Keep doing those kind of videos and you will blow up even more.🥰

Hilarious and honest video, thx wiz. Night bus looked comfy af. 13:24, 20:08 I lost there 😆

bro the first game was awesome. it's an immersive sim and they really delivered on that holy shit. i wasn't expecting anything great and i'm totally wowed

Really enjoying these, thanks. I love playing games that aren't great, but have features that could make a good game better. Like if Into the Fringe didn't require sweeping to earn money but it was just a fun option. All they had to do was make quest rewards include the price of transportation.

That was a really benevolent ending, thanks for the positive video; it was necessary + welcome, Wiz.

Honestly? Corpus Edax looks like a decent game with a solid foundation.

Man, if I'm ever sacrificed to a Lovecraftian horror underneath a fast food restaurant, I hope I rate a bit higher than "the bits at the bottom of the bag"! A fun romp through some truly weird games, though, and I like that you try to be encouraging to these devs. One or two did look like they had the potential to be really fun with some more polish - and I'd certainly be down for the wild, anachronistic surrealism of the last game, if it felt more intentional.

No one: Wiz: "Jallapeeno"

Loving the Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines vibes of the first game!

Love ur content man❤❤

The first game seemed to be actually really good. Has some real potential

Me at 00:12:14: Man that guy looks like that one game...what was it called... Wicked at 00:12:24: "Is that the guy from cry of fear??" Me again: Yeah! That one!! This is why I'm subscribed.

it's cool how almost every game on this video have a lot of potential... and I kinda wanna buy a few of them now

Corpus Edax is the right kinda jank. I hope they put some more work into it.

Well well look who decided to upload

Nice one, for the next bunch you could try Vivat Slovakia. :) Beyond The Fringe, took the flying from Anthem as it was also boring :D

So nice of the mum of the 3rd game's dev to record some lines. Because it exactly sounds like asking your mum to record some lines for your game. Already interest to see how the project turns out once everything is more refined, because the system and general design is there. A bit Anthem, a Bit Destiny, a Bit EYE Divine Cybermancy, a bit Otherland, and a lot of not yet finished transitions.

The second game was referencing a fantastic book of short horror stories called The King in Yellow. Highly recommended!

Beyond The Fringe has a genuinely neat idea about it, and I hope they get to make it cool someday.

it’s a good day when wicked wizard uploads

Me when the bus crashed: Oh no! What about the cat!? Wiz saying everything’s good since the cat’s fine. Same wavelength

When it first came into fashion, the late 90's graphics style felt unique, but now everyone is doing it and it somehow annoys me a bit., because many of them are so inconsistent with the art direction. But at least none of them had this 08/15 VHS blur filter going on. I often think that these games are made by people which didn't live during that era and think we played games through a VCR. //edited for Typo, because i'm watching on my phone (i normally don't) and i'm terrible at typing on a touchscren.

Damn that last one has asset flip energy like I haven't seen for a while now

The first game's combat is amazing when you learn it. There's not much quite like it, aside from Dark Messiah.

37:52 That is called Skyriming your way up.

24:30 "So that must be a mix of American and Australian. Welcome to the future! 😃 " Bro, that has me dead! 😆 💀

I love the Orpheus run of Night Bus. I hope they expand that game. Very original premise.

Wow the Wiz shouts out one of my favorite books. Design of Everyday Things is truly mind expanding stuff.

"this is quite chill i like it" Immediately gets spooked

I would like to see a endless mode for Silent Scream if they continue working on their game. The idea would be similar to lethal company but mixed with restaurant management. were you have to manage between money for improving your restaurant (ways to make customer return and stay longer. maybe ones popular, perhaps with the ladies and for all he knows they seem to keep flaking on him), buying items to kil customers, bribes and payments, all while trying to please the entity. Give the entity to much you may lose out on some money, give him to little maybe he curses you the next day (or something) until he deems you unworthy. Your work doesn't go unnoticed, cause of your pact with the entity it'll give you a performance-based increase that adds positive modifiers that changes the atmosphere (idk the lore behind this) and changes things like a increase in customer wait time, mood, and more customers in general. Perfect planning for those busy days to be less stressful!

36:45 Hahaaaaa! 🤣 "That's unique..." 😆

Compared to when he first played Horror Villa, Wiz has seen so much wacky stuff that hes no longer surprised by anything, he embraces all of the wackiness in every game

Story of Olivia glitch looks like the last frame of animation playing on repeat, setting position over and over again.

this were some of awesome and funny

first one is a cool expansion on deus ex, reminds me a lot of invisible war in a good way

4:16 Mess with the Skulls, you pay the price.

Story of the Olivia having the same shooter asset as Ma3 is getting to my brain

Second game had such a good premisse would probably be better to go a visual novel type of way instead of 3d. Some very dark and gross art with good sound design, you could probably have different endings, and probably a real one where you slowly poison the monster to free yourself or something. Would be better if it started without the dark ambiance and actually a normal cooking game for the sake of surprise

The glitch with the building seems like an issue where the developer used a transparent material on the building. It's too slow to depth sort transparent objects per-pixel, so transparent objects are typically sorted based on the objects pivot. This can often lead to a transparent object appearing in front of another transparent object, even if logically it should appear behind.

d'aww husband and wife development team... a regular Ken and Roberta, here!

The compass overlay on the map in Beyond the Fringe is something more games should do.

Corpus Edax melee combat reminded me of Escape from Butcher Bay, so that's a good thing.

38:40 That is why I watch your videos. I am a solo gamedev, and I am currently making a survival game about a spider. These videos clearly show me how NOT to do things. And the bug on the timestamp is actually the dev being lazy and forgot to add another animation to the NPC. Actually, I think that I might be able to fix some of those bugs, because some of them are just so basic it makes me wonder why they do not even fix them. Also the thing with the buildings is another stupid thing: since matirials(textures) were not created for a single segment, but for a whole model, he tried to make the windows transmapent, but instead made the whole matirial (texture) transparent. That is why the building are so wierd + to fix that, he can just put a plane with the texture of a window ON TOP of the model's window, to make the window's matirial differ from the building one. Also Rock and Stone!

Cor, that's a nimble horse! 🏠🐎💨 The Wild West would've been much less wild with the introduction of RPGs lol

Good, entertaining video.

The first game actually added a reflection. Some triple A titles don't even do that much

[You are getting hungry] **proceeds to make closet spaghetti out of some guy** 🍝👄🍝

11:18 "You're going to the hospital!! 🤬🤬😡" "Why am I going to the hospital?🗿" Wicked Sigma

some of you all need to understand. IF YOU LIKE IT GO BUY IT. some of these are like $12 support this level of the medium before these engine creators start making it impossible for these indie devs to curse or bless us. Epic used funds from Unreal to fund Gears of war and Silicon Knights was destroyed by it. Do your research your money matters more than ever with this medium. Atom RPG, Stellar Tactics, Exiled Kingdoms to name a few that are worth the $4-20

Never thought a lever action rifle could act as a machine gun in Story of the Olivia. Not gonna lie.

And I know what to put on my wishlist

wiz sounds like a bob blecher with an accent and i can’t unhear it

Are you ever going to continue your main channel? I'd like to see a vdieo on what happened with Atlas (pirate game from the Ark devs).

Finding bad games is easy but finding good games requires dedication

The story of Olivia game looks like it's using a certain 3rd person game template I've messed around with in Unity. Seems to me they just didn't really tweak the values of everything for it to look and make sense. Hence why they're holding rifles like pistols, etc.

24:20 that guy sounds *exactly* like wizard, its crazy

Beyond the Fringe running animation looks straight from ME Andromeda

Yes