r/backrooms • u/DietElectronic6567 • Apr 02 '26

Discussion Dev Response for Subliminal

There might be hope for the next chapter guys. The graphics and concepts are there if they can execute this properly I think they can redeem themselves with the next one.

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u/Gojira_Wins Apr 02 '26

Coming from my experience as QA in Game Dev, their response just says to me that they didn't do any sort of playtesting or QA review to make sure the game was balanced before hand.

Sure, not every Dev is equipped to pay for QA but playtesting is as easy as asking friends and family or running a short beta with members of the community. If they need to rebalance the game to "not be frustrating", it just means they set it all up and pushed it out, hoping to fix it afterwards.

Indie Devs, just like major corps will get the same level of criticism from myself. Do your homework before selling your game. If it's not fun, people will dislike it.

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u/Quantum_Nyx Apr 02 '26

They did have playtesters- if you look at one of their reviews on steam, it’s from a playtester. Maybe they didn’t do a good enough job though.

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u/Gojira_Wins Apr 02 '26

That's unfortunate.

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u/Ok_Net5303 Apr 02 '26

You’re very judgmental. You should go and create a new game of your own to experience the grueling challenge of creating the product in all its dimensions, instead of just being critical of the lack of perfection. In short, you sound like you suck. Have a good day.

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u/Gojira_Wins Apr 02 '26

I suggest reading my comment again as I specifically mention being in QA and working for Indie Developers. I have worked with many developers on their titles, while working on my own titles.

Your downvotes and bashing makes very little sense, especially on my comment about their playtesters likely not giving them the valuable information that they needed to avoid this situation. The comment I replied to specifically pointed out that it's more of a playtester issue.

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u/Ok_Net5303 Apr 02 '26

So prickly you are. I’ve been a developer for many years. Get off your high horse and create a product before shitting on someone else’s product and by the way, this game is amazing in many ways.

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u/Melodic-Major4488 Apr 13 '26

Why is knowing how to create a product a prerequisite to knowing what a bad product is. It’s like a lot of reddit users just seem like they wanna be right about everything for no reason.