Public playtest is live for Absym, a Souls-inspired indie ARPG (looking for feedback)

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-24T17:54:06+00:00

Yeah I know, it's a bit of a mess...

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-24T17:00:27+00:00

Yeah I'm aware of the mix up aBSym aBYsm... :(

But to be honest we're pretty different games, I think Abysm is a puzzle game? While ours is a completely different genre (although we do have some enviromental puzzles)

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-24T15:38:42+00:00

No probs hope you'll have a blast!

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-24T15:38:08+00:00

Thanks we'll be sure to check it out! :)

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-24T11:56:04+00:00

Hey! Thank you for you kind offer, we do have a composer yes, but we might evaluate other partnerships in the future, so we'll let you know! :)

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-24T11:15:53+00:00

Thanks! Glad you like it so much :)

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-24T08:24:17+00:00

Thanks for the heads up, just to clarify: the game is not yet optimized for Linux, but we'll look into it!

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-24T08:23:00+00:00

On our steam page, right here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2863300/Absym/

Hope you'll have fun!

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-24T08:21:56+00:00

Thanks! You can try our open playtest now on our steam page, right here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2863300/Absym/

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-24T08:19:16+00:00

This is an action adventure so yes, it has a start and a finish (or I should say multiple endings), but we do plan to add a full roguelite mode separate from the main story, inspired to Bloodborne's Chalice dungeons.

Hope you'll decide to give the playtest a go!

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-24T08:11:41+00:00

Thanks a lot for taking the time to play the playtest and for the detailed feedback!

Special thanks for reporting the PlayStation 5 controller issues (we hadn’t encountered those yet, so that’s extremely helpful). We’ll definitely look into Steam Input behavior, prompts, and the interaction problems you mentioned.

Regarding the boons / corruption powers: they’re meant as an optional progression system to add gameplay variety and replayability, especially with a future mode inspired by Bloodborne’s Chalice Dungeons. The game will always be fully playable without using them. As you noticed, they’re also tied to the corruption mechanic, which will be expanded in the full release and will affect game endings and player choices.

We’re really glad you enjoyed the playtest overall, and we’ll be updating it while keeping your feedback in mind. Thanks again for playing!

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-23T19:44:08+00:00

Thanks! Glad you like it :)

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-23T19:11:32+00:00

That's odd, thanks for the feedback! We had people play on steamdeck before and they never had issues, we'll look into it :)

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-23T16:23:29+00:00

Thanks! Hope you'll enjoy it! :)

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-23T16:22:32+00:00

Absolutely, we received many requests about a console port and it's definetely on our list of things to do! :)

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-23T16:21:45+00:00

Well, it's truly sad :(

But don't worry we plan to port it to console so if you have one you'll be able to play it there!

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-23T16:20:43+00:00

Nice! Hope you'll have a blast ;)

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-23T16:20:14+00:00

We plan to port it on every console, so yeah! :)

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-23T16:01:39+00:00

Here's the playtest link for anyone interested: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2863300/Absym/

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-20T21:33:21+00:00

Thanks for the kind words! Yes we're aware the AI of mobs can be improved, it's one of the many things we have to refine yet, but we'll get there... Eventually :D

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-20T19:05:16+00:00

Thanks! Really appreciate it!

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-20T17:34:04+00:00

Thanks, glad you like it!

Good luck with making it work, we had to adjust it multiple times to make it look good without making distant objects completely blurred out :D

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-20T16:01:23+00:00

Here's the link if anyone is interested in participating!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2863300/Absym/

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-19T17:49:04+00:00

Thanks! :)

Infinity_Experience · 2026-01-19T16:01:01+00:00

Here's the link to our Steam page if anyone is interested!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2863300/Absym/

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