Underworld Ascendant: The Worst Immersive Sim Ever Made

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So in case you forgot (or if you purged it from your, memory, sorry) there was this game called Underworld Ascendant made by the literal inventors of the Immersive Sim, Warren Spector and Paul Neurath, which is easily the worst immersive sim that shall likely ever be made. How is that you ask? Well when Neurath and Spector got together to make their studio, Otherside Entertainment, they decided that the best course of action was to have a Kickstarter as it was the fashion at the time and then have a go at it on thier own without the help of a publisher... that is until they brought in 505 Games as a publisher when they were a year past the initial release window with the game nowhere near being done.

In the end they rushed to make the Christmas 2018 sales window which horribly backfired as what they had contained AWFUL gameplay, a boring and vague story told by audio diaries, and a game so glitchy that I'm not even sure Unfinished is the right word. Seriously, some reviewers reporting falling though the map and ending up in the final level of the game while they were still on level 1.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:26 Part 1, A Troubled Development
07:22 Part 2, God-Awful Gameplay
17:35 Charl shows you how to make lazy fried rice
20:40 Part 3, The Jank
28:47 Charl Falls Down a Wiki Rabbithole
31:14 Part 3, The Jank (continued)
34:10 Part 4, This isn't even the worst version of the game
35:15 final thoughts on Underworld Ascendant
37:22 Cat Video, Frisk is a Hamper Boy