Where the Bees Make Honey Reviews

This game is an utter nightmare. Let me just start off by saying, I don't recommend playing this game unless you've completed the achievements for every other game out there. I have certainly played medicore to trash games for achievements. But this really takes the cake for bad gameplay.

It starts out moderately enough, as in there's graphics that look normal/average in a generic office building. But the narration starts off as awful and the voice acting only gets worse from there. Once you finish the first level and get into the main game, it's even more miserable. Your character is the ugliest attempt to be cute known to man. Through the variety of levels, you'll see horrid, ugly environments with terribly clashing textures and often, a terrible sense of direction. It's actually baffling how this is a 6 gigabyte game when the graphics are so bad.

There's too many types of gameplay in this, and none of them are done well. The bulk are "Captain Toad"-style square-puzzles where you have to walk around a small level, rotate it a few times, and grab three honeycombs. These levels are glitchier than Cyberpunk 2077. Oftentimes you'll press the trigger and rotate, but a level element won't move properly. You'll frequently clip through walls, and you're often stuck in angles where you can't see where you are. Other levels have you controlling different elements, but they're all trash. Moving as a rabbit is slow with a horribly laggy jump, the RC car level is boring and tedious with terrible hit detection and invisible walls all over, and the Halloween level is so slow-paced and dull that it makes you want to just run into the enemies so something will actually happen.

The story is a pretty typical event of the main character hating her job and reflecting on her childhood days. No attempt is made to bring up the possibility of finding a new job. She can either regress to being a child or live in this boring job forever. She even has the faux-trauma to mention her being dehumanized when she works in a call center, aka one of the jobs people hate the most, and she should know that if she's spent any time on the planet Earth until now. At the end of the game, you can either choose to decline a call, in which case you just... be happy for a moment. Or you answer it and you literally break down crying, which made me laugh.

Annoyingly, unless you do some save trickery, you can't just reload a save and try the other ending, and both are needed for achievements. So I had to play through the game twice and it was bad enough that I feel sick to my stomach. Don't play this, ever.

This might well be the worst game i've ever played, and i've played some god awful games in my time.

Regarding the story - It is, 'introspective', if you count the introspections of a moron - facile, predictable and banal. The game centers on a self-obsessed whingebag who chooses to work in a call centre - the nicest looking call centre in existence by the way - she laments her pitiful existence and she wants everyone to know it. She was obsessed with bees as a child and ironically ends up as a worker bee as an adult - a cog in a machine. The game wants you to think this is terribly clever but it is done with all the subtlety of an elephant hiding in a fridge. At the end you can choose to, 'rediscover' your childhood creativity by refusing to answer the phone, or resume your life as a worker drone. That's it. That's the story.

The gameplay consist of several different types of levels - meant to represent her child-like creativity and imagination - and all of them are done terribly. Filled with floaty, buggy controls and low-res polygon environments, the game relies on constantly changing what you're doing and where in the hopes that you don't notice that none of it is engaging or entertaining.

The sound design consists of this protagonist droning on about themselves without giving you any reason to care. they also chose the most annoying voice they could for the protagonist. I don't know what part of the States that accent is from but I shall endeavour never to find myself there. I muted the game for my second playthrough.

The game isn't unusual in that it's a terrible indie game that thinks it's amazing. It is slightly unusual however in that the devs have such a high opinion of their own work that the achievements force you to play it twice, with there being two choices at the end and a seperate achievement for each.

This game is the Duchamp's Urinal of video games. Duchamp will tell you it's high art and so would your old art teacher, the one with the weird hair. It's not, and you know it. Duchamp knows it, your old art teacher knows it, but Duchamp can't paint like Caravaggio, and neither can your old art teacher. So both of them will tell you it's outstanding.

To state the obvious, in this analogy the devs of this game are Duchamp and the weirdly positive steam reviews are your old art teacher. Except nothing in this game is even original so it's more like the 100th urinal submitted to an art gallery copying Duchamp's little stunt.

I can't quite believe they put their name to this rubbish.