The Echo, or Thecho as its called elsewhere, wants to be a low budget Observer. The similarities are you are a guy in a cyberpunk universe who jumps into people’s heads for a little bit of cyberpunk horror fun. The similarities end there. Observer had a great voice cast and was a decent game for what it was, even coming out with a enhanced edition(System Redux) a few years after release. Thecho game seems like it came from Midnight Works, except it didn’t, it came from Playstige Interactive, who wants to be Midnight Works, shoving out low effort crap and calling it a day.
The Echo/Thecho stars Bob, who starts off in his apartment looking for his meds. Take your meds, check you email and off you go on your neural deep dive. You wander around an office building doing pointless crap and finally do the dive. The game tells you to find the exit door. Except if you do, you start the section over, obviously there’s some things you have to do, but by that point I could not care less. I quit and went to write this review.
The Echo/Thecho has a unique low poly look, but it looks ugly, stutters constantly, and textures pop in and out at random. The sound is there. Movement is slow and clunky. You can run with R which barely speeds things up. You can also duck, why, not sure. There seems to be a game here of sufficient length, but who really wants to sit through crap when you have Observer on the Switch? Granted that’s $30, but its far more worth it than this $3 POS. Thecho gets a Garbage verdict with 2 score(cause there is a game here).
Overall: The Echo/Thecho wants to be Observer. It is not that game. In fact, it is complete garbage and worth nobody’s time.
Verdict: Garbage
Score: 2
| Release Date | 8/21/25 |
| Cost | $2.99 |
| Publisher | Playstige Interactive |
| ESRB Rating | T |
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Chase
I don’t think there’s anything more wrong than this take. This game is not trying to be Observer, nor is it a bad game. Aside from the Cyberpunk setting, this is nothing like Observer. Batman Arkham has more in common with Observer than this game. You played the first ten minutes of it and said it sucks? I strongly disagree with your opinion, and I think you’d change yours if you went on to play more of it.
mordridakon
Are you the developer? Serious question.