High recommendations made me very excited to check Ostium out, and the premise was absolutely perfect for me. Abandoned town, mysterious doors, unending number of possibilities. Yet Ostium fell flat for me and as such, is probably the most disappointed I've ever been by an audio drama.I have never been a fan of the single narrator format but it is particularly bad here. One voice actor and a seemingly-endless monologue usually exposes the lack of budget and production time. It also makes listening a chore; I would rather listen to events happen than being told that they did. Ostium makes matters worse with such a dull and dawdling script in which tiny, unimportant details are fixated upon and the story events are made to sound bland. The words sound like they are being read directly off a script and the voices sound utterly uninspired. There is little to no emotion expressed and I eventually just grew bored of listening.Some single narrator shows will at least use sound effects and music to heighten the atmosphere but Ostium's sound design is poor. The background is usually often deadly silent and lacking realism. Sure, there may be the occasional creak of a door or an object being placed but not nearly enough to bring the world to life.There are good ideas here but Ostium would have been much better with a small cast exchanging dialogue rather than one character blandly recalling events in hindsight. Each to their own but I'm really surprised how highly thought of the show is given its flaws. I have heard many far better shows.Also to note, the episode feed is an abomination. Whereas most series will simply have a trailer, a complete sequence of episodes and maybe some bonus content for each season, Ostium's feed us like a jumbled garage full if content dumped haphazardly. Bonus patreon content, director commentaries, announcements, remixed versions of previous releases and even other shows are just randomly scattered around. As of writing this there are 198 releases on the Ostium feed and yet the series has only 59 episodes. Over two thirds of the content is not part of the actual core show. Some may enjoy the behind the scenes stuff or the showcasing of other podcasts but to me it just looks unprofessional and messy.