
When reality is a nightmare, nightmares become real. In this psychological horror game, you fight the terrifying creatures invading your mind. Can you save your sanity?
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Trapped between the walls of your family home and the trenches of World War I, you try to piece together your past and take back control of your life.
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[h1]Хорошая идея, убитая ужасной реализацией[/h1] Сама задумка показать ПТСР через призму Первой мировой войны мне крайне симпатизирует. Это была эпоха, когда человечество впервые столкнулось с техногенным ужасом: газом, разрывными снарядами, пулемётами, смертоносной артиллерией и месяцами выживания в грязных, антисанитарных окопах с крысами. Идеальный сеттинг, чтобы продемонстрировать сломленную психику выживших в этой мясорубке солдат. Но не тут-то было. Вместо приземлённого реализма и читаемых метафор, разработчики ударились в откровенную мистику, приправленную сюрреализмом. И это породило массу проблем. [h3]Геймплей и повествование - сплошной симулятор чтения и скуки[/h3] С первых минут и до самого финала игрока вместо внятного сюжета закидывают тоннами записок. Они разбросаны буквально в метре друг от друга. В итоге весь геймплей сводится к унылой схеме: ходишь, читаешь, иногда ломаешь доски киркой - [b]всё[/b]. Подобное «записочное» повествование можно простить инди-хоррорам, если у них есть понятный центральный сюжет или если тексты реально раскрывают лор. Здесь же разработчики налили тонну "воды". Чтобы добраться до сути, приходится продираться сквозь бесконечные переписи бойцов и списки затаренного продовольствия. При этом баланс ужасен: стоит пропустить одну важную бумажку - и ты уже не понимаешь, кто все эти люди, и в чём конфликт между ними. [h3]Сюжетные загадки ради загадок[/h3] Диалоги по центральному сюжету тоже не блещут внятностью. [b]Персонажи то и дело ведут долгие разговоры ни о чём[/b]. Напомню, действие разворачивается в сюрреалистичном загробном мире, где эмоции героя материализуются в монстров (их нужно либо принять, либо уничтожить ради определённой концовки). В состоянии такого "сюра" все поголовно говорят загадками. Даже дотошное чтение записок не помогает собрать пазл. В итоге главную задумку я понял, но так и не вник в детали: кто кого предал, кто кого любил и уважал. Всё подано максимально скомкано и смазано и требует скрупулёзного нахождения и изучения каждой из тысячи записулек. [h3]Визуальный ряд и дизайн локаций[/h3] Многие хвалят игру за визуал, и в ней действительно можно поймать пару красивых кадров. Но в остальном [b]локации однотипны:[/b] вы будете уныло перемещаться из фамильного поместья в очередную траншею и обратно. Остальные уровни - настоящий ад для людей с топографическим кретинизмом: Завод-лабиринт, устроенный так, что ему позавидовал бы Гейзенберг из Resident Evil Village. Бездонное чёрное очко разработчиков, где в кромешной тьме нужно прыгать по левитирующим доскам в худших традициях ранних игр бабадзаки. Всё это [b]вызывает не страх, а тоску и сильное напряжение глаз вкупе с зевотой[/b]. [h3]Геймдизайнерские "гении" и техническая часть[/h3] Игра откровенно скучна, а местный геймдизайн порой просто выбешивает. К примеру, разработчики добавили функцию пропуска катсцен, вот только шкала пропуска заполняется ровно столько же времени, сколько длится сам ролик. В чём смысл? Зато если вы умрёте на боссе, игра любезно возродит вас прямо перед катсценой, которую [b]вообще нельзя скипнуть[/b]. [b]И подобных глупостей, в купе с багами, здесь полно.[/b] Если хотите столкнуть лбом свой интеллект и логику против геймдизайна разрабов, найдите ключ от чердака без малейшего гайда. Поймёте, о чём я. [h3]Итог[/h3] [b]Не рекомендую тратить время на эту бродилку. Она не расскажет вам внятной и цельной истории[/b]. Вместо этого Ad Infinitum вывалит на вас тонну несвязанных метафор и шизофренических загадок, в которых вы будете вариться, как рыба в бульоне, пытаясь нащупать логику и всё равно уйдёте на ютуб смотреть разборы, после нудного геймплея, нудных локаций и топорных анимаций с пропадающим звуком. А ведь сама задумка игры была очень простой и многообещающей.
The spooks are spooky. I do like the concepts within the game. The puzzles in this game are easily the most annoying part. If you play in anyway like me, you will find yourself walking in circles without direction, trying to find what needs to be interacted with, or unkowingly stumbling upon items that are part of the puzzle.
Игра которая стоит денег, но не стоит человеческого внимания! Давно лежала у меня в желаемом и даже хотел брать в день выхода за 2 касаря, но че то одумался и забил ♥♥♥, и вот сейчас увидев конскую скидку решил купить за 200 рублей. И уж лучше бы шаурму купил, это игра не прошла проверку временим уже в день выхода, чего стоит открывания дверей как в Амнезии и чтение бесконечных записок, что как по мне устарела. Геймплей завязан как я понял за этот час вокруг той самой легендарной ходьбы, чтении записок, и беготни от монстров, все как в той же Амнезии, но это игра своего времени с довольно неплохой атмосферой, а Ad infinitum это то что должно было выйти лет 8 назад, и умереть в тот же год что и вышла. Бог уберег меня от покупки этой игры за 2к, хотя все равно волноваться не стоило бы, больше чем 2 часа я в "это" играть не стал был, а так за 200 рублей пусть в коллекции полежит. Я конечно все понимаю, что типа наиграл часок и уже жесткие выводы делаешь, но раз игра за этот час заставила бодрого меня впасть в уныния, мне кажется говорить тут не о чем!
A glorified "hidden object" game, but you're running around in a house with nothing but locked doors. No wonder this was 90% off. Ran around for 30 minutes and gave up. Glad I only spent $4 on it.
Great Concept, Lost the Plot In the beginning, Ad Infinitum seemed like a good game. The opening cinematic was amazing and the setup was incredible for a WWI soldier. Later, when you get into the house, you get introduced to the tragic story of his mother and brother. It primes you for a deeply personal, grounded psychological horror game about shell-shock, family, and PTSD trauma. UNFORTUNATELY, the game completely loses its grip on the narrative. Instead of actually exploring the family dynamics and how we deal with the trauma, the story shifts focus. I personally got stuck for an hour in this mansion because you are met with nothing but locked doors until I found this stupid music player and its parts; it felt like a walking simulator. What I did like was that you heard the mother cry and read all these letters about the story, but as I said, they abandon the story completely. After all that, you are forced into a horrendous gameplay loop of dodging creatures in clunky stealth sections. The turning point where things really go downhill is the exorcism segment. It feels entirely out of place and breaks whatever immersion the historical setting had left. The WWI concept was phenomenal and the first 30 minutes in-game were really good. It had a great start and instantly fell off. The execution just didn't live up to the setup; instead of feeling invested in the character's psyche, I just felt frustrated by the pacing and the gameplay. It's a massive case of wasted potential.
очікував простий горор в реаліях окопної війни, отримаав особисто щось на рівні SOMA. неймовірна гра, не завадила б українська для повного і простішого занурення, бажаю успіхів в нових проектах
Boring walking simulator. The store page tricked me into thinking that this was going to be a horror filled experience. No such luck, the last part before the final boss drags on way too long. And exploring the mansion felt like a pain, often doors were unnecessarily locked to a room but it could be accessed from other places, like why? Just let me get to it without needing to go around the whole place. About 60% of the game is pure filler with no substance.
Ad Infinitium is a World War 1 horror psychological horror walking sim/run and hide hybrid simulator developed by Hekate, an independent Berlin video game studio that was founded in 2019 with about “forty years of combined experience” and contributing to “the success of over 30 boxed titles”. This is all from the website of course, as there isn’t much else in the way of information out there. On a Reddit AMA about the game, Lukas Deuschel (Silence, Pillars of the Earth and apparently EVERSPACE 2: Wrath of the Ancients, which he had joined recently. Perhaps as side work unless that’s a different guy) they talked about how this game was their passion project and how they meticulously brainstormed and researched every aspect of psychological horror and the first World War they possibly could for historical accuracy. Influences for the game include Silent Hill 2, SOMA, Layers of Fear, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger and the movies Johnny Got His Gun alongside Jacob's Ladder. For most of the review: https://backloggd.com/u/gamemast15r/review/4936149/ So for the most part, the gameplay for Ad Infinitum is split up into two-three sections. The first part here is the “Walking Sim” gameplay, where you explore the family manor as you collect all sorts of documents, witness horrific hallucinations and at times solve some puzzles. There isn’t anything scary chasing you in these sections unless it’s your own shadow, so for the most part this would be the gameplay I don’t really have much to say about. It’s solid, works well with the story like a lot of horror walking sims do and for the most part is inoffensive. The only thing I could really think of at this moment is that you can pick up matches to light up nearby lanterns but truth be told there’s either so many or you don’t even need to actually pick them up to the point I forgot about it until now. The next part of the game is when you reach the “War Zone”, the areas filled with barbed wire and trenches covered in mud. The general gist for these areas is that you walk down a set path and can pick up collectibles (documents and both German/French Dog Tags) as well, but they usually add a run & hide from monsters segment as well. Each chapter does this a bit different, like the first one is either just sneaking or causing distractions in order to run away from some. The second chapter I remember [spoiler]being chased down a trench by one big monster who I activated in a quick time escape before hiding in a nearby cubby hole to escape them. This will happen repeatedly and it doesn’t matter whether or not you get seen by this giant monster figure.[/spoiler] The third chapter is a lot more involved and has you [spoiler]dodging multiple monsters in the dark, cutting down barbed wire one piece at a time and navigating tight corridors before eventually moving into segments where you can use a gun for all of five minutes and flipping switches to block pigeons (via killing them with giant gates) from knocking you off of ledges.[/spoiler] Does that last one sound weird? Yeah it pretty much is but I guess it symbolizes [spoiler]feeling trapped in a cage or something.[/spoiler] At the end of each chapter (of which there are 4 but the fourth one is more so an epilogue) you’ll encounter a run around tense and small arena where a giant monster will be chasing you around (often in a giant circle or square) while you have to turn on or move left/right an item or a pipe or something. For example at the [spoiler]end of the first one you’ll be chased by a creature representative of the character’s mother in a circle but you need to make a beeline from one end to the other, which the creature can’t move past. From there you need to turn on vinyl record players towards a certain color which represents the Karmic playthrough you’re going for (Green = Good, Red = Bad and etcetera) all while avoiding her.[/spoiler]The same one happens in the second chapter where you [spoiler]have to avoid a big scary monster representative of your father while spike traps in the arena move around and section off pieces of the area, while you run to one of four pipes or so and either move it left or right (which signifies deadly gas I think or knockout gas).[/spoiler]Chapter 3 has you [spoiler]cut off barbed wire holding one of four switches around the four corners of the arena, with the Good karmic choice being to push the switch down in order to deactivate spikes or push it up to activate them, and then lure the bird creature (representing your brother) into crashing into each pillar. [/spoiler]They’re not bad set pieces in any way and I appreciate them making it obvious and letting you know that “hey this is a moment where your choice impacts the story” but also they feel kind of uninspired puzzle design wise? The most inspired that I felt puzzle wise was before the Chapter 2 boss fight where you have to walk around and match which direction the steam is going in through pipes based on a graph on the wall. That being said, most of the puzzles in this game are pretty easy to figure out and you won’t need to read Greek to figure it out so that’s always good. Finally, my final thoughts gameplay wise. For the most part I feel that Ad Infinitum has a solid gameplay loop that’s easy to recognize and figure out without, and I actually appreciate a lot of the variation that each of these set-pieces have through the game. That being said, there’s no switch up in the order of the variation as much as it is “Walking Sim-Run and Hide-Boss Fight” between each chapter which can be a bit overdone. Some of the later sections in the game tease at the potential of actually shooting creatures with the rifle but you don’t really get that which I feel is kind of a bummer in terms of that variation, which I also kind of feel adds to that feeling of “could’ve been a bit more”. As I also stated in during the boss battle section, the game can be very hand-holdy in regards to the games mechanics and there isn’t anything in the way of difficulty that actually gives a challenge (that I remember). If I were to give one final dislike, I’d say that the game really needs a Chapter Select because grabbing collectibles and then missing 1 dog tag because it’s hidden right at the end in the dirt somewhere with no way to go back actually sucks. I hated that and it also doesn’t help that the guide I was using was kind of weirdly worded. What this means is that if you miss one dog tag, one collectible through the lack of a manual save is that you’ll need to play through the entire game all over again as there are no “takesy-backsies” so to speak. Despite those issues and some of the jank surrounding certain animations (like trying to clip a moving barbed wire has you wrapped up in it, and after completing the quick-time event you’ll have to look away and walk off or else it’ll star the animation back up), I actually felt that there was a lot of promise in what this game delivered psychologically even if perhaps the gameplay felt a bit simplistic despite promising what I felt was a bit more. Links: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3339593351 https://gg.deals/games/developed-by-hekate/ https://www.hekate.games/work https://www.reddit.com/r/HorrorGaming/comments/16gt9k4/ama_with_developer_hekate_and_publisher_nacon_on/ https://www.ign.com/games/producer/hekate https://x.com/adinfinitumgame https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29897315/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUcJ8hIFEms (Soundtrack) https://open.spotify.com/album/1IHaOvoxtp2RFqd8iyKekF https://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/ad-infinitum-2023 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mP3KF50_yiZioZ4OdSqHvDQXMKxjkxPsg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Dix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_Infinitum_(video_game) https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/AdInfinitum
Anybody who knows anything about this period will be able to tell you why this gabe is bad. Also the misleading survival horror tag is a complete L. Puzzles are a nothingburger and its a walking simulator. I also find it ridicilous that our characters who are sons of some general aka aristocracy were conscripted as basic infantry. Did the devs know how military ranks in the German empire even worked? The funniest part of it tho is the fact that its so Americacoded. At some point in the game the characters go "WOW I WANT TO GO TO AMERICA!!!" yeah because sons of freaking Prussian aristocracy would be like "wow america is such an ideal". This is 1950s American propaganda tier. Whoever made this game watched All Quiet on the Western Front which is an awful adaptation of an awful novel written by a complete Amerophilic French fraud for political propaganda. But even if you don't care about all this, the game is just boring and is falsely adverised as a survival horror game. The story is very boring and generic and is not even scary.
7\10 "без спойлеров" Плюсы: интересный сюжет, графика, музыка, (обязательно ставьте немецкую озвучку), отличная оптимизация, разные концовки, в конце каждой главы твои действия решающие. Минусы: половина квестов прям так себе, очень много пустых комнат, без какого-либо интересного лута или писем - просто, что бы был объем, некоторые моменты подзатянуты, вообще ни разу не хоррор. Но сама идея о ужасах и последствиях войны, семейных чувственных моментов и тд - хороша. По итогу игра оставила хорошие впечатления. Но я бы рекомендовала бы приобретать по скидке
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Languages: English*, French*, Italian, German*, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Traditional Chinese +2 more
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