[h1]wHOOOOOF... this game isn't very good folks.[/h1]
[i]Agoraphobia[/i] is a game that has nothing to do with the title. It's a pretty bog standard "Psychological Horror" walking simulator, with some of the worst scares I've ever seen in a self proclaimed horror experience. I knew that this game was infamous in the Indie Horror scene, (as is this developer), and I wanted to try it out for myself, just to see if the "mostly negative" reviews were all that.
They are all that.
It's humorous to me that my good friend and curator, Deadeguard98, someone who's opinions on the horror genre I take at face value, gave this title a positive review. That was enough for me to think the game wouldn't be as bad as people said it was, so I paid my $1.50 admission fee and waltzed on into the game.
First thing to note is that this is a solo dev game, that very openly uses free and bought assets from the unreal engine marketplace. There's nothing wrong with that, I have played a handful of competent asset flips before, but unfortunately, this isn't one of them. Most of the game is a one for one recreation of another called [i]Locked Up[/i], a complaint I've seen a handful of people make. The corridors are the same, the scares are similar and the visuals aren't any different either. Both use a cheap/free asset of a "spooky chick in hospital gown" and neither are very good. Another complaint I've seen people make is the constant game breaking bugs that lead to reloading checkpoints.
[h2]I HAD TO DO THIS UPWARDS OF 10 TIMES.[/h2]
Just like for [i]Nocturia[/i], another title I reviewed recently, the developer felt the need to make a guide for his own game, knowing full well the puzzles are far too nonsensical for anyone to figure out on their own. I got the feeling Tainted Games wanted to follow in the footsteps of PT and Amnesia, with the harder to grasp puzzles. the problem here lies within the fact that those puzzles actually made sense and had a logical flow to them. This game fails at that miserably and most of your playtime will be spent backtracking, reloading due to bugs, and reading guides.
[i]Agoraphobia[/i] isn't the worst game I've ever played, but it's definitely the weakest horror title I've touched since [i]Saligia[/i], (another terrible indie game).
This game gets a
[h3]2/10[/h3]
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