Amenti

senhoras e senhores, eu me caguei

Нішевий хорор

Нормально 5/10

When DarkPhobia Games launched *Amenti*, horror enthusiasts were eager to dive into its atmospheric exploration of ancient Egyptian tombs. The premise of navigating the shadowy corridors of the Great Pyramid of Giza as a photographer sounded like a refreshing take on psychological horror. Unfortunately, the final product heavily misses the mark. Instead of delivering a genuinely terrifying and memorable experience, the game quickly unravels into a frustrating chore defined by severe technical bugs and poorly balanced, punishing gameplay mechanics. While the visual design of the ancient tombs initially shows promise, the game fails to sustain any real tension due to its unpolished execution. A successful horror game relies on immersion, drawing the player into a believable and spooky world where danger feels earned. *Amenti* shatters this immersion almost immediately. The atmosphere is consistently disrupted by underlying structural issues, turning what should have been a spooky, ancient expedition into an aggravating exercise in patience. At the core of the game's problems is its central photography mechanic. The protagonist's camera is supposed to serve as a vital tool to uncover supernatural elements, solve environmental puzzles, and navigate the dark pathways. However, this feature is fundamentally undermined by severe graphical glitches. Rather than feeling like a helpful conduit to the unseen world, using the camera becomes an active hazard to the player's real-world sanity due to how poorly it interacts with the game engine. The most egregious example of these technical failures is a persistent bug where the entire screen suddenly becomes completely blurry. This blinding visual distortion goes far beyond standard depth-of-field effects or intentional thematic fuzziness. It completely obscures the environment, leaving players entirely blind in a game where navigation is already a massive challenge. Trying to solve complex puzzles or escape stalking entities while the rendering engine refuses to focus turns a scary experience into a deeply irritating one. These visual issues are compounded by a general lack of optimization within its Unreal Engine framework. The blur bug often triggers alongside severe frame-rate drops, suggesting that the game Struggles to properly render lighting effects and camera filters simultaneously. When a player cannot trust their own screen to display the environment properly, the basic act of playing the game breaks down, exposing a severe lack of quality assurance during the development process. Beyond its technical shortcomings, *Amenti* suffers from a poorly tuned difficulty curve that confuses frustration with genuine challenge. A good difficulty design pushes players to learn from their mistakes and master the game mechanics. In contrast, this game relies on unfair design choices, making progress feel less like a test of skill and more like a test of endurance against cheap tricks. The level design heavily contributes to this artificial difficulty, particularly during the repetitive maze sequences. Navigating these labyrinthine corridors is tedious enough on its own, but when combined with the game's visual bugs, it becomes a nightmare for all the wrong reasons. Getting lost in a dark maze because the layout is confusing is one thing; getting lost because the screen randomly decides to blur into an unreadable smear of pixels makes players want to close the application entirely. Furthermore, enemy encounters are poorly balanced and lack clear indicators for survival. Entities and reanimated corpses lash out of the darkness with incredibly tight windows for avoidance, offering very little room for player agency. Because the mechanics are so clunky, dying feels entirely random rather than a consequence of poor planning. Combined with punishing checkpoints, players are forced to replay tedious sections over and over, completely stripping away whatever lingering fear or tension the atmosphere managed to build. The muddled narrative does little to salvage the broken gameplay. The plot tries to awkwardly stitch together ancient curses, pharaohs, and extraterrestrial sci-fi elements in a very short runtime. Because players are constantly fighting against the awkward difficulty and blinding bugs, the narrative beats lose all impact. The sudden shift toward alien involvement feels unearned and silly, serving as a jarring distraction rather than a satisfying conclusion to the historical mystery. Ultimately, *Amenti* stands as a clear example of how a brilliant concept can be entirely ruined by poor execution. A horror game cannot succeed when its scariest feature is its lack of polish and its most difficult obstacle is a broken camera filter. By letting performance issues run rampant and relying on artificial spikes in difficulty, the game alienates its audience, proving that captivating settings mean nothing without stable code and fair gameplay design.

Very interesting game! Very cool camera and flashlight mechanics. Atmosphere is also well done, very ominous and definitely gets you emersed. Jump scares are most certainly present. Yes, they can seem poorly done but that's really only if you choose to feel that way. I thought they were fun. Those kinds of things are just a staple within these smaller horror games. Heavy, HEAVY "Slender 8 Pages" influenced and I'm here for it. Good callback to those 2009 - early 2010's vibes for sure. Very detailed environments that clearly took a bit of time to put together. Lastly - fascinating subject matter that will make you want to research what's discussed in game. Well thought out. Great attention to detail. Only real gripe is that the puzzles are sort of "whatever" and it's very short! I wanted more. Sequence at the end before exiting is oppressive as can be! Worth it on a good sale.

At first I thought the game wasn't going to be scary at all, but there actually were a few good jump scares. It was a pretty short game completed in about an hour. Was pretty decent but felt the price was a bit high for a 1 hour game. Get it on a deep discount and it would be a pretty good value.

Great short horror. Hope for a sequel after the ending

def a good game to get while on sale

Good Game

Довольно средненький коридорный хоррор, с жутковатым саундом; проходится без особого напряжения, визуально выглядит неплохо, атмосферно. Хотя египетская культура мне как-то безразлична, но здесь отражается теория палеоконтакта, а такое я все-таки люблю. Да и приятно было побегать по этим древним темным коридорам. Поэтому рекомендую