At Death's Door

WARNING! THIS IS A HAIR RAISING GAME! This is probably one of the scariest games I've played in this price range. I wasn't expecting much but this game is scary! It's also a lot longer than most games around 10 bucks, with better experience. PROS: - GAMEPLAY (NOT A WALKING SIMULATOR!) the game always have you doing stuff like solving puzzles, finding ritual objects using your ghost hunting gadgets, and using your camera to reveal some scares. They even have Platforming! - ATMOSPHERE is amazing it really sells the setting of an abandoned sinister mental hospital - NO CHEAP JUMP SCARES. I hate games that just do jump scares for no reason, the game really does a good job building to it and selling it. - TENSION gradually builds up but when it's up, ITS UP! After doing the last ritual boy I needed a Xanax. - SOUND DESIGN is top notch, the music is absolutely amazing. Droning sounds, impact sounds, and etc... - LORE so in this game they added tape recordings of very insane patients (Talking to you Bobby Briggs) and the voice acting is so good! It reminds of me of the show Mindhunters on Netflix when they were interviewing psychopaths. Oh and they also have notes(but most horror game have notes) CONS - MISSING AUDIO ON SOME OBJECTS, like one door, the lock picks don't have a pick up sound, when you place the TV thee's no sound indicating it's place but these are very specific. - FLOATING OBJECTS I saw a pile of garbage floating. There's not many in the game that will take you out of immersion but when you see it, it's noticeable. - SOME OBJECTS POPPING IN & OUT very Jarring when you see it - THE BIGGEST CON is I thought I lost my save file!, I died yes you can die in the game and when I pressed restart I was sent back to the very beginning of the level. LUCKILY WHEN I PRESSED LOAD my save file was there and I was able to load after. Then after dying again I was able to restart to where I was before I died.

It's a tentative no because I'm pretty sure I found a bug that got me softlocked way before things really got started. The voice acting and story seem pretty solid although it does seem like it may be a bit reliant on jump scares rather than any kind of chases or anything - I didn't get too far in though! I can't recommend spending $8 on it for now, but I would love to give this game another chance. I have a pending bug report in the discussions - the short of it is, game crashed -> my staged cameras stopped working on all my saved data, even on starting new games.