Bite Size Terrors: Erobos Heaven

Literally the worst horror game I ever paid for. I wanted my money back for a coffee because at least then I can get scared of having heart problems or even having a good time bec i'm enjoying something (Spoiler warning. Also to be quick i'll kind of bullet punch my issues) -My overall biggest problem with the game was reading "Some choices may alter the game" ok, what can I do. Spent a lot of time and all I could do was open and close doors. What a joke and lie. -The only 2 choices you make that have impacts are leaving the front door (backdoor not tested) open and the child will enter the house and be there at the bottom of the stairs to startle the mc. OR he will knock on the front door if you left it shut. The other choice dependent is the child's hiding spot, under the bed is one ending. Anywhere else, our "friend" finds you. -This game costs $5 but is short and quick and could easily be free or on itch.io where money is optional to give. -The monster wants to play hide and seek. He'll seek. Oh boy, not like I haven't seen that in horror 100 times already! I'm certain it'll be different this time! The atmosphere would be more intense if it didn't play like a buggy game world and the mc is here and talking as though this is the backrooms or still real life and trying to manage to get out. -The child is not scary. He's like a gmod model that's short with buggy eyes and that's the most unsettling thing about him. He's not scary, just unsettling! -The game is WAY too dark and I played with brightness exactly how the notes said to be slightly visible and not visible at all. It is so dark that I couldn't see the floor in front of me. -The trash can in the back is subtle but our mc doesn't take note of how weird it is that a trash can with the lid far off and looking like it was dug through is sketchy. -You could look in the bedrooms with the closets as you're checking the house for any sign of life. But for some reason, you will ALWAYS be right back in the room with absolutely nothing in it but a window. This little thing alone breaks the immersion of being in a house alone by yourself and debating if there is someone else here -This game has the perfect set up for a shadow or something being out of the corner of your eye and popping up in some window of the house from the outside or the inside. IT NEVER DOES SOMETHING INTERESTING LIKE THAT. It'd be fine to do it because that's making you question your imagination or if it's your fear getting to you. But it never does that. -The monster is a cliche joke and looks like one. Like his eyes were taken from some weirdcore art and arms from any 3d model and slapped together in the air to make a monster. He's not scary, he's very simple and not effectively scary. -The endings are boring and a joke. Child survives and looks through the peephole at nothing but where mc ran off. Or we come back and see the child is eaten by the monster in the goofiest way you can imagine. I am not joking with how goofy it looks, its like a bad video game glitch in a game meant to SCARE me. -There is no attic, one of the most unsettling places in a house and there is none. Basement too, instead we just have an empty garage with boxes and 2 machines for clothes I got nothing against the dev besides the price of this game. I came here solely to be scared because i'm a huge fan of indie horror. I left with nothing scaring me except for finding the kid for the first time.

This game is dark, both in its themes and in its environments. Takes heavy inspiration from the analog horror craze from the last years to tell a story that feels a lot personal. The only big gripe I have with the game is that on certain parts the whole ambience is so dark you really can't see ♥♥♥♥, that on one side works really well for some exceptional scares, on the other hand feeling my way around the house while being able to see the absolute nothingness until I headbutt the next event trigger felt kinda silly. All and all, it's a really scary and cool experience.

Scary Scuffed Games #387 https://twitch.tv/DitoMido Bisherige Reviews Archiv: https://rsg.ditomido.de/archive Vorgeschlagen von: winter_fox8 Bite Size Terrors: Erobos Heaven ist leider sehr unausgeglichen. Es legt sehr viel Wert auf Sound und gerade beim Monster schafft es auch Gänsevorhautmomente zu erzeugen. Das Voiceover ist gut, aber leider sind stellenweise die Schritte gefühlt auf 300% Lautstärke, allerdings nur auf Parkettboden. Manchmal vergisst man auch einfach die Task die gerade zu erledigen ist (besonders als Streamer) und sucht verzweifelt alles im Haus ab, was man gerade erledigen soll. Auch schwierig finde ich, dass das bestimmte Objekte sehr penibel mit der Ineraktion sind. So kann eine Tür oder Kühlschranktür zum Öffnen nur über den griff aktiviert werden. Ein einblendbares Task Checklisten HUD wäre an dieser stelle sehr Hilfreich, ohne großartig die Immersion zu Rauben. Ich finde die stärken liegen hier ganz klar in den Cinematics, das Gameplay selbst ist aber leider sehr schwach. Besser hätte ich mir eine Art YT Short Horror Serie gewünscht denn ich denke, storytechnisch böte es einiges an Potenzial. Auch die Vertonung ist somit deutlich präziser. Für 5€ Vollpreis etwas Kurz und das Gameplay war leider einfach nicht unterhaltsam. Rating: Dito: 2.8/5 Chat: 1.76/5 Gesamt: 2.28/5

[H1]Una breve esperienza distrurbante[/H1] Applausi. Applausi perché anOVERTHINKER ha creato una breve esperienza horror veramente disturbante. La sua infima durata (che però non è assolutamente un malus, anzi) vi terrà incollati allo schermo per circa 30 minuti, mettendovi in una atmosfera "Uncanny" veramente inquietante. Non sappiamo niente: veniamo teletrasportati di fronte una casa, in mezzo al nulla, senza nessuno. Il nostro protagonista non fa altro che pregare Dio, non sappiamo perché ci troviamo lì e cosa è successo prima. Forse la fine del mondo è arrivata e "qualcosa" ci ha... "salvati", portandoci qui? Non sappiamo nulla, solo speculazione e lore. Questo è quello che penso io: [Spoiler]La fine del mondo. Al telegiornale viene detto che "...delle braccia stanno scendendo dal cielo e stanno rapendo le persone. Forse il nostro protagonista viene rapito da una di queste entità e portato in questa dimensione per essere il suo "giocattolo". L'entità può giocare come vuole, è lui il Dio di questa dimensione. Come dice alla fine "il tuo DIO non esiste. IO ESISTO" Questa è la mia interpretazione, anche se ho letto alcune speculazioni molto molto interessanti, anche riguardanti un significato più nascosto sul bambino e come lui vede il mostro.[/Spoiler] L'entità soprannaturale che infesta questa "dimensione" è spaventosamente potente, può fare quello che vuole. Comanda lui. Il gioco ha uno stile quasi da Analog Horror che, personalmente, rappresentano l'apice di ciò che mi spaventa in un videogioco. Non so perché ma mi ha sempre disturbato molto. In sostanza questa breve esperienza ve la consiglio caldamente, non ve ne pentirete. Costa poco, fa quello che deve fare e lo fa molto bene. Attendo con ansia altri giochi di anOVERTHINKER

If you play it in a mostly straightforward/story driven manner, it is a short well told and shot atmospheric horror. It feels like horror that happens to use the medium of a video game. I don't typically play story/horror games, so i tried to break the game at every point. this way of playing was a waste of time in the counting-blades-of-grass kind of way rather than the offhanded-do-nothing kind of way. just play the story and you won't miss anything The only annoyances are confusion when I miss dialogue (mostly my fault), and the achievements requiring 3 separate playthroughs of the story, which is already fairly linear and samey.

short but cool horror game

I don't think I've ever been so scared in my entire life playing a horror game. I've never pressed alt+F4 in a game before when I got scared, I don't recommend doing that because there are no checkpoints so you have to start from the beginning every time. A very short game but it left its mark on me