Blackthorne's Manor

Está bueno...

Nice short horror game.

Game opens up to the main menu just fine. Start a new game, and it goes through the opening cutscene just fine. It then loads the first scene, with the car stopped, headlights lighting up in front of it. As soon as I do *anything*, any input at all, mouse or keyboard, the game freezes. And goes to a grey screen. Only choice left is to switch back to the desktop and stop the game. I can't evaluate the game itself, because it simply doesn't work. Nothing past the opening cutscene. First user input of any kind kills it.

Edit - five achievements (for game progress, so unmissable) have now been added, and I have replayed the game to get them. Blackthorne's Manor is a free, short 3D puzzle/mystery game with some horror imagery at certain points but no real jump scares (I do not enjoy horror games but I was never uncomfortable playing this). It feels like a "proof of concept" demo, but in fact I think that it is a student project, judging by the credits. The player searches a well-modelled dilapidated mansion for his missing friend, solving gentle puzzles to gain access to chests or other areas, and collecting pages of a journal describing the dark deeds that have taken place there. There is one novel mechanic - an ethereal potion [spoiler]that allows the player to pass through rune-marked locked doors and obstacles[/spoiler]. Generally, though, there is little to interact with in any part of the mansion. There are also no achievements for either progress or collectibles. The finale was visually the most striking part of the game, but in play terms was just a walking simulator. The lighting was also so low that, even with the game set to its brightest setting, I found it very hard to find and follow the one path that triggers the ending monologue/visual sequence. In summary, this is a middling game with a nice 3D design but sparse content, a few rough edges but no actual bugs that I encountered, some disturbing imagery but no real horror, and an ending that felt more like a cliff-hanger (but for a low cliff). Overall, I don't regret playing it, but it isn't memorable.

A cute little horror game, bug-free, with normal graphics and sound. Great.

Pretty good

YO

For a game it's... fine. But there are so many issues on so many layers I cannot recommend it even for free. Extreme lag, terrible lighting, bad sound balancing, voice bugging out, loading that interrupts gameplay, protagonist speaking in a manner that doesn't fit the current events, puzzles that are hardly any challenge.... except where you have to find objects that can take forever to find due to bad lighting. Anything further than 2 meters ahead of you is pitch black if there isn't a light source. Obnoxious heartbeat sound. Braindead actions of the one we try to follow. And in the final sequence I had to look up walkthrough, as it is a giant black space with <1 frame per second. No running either. Avoid.