Bleeding Border

Frankly, the game is ♥♥♥♥ and it's a pity that there are non-working achievements. But if you cut out all the gameplay, leaving only the cutscenes, then it will be fine.

Bleeding Border has a genuinely interesting core mechanic — stabbing your own wound to spray blood on monsters is a weird, desperate idea that actually fits the survival horror vibe — but the execution is rough enough to undercut it at every turn. Controls are a mess out of the box, with mouse sensitivity so broken you might not even be able to look left or right without digging through settings, and the repetitive office floors start blurring together almost immediately. That said, at under a dollar it's hard to be too outraged, and the 100% achievement run is short enough that you can blast through it in under an hour for the trading cards alone. If you're an achievement hunter or card collector with zero expectations, you'll get your money's worth; everyone else should probably skip it.

Don't buy this game unless you either hate yourself or the person you might be thinking of buying it for, or you have too much disposable income you are ill-deserving of and are willing to waste foolishly on shovel-ware slavjank. Pros: - surprisingly good-looking animatics book-ending the game, genuinely the best part - Decent premise, a la Fear meets Bloodborne - ...That's about it. Cons: - This game is ♥♥♥♥ lol. Conceptually, using your blood as a weapon is pretty cool. In practice, at least in its execution in this game, it's awful. There's no semblance of balance; you literally one-shot every enemy in the game. The only two things discouraging you from utilising this to cheese through the game are the temporary health drainage and an achievement for completing the game without killing a certain number of enemies. The achievements are the only thing I recommend this game for, as it's a very easy 100% which you can use to pad your average completion statistics if you display them on your account like me. The game takes less than half an hour to complete, which is intended given there is another achievement for doing so, and about half of that time I spent wrangling the mouse controls as I couldn't look horizontally, which I eventually figured out was due to the arbitrary sensitivity settings defaulting to 0, not that you might realise this without trial and error given you can't actually see the sliders or the values, just two little dots you can drag back and forth and even then, as mentioned, it is all seemingly entirely arbitrary as even when the dots/'sliders' appear to be lined up, they are both entirely different levels of sensitivity. The game isn't difficult by any means, but it definitely tries its best to be frustrating, admittedly succeeding, but definitely not in the way that's likely intended. The enemies' pathfinding is god awful, and they often unfairly body-block you and even sometimes still manage to body-block you once you've killed them despite the body seemingly despawning. 9 of the 12 levels are copied and pasted with a couple of props moved around for you to jankily shimmy past; overall, the game is so half-baked it's criminal. Aside from the easy achievements and Steam cards, I cannot recommend buying this, especially not at full price. The good news is that even if you do make the mistake of buying it, there is no way in hell you are playing it long enough to void Steam's two-hour playtime refund policy. 2/10

Terrible game. Terribly optimized. Impossible to look left or right without changing settings. Did it still scare me? Oh my god, yes. Was it worth $0.50? Obviously, yes, because the collectible cards alone are almost that much.

Frankly, the game is ♥♥♥♥ and it's a pity that there are non-working achievements. But if you cut out all the gameplay, leaving only the cutscenes, then it will be fine.

Terrible game. Terribly optimized. Can't look left or right without changing settings. Still scared me? Oh my god, yes. Was it worth $0.50? Obviously yes, because the collectible cards alone are almost worth that much.