Buried: An Interactive Story

i enjoyed the game <3

For 2.99 USD, I can't begin to express how worth it this game is. The story only takes a few hours to finish, but I have over 11 hours because I just liked it that much. First, calling it a "game" is a bit of a misnomer. "Interactive novel" would be more accurate. The story is like a sci-fi thriller with pseudo-lovecraftian horror elements and multiple endings. Like a Choose Your Own Adventure book with extra-dimensional horrors and a Telltale-style focus on consequence and meaningful actions. Big cool.

Decent game, especially for the price tag. Great atmosphere, ambient soundtrack, kept me on edge. Though it does fall into the same third-act trap as most horror stories do, where it becomes more action-oriented. Still good all the same.

Text based interactive story games do not get enough notice. This is one of the best games that I have played in that genre, even without its stunning photos to help show the world that the text is creating for you in your mind, Buried does an amazing job of telling you a story whilst you make the decisions about what happens to the characters within that story. The most important thing about gmaes that give you a choice is that you have to feel that the choices you make matter and in this game, boy do they matter. From the start you get taken on a journey and you have absolutely no idea where the story is going to but you are on the edge of your freakin seat the whole way. You want to save everyone but its never that straight-forward. The audio in the game does a great job of keeping you immersed in that world that you can only gauge from the photos and have to make up the rest in your mind, which is what i think personally is so great about text-based adventure games. Buried is one of the best. 100% recommend!

really good suspenseful story

I did not enjoy this

"Buried" gets an easy recommendation from me for any fans of horror short stories. The oppressive atmosphere created by the sound, simple visuals, and well paced writing made for a two-night playthrough that was frankly tough to stop on the first night. You get to make some choices throughout the story, and I immediately am having thoughts about going back through and seeing what happens with alternate choices. At the end of the game you get an option to sign up for Bromoco Games' newsletter which I happily did, but this game came out in 2016 and I do not see any others currently on Steam, which is a real shame. I'll be on the lookout for more like this.

Buried definitely delivered. The atmosphere was already being built from the very start and only continued to get better and better as the story progressed. Great concept, interesting characters, intense choice making to be had. 8/10 :)

no reccomended 10/10

Interesting story, esp. at the beginning. Also, I highly recommend watching Markiplier's Let's Play for Buried... the story is only made all the better by his deep buttery voice.