Chance at Life

The entire house in this game is re-used from another Russian game called "Blackberry" - by a different dev. That being said, this [recycled] environment is really well done, and I rather enjoyed stumbling around this house again. But, a really good [recycled] environment is all this game has going for it. The rest is a very generic story with really badly translated text. If you don't mind the template development and you have a good sense of humor for silly translations, then this game is not bad for its price. Otherwise, I don't recommend it - Blackberry is better, if you like the house setting.

I rarely write reviews, especially the bad ones, but here it is. This is a game from the same developer as Emika Games horror titles (at least, the name of the developer checks out), but this one is excruciatingly bad. It's weird to see such a poor game from a decent developer. The visuals are fine, but many indie horrors have fine graphics, it's not hard with modern game engines. It's badly optimized, I couldn't get more than 30 FPS (mostly less) on ultra settings on i7 and RTX 3050. Lowering the settings didn't help. The jumpscares are awful and look like they're from a cheap horror movie. The main character moves really slow. Even slower when you have 20 FPS. Even though it's a common issue in games from Emika, here the English localization is really awful. It starts with the language selection screen which offers: "Russia" and "English", what? All in all, the game looks like a very cheap and hasty version of Emika horrors with bad optimization. Also, I got semi-stuck in the very beginning with the paintings, but to proceed further would be a torture for my eyes. It's not the game I'm prepared to play with 20-30 FPS. I would even refund it if it wasn't so cheap and not worth the hustle. I thought I would complete all Emika Games horrors, but it's no longer the case.