Chasing Static

boring

I'm honestly extremely impressed with Chasing Static. I'm pretty sure I grabbed this during a random sale after finding the premise pretty intriguing. At it's core it is a walking simulator with horror elements, but it works really well and I didn't find any part boring or tedious. You are also not stuck walking at a snails pace!!! You can sprint in this. I personally found the story really interesting and quickly became invested in what was going on. The mechanic of using a device to find echoes of the past to reveal more of the story felt pretty fresh. Audio wise, the game had great music, good voice acting and solid environmental sound. Graphics wise, the game looked great! It's not got AAA graphics or anything, but it's a charming art style that I really liked. I also loved the little nods to other classic horror games like RE and SH2, and found that to be a really nice touch. The game is quite short and can be beaten in around 2 hours (my current playtime was going AFK for much longer than expected) I find it well paced though and think two hours works perfectly for something like this. It doesn't overstay it's welcome or keep repeating the same story beats over and over for extended playtime. There are multiple endings which means there's some replayability to get those two. If you're looking for a short little horror title, Chasing Static is a great one to pick up.

Interesting game, it is one of those short and sweet kind of experiences. A gem for any horror fans.

First of all, a allow players to configure controls. I don't want to hold SHIFT for ages, my hand hurts and there is no reason NOT TO run in the game, so remove the option entirely and lets players travel at a meaningful speed. Include control customization - it's bare minimum these days. Gamepad has too great sensitivity. Gameplay-wise, it's a mashup of successful horror tropes without anything interesting added. Abandoned diner, nothing is real, experiment gone wrong, yadayada. It's a desperate attempt to imitate without having anything interesting to say. Hence, I refunded the game - I don't find it interesting enough, and my finger hurts from holding SHIFT all the time.

Probably a fine game for someone else, but not for me. I really wanted to like this, but unfortunately it's unplayable for me. The "demake" vibe and distortion effects look neat, but they're a migraine trigger after a bit. Unless I play in a tiny window I can't get the visuals as smooth as in the trailer, and both playing in a 3-inch-high window and trying to muscle through the heavy pixelation on higher resolutions cause similar degrees of eye strain. I tried saving and coming back later, but either I didn't use the camera correctly or it didn't count, because my only option in the main menu is starting a new game. There weren't any instructions with the camera (and I only know it's supposed to let you save from other reviews here), so I'm not going to try playing back to where I was to see if smaller doses of the game's visuals are more manageable.

very interesting game .. parts of it don't really work for me, but a lot of it does. having trouble putting more words together for it yet.

"there are key items left in this area". Ok, where? I am so bored. I can't find the needle in the haystack that you want me to find. Why is the fast travel to one of the locations disabled until I can turn the power on (which I don't have the ability to do right now?!) making me take a long uneventful walk back and forth to it. I just can't with this right now, I can't even be bothered to write up my thoughts properly. The start was extremely promising, I really like the graphics and the voice acting but the gameplay is just too tedious and slow.

At first i wasnt expecting the game to be like that. For me this game is really far away from beeing a horror or even a psycho horror game. The game itself for me was eerie at best. There were some little scares but not really horroresque. But this open world game is soooo effing cool. The safe mechanic and the fast travel is soo really cool and i really loved it. The story and the overall gameplay is really cool and well made. I will definetely play the second game from them. I can totally recommend it

I would recommend this game.

En perspectiva el juego esta bastante bien, no hay muchos errores, y en general esta bien. La historia no es nada revolucionaria, nada que no se haya inventado ya... Esta curiosa cuanto menos, bastante predecible para mi gusto, pero tiene su publico supongo. No hay screamers, al menos no de los cuales te tengas que preocupar y eso habra quien lo agradezca. La mecanica principal tal vez esta un poco desaprovechada, se podria meter un poco mas de tension y eso haria un poco mas tenso el ambiente. Pero en general es un buen juego, corto, simple, para una tarde de chill esta bastante bien.