Cherophobia

This game is really good. It makes me feel uneasy without presenting any danger for the player character- which is rare to see in a horror game. But it was a bit too short, it took me 18 minutes for one playthrough. Overall, a 8/10 from me.

really short endless horror game

This psychological horror game, with its mind-bending loops, really pulled me in. The story had a Silent Hill 2 vibe, and I loved piecing together all the hidden details to uncover its true depth.(With the help of people on YouTube comments...) The PS1 style graphics were a fantastic touch – I really miss that feeling.

Reviewers mention the usefulness of the story of Sisyphus. I recommend listening to the radio before you get out of the car. Otherwise, have patience to endure repetitive dialogue choices to achieve different outcomes. Her voice acting is appropriately unsettling, as is the stark environment of the house. The overall feeling of unease gives you the impression that something awful will happen to our good doctor. I was leaning toward not recommending this game due to my personal preferences (repetitive dialogue-ugh!). Upon writing this, I realized that there is something far deeper going on here. Curiosity has gotten the better of me.... Going back for another look since I had not reached the end at the time of this review.

this is the 2nd worst game i've tried to play.

[h1][b]5[/b]+[i]／[/i]10 ⬸ Średnie[/h1] 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ [i]Po graniu 2h i trzykrotnym przejściu gry[/i] [h3]Intrygująca, z potencjałem, ale ostatecznie krótka, z ubogą rozgrywką i zbyt uproszczoną fabułą.[/h3] ✔️ Fajny klimat - intryguje i wciąga. ✖️ Prosta fabuła, słabo poprowadzona. Dawała nadzieję na coś ambitniejszego. ✖️ Wybory nie mają znaczenia. Różne wybory dialogowe często skutkują tym samym. Mogą czasem pomóc w immersji, choć często brakuje tego, co chciało by się powiedzieć. Często gra da nam jasno znać, że mamy zrobić coś innego. ✔️ Dziwaczny, momentami niezbyt dobry angielski dubbing… ale pasuje do klimatu. ✖️ Dosyć ubogi gameplay... choć jak na długość gry, to nie jest źle. ✖️ Gra źle komunikuje, że to koniec. Słyszymy wytłumaczenie fabuły, lecą napisy końcowe w czasie których możemy dalej się ruszać i... znikają, a gra trwa. Nie ma tu nic więcej i możemy, świadomie lub nie, marnować czas dalej. ✖️ Ograniczenia techniczne. Brak opcji wyjścia do menu - klawisz "Esc" nic nie robi, a jedyny sposób na zamknięcie gry to "Alt" + "F4". Przy każdym uruchomieniu zaczynamy do nowa. Ograniczenie do 30 kl/s. Brak mapy głębi (a przynajmniej ReShade jej nie widzi), przez co nie można grać na ekranie 3D w VR. [table][tr][td]🎮 [url=store.steampowered.com/curator/5406918/]Kurator Steam[/url] ← Więcej moich recenzji[/td][/tr][/table]

The proof of concept is great despite being rough around the edges. I did appreciate the psychological aspect of the narrative, albeit it was not as subtle as you may have envisioned judging by how it played out, or perhaps it is well versed to those of us who have played horror games much too frequently. However, I will make the following suggestions for you to improve your game: 1. Texture differentiation: the walls in the house suffer from lack of differentiating texture. You could apply more appropriate textures to the walls to dim their exposure levels; they are far too bright and cause environment to appear poorly designed. There is no discerning dividers that should make the individual pieces stand out. I get the game has a certain pixelated look to it, but the environment within the house needs to be improved for better distinguishing look. 2. Improved narrative framework: the narrative a tad predictive, and not consistent. It starts out slow but then suddenly drops you in what is really going on. I understand that it is supposed to be a short game, but it hurts the experience. Perhaps extending the story and the number of things you can do will help. 3. Barren outside world: since this game is entirely taking place inside the character’s mind, there is a whole array of things you could do to reflect this person’s personal feelings and memories. You can create dynamic sky that changes colors with whats going on. You can add moving enemy shadows that haunt the edges of the outside area, which are reflection of his insecurities and tragedies. Stray too far and you will “die.” The gramophone and the car radio could also be used to convey ghostly cues and sounds, as a way of outside world trying to reach out to us. Figure out puzzles etc. Just some suggestions to add more layers to the gameplay. 4. Gameplay mechanics could use improvement: A) prompts sometimes suffer from abrupt selection when hitting the button to make full subtitles appear. You could address that by adding a small pause in between selection. 5. Voiced dialogues need improvement: this is bit more of a personal suggestion since the artificial voice overs took me out of the zone of this game, if you could perhaps invest in better voice acting or just have plain text would be better. If you do text only, you could use different types of music cues to relay appropriate emotions player should feel. I hope these help and all the best to you on your future projects!