Cursed

Nice

Cursed is a pretty good horror, point and click game, but let’s talk about the story. In a bar in a small unnamed rural town people are distraught because a young girl named Jennifer Lloyd has been missing for 24 hours, but the town’s people know where she is. But they can't get to Jennifer because she went down into a forbidden mine, one that all the villagers fear and no one dares go to get her, so the villagers as well as the girl’s parents get Dr Spencer Carrington, a known archaeologist and good friend of Jennifer's father to get her back as his main expertise being occultism. But Dr Spencer will soon realize that this isn't just a simple missing person’s case and superstitious villagers, soon the archaeologist will be faced with horrors beyond his wildest nightmares and see that the legend he has researched are very much real. So let’s talk about the likes, the story is good from what I could read, it takes a lot of inspiration from classic horrors tropes and choose your own adventure to create a nice spooky story, it does have a problem but I'll get to that in the dislikes. The gameplay is good it's a choose your own adventure meets a point and click game with some light combat and puzzle solving. Another interesting thing in the gameplay is that it will kill you like a lot, so it requires a bit of trial and error. The puzzles are okay, it's mostly just click on an item or a piece of scenery. The graphic art style is very good, it has this old cartoony retro aesthetic that reminds me of Newgrounds and I don't mean that as a bad thing, I enjoy this kind of classic look. The levels are good, the dungeon feels pretty spooky and feel like something you see in classic video games. The enemies and bosses have good designs that just fit with the spooky look of the game. The music is good it has a nice retro feel to it. Now is this game scary, no not at all its just a fun creepy adventure that isn't scary, but I don't mean that as a bad thing. So let’s talk about the dislikes, now I say there's a problem with the story and that's because the text boxes go way too fast like you could be clicking on something and trying to read it, then it immediately goes to the next text box, it happened a lot and I had to click on the same object multiple times just to read it. Finally the game doesn't have any achievements which is weird you think this type of game with so many ways you could die would have achievements or this game. Alright with that done Cursed is a pretty good horror, point and click game, it has a good story, good gameplay and very good graphic art style. So now do I recommend this game, yes I do it's free so that's good, I also read there's going to be a remake and I hope some of these problems like the Speedy text boxes are addressed.