Dead End Road

Surprising mix of rpg and driving Short but sweet

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Ein sehr gutes Spiel. Hat einige gruselige Momente und viele nette Ideen. Leider ein wenig frustrierend manchmal. Das Geld reicht selbst bei Anhaltern und Rubbellosgewinnen meist vorn und hinten nicht um Tank zu füllen, Auto ganz zu halten und den Stress Level zu reduzieren und mit hohem Stresslevel und den Effekten die dann auftreten ist ein unfallfreies Durchkommen so gut wie unmöglich. Nichtsdestrotrotz eine Empfehlung, bei dem Preis kann man nichts verkehrt machen

Dead End Road is dark, mean, and honestly way better than it looks. The whole vibe is just straight up bleak, no heroic nonsense, no pretending you’re the good guy. You’re the problem here, and the game leans into that hard. Gameplay is simple but tense, and the atmosphere does most of the heavy lifting. It’s one of those games that sticks with you more for the feeling than anything else. not perfect, but for pure tone and mood? it hits 9/10, being the villain feels good.

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incredibly good but unfortunately niche game. the gameplay loop is pretty simple. drive around, try not to die or go insane which will probably also lead to u dying and get to the end with good enough items to be allowed into the ritual. it really isnt more than that. you just need to get a little lucky to get the right items and/or enough money and simply try to stay alive til the end. the atmosphere is a little spooky and so are the events, but it does lose it's effects after a while. there's several different endings triggerable by specific words and [spoiler]all they do is show different ending texts/stories but its still pretty cool to see[/spoiler] it's a very good game for it's price but trying to find stuff about it online is a pain because it's so niche, i genuinely hope this changes one day! 8/10, would recommend!

A pretty niche horror/driving-sim with very minimalist design that is effective at creating an oppressive atmosphere. Story is simple to the point of it barely being there but it works. You begin in a witches cabin discussing a ritual that will grant the player what ever they desire at a price. You simply type in your wish then begin the first half of the ritual after which you are sent to retrieve 3 items for the latter half. You set off in your car and the game begins. Your car is driven with the WASD keys which feels kind of stiff but I found it fairly easy to adjust to after the first leg. It definitely feels like you're fighting to stay on the road at times but the spirit is definitely in the same vein as survival horror tank-controls. The twist is that the road changes depending on your mental state, driving is simple when you are mentally well taken care of but increasingly severe hallucinations begin to set in as your mental well being deteriorates. These hallucinations range from bits of gore occasionally dropping on the windshield to complete breaks from reality. It makes for some pretty tense moments in the rural backwater outside of the sporadic urban environments, especially when driving with damage and a dwindling fuel reserve. Money can be earned picking up hitchhikers who occasionally appear on the side of the road. There's some nice sound design as their footfalls crunch in the gravel as they approach your car. They do little else than sit silently in the backseat and look menacing in the rear view but the presence of a scowling face staring back at you as you try to navigate the night is pretty off putting. Your main goal is pursued in the dozen or so cities on the map. Exploration is basic, you click on a list of locations to enter. You will mainly be upgrading your car and making repairs at the mechanics, seeking aid for your mental health in the form of medicine or cigarettes at the pharmacy or convenience store and purchasing one of the three objective items in the pawn shop. There are back alleys to explore that can yield some loot but I didn't engage with this much as it usually didn't turn out well for me. Basic as they are, the cities are a nice little break from driving and contribute to the atmosphere. The shopkeepers are all unfriendly and shrouded in shadow making the world feel just a tiny bit more hostile and the static images of skylines add a little diversity to the scenery after driving through the dark countryside and decaying outskirts. Graphically it looks like a 5th gen console game with the jagged polygons and dithering. NPC's have a nice hand drawn look to them, making them pop out in the gritty interiors and the hallucinatory distortions that pop up during driving are effectively creepy and disturbing. Like everything else its simple and dirty in a way that benefits the experience. There's some small complaints here and there, points where the players mental health seemed entirely drained regardless of how many drugs and cigarettes consumed and the random obstacles sometimes felt a little cheap. It can also run on the short end depending on your luck with which items spawn where (i'd say 30 minutes to an hour and a half has been my ballpark time to complete after 2 or 3 runs) and the ending is kind of predictably underwhelming. Regardless, its a gem and a pretty original horror experience. 8/10

Очень раздражает, что часть событий на дороге от тебя вообще никак не зависит. Ты нарываешься на них, помираешь и все сначала. А геймплей не то чтобы сильно увлекательный, чтобы одна и та же дорога по 20 разу не раздражала.

Нечто новое для жанра хоррор. Часто ли вам удавалось послушать истории опытного водилея или даже дальнобойщика? Эта игра - сборник таких историй. Игра представляет из себя смесь из рогалика, симулятора водителя и, собственно, хоррора. От рогалика досталась реиграбельность со множеством концовок, перманентная смерть и сложность, которая не даст вам расслабиться. Не сказать, что прямо хардкор, однако именно во время поездок на вашем пиксельном праворульном седане отвлекаться от дороги не стоит. При этом не нужно ждать реализма, игра не об этом, все таки хоррор про призыв демонов, как-никак. Пиксель арт сделан на хорошем уровне, при этом игра использует псевдо 3D движок. Есть некоторые претензии к звуковому сопровождению и некоторым пугалкам в игре - звуки иногда не вписываются, хоть и заставляют вас волноваться. Однако это не такие большие проблемы, а просто некоторые потертости, без которых было бы лучше.