Dead Format

Pros -Visual style of each tape -Concept of the tapes pretty cool -Vibe Cons -Didn't care for the ending

Great game with a great quirk, just challenging enough to be fun. Highly recommend. If you are on the fence dont be

I really want to like this game. I actually think the concept is great. And the complaints about having to back-and-forth your way through the levels and limited inventory system doesn't really bother me honestly. Do I think The Vulture's a little too on top of you? Maybe. But hiding and creeping around behind her is easy enough. And so far I enjoy the puzzle elements greatly. What IS unfortunate is that the game has severe performance problems. More than once the game completely freezes on me, presenting me with an "application hang" message. And I've tried to play both ways; pre-loading the shaders and refusing to. Now, granted, my computer's parts are not the youngest, so I'm sure there are people who don't even have this problem. I just wish I didn't. Because I'm liking what I get to experience. But it is tinged with frustration at the poor optimization. So, would I recommend it? Yes, I think so. But I would either try to get an optimization patch going soon or perhaps warn people that the game is worryingly temperamental at the moment. Because combining the freezes with the fact that it operates on old-school survival horror saving - as in, only one place to save and no auto-save function - is adding an unfun element to the experience, sorry to say. Addendum: I turned off the fog in the game. As pretty and mysterious as it made things, it was the primary thing causing my troubles. Game ran fine after that and not a single crash! I still think that there should be some optimization fixes for the game, but I still recommend it! Just be aware that high graphics may cause trouble for you if you don't have anything better than an RTX 2060!

Genuinely such a good game, the aesthetics, the sound design, the creature, THE LEVEL DESIGN. Overall so good and I hope to see where the dev(s) go. Feels like a good ol first person puzzle solving survival horror where stealth is key and your weapons look awesome.

If you love classic horror movies from the 80s like Invasion of the Body Snatcher, Videodrome, and The Thing you'll probably love this game

с какой же любовью к фильмам ужасов разрабы сделали эту игру. вхс-кассеты в жанрах немецкий экспрессионизм, боди-хоррор, джалло, и найденной пленки, вагон и маленькая тележка отсылок: тут сияние, нечто, сусперия, ведьма из блэр, чужие среди нас, особое внимание Кроненбергу, и по-любому ещё что-нибудь, чего я не увидел/не понял, это реально смак плюс приятное чувство, когда подшариваешь. не знаю даже, рекомендовал бы я dead format к прохождению или нет, ради шикарных локаций и отснятых кассет определенно да, но сам геймплей раздражающее шкерево по углам от неубиваемого монстра, как выживач тоже ни о чем, под конец я на покерфейсе пробегал полторы штуки бестолковых мобов, которых лучше бы и не было вообще, главное до решения очередного пазла добежать и продвинуться дальше по сюжету, а в плане хоррорка я вздрогнул всего один раз.

great game. wish the ending gave more closure though.