Press Enter key to pick up notes. E to pick up batteries. I didn't see a monster. At the end when you beat the game and can't move your mouse anymore you can always Alt+F4. I was trying to find a bad game, so I could think about what makes up a bad game, but weirdly I had a good time.
It's unoriginal, it's buggy, but is the biggest thing separating it from a game some people recommend really just how much was put into it? I suppose. I suppose you don't need a good game, you just have to be happy with it.
I feel an urge to describe this game as if it was a good game:
A non-linear walking simulator whose game mechanics, assets, and even UI combine to provide an eerie experience, but one which provokes a sense of unfulfillment. The plain textures and the way buildings and objects fit together roughly, randomly, gives you very little to go on but your own internal experience. In its rejection of giving you something, anything good, it holds up a mirror showing how alone you are. Not in a lonely way, but beyond mindfulness to the state that things are. What can you attach, what can you derive? The contexts surrounding this game cannot be ignored as well. A game which by its quality very few have visited. It does add a mystique. Who are the poeple making these games, with their typos and brokenness. It's not just plain, but broken in such a way that you can't imagine how a human developer couldn't have just fixed it, made it at least not broken, made it have some congruency. The mistakes feel almost intentional. It defies reason. This game is inhuman, it's just one little anomalie out of tens of games similar. Games one rarely stops to think the background reality of, but just accepts as a bad game, because what can you do? Good horror game.
... I guess what I have learned is that you can easily extrapolate a bad game to even turn that into a good experience. It does raise the question whether there are times where peer pressure might make people take such extrapolations and attribute them to the game, that the game is good if you've looked deep into it enough. Also, of the grey area that can happen where you might not tell how much was intentional, and thus how this reflects on the considerations of the quality of the game. Here it is obvious, but I think interesting discussions can be made for more complex and bigger examples. Sorry, you probably didn't want this. Have a nice day..
