Dreams in the Witch House

Incredible game. I beat this over a year ago and I still occasionally think about it. It's so well executed and really invokes the feelings they want you to feel. Good Lovecraft games are few and far between but this one is amazing.

A true treasure among adventure games. Original, new gameplay mechanics and a captivating Lovecraftian atmosphere.

A nice indie game to add to your list if you're into old school Point n Click adventure games with some stat management added to the top. Quick pros and cons at the start followed by some more detailed text. Pros: - Art style - Animation - Music - Atmosphere - Lore/story Cons: - No voice acting - Replayability I stumbled upon this game while looking for Lovecraft themed games to play. I didn't really know what to expect other than pointing and clicking and an artstyle close enough to what I'm familiar with. If you have ever player Arkham Horror or similar boardgames, the experience you get with this game is similar, excluding the fighting. This text will be a bit clunky to not spoil anything. Some of the mechanics and events in the game are things you need to figure out as you go so I decided to not make any detailed references to any of it. You need to solve a mystery that is slowly being revealed to you as the game goes on. You are not given a task at the start of the game that you aim to accomplish, which can be an issue to some players, but IMO it works quite well in this setting. The game doesn't hold your hand much, so expect to fail on your first playthrough(s). The more you play, the more you understand the mechanics of the game and how to deal with everything it throws at you. There is some randomness to the events, but until the late game you have plenty of opportunity to fix whatever issue you are dealing with. There are also way to prepare for most things that happen, which again is why you probably need at least a couple of playthroughs to be ready for them when they do happen. Now the pros in more detail: I really liked the art style of the game. Though you can see the pixels, most of the art doesn't seem pixely unless you really look at it that way. The only exception being Allisons eyes that seem to be looking at different directions at times, but maybe that's just how she is. Animations are surprisingly smooth as well. The overall color scheme is dark and bleak as you might assume with the theme of the game. There are some specs of color every now and then, which is a nice addition to the gloom the game is in otherwise. But as the game is dark and pressuring by nature it's only fitting that the scenery you are in matches that as well. I'm not a big Lovecraft know-it-all but I think the game matches what I know from other media quite well. Of course there could always be more in your face -type of references or events, but those would just make the game feel cheesy. I did get uncomfortable and creeped out multiple times while playing through this as well, which I was not expecting. Music fits the scenarios nicely to add tension to whatever happens to be going on. Now for the couple of cons: These not really cons as in I have an issue with them, but more personal preferences. I would love to see (hear) voice acting in these types of games. I understand that there might be budjet, time and other limitations that make it difficult to include, but one can still wish, right? Replayability is there, but quite limited. You have a couple of ways to about the game and once you get the hang of how things work, there aren't many modifications you can do to affect the story. On my last achievement hunt playthrough I was basically just burning the days away at some point and trying to sleep as fast as I could because I had nothing left to do but wait for the game to run to the end. Having said that, I personally am ok with having this few options to go through, as I don't tend to play through games that I've already finished over and over again. Overall I think this game is worth the money if the playstyle and theme are to your liking. Looking forward to seeing where this series(?) will go in the future with at least one more coming up.