Echoes of the Living

This game is a masterpiece and i don't say this lightly, in my opinion it is better than RE and if this game came around first it would be the big franchise RE became. The negative review and comment by the guy who has only played the game for only 30 mins is an idiot. yes tank controls takes a short time to master but just stick with it and it becomes second nature. i hope once this game has full release it gets the recognition it deserves because currently no one knows about it as i know i only found out about it after doing some digging around on the internet looking for an old school RE type game and ohh this delivered and its the best one ive played, ive completed both Tormented souls and they are ok but this game is in a league of its own, cant wait for full release.

I wish I could recommend this game, but I just can't. The controls are awful in every mode, and for a game released in 2026, there's no excuse for not letting players customize them. The camera movement is a nightmare.

I've been following this game for a few years on youtube and steam page and I must say I'm very impressed with its state. The scenarios' graphics are very beautiful to watch. The puzzles are well designed. The files are well written. The ambience is great, I got a lot of genuine scares along my playthrough. The voice acting is bad, yes, but this is a 2-people work, I believe most of these people working on VA were their friends, relatives, etc. Imagine creating a game, you and your friend only, it is a big challenge. The story is very intriguing and interesting, the writing here is very good in my opinion. As of July 2026 I haven't encountered any glitch, bug or anything that could make the game look weird or unplayable. The controls are on par with its genre and I could say they are innovative with the option to reload on the run and while turning back. However... I'm neither an elitist nor a young gamer, I've been playing video games since 1988 when I was a kid and got my first videogame. Hell, I played Mute House, which is extremely rough and Tormented Souls 1 which was unpolished AF and had tons of fun, so I'm not being picky with what I'm about to say, things that led me to lose interest in finishing the game after reaching City Hall: Too many items in a small section...you finally save your game, you dump items on storage, leave 5 open slots and go to a new door..then boom, in the next room there are 567 gunpowders, 5 saplings, 2 melee weapons, 3 key items. So you grab 5, go back to storage box, deposit them, then go back to that room, grab the items, you are full again, go back to storage to leave some slots open again to keep going. That's not normal, that's not natural. Speaking of key items, there was a time I had 6 different key items I had no idea where to use them, of course, because I've never played before...so the amount of times I had to spend 5min running back to the storage just to pick the right items was insane. If you are doing your first run, there are items you gonna grab that will gather dust in your inventory for 3-4 hours and you simply cannot dump them on storage because you never know when you gonna need them. Backtracking is one thing (I played all Resident Evil and Silent Hill games), but the backtracking in this game is on astronomical levels. No other game of this genre I played has the same backtracking, and that includes old classics like Resident Evil 1, Dino Crisis, and most recent ones like Tormented Souls 2. To give an example, I just realized, what if I had not picked Pendantel Crest from his body? It can happen...I wonder how many tenths of minutes I'd have to waste just to backtrack everything and go back to that torture room now that I am in front of City Hall's door. Same for the bottles you have to mix to make acid. 70%+ of the healing items are hidden in corners NO camera angle can access, so you have to click like crazy on void hoping for an item. I might have missed a few items because I don't want to click on every single corner of the screen. Storage box management is not good, it takes ages to find items there and to take what you want. Lockpick and Hammer Nail Removing is annoying as hell..you spend too much time on a meaningless lenghty minigame just to open a door. There was a specific plank that I had to click A button 16 times for a single nail (they have 4 nails), that's not reasonable. Their time should be shortened. I don't know why we need 2 different shotguns, 2 different weapons that use SMG bullets, an assault rifle I haven't needed nor used in 19 hours of gameplay, a magnum AND a flare gun, then a crossbow. That makes inventory manage a nightmare with the amount of different ammunition we have to keep in the inventory and also the variety of different ammunition we grab, making the item pool much worse. If we could only craft SMG and/or Rifle bullets with powder, then yes, maybe it could feel better because after spending my SMG bullets, my SMG weapons are gathering dust on my storage box while I have 30+ shotgun bullets, 20+ bolts and 140+ handgun bullets. Ammo availability is not a problem, it is not scarce (at least on Experienced difficulty), but the oversaturated pool of ammo is a problem. Game has WAY TOO MANY enemies for a game that labels itself as a survival horror game. By the time I left Peacock Pub I had killed 75 enemies, and that's like very early in the game. This game has easily 500 enemies and that's too much. Yes, avoid enemies blablabla, but the game also gives you too many items and you are supposed to use them. In my opinion reducing the amount of enemies could lead to reducing the amount of gunpowders and the negative amount of different weapons (and ammo) this game has, which would make it much more fluid and less tedious. The main culprit of the enemy count in my humble opinion is the respawn this game has. You kill 2 enemies in a narrow corridor where you can't escape, then you proceed to next area, grab a key item, boom, when you come back 4 more enemies where you killed those 2 if you triggered anything like grabbing a new key item. Then 1 hour later you goe another key item and need to go back to that same place, 3 more enemies. WTF, is this an RPG? The killing or the avoidance gets tiring when you have to cross the same alley 9 times. Some of the issues I pointed are probably engine-related like the storage box, and that could take some time to adjust, I can understand that. But most issues this game has for me are design choices which are make the game extremely repetitive, tedious and boring. I really wanted to see how story unfolds, final boss, etc. But I just lost motivation. I currently have 29 hours of playtime, 10 of which were trying my first playthrough on Survivor...I did not manage resources well so I just restarted from scratch on Experienced difficulty. 19 hours and I reached City Hall because I like to play the game slowly, read files, admire the scenario, solve puzzles by myself, etc. I have no problem with a lengthy survival horror game, but the things I listed made me give up. I understand it is in Early Access, and although I doubt anything regarding item management and enemies will change in Liam's campaign, I'm gonna wait for the full release with Laurel campaign to try it again. I'm also pretty sure some people love this game, after all there is a reason the game has positive reviews on its majority. The devs are very caring and dedicated, they answered an email of mine in like 1 hour after it being sent. And making a game with only 2 people is something praisable, I can see love in this project. So, maybe it's just not for me and that's ok. Either way, I honestly wish them both success despite my negative review (I wish I could leave a neutral review but steam sucks, it's yes or no), because that's my personal opinion on the experience I had. Edit: I hate letting things unfinished, so I got my sh*t together and decided to finish the game since I was feeling I was close to finishing it. Manor was a decent experience like the pub. I think the major problem for me ends up being the entire City segment, which is more than half of Liam's campaign, so my arguments above still stand. On standby now waiting for Laurel's campaign and some qol changes.

Took me a little less than 20 hours to play through the Echoes of the Living for the first time as Liam. I had a great time playing. This game is surprisingly lengthy for having two developers. Visually stunning environments, challenging puzzles. A lot of weapons and ammo to collect- some of which are hidden and/or are entirely optional. For the price, you're absolutely getting your money's worth if you like the old Resident Evil and Silent Hill games. Only downsides for me was that backtracking was a little bit much in certain segments of the game, and boss battles are a bit disappointing (in the early access phase). Looking forward to Laurel's campaign!

For this prive the game is okish. Graphics are nice, animations are fine for indie game. Story and voice acting you can skip if you are looking for a solid singleplayer immersive experience. Puzzles are tedious and make me feel "finally, its over" when i get them rather than give me a feeling of acomplishment. Zombies will have invisible barrier around them that you cannot run past and they will automaticly grab you if run past them, they will turn around with lightning speed and grab you no matter what. As a big resident evil fan the vibe is there but it just dont deliver that well. You really get reminded that you are playing an indie game at every turn. 3/10. Im glad i gave it a try but no.

Im sorry this games developement is stressing you guys out but i just want you to know, im about halfway through the campaign and im blown away at how great you guys have done. easily one of the best survival horrors ive ever played. so many fun weapons to use and just so much to explore and do. only thing id ask for is a better map lol. great job guys!

The result of what you'd get if you put every puzzle from Resident Evil 1 through Code Veronika , in ONE game.... Im gonna start with the positives since they are much less. Looks great specially for a team of two. The atmosphere is spot on to old RE games. It has quite some jump scares and the music is great. The negatives now..... The game is an insane chore. Everything is a puzzle , the must have in total like 150 keys or key items that unlock things.The amount of things that stop your progress is ridiculous. Most of the time you get an item to unlock something waaaaay before you even go to the area. There were times when 3-4 key items where useless and i had no clue for like 4-5 hours of gameplay. The ridiculous amount of key items made them place them praccticcally in random locations around map because due to the sheer amount of them its was impossible otherwise. Its a common occurrence to solve a puzzle only to immediate reveal another puzzle , annnndd another one in the same exact spot.. Due to the insane amount of key items(and having no clue where most of them are used) you need to constantly backtrack to a box to pick them up. The backtracking in the game is a nightmare to deal with. Once you go to Downtown/City Hall area you realize the true horror of this. What makes backtracking even worse is the completely useless map. The map is propably the worst ive ever seen in any game. The problem with the map isnt just the complete lack of icons showing where you left an item(of the hundreds) or show which door requires what key......the problem is the layers. Once you arrive are Downtown ,you realize its a multilevel area. The map completely fails to show how its seagment is connected to each other. Meaning you see the end of the map but you are left blind as to where the last door leads to. To add to this terrible design, you can only look at the map of where you are....You cant look at the map of another segment unless you go there. The terrible map and gazillion items create a unreal backtrack fiesta ive never seen in another game. Everything feels a tedious chore. Im not gonna spent much time talking about the puzzles. Some of them are completely ridiculous like the acid you make to melt a chain. The clues the chain gives ya is you need something stronger to destroy it so most people will waste a bunch of ammo or melee weapons to break it. Nope. The solution ?? Remember 2 random items you found 4 hours ago ? you need to take another key item a bottle , go to the beginning of the game where there was a kitchen , fill the bottle , use one acid with it , then use the other , for a final mixture that will melt the chain 10 kilometers away from where you are......Its one of the mose bizarre brainrot puzzles ive ever encountered in video game history. Theres a lot of things that didnt go well for this but id need 2 hours of writing. To sum up , creators put everything from like 4 Resident Evil games into 1 game unfiltered. The result is a game that has the same feeling but plays a lot worse.

I do really like it, alas... i cant reccomend it right now locking picking yuck.. no idea where to go controls are as of now really bad Voice acting is ♥♥♥♥ but that adds to the charm. everything else is great :) big point for jiggle.

Um jogo muito bom, com uma campanha bem variada e com um tempo muito bom. Gráficos muito bons que dão o clima perfeitamente do jogos. Estou aguardando ansiosamente pelas outras campanhas. Recomendo.

el juego esta bastante bien pero crashea, no hay autoguardado y puedes perder media hora de juego de repente , si cuando salga del acceso anticipado esta solucionado lo volveré a comprar.