Evil Sinister

The graphics look decent. But the menus are of an especially horrendous design! Before the update the game was completely unplayable for me cause it was so unoptimized, and I know I was not the only one, no matter what setting I used I couldn't play it smoothly. After the update, It became playable for the most part, while some minor parts still gave me massive fps drops. The game has an solid horror atmosphere, BUT the ultra bright and absolutely white flashlight will often ruin your experience like compeltely, as you can't even see the items in the drawers if you come near them with the flashlight turned on... Which you will many times, since you wander in this house without electricity at night and it's impossible to wander without having the flashlight on. Almost all the furniture is white and many walls too, and when you shine your flashlight on the white items they are literally blinding, even the brown furniture is blinding me... I will include screenshots at the bottom so you can see what I'm even talking about. But really, It's a very annoying design choice. Hard on your eyes and completely unnecessary. I'm also experiencing this bug that makes my mouse cursor red all the time, when in reality it should be grey or desaturated unless you come upon an interactive object and then it would turn red. But in the creepy house the cursor is constantly red and never becomes grey, making me question what objects are even interactive, so I click on everything including every single white cupboard and white drawer. Again, it's a blinding nightmare. Another bug is whenever I start the game I already have on me the cameroid, yet the game say I need to pick it up and the objective stays incomplete in the bottom left corner. If I press 7 I can activate the cameroid, so I clearly have it on me. It obviously remembered that I picked it up once. Edit: I finished chapter 1, and that's all to it for now. Chapter 2 coming soon, or so it says. I didn't have to use the cameroid at all. I especially didn't like the cave part... it was something completely different from the house level, changed the gameplay style, I don't see the point of this weird design choice. It just all feel so random. In conclusion, the game clearly got some good effort put in, there are some sweet details, like the laptop at the start, that was very well done and all functional. But for me at least this is the type game to play through just once... however since it's free you can try and see for yourself... There is some potential there. Maybe you will enjoy it more than I did. PS: The derveloper is quite responsive and it seems like he'd love to improve his game, so for me it was a hard choice to mark this title as not recommend. But I wanna stay objective, since I ultimately didn't enjoy the game. Oh and here are, as I promised, the blinding screenshots: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3349697775 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3349697954 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3349698062