
Mary Thorne retreats to Valley View Escape to focus on her project while waiting for her friend Carly. What begins as a calm week starts to feel… off.
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Story:
Mary Thorne books a week-long getaway at Valley View Escape with her friend, Carly, to escape family chaos and focus on her project. When Carly is delayed, Mary spends the first few days alone and soon senses an unnerving presence around her. Can she uncover the source of that strange feeling and survive the week, or will she succumb to the Gaze of Dread?
Gameplay:
Gaze of Dread is an atmospheric first-person horror walking simulator featuring an interactive world, rising suspense and tension, and an immersive narrative. Focus on your photos and some quiet time before Carly gets there. Each day–night cycle brings dreams that blend with what you’ve seen and grow more intense, as the unease builds and you work to stay calm.
Features:
Day/Night Progression: Experience sunlit days and hushed, uneasy nights around Valley View Escape.
Photography: Capture the local scenery with your camera; photos are saved to a scrapbook.
Paranormal Activity: Experience strange events and otherworldly encounters.
Dream Interludes: Brief, unsettling dreams that grow more intense as the story unfolds.
Fully Voiced: A fully voice-acted story that carries the emotion and tension.
Stats
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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Reviews
Amazing game def worth it.
评分:7.5/10,精品恐游。 配音代入感强,剧情饱满,有能高能。 可惜有些场景是公共素材,新鲜度不够:文本量大,没有中文。
having some damn good fun with this game, and loving the story
Beat the game with 81% achievements. A super silly horror game taking you through trippy haunted houses full of spacey shadow ghosts, evil demons and colorful glowing orbs. Uncover the mystery and reunite with your friend carly in this magnificent magical fun game, love it!
Gaze of Dread was a fun way to spend a couple hours. There are some unsettling spooky scenes with jump scares sprinkled along the way. This has been a marked jump in this studio's quality. There is good audio, good visuals, and I encountered no bugs. I would buy it again
Engaging story and cool scares
I can only play this game 30 minutes a day without ******** myself. The moving doll at the house sealed the deal for me tonight. Sorry Mary you are on your own with that project.
cool story and visuals. i play mostly itch games but the quality of everything like a SETTINGS MENU that WORKS is super duper cool. i was able to play this on my cheap pc controller and the lockpicking scared me its the only thing with vibration so that was weird. really happy to be able to sit back and play this. runs well on my 2060 on high settings. no upscaling needed i was at 60-90fps. the transitions between levels was a little jank but nothing horrible. anyways i would ride into battle for Bill. i would lay my life for Bill. ill go on 1000 walks for Bill. im sorry for ever doubting you.
Неплохая игра, первая половина которой лучше, чем вторая. Мне понравилось то, как сильно разработчики вложились в историю, и сделали её многогранной. В игре есть разные сцены, она не утомляет однотипным визуалом и одними и теми же локациями: всегда есть что-то новое. Из того, что не понравилось - озвучка Билла слабовата. Какие-то диалоги можно проскипывать, а какие-то (почему-то) нет. Порой персонажи говорят очень много, и диалоги можно было бы сократить минимум на треть без потери смысла. Особенно во второй половине игры, при общении с Биллом. Финальные кусочки истории для меня не сработали - видно, что вложены усилия, но драматургия довольно слабая, чтобы я действительно переживал за персонажей - это реализовать не удалось. Возможно, в следующий раз разработчики попробую обратиться к драматургу при полировке сценария. Ах да, ещё понравилось, как выглядят локации ночью, вечером и утром. Но днём как будто не хватает работы со светом - очень плоско всё. Пожалуй, игра стоит своих денег.
Big fan of gambling, biggest fan there is. Made so much money on gambling, slots had no chance. I was greedy though. They say you quit just before you win big, but i never quit. Fate had other plans for me those days. Good game
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