Ghost Stories

Length 20min ~ 2hrs Depends how much the game hates you. I really should have trusted the other reviews before buying this game, but nope I had to give it a chance. There are so many interesting horror games that have a negative review and have been buried in the steam marketplace, this is not one of them. Ghost Stories felt like it was designed to aggravate the player, the core design of the game is a mix between monotonous and tedious. Here is what you are doing in the game: - Looking for small objects hidden through the house. - Close every door in the house. - Find the head of the Ghost and return to the grave. You will be doing these tasks while a headless ghost walks randomly, and I mean randomly it can teleport and loop the same action, comical at first till you're stuck waiting for it to move on. Should this thing touch you, then you die. Did I mention this is all in a tight house, so you can become trapped in a room if it chases you. Sounds simple right, well the objects don’t stand out and can be hidden anywhere is the house, you need to hover directly over the item and see it as they are small they can be easily missed. Here is the thing, a thorough look through the house may be between 5 - 10 minutes. You will be looking for a lot of items one at a time, and to be a bigger annoyance some are hidden in a room that it only opens at certain points in game time. So not only may the item you are looking for be in that room but you will have to wait around to check if it is in there, if it’s not then you get to have another look around the house. Now you’re just closing all of the doors in the house, sounds easy right. Nope the ghost walks around and can open doors, so as you are closing them while this thing can be anywhere opening them. Another problem is there is a second child ghost in the garage who will keep opening one specific door, over and over again. You will have to finish on this door as it reopens the fastest. This is as tedious as it sounds, especially when you think you're done, but nope. Also, remember the room that is only open periodically based on in game time? Well there is a room attached to that room with a door. Yes, I managed to close every door without realising I had forgotten about the room behind the locked door. Life was pain as in the next moment, the ghost was back reopening doors. Now finding the ghost's head, that was easy, it was just upstairs. Problem is on the first approach it teleports you downstairs and repeatedly into instant death. You will have this teleport every time you respawn, and it was so much fun that you lack the power to censor all of the profanity I let loose. I got lucky that for some reason the ghost was just not close on one of the occasions. Here is the thing, there is only one redeeming point I found in the game, and that was seeing a picture of Freddy Kruger hidden at the back of the furnace. That did make me laugh, was it worth the hell of the rest of the game? So yeah, do you want to play this game this bad. If the review was TLDR just read the bullet points, honestly what you will be doing in the game does not sound fun to me. I would rather complete a ‘Where’s Waldo?’ book than play this game again. Want to look at some gameplay, it has been really cut down, and I have to remove all of the profanity, a girl has to keep her friendly image up to make it on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLdVx5JFmg0 Here if you really are gungho on buying the game check out my Curator page, there are so many horror games out there that can be fun for you, please don’t torture yourself. If you do an least record it for others to watch: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41770172/