Haunted Hell House

"Haunted Hell House" is a garbage Nintendo Switch game that's been dumped on Steam for no apparent reason (they forgot to put a price tag on this to try get PC gamer money for Nintendo Switch pixelcrap)... and hey, isn't the Nintendo Switch capable of better than pixelcrap? Maybe not, it's hard to keep up with the console peasants. Anyway, the developer refers to this as an ADV because it's too hard for them to type out the word "Adventure". I guess it's a really long word and Nintendo Switch developers have short attention spans, so you can't blame them. However, what kind of game do you think you're going to get from a developer too lazy to type out complete words? Yeah, not a good one. The idea of the game is that you're in a haunted house being hunted by ghosts/clowns/Nintendo Switch developers with bad music playing and crap pixel "art" hurting your eyes while you try to play. There's two excellent features of the game, however, that do improve the experience a lot... it's short, and the uninstall feature works great. I installed the game a couple of times just to experience the joy of uninstalling it. This features really godawful pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks much worse than most other games because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded [i]despite[/i] the bad graphics, not because of them. On the matter of pricing and value for gamers, most "free" games on Steam aren't really free. There's often nasty mobile app cash shops, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of shady pricing schemes that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable, or something you might want to spend your time on. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 3 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.

Very short, quite good. Clown is scary, teenagers can take several knives worth of wounds.

かなり小粒だけどぎゅっと詰まってる。

[h1]Before I played Haunted Hell House, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

Short, fun, and best of all; free! Gameplay is simple. Find keys to advance. Avoid taking too much damage from the bad guy and various environmental dangers. That's it! Dying isn't a huge deal either. The checkpoint system is good, and even if it was nonexistent, again, the game is super short and only took me roughly 15 minutes to complete. Recommending for casual players and indie horror fans.

It has more gameplay than some of these sorts of things, but it's not exactly gripping gameplay you're moving through a series of mspaint rooms for the jumpscare.