Hearing Voices

Simple and spooky

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エージェント・Luisとしてスクランブルされた音声の解読を試みるパズルゲーム。日本語非対応。 渡されたテープを再生し、声が聴こえる場所にタグを付けると単語（選択肢）が出現、それらを上手く当てはめて正解の文章を見つけるのが主なゲーム内容になる。 音声は何故か不自然なレベルで加工されているので非常に聞き取り辛く、「your」、「or」、「door」といった似たような発音の単語を頑張って聴き分けるか他の単語から推理しないといけない。 また、何故か単語の順番までバラバラになっている為、全体的にある程度の英語力が必要。 自環境ではゲーム内ボリュームを100%にしてもまだ聴き取り辛かったが、不正防止なのかタグ付けに失敗し続けると[b]ジャンプスケアがある[/b]為、無駄にドキドキしっぱなしだった。 ゲーム性自体は冷戦時代のスパイ物を思わせるような内容で面白いのですが、ノイズが非常に多くて音声と区別がつかないことが多々あったので、聴覚に自身が無い方や静かな環境でゲームができない方にはおすすめできません。

10/10 wünschte, gäbe mehr solcher Games

Hearing Voices is a free short psychological horror puzzle game where I play as Luis Edno, an audio analyst who has to examine strange recordings and work out the messages hidden inside them. Most of the game takes place at a desk, listening closely to scrambled communications and trying to figure out which words are actually being spoken. It is a simple idea, but it gives the game a really different kind of horror. The audio puzzles are easily the strongest part for me. I have to listen carefully because the recordings are deliberately difficult to understand, with static, strange sounds and voices mixed together. Sometimes I am left wondering if I actually heard a word or if my brain filled it in, which fits the psychological horror really well. I also like how mistakes are handled. I cannot just keep guessing until I get the right answer without consequences, because getting things wrong pushes Luis further into paranoia. That makes me take the recordings more seriously and gives even the smaller decisions a little more tension. The game is basically making me question what I am hearing while I am trying to solve the puzzle. The hand drawn 2D artwork works surprisingly well too. It is quite minimal, but that actually helps the atmosphere because the game is not throwing loads of visual effects at me. The creepy recordings do most of the work, while the dark artwork gives me something unsettling to look at between the audio sections. My biggest issue is the length. This is a very short experience and it is clearly designed to be played in one sitting. I like the tightly paced approach, but once I understand how the audio puzzles work, there is not a huge amount of additional gameplay to keep me going. There are only two Steam achievements as well, so there is not much reason to replay it after finishing everything. I also think the idea could have been pushed further. The audio puzzles are interesting, but I would have liked more variety in how I interact with the recordings and more situations that make me question what is real. The psychological side is effective, but because the game is so short, it does not have much time to develop before it ends. Overall, Hearing Voices is a clever little horror game that gets a lot out of a very simple idea. I like having to actually listen for clues instead of relying on normal visual puzzle mechanics, and the paranoia system makes mistakes feel more meaningful. It is far too short to become a deep horror experience, but since it is free, I think the unusual audio focused gameplay makes it well worth trying. Rating: 7.2/10

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