HOUSE CALL

I want to be clear straight away: this game almost got a thumbs down from me here, there really needs to be a neutral rating. None of the negatives that I'm about to mention were too awful, but they were noteworthy for me. Let's do the good news first... The positive: I really liked the atmosphere, there is actually a fairly creepy vibe. The setup at the beginning of the game does a pretty good job of building some tension. The game is very simple, only a handful of rooms to explore, and plays very simply as well, move the cursor and left click, that's it. A full playthrough doesn't take too long, especially once you've figured out how the game works. The negative: The entire game is essentially trying to figure out a randomly generated 4-digit code, and while three of the numbers are pretty straightforward to figure out, the last digit (O) was a little too weird for my taste, I had to look it up. Thanks forum posters ;) The thing that really ruined the experience for me was the ending. I'm not going to spoil anything, but it felt like the entire build-up was wasted on what I'd consider to be an almost joke/sh*tpost ending. I actually said "really?" out loud and unimpressed when the ending actually happened. It could have been SO much better, everything else up to that point was pretty good. If you have a half hour or so (potentially way less) to spare, and want a creepy, fairly easy point and click to play, you can do much worse.