Marlene Betwixt

EDIT - Below is my original review. A small patch has come out which has sorted the dim light out at the beginning. I have now played a lot of the game and I previously said it was a 'good game' - I now think it's a 'very good game' for £8 - helpful developer as well! "Good game, well made, thinking Man's psychological horror that you need to persevere with. What I mean by this is: at the beginning of the game, the first building (out house) is quite dark and the phone torch to view the game to do what needs doing is frustratingly not good enough (IMO needs wider beam) - once you're past that part things are easier and the game get's better. The game is not an action horror game more like a tense, suspense horror game that requires thought to move on - you feel rewarded once you sussed something out. My wife played the game and really got into it - she wanted to finish it which she nearly has - well we think she has as we've been playing the game for more than 3 hrs and we're still not at the end yet, the game is described as an 1 1/2 hour game - maybe we're just thick :) Aside from the odd gripe, the graphics for VR are good enough and no complaints about the audio. Maybe not for everyone but, if you like these sort of games you may well like this so I'll recommend on that basis!"

I'm sure a lot of time went into creating this game, but unfortunately I simply can't recommend it. It can be buggy sometimes and the puzzles are just meh..not to mention the way it looks.

I have played this several times but only get stuck in the first building. Very frustrating with no obvious way to advance in the game. No sense of what the game is about and what I am trying to accomplish. This is frustarting and just get stuck in a couple of rooms with no way out. That is nad enough but again no flow here just a couple of spooky dudes and scence. They do not make anysense - is there a story? is there a game? is this a 5 minute walk around to get stuck in a building?

I found this game really aggravating. It's like a demo for VR that's really in love with picking up books and soda cans. The play is one pixel-hunt after another, and your reward for finding the pixel is a jump scare. The story is a cliche, the sounds and music are very primitive (free downloads, I think) and objects, including critical objects, can clip through floors and walls and get stuck. Have you ever wanted to try and find the marble in the oatmeal, while dodgeballs rain down on your head? This game has that experience, for some reason. An hour of gameplay, if you can plow through the frustration. Play for free or maybe for a dollar, if you have literally nothing else to do. Definitely not worth $7.

So far... I'M LOVING IT! But there's just one small issue I have.. I understand the want for players to experience the game in one sitting, as a whole. But for me, as someone whom works full time and has other outside forces that won't necessarily "let" me play in one sitting, I wind up having to pause the game, which eventually ends in me just needing to exit the game. I've found myself starting over from the beginning about 5 or 6 times now, maybe 7... and as much as I' am enjoying it, I'd really LOVE to get to the end of this act.. lol. A couple of auto-saves tossed in after an area or so would save my life, literally. lol Just so I don't have to keep starting from the beginning. : ) Just a tiny suggestion ^_^ But as I said at the start, I'm LOVING this! So intrigued and when I 'am finally able to finish, I will be anxious for more! <3

Do not buy this game. Way too buggy. Can't get past the first house, because items keep disappearing or i can't pick them up. Must move them with other stuff and sometimes FINALLY i am able to pick the required item up again.

Great Concept. Issues with gas room keypad and was unable to continue the game. Restarted the game to make sure i was doing it right at the tutorial. No problem there. Shrugg. Looking forward to updates.

Where to start, well let's start with the soft drinks Marlene is obviously addicted to. I mean there are soft drink cans everywhere, even blocking up gutters FFS. Was it a free asset you just couldn't stop using? Next, let's talk about the voice acting and sound effects, just making funny voices is not good enough. Making funny voices that sound like a 6-year-old would in a play ground who has just met a man with a large bag of candy and a van with blacked out windows is worse. As soon as I walked into the first free asset rich park and heard "leave her alone" in what can only be described as a high pitched adult gay man's voice and saw that voice was supposed to be coming from a scary chainsaw another free asset killer I knew where this game was headed. From there it was all downhill, from the terrible escape the room puzzles to the soft can cans ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ everywhere. To the crappy story, home done sound recording, over used heart beat and just the general another first time I'm going to make a fortune VR call me a dev now I've released a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game on Steam Direct. Every time I find a VR game that gives me hope, 10 of these "I can make a game" muppets send me straight back down to VR hell.

Great game BUT experiencing stutter in the oprning garden scene and a few other places, hope this gets fixed !! Running gtx980 dragon pro...

Great spooky story and head scratching puzzle game.