
A short first-person horror game where you wander through an eerie forest using the dials of a microwave.
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Midnight Snack is a short and surreal first-person horror game where you wander through an eerie forest using the dials of a microwave.
Alternative and experimental control scheme.
Retro/Pixelart 3D visuals.
Short and sweet, the game takes about 30 minutes to complete.
The controls are integrated into the interface itself, modeled after the dials of a conventional microwave. The bottom dial controls the camera direction, while the top dial determines how long the player moves. Once the time has been set, the controls are locked until the top dial stops turning, so be careful.
To interact with the dials, only the mouse is required.
The player must use these unconventional controls to navigate a strange environment in search of a snack, avoiding various obstacles.
The game takes place in the protagonist's recurring nightmare.
In this nightmare, the protagonist wakes up hungry in the middle of the night, viewing the world from the perspective of a microwave.
Before reaching the kitchen, he must navigate through a dark and eerie setting, even being attacked within the dream manifestations of his guilt.
Finally, upon reaching the kitchen and opening the microwave on the table, he will find an unpleasant surprise.
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Languages: English
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Про якесь збереження прогрессу автор гри не чув. Окрім цього, на один раз піде
Personally wish it was literally just a very tiny bit longer but for what it is its not half bad. Definitely felt panic playing this lmao.
Cute game. The controls are both very innovative, interesting and annoying. Because of the difficult controls the game manages to feel intense. But it's not that the controls are bad, they are difficult on purpose. Other than the controls being the main factor of the gameplay I would not recommend this for anything else, but it's su creative and unique short game that it is hard to dislike. 7/10
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Quick and easy, can't go wrong with that. I really enjoyed the movement mechanics, it definitely helped with making the monster (which isn't scary on it's own) feel a bit more intimidating as you can't turn while the timer is going down.
Simple Horror, but i felt scared ( and i liked it) 8/8!
Um jogo definitivamente muito bom e com um ótimo potencial, uma sequência mais longa com a mesma mecânica principal com certeza seria perfeita
This game was really cool but weird. The controls are a cool, but I feel like there could've been more added to this game like, instead of a chase that ends the game maybe make it so that there isn't just one part that's scary. It isn't that it's bad, but it could've been better.
отсылка, анимешники поймут -> Lучший геймплей, задумка — 10/10, графика прикольная, ещё и бесплатно, каждый должен в это сыграть, это не на что не похоже, глоток свежего воздуха в игровой индустрии, жаль, что короткая. Сделайте игру платной: во-первых, потому что игра заслуживает, во-вторых, чтобы я мог добавлять этот шедевр друзьям в библиотеку насильно.
Midnight Snack est un petit jeu très simple à prendre en main. En 15 minutes chrono, tu as vu l’intégralité de ce qu’il propose, et même les objectifs Steam se récupèrent en deux parties maximum. Côté “horreur”, on est plutôt sur une balade nocturne un peu étrange qu’un vrai jeu qui fait peur. À moins d’être un enfant très impressionnable ... L’ambiance n’est pas vraiment pesante, le design reste assez basique, et le “monstre”… disons qu’il a plus un potentiel de mascotte que de menace. En bref : un mini‑jeu curieux, pas désagréable, mais clairement pas de quoi faire trembler qui que ce soit.
At first I had no idea what to expect of the game, I knew it was from the debs of 'Control, I'm not coming back' and acording to steam it is a horror game but the concept of the microwave as a control make it sound more goofy than scary. But while playing the game and specially by using the game mechanics of the microwave it become not only one of the most original games I had played on the last years but also the feeling of impotence while walking through the dials convined to the preasure on using these same dials correctly and fast, if you went on a sligthly bad direction and end up crashing with a tree or a rock the sounds of the footsteps behind you works as a remainder if that mistake. Definitely a must play game that tooks less than 20 minutes to complete but still is an interesting and frigthening game wich in case they made another with the same mechanics but a little bit longer exploting what you can do with the dials or involving more perspectives I would love to play it again.
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