Near Midnight

3€ for 3minutes of non-creative, not-imersive running through a house to find the same annoying mechanics over and over again. No sense, no story, just useless. 3Dollars for a bunch of nothing is total scam. Reported

Near Midnight, or "How to steal assets and make $3"

Making the excuse that a game is allowed to have devastating shortcomings "because it's in Early Access" is surely no better exposed as the nonsense it really is by looking at crap like [b]Near Midnight[/b]. Here's how I like to look at it: imagine you're a surgeon in a hospital and two guys come in. The first has a deep cut on his leg. It looks kind of vicious but there doesn't appear to be an infection. You can say with some degree of certainty that he will recover and enjoy the use of that leg for the remainder of his days. The second guy brings you his leg in a bag. It is in two pieces, one of which a dog has partially eaten while the other half is not part of a leg at all. It is a desk lamp. The stump that used to hold his leg onto his body has turned black and become home to a cluster of flesh eating hornets. The man cheerfully asks you to fix his leg. Some Early Access games are not going to get better and it's usually painfully obvious which ones they are. I'm not saying the developer intended for this to be a cash-grab, even though every component of it stinks like one with its five minute playtime and assets unimaginatively dumped all over the bloody place like the only effort that went into [b]Near Midnight[/b] was renaming it from the original [b]Spooky Mansion Template[/b]. I'm just saying that when you allow stuff like this to exist under the guise of a development build, you help nobody. Playthrough below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNGJKgHgNyo

This game was released on December 15th 2016, but it's such a horrible game it sent shockwaves backwards through time -1/10 wouldn't play again to fix the timespace continuum

Это самая короткая игра, в которую мне удалось поиграть. Игра в раннем доступе, но я бы сказал, что это некая 5-ти минутная демо-версия. После запуска заявлена не плохая история, намечается интересный сюжетец. Нам предстоит примерить на себя роль детектива, расследующего жестокое убийство семейной пары, а также загадочное исчезновение маленькой девочки, их дочери. Оказавшись в доме, где произошло убийство, хватаем фонарик и начинаем расследование. Сама картинка в игре выглядит довольно сносно, ничего экстраординарного. Звук присутствует, но это пока никак не звук для хоррор-игры. Слабенько, не атмосферно, общую картину не делает. Да, баги есть, но это ранний доступ и очень хочется надеяться, что все будет исправлено, потому что интрига запущена и нужно продолжение. Тем более, что разработчик уже сделал заявление о грядущих обновлениях. Палец вверх поставлю лишь из-за того, что на мой взгляд у игры есть потенциал и буду надеяться на полноценный, доработанный проект, после выхода из раннего доступа.

Developers in 2016: "We're constantly adding content to the game to make it longer" 2 years later the game is still the exact same length and ends extremely abruptly after 2-3 minutes of gameplay. The funnest part of the game for me was getting out of bounds, which says a lot about the story/gameplay.

This game was meant to be scary but instead was kinda funny. It starts out with an image of a tiny(500 sq. ft.) farm house and an intro of news clippings(diary entries?). After you read them all, they start over and keep looping until you click skip. Once inside, the tiny farm house has suddenly become a 5000 square ft mansion! I wish my apartment could do that, but I digress. The textures are a bit mish-mashed so that you can see blue lines where they don't quite match eachother. Disappointing to say the least. Basically all you do is walk around and trigger events til it boots you to the menu with no way to quit aside from killing the program via ctrl+alt+del or just right-clicking the window on my taskbar and selecting close. It was all over so quickly(less than 5 minutes) that I must suggest that this game should really be free.