Night Of The Abattoir Man

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10/10 would recommend.. Fun game play and lot of endings

night of the abattoir man is an indie horror game that's been on my radar for several months now i'm friends with the main developer and publisher, and actually had the opportunity to voice jake campbell in the prologue. however, i will be as unbiased as possible in this review. i've played through once and got the helltaken ending but aim to get other endings and collectibles sometime in the future. there's a fair amount of collectibles in the game, most of which are essentially references to various forms of media and even some content creators big and small. while i personally do not know all of the references, the ones i do know are very great and was in awe of the fact that they were included. all of the collectibles and various endings makes it easier to get back into after beating it for the first time as well, with even some hidden endings that aren't even mentioned in the list of endings that is in the room you reach once you beat the game. i love this game and i'm not even much of a fan of horror and i definitely see myself playing this more in the future. also the visuals, style, music, and voice editing. pretty much everything compliments each other and it's very visually and auditorially appealing to me. knuckles is always hard at work with patches to fix small bugs, game-breaking bugs, etc. i haven't seen a developer working so hard and also constantly keeping an eye out for DMs from people or posts on the steam page regarding fixes and constructive criticism. it really goes to show just how dedicated and caring he is towards this game and making sure people will have a pleasant experience playing it. i strongly recommend giving the game a try and if you don't like it, that's fine! it's a free game after all!! definitely keep an eye out for the true ending update and i hope to see him bless our steam libraries even more with more games!

It a really good game so far , love the style of the game. I also love that there little puzzles of the game !

[h1]Great game with an awesome story. Plus, it's free![/h1] This game really, REALLY surprised me. It was sent to my (currently) defunct RPG Maker testing Curator I used to use for testing RPG Maker games on the Steam Deck. I politely refused (again, the project is in retirement for now) but still wanted to check it out. And once I saw it was free, I figured what the heck, I'll give it a shot. Man, was that ever a good decision. It's a horror/puzzle game (you have to find keys, push blocks, avoid the killer, etc) but what really makes this stand out is the art style. It's this awesome mix of early 80s video games and this really cool anime style pixel art. And the music! Really well done when it's used. Another thing that I really loved was the lore the game sets up. Not just within the game itself, but in the 'dev room' after achieving an ending. No spoilers, but I WANTED to get multiple endings to see what changed about the lore and people in the room (and it does!!) Very awesome stuff. No joke, if this cost 10 bucks I would have gladly paid for every penny. The fact it's free feels like a crime, but it is so worth you time to try it out. Seriously, if you love horror with a unique twist, you CANNOT miss this one.

Knucks/the dev has improved a LOT of things in Night of the Abattoir Man since the itch.io demo release, and honestly it's amazing! I highly recommend trying it out! The VA's did a great job too!

Thoroughly enjoyed this game from start to finish. I played an earlier version of this game on Itch.io and I am certainly not disappointed with the full release. This game is an honest blast and a breath of fresh air coming from horror genres. I never felt bored or like the game was getting overabundant at any point through this experience, there would always be new ways the game would test you and put obstacles in front of you in a challenging and engaging way. Aesthetically this game is very VERY unique in a lot of ways, most importantly the way it's supposed to be a throwback to much older video games in it's low color-range, aspect ratio and pixel art style. On top of that the aesthetics have their technical uses, such as seeing clearly what is intractable, giving the aesthetics a much more technical side of being player assistant. The game is very polished with a only a hand full of errors and inconsistencies which really helped not only the environment to feel plausible, but also scary. I genuinely, whole heatedly did feel scared or freaked out whenever I would hear the thumping of "The Monster" and that in of itself helped me feel more immersed and intertwined with the character than a lot of other games have. Getting a whole 3-4 hours of playtime for a free title is also incredibly mind boggling to me, and that's only with the first character. I myself have not tried the additional character yet. But just the fact there could potentially be another 2-4 hours of content within the additional character just goes to show the effort that has been laid into this game. To me, this should have been around a 10$ game with all this game has offer. There are some bugs I encountered when interacting with certain items such as doors, or even "The Monster" itself. I also found a lot of text errors within dialogues and descriptions of items. None of any that really took me out of the experience but they were there none the less. The biggest problem I could think of are, firstly, the minimap. I much prefer the old way having a map worked, where the map would take up your entire screen when used. It gave me a feeling of always wanting to make sure I was safe prior to usage and it boosted the scariness level. Secondly I found the inconsistencies in voice acting immersion breaking. That sometimes characters had voices, other times, they did not. Additionally, the volume of the voice acting in this game feels very inconsistent, sometimes I thought certain characters were being incredibly quiet, other times, they were too loud(when screaming for example). Overall I give this game a 9/10, with -1 due to some my issues with it as previously stated.

very fun 10/10