NiGHT SIGNAL

Very cool

I had a great time having a bad time. The clay figures used to populate the channels of your TV are at once goofy and vaguely unsettling... Not exactly scary on their own, but they make you feel like this whole world is just not quite right. The portraits in the room seem to suggest that you are just as bizarre as everyone else, but this doesn't eliminate that feeling that something is off. The gameplay is primarily going through different combinations of channels and antenna configurations. Your handy TV guide will show you information about any secrets you discover, but it is cryptic and vague, so there's also some riddle solving when you run into something that doesn't have an obvious answer. I wasn't expecting combat from this game, and I found it a bit annoying, but it did its job - it made me keep track of which combinations would unleash those pesky things so I could avoid them altogether. If I had any other complaints, they would be the ways this game kinda just doesn't match up with how I used to use a TV when I was young and that was still a thing. because certain channels can set off effects I very much wanted to avoid, I had to force myself to use the remote in a way that feels very wrong to me, but I suspect more and more people coming to this game will have no personal memories of analog television to muddy their perception of the proper way to channel surf. All said, this game gave me chills as I crept carefully around the airwaves in the null hours of a lonesome life. I highly recommend not just fans of this particular style of horror, but anyone curious about analog horror or short games.