Nightmares Mansion: Scary Dreams

Fun and challenging puzzles with a spooky vibe. I finished 100% of the game in just under two hours, so it’s a great pick if you’re looking for a quick, indie horror experience to knock out in one sitting.

Increible que haya perdido mi valioso tiempo en este juego. Es un sin sentido!

Simulator of a visit to relatives Anyone who is lucky enough to have a large family and a whole bunch of distant relatives knows that feeling of being lost when you and your parents arrive at your uncle or grandmother’s house which you have never been to before. At first you don’t want to go, but you agree to your parents’ persuasion because they promise that it will be fun. Then you endure a twelve-hour car ride. And finally you are there. In front of you, eight years old, is a huge Gothic mansion in a gloomy forest surrounded by an invisible wall. Parents instantly disappear with other adults and you find yourself in the company of your many cousins whom you see for the first time in your life. They all sit at the table and are just awkwardly silent. You can’t stand it and finally go to explore this frightening house built personally by your grandfather, it seems, back in the time of Louis XIV. You wander back and forth, playing games scattered throughout the house and talking to the birds. Now all we have to do is to add a little mysticism, zombies, meta-irony and pop culture references and you get a great description of the game “Nightmares Mansion: Scary Dreams”. Well, actually, you certainly do not go on a weekend trip with your parents to visit relatives. But someone definitely kidnapped you and imprisoned you in a mysterious house. Your task is to find a way out of that scary mansion and to figure out what is happening. The basis of the gameplay is solving puzzles, searching for keys and artifacts and also, from about the middle of the episode, fighting the monsters inhabiting the mansion. It's worth noting the variety of puzzle mechanics that stand in your way. Sometimes you have to try different ways to solve a problem and the most unobvious one turns out to be correct. In fact, the house itself is the main antagonist of the game since it is its closed doors that cause most of the inconvenience. This feeling is reinforced by the interactivity of the environment (almost every interior object can be interacted with) which makes every step you take and every action seem like a struggle between the main character and the main antagonist. As for the horror component, the game is capable of truly scaring you several times. Despite the small number of screamers, they appear in the most unexpected places. But the tension inherent in the thriller genre is much more noticeable. You are forced to feel the gaze of the unfortunate kidnapped souls on you and the doors that open with a creak may hide answers or perhaps mortal danger. But all this would be just a set of gameplay moments without this specific feeling of you being lost that holds all the elements together. “Nightmares Mansion: Scary Dreams” uses real fears to scare us in the game. And it succeeds. Although in those moments when the game doesn’t try to scare you, it amuses you. I mean, it is really an amazing combination of mystical, dark setting and postmodern jokes that are funny as HELL. I'm looking forward to the continuation. Good luck, guys. P. S. Also, you can choose a nice hat in the character builder!

Going through my library to finally play games I either bought on sale for a buck or two, or picked up in game bundles etc... Honestly I thought this might be slop but it's actually a rather charmingly light horror game where you search for books in a haunted house. You can knock it out in 45 minutes or so and though the ending promises a continuation I don't see on steam, I didn't mind my time with this.