Nightmarise

As it has been a recent trend to try various underrated Steam games, instead of watching the videos I decided to give it a shot myself, and instead of picking something straight out of the trash bin from God knows where, I instead decided to look for something that had a chance of actually being an entertaining game. As it happened, I came across this really freshly released game complete with finished visuals, a teaser video, and a real developer. The price is less than a Big Mac so what does it matter if it disappoints. Well, it didn't. The premise of the game is to climb up, and up, and up, a genre which I wasn't very big on, save for trying Getting Over it With Bennet Foddy once, that one I liked. However that about sums it up for the similarities between the two games, as this one is quite different, the movement is easy to use immediately, however might be hard to master. It's not a realistic climber by any means, I mean the guy jumps up high enough to possibly vault over a teenage boy, and if you only reach the ledge of an object, he might do the climbing animation 5 times, and actually make it. Maybe. Some might find it a tad unrealistic, personally I found it added to my fun quite well. You climb up to a certain chapter, and lo and behold, find out it isn't merely a climber game, but actually has various minigames, ones that are probably relevant to the story, which would probably be greatly improved if there was a narrator of sorts as you play. Or maybe the guy himself talking. Anyway. You complete the minigame (they're not really "mini", but it's hard to find a better name because after completion, you return to the climbing part. Until you finish the game. Speaking of finishing the game... Now is the best time to introduce you to the multiplayer function of the game. You press host and then someone from your friends joins you. I bought it for my brother to do it, and thank God I did, else I would have probably given up on finishing the game. I cannot emphasise this enough - the game improves at least doubly so, when there's someone along with you trying to climb the same parts. This also helps if you aren't that great at platformers, because I'm not, and at parts it really got way too hard (I tend to rush into the gaping void), because if the other player makes it to a checkpoint, you can just press B and go from where he managed to reach. Anyway, in a few hours we did make it. I'm not going to spoil the entire ending, but the character does get the chance to wake up from his nightmare. P.S. if you aren't convinced, dying in the minigames returns you to a spectating zone, which is the guy's room, where you can watch TV and see how the other player is doing. I liked that idea so much, I would pay 3 euros just for that if the game was free to play originally. TL;DR: it's good, but awesome if you get someone to play with you. Maybe the developer is considering a friend's pass, because it's rarely easy to convince a buddy to even try free things, no less paid ones.

this game has potential. Its has alot of lag and is super glitchy. It is a new game so i cant hate on it too much. But it was fun for the bit that my friends and i played before it made us mad with the glitches. Im only recommending it cause i think once they do some big fixes it would be worth it

Coming from someone who doesn't enjoy too many platforms, or endless jump puzzles, this game rules. This review is only from an hour in and one nightmare completed, but I'll be going back for more! Breaking up the long hike up with first person horror content is a nice change for this genre, and I think this game has potential to be a viral hit.

Bon jeu, ambiance horreur très simpatique, quelque passage qui son un peu dure mais c'est très bien il en faut, le seul défaut que je trouves au jeu c'est qu'il est un peu court pour les personnes qui son habitué

Played multiplayer. Was nice. Much easier. Add hard mode without checkpoints. Also. I fell... A lot...

Ce jeu est vraiment incroyable ! Mélanger un Only up avec une ambiance horreur c'est ce qui manquait ! l'ambiance est vraiment présente, les graphismes sont magnifique ! le jeu n'est pas encore terminé de futur mise à jour arrivent pour corrigé tous les petits problèmes mais il est très très prometteur. Le jeu à une durée de 6H pour des joueurs qui vont y'aller doucement comme moi pour les tryarder en 2H je pense que c'est terminer mais pour le prix vraiment foncé !

Dans l'ensemble un bon petit jeu + J'ai trouvé que c'était une bonne idée d'ajouter des éléments d'horreur dans un jeu du style Only Up + Le jeu est généreux en checkpoint + Le jeu est généreux pour l'accrochage aux rebords - Le jeu manque un peu de musique d'ambiance - Le jeu gagnerait en ambiance horreur s'il y avait plus d'éléments de ce style dans la partie "Only Up" (objets qui bougent soudainement, bruits inquiétants, scare jump, etc...)

Très bon jeu, quelques petit bug, mais super sympa a faire en coop, assez court. Manque quelque Maj pour qu'il soit au top

Plus simple : un jeu en genre "Only Up" + l'espace des horreur = voici ce jeu Nightmarise ! + Checkpoint + peu musique d'ambience + plus fun

Only Up with horror gameplay. Nice content