Obscure

I played Obscure back on the PS2 at its original release and remember being pleasently surprised. This game utilises "fixed camera angles" like the classic Resident Evil and Silent Hill games but mixes it up with a cheesy high school teen slasher flick story, and combining gameplay from both franchises. This survival horror has alot of the classic elements you would expect; variety of actual puzzles, limited supplies, dark and tense atmosphere, unique monster designs and since this is a co-op experience, reliability on your partner. Speaking of partners each different character you can play as, and switch to at any time, have their own special abilities - so it is advisable to use different characters in the appropriate situation, I think this adds depth to the gameplay. The story is cheesy, not serious, but there is a charm to it. It also features my favourite "game fetish" storyline in which everything is normal at first, but slowly devulges into the horror you came to expect, and you have to fight and learn the mystery behind how this all happened. The combat is basic, there is auto-lock, power attacks and standard attacks, but that's all this game needs I feel. The good thing is that the controls are easy to learn and complexity is not needed here. Unfortunately, for me, the music is quickly forgettable so don't expect some Akira Yamaoka level of quality here. That being said, what I hear fits what is happening, just that it isn't something you would listen to casually. I recommend this game to fans of the classic RE and SH games, and looking for their fix on survival horror with some original concepts to it. However, this game was originially released back in 2005, so expect some outdated mechanics compared to modern horror. Also, this PC port is a re-release of an older port but adds native widescreen support and full controller support, among general optimisations to work on modern Windows systems. The only bummer is that there is still no mouse support. I should also mention the game does indeed run at 60fps.

We need more Co-op survival horror games.

[h1]the embodiment of the 2000s[/h1] never played this game before, but experienced some odd form of nostalgia. it's like some non-existent memory from the childhood arose in my head: i'm sitting in my tiny room playing this on playstation 2, surrounded by cassettes and posters. this is definitely the most naive game i ever played, but it's so imbued with the spirit of the times that you want to feel it again and again. the atmosphere is so viscous and ominous but very homely and cozy at the same time. lots of games today try to capitalize on nostalgia, but this particular feeling is absolutely impossible to recreate now. you can't reflect that surrounding reality now because it doesn't exist anymore. i think you can create this type of thing only unintentionally.

fun horror coop game, pretty good

Honestly, that is the exact kind of game that makes you wonder why more modern co-op horror games are so allergic to just being fun. ObsCure is rough, clunky, awkward, and the camera occasionally behaves like it has been personally betrayed by geometry, but the actual idea is brilliant: Two-player survival horror. Teen horror movie tone. Limited resources. Character swapping. Actual co-op tension instead of “one player is the main character and the other is a decorative backpack.” The camera is absolutely its biggest crime. Fixed angles plus co-op plus enemies lunging out of corners is basically the game saying, “What if visibility was optional?” But once you accept that, it has such a good PS2-era horror vibe. It feels like The Faculty, Resident Evil, and a school detention nightmare got shoved into one weird little cult classic. Jumping straight into ObsCure 2 makes sense too. It is more polished in some ways, messier in others, because apparently consistency would have been too generous. But if you liked the first one for the co-op chaos, puzzle solving, stupid horror energy, and “why are we still in this building?” mood, the second one is absolutely worth playing. Hidden gem is the right phrase. Not perfect. Not even close. But memorable, playable, and weirdly charming. The kind of game that deserved more attention instead of being buried while the industry spent twenty years discovering brown military shooters and crafting menus.

This classic ps2 horror game is a must play for survival horror fans, it's not the best in the genre but it's a short sweet and fun romp through the sea of ps2 survival horror games. To play this game on steam deck use GE-Proton7-20. Then go to desktop mode and download dgVoodoo 2.81.3 and pop the D3D9.dll into the games folder

trash port for controller support !

Joguinho gostosinho do PS2, assim o controle é ruim mas a história prende os cenários são bons tb, legal pra passar um tempo

Very good game even tho I miss the original entrance. Worth buying if you never played it before.

крутая игрушка,которая смахивает на сайлент хилл.Для коопа самое то.Единственный минус игры,это одна камера на двоих и желательно иметь при себе геймпад,чтобы спокойно игралось вдвоем,а так синема!