Paradigm Shift

Have you ever played classic first person point and click adventures but wanted them set in a zombie apocalypse with a cheap, gritty feel? Well here comes Paradigm Shift crawling on the floor covered in its own vomit missing legs and both of its arms. Its a hastily thrown together game devoid of interesting puzzles. The game excels at startling you if you take too long on a screen. Horrifying zombies pop in screaming when you least expect them. There are a few death traps such as gas leaks that you'll need to simply back out of. You need to be hasty though, sticking around in one area too long will kill you in one way or another. Like the zombie apocalypse, you need to get from point A to point B as quick as possible and you do that through trial and error. The game plays out quick and it feels like there's a small amount here to keep it interesting. You can be done with everything in less than ten minutes. Its ultimately a death trap. A price for a horrifying jack-in-the box. You never know when its coming, but it'll jump out. You are packing a shotgun, but it feels useless. Even when you have the time to pull it out and shoot a zombie, it does nothing, but it could be out of ammunition when you first get it. The game needs to specify such things or at least have a click. The game's instructions say that a blast can take out most enemies. What's even stranger is facing off against a girl crying in a corner removes the shotgun from the inventory time and time again. I would say its to prevent from hurting her, but you still have a screwdriver. You can find a few descriptions of flavor text, but the game feels empty and vacant. Your mouse cursor never changes, it just stays as an arrow forcing me to click like mad. The toughest part about the game is finding little doors, nooks and crannies. Clicking around to find everything even if it looks like nothing. Its obvious that its someone's first game. There's the cheap price and the Click Fusion icon still on the game. When you start up Paradigm Shift you're greeted with more external links than anything else. There are no options or settings, you play the game in a window rather than having a choice. Its bare bones. The environments look good, gritty and downright cheap, but it fits for a horror game. There's no animation, just static photos. Even when zombies pop in they're just pasted on your screen and in a way that adds more drama. Their eyes are cut out, mouths pasted on their lips. The editing of real people is disturbing and does add a unique flair to the game. The real problem with the atmosphere is that its all ruined when the game forces you to stay in a window rather than full screen. Its scary seeing my kitten wallpaper on my desktop among still frames of burning buildings. As for the puzzles, you have things like a simple keypad and you need to find the combination that's somewhere close at hand. You have a door lock that you need to pick. When you do so it returns you to the hallway you were already in. Its all so quick between game overs that it never gets a chance to be dull. I kept up a rapid pace through memorizing what to do and where to go. To the game's credit there is tense music that adds something to a dirt cheap game. It hastens your pace and adds intensity to a bare bones game. There's budget and then there's cheap. It still feels gritty, but its nothing I can ever recommend. If you're big into jump scares and little more than pictures and clicking, Paradigm Shift is a cheap enough game to be worth your time. To the other majority of people, avoid this game, because you never know when a horrifying zombie with all the animation of a cardboard cutout will burst into the area and start blood staining your screen.

Why are developers so intent in creating the worst game ever. That is not something to strive.

The most horrifying thing about this game is the fact that it is neither as bad as its infamous reputation suggests, nor is it the single worst horror game available on Steam. It is, however, pretty darned close on both accounts... First bad sign: Opens in a small window which, when maximised, simply transforms the game from a small screen overlaying your Steam page to a small screen surrounded by whiteness. Spif-fy. Second bad sign: The only way I found to exit the game after achieving this extraordinary display option was to shut down my computer by force. Third bad sign: The, ahem, "game" itself... It's a point-and-click game with static images, first person POV. So even when you look out a window to observe that your neighbour's house is on fire, you don't get even the slightest hint of animated flames writhing; just a static image of, well, your neighbour's house on fire. None of this would be an especially huge minus, if the story itself were interesting enough. Spoiler: It's not. Nor would it be worthy of enormous criticism if the gameplay was compelling enough. Second spoiler: It sure as ♥♥♥♥ isn't. Heck, even the presence of some cool jump-scares, or moments of split-second kill-the-zombie-before-it-kills-you action might have saved this from being one of the biggest ♥♥♥♥-sandwiches you could ever opt to eat, and I've read reviews which claim you can use the shotgun you pick up to quickly shoot zombies as they pop up on-screen, but...I either had zombies fill the screen, munch the crap out of me, then unceremoniously disappear, or I had zombies fill the screen, take one bite out of me, and give me an instant Game Over. Neither event seemed to occur with any semblance of rhyme or reason, and the lack of any save system means that you'll be going back to the beginning over and over and over again, despite reports that the game can be completed in something like four minutes (a first-time feat which would require much more luck than skill, I suspect). Add to this the hardest-to-find items in a video game EVER - I seriously challenge anyone to find that axe in the park without witnessing a walkthrough first, or simply spamming every inch of the screen just to see what happens - and basically what you have is an unplayable mess. It's a shame, too, because for all of two minutes the opening cut scene gave me some small semblance of hope that this WASN'T the crap-croissant which everyone claims it to be (i.e. said opening is actually quite good). Then the game proper begins, and it's all swiftly downhill from there. The semi-competence of small aspects of this game - i.e. the moderately decent graphics and sound - unfortunately prevent this from even being one of those "so-bad-it's-good" propositions...so perhaps the only true saving grace of this product is the fact that it's almost eternally on sale for under a dollar. Given that the devs should probably PAY people to play it, that's still not much of a bargain, I'm afraid. Only a REAL zombie apocalypse could be less fun than this steaming pile of undead excrement. Verdict: 2.5/10.

Паносище, с тупыми скримерами, безобразной графикой. Игра сделана на коленках, полноэкранного режима нет. Тупая анимация экрана смерти. Просто, ужасная игра и ужасная в плане свое существования. Не советую к покупке!

Really? I spent money on this? I should kill myself.

No.

我硬着头皮玩了5分钟只为能写一个评论。 辣鸡！ 这种游戏flash网站的都做得比它好，这厮游戏能上steam那些就更该上。 几张破图片就能做成游戏了真是，喜加一都不值。

Well, it calls itself a 'terrifying point and click adventure' and is only 3/5 accurate in this describtion It's actually point and click, but I wouldn't call it that much of an adventure and it's most certainly not terrifying at all It has some jumpscares, but they don't scare you, they startle you and later you will sleep like a baby anyway. In fact, the jumpscares in this particular bad game are too cheap to even get the whole startling thing right. Congratulations game, you managed to not be even worth the time you are playing it, don't even talk about the money you have to spent.

Paradigm Shift is a horror adventure game where you try to survive a zombie apocalypse. Story: You play as an unnamed man. You awaken from a nightmare and find your city of River Lake devastated by a chemical plant explosion that turns animals and humans into flesh eating monsters. Your rations are running low and you decide that it's time leave. The story is pretty bares bones, you do get notes scattered around and they try to explain the story slightly, but not by much. It's really not that good and only is there to set up the puzzles you solve. Graphics: The graphics are absolutely awful. Paradigm Shift is an adventure game and you know that looking for items is a big part of games like these. The environments look really low resolution and there's these really ugly scratch marks across each screen, which sometimes obscures crucial items you need to pick up. Enemies also look stupid, they have these really weird photoshop stuff on them, that makes them look funny instead of scary. Audio: Since this game is basically a flash game, the audio is super compressed and crunchy. The sound effects are all awful and are actually quite hilarious, like the zombies attacking you. The only good thing I can come up with the audio design is the end credits song that actually sounds pretty good (probably a hot take of mine). Gameplay: As said before, Paradigm Shift is an adventure game where you pick up items and use them to solve puzzles. As I said before, the crucial items are impossible to see in certain sections because of the dark environments and film grains. Let's talk puzzles, as they are the meat on the bones of these type of games. The puzzles are awful and barely make any sense. Most of them are pretty easy, but there are a few puzzles that are so stupid that I got stuck for quite a while. There's also combat, but it's so barebones that I just want to mention it that it exists. Every so often an enemy will pop up and you press on them to take them out. Verdict: Paradigm Shift is awful in every way. Terrible graphics, awful puzzles and just overall low quality, make this game a waste. It's roughly 20 minutes long and it's just not very good, yes it's cheap, but so are so many other games, so just get one of those and skip this. Final Rating: 1/10 Pros: N/A Cons: - Puzzles are awful - Horrible graphics - Terrible audio design If you liked this review please consider joining https://steamcommunity.com/groups/completingthebacklog and https://steamcommunity.com/groups/ImperialReviews

Espetacular!! Amo esses jogos de click's sem parar. rsrs Jogo onde voce e um sobrevivente em um mundo sobrenatural. Na verdade parece o Apocalipse.. rs Muito terror, misterio e sustos sem parar.. Uma mistura magnifica de jogos de clicks com terror, onde voce e o ''detetive''. Um dos pontos fracos e nao conseguir os Screenshots e faltou as conquistas STEAM. Susto garantido!! Recomendo !!