Presences: Dark Awakening

The short: Story - 9 Audio - 10 Visuals - 9 Mood - Creepy AF The long: The game wove an interesting story where you are trying to piece everything together from strategic notes and clues left around. As you progress you are constantly assaulted by spirits and sounds that will make you quake in your chair in a dark room with a headset on. There were not many cheap jump scares because what the game excels at more is keeping the player tensed throughout the story just waiting for something to happen. When it does for the most part you don't see it coming, which just increases your tension all the more. Walk-through/My experience https://youtube.com/live/w3lHXvQSzdM?feature=share

There's no SAVE! You guys that made this should know that if you have to keep starting from the beginning of the saved part, people are going to get tired of this. Roaming around that house on my third try with doors that won't open for me to get to the next level is a P.I.T.A. If this game is linear and you have to touch all of the notes, that gets old too. If you could save, at least you can pick up where you left off. Good graphics, bad play-ability.

Hello! After finishing this game over on my twitch I wanted to give a review here aswell for the developer and any potential customers! Graphics: 9/10 Personally the graphics are impressive in this game and the overall atmosphere feels great. Story: 7/10 Your mainly getting the story from the intro, then reading notes and then spirits talking to you. This feels overall fine however would've been nice if maybe the notes were also voice acted to build the atmosphere more. Gameplay: 5~6/10 Overall this game is a walking simulation with intractability with objects. Also I was questioning why some objects you can click on to zoom and spin around when this never has any impact to the story like hidden messages on the back of objects or hidden codes etc. There were many times where I was confused on where I was going or was standing where I thought I needed to go next and it wouldn't let me and I had to backtrack etc. This was a annoying element to the game pretty much the whole way through a lack of direction. Horror 3~4/10 I never was really spooked while playing this. However the overall look of everything is great definitely wouldn't consider it overall "scary". I would recommend this game to players with the expectation that you will be having to read alot of notes to get the story or lore of the game. It also is a relativity slower game and short game it took me about a hour and 30 minutes to complete. Thank you and have a great day everyone! Interested in watching the gameplay? : https://youtu.be/yEvxSRaGhBM

Fun little game. Finished the whole thing in at least an hour or so. Looks good and you can tell a lot of passion was put into this.

https://youtu.be/ua52jCJ4hzs https://rumble.com/v2ypm22-presences-dark-awakening-horror-game-part-1.html So I've played the demo of this game and I can say that there are improvements in the final build, especially on the performance's side. This game seems interesting overall, the graphics are nice, it's atmospheric, the sounds could've been a little louder and with a bigger bang during jump-scares. Also you could notice the jump-scares coming 2-3 seconds before it happens, which takes a bit from the scariness. The game's story is about an archaeological dig site, over which a house was built and the owners started to notice strange things happening.

Quel plaisir de jouer à un jeu comme celui-là ! Déjà graphiquement c'est très beau et le gameplay est hyper propre. L'atmosphère est très réussie. Il n'y a pas de gros jumpscares, tout est dans la subtilité et ça marche ! J'ai beaucoup aimé le fait que les entités soient présentées de cette façon là plutôt que d'une façon beaucoup plus concrète et "réelle" comme c'est le cas habituellement ! Le jeu est très bien dirigé par ailleurs avec la lumière et les sons. Il n'y a pas d'objectifs affichés mais aucun besoin en fait. On ne se perd pas, on ne tourne pas en rond à ne pas savoir quoi faire. La façon dont c'est amené ici est juste impeccable. Le fait aussi de basculer d'un environnement à un autre tout au long du jeu en ayant la possibilité de découvrir de nouveaux lieux était très cool. La narration est bonne, on a des notes régulièrement pour comprendre ce qui se passe mais sans avoir l'impression de lire un roman de 500 pages pour autant. J'adore lire mais quand je joue à un jeu vidéo, je veux jouer justement, et là c'était parfait ! J'ai vraiment adoré cette expérience du début à la fin et je n'ai pas vu le temps passer. A ce niveau, le jeu se fait en 1h-1h30 selon votre curiosité à aller regarder les détails du décor et à lire les notes ou pas. En tout cas je recommande chaudement, j'aimerais vraiment trouver plus souvent des jeux comme celui-là ! Bravo au dev pour son travail !

Presences Dark Awakening is an excellent indie horror title about exploring a nightmare dimension. While I don't want to give away too much for this title I want to say as indie horror game goes I can't recommend this enough. This game has you exploring a underground complex under an abandoned house and the terrifying nightmares that await both below and above ground as you explore this horrifying dimension. Core gameplay has you exploring, solving simple puzzles and experiencing what the game does best, it's breathtaking visuals (it looks SO good) and it's jaw dropping scares that are incredibly cleverly done and draw you into the world. I can't really stress enough how well structured and immersive the exploring paced with scares is, it's some of the best out there in the genre. Presences is well worth the asking price and I highly recommend playing it.

The games starts off really good. It sets up a spooky and ethereal atmosphere and has the horror standard notes to find, so you can piece together what's going on. About halfway through, however, the game stops dead to have a massive exposition dump and is never able to regain it's momentum. The evil presence turns out to be a little silly, the last sections have characters that flat out just tell you what needs to be done and all of the urgency the final confrontation says is needed gets deflated by how slow it plays out. The game runs very well (just some slowdown in a handful of areas) and there is a lot of technical prowess on display here. It just felt a somewhat lacking, in both story and scares.

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This was a cool experience to play through. It took me about 90 minutes start to finish. Spooky first person adventure with some navigation, mostly an atmospheric experience. I thought the audio was really well done and lots of little touches of moving objects and lighting.