Radiolight

YEAH

Enjoyable atmospheric game. Not really many jump scares but the atmosphere is just right. There were a few points in the game where I got lost and didn't know what to do so I wandered a bit trying to figure out what to do; I caved and looked online (especially towards the end). The closing scene felt a tad rushed but overall a good story. I would recommend this game.

JUEGAZO DE SUSPENSO, UN POCO DE TERROR Y MISTERIO.

God

Fun game, although I wasted a lot of time not knowing that you could sprint... Walking is VERY slow. The boss fight, especially the last one, was too challenging for me

One of my favorite video game settings is when characters are lost in the woods and need to find their way out or solve a murder mystery. Radiolight nails this atmosphere perfectly. If you liked Firewatch, Blair Witch (2019), or Alan Wake, then you will like Radiolight. While this may come across as more of a walking simulator closer to Firewatch, there is a little bit of action thrown in and puzzles for good measure. You play as Ethan Collins. A washed-up cop who is sent to a forest searching for a missing boy. Your goal is to make it to Blackwood Camp, but the hike up there has a lot in store for Ethan. The game starts out kind of slow. Not much happens and seems pretty run-of-the-mill, but after the first hour things really turn up and get interesting. Radiolight, without spoiling anything, has a story similar to Oxenfree. I like the idea of radio waves having other meanings and powers than just transmitting voices. Have you ever stayed up late at night and watched YouTube videos about the Russian numbers station, strange voices on weather bands, and weird radio disturbances? This game is a video game version of that. You have a walkie-talkie and a handheld radio. You can dial any station at any time and listen to the emergency station or a talk show. Every so often a music station will tune in playing cover songs of real songs. Your only other voice is your partner at the police station. When you get to a new scene, you can radio in what you are seeing. You of course can pick up objects and solve a few simple puzzles. You have a map that tracks your dot in real-time, and you need to make the long hike to Blackwood Camp as your first main objective. This takes up about the first half of the game. After this things really go off the rails and get super interesting as the pace picks up. The entire game takes place at night in the woods, and living in a more remote town surrounded by woods in the PNW put me right at home and helped immerse me a bit more. The atmosphere of the lazy camp brings nostalgia as well as just hiking through the woods and reading all of the signs and seeing the landmarks. There are brochures in cabins, and everything looks like someone jumped up and ran away in a hurry. As you slowly uncover the mystery, this does tend to fade as the game leans heavily into the supernatural realm by the end of the game, and I felt taken away from that a bit. There are battles in a way. In three different scenes an entity will appear, and you need to tune your radio until the dial turns red. It can be pretty tense scrolling through the stations as you run away. Voices that appear on the radio are similar to those from spirit boxes. If you ever watched any ghost hunting videos, you will know that this can be downright disturbing and creepy. The developers really nailed it here. The visuals are a bit dated and look like an early PS4 game, but what’s here works. The voice acting for Ethan and your partner is really good, but for some reason all the side characters have terrible voice acting, and I don’t know why. Getting lost a lot can be frustrating, so I suggest playing with a guide. The game is also pretty short, only lasting a few hours, but what’s here is memorable and well done. It’s rare to play short indie horror titles that are actually good, but the slow unraveling of the murder mystery real-time is great.