Redrum: Dead Diary

This is a badly ported mobile/tablet hidden object puzzle game with a slightly dark theme. Click on various objects to complete each level. This is far worse than your average Artifex Mundi hidden object game, and doesn't even have working widescreen, it displays 4:3 pillarboxed. Goodness knows what experience they have, but I guess they don't care because this game is free for them, but not free for PC gamers. That's right, the developer has the audacity to charge $10 for this on Steam, but they give it away free on mobile through the Amazon app store. Do these jerks think PC gamers are suckers ready to be price gouged? I can't recommend anyone rewards this morally bankrupt greed and pays money for a PC game that's free for mobile gamers.

incredibly ugly and abrasive HOG, but like in a good way. gameplay is nothing spectacular but works for the most part. what sets it apart is its freaky deaky creep vibe with an old mad scientist running around chasing some weird loli in a neon-frutiger-aero horrorland

A massive [b]MEH[/b] is how I feel about the game. It feels more like a visual novel than that of a hidden object game. Some really cool scenes are described in the game, such as [spoiler]a girl being crushed by a piano Final Destination style[/spoiler], but this is never shown. Majority of the game is like this. You read a short summary of events by two characters. You play 3 minigames in between new texts. The next second the mystery is solved and it moves onto the next one. Everything is done in such a rush it's difficult to feel the intensity of the subjects. For being a horror game it feels really underwhelming to not be able to see anything related to the murders. The HO are so generic you could play any other HO game and experience the same. The other 2 games are pretty much "find these shapes". Some items are repeated through several scenes. The ending is also a massive letdown. One scene the [spoiler]evil doctor[/spoiler] writes down how he's going to carry out his [spoiler]final act to give Rose a lobotomy.[/spoiler] The next minute the game sums up the ending in a few lines of text [spoiler]how Rose played a game with the doctor, he turned himself in and confessed all his crimes[/spoiler] and... that's it. Just as rushed as everything else.

An older sort of game that you might be used to, with a very different way of telling its story. It may not sit well with those who are more used to animated works but the written word is even more effective in this case. Delightfully disturbing and deeply emotive work for such a simple game.

Low effort game. Mercifully short with easy achievements. But not at all good.

Klasická hledačka, která pro mě byla v době hraní něčím nesmírně působivá. Moc se mi líbila.

Love the game but this version wont run locked up my computer