SCP-479: Shadows of the Mind

Had Potential, But the batteries last about a minute each, and insanity decreases way to fast. had about 10 to 12 batteries but was left in the dark after 10 minutes. Of course, insanity immediately went to zero soon after. I do not recommend it.

First things first: 15 dollars? That's too much. wait for a sale. Okay, so, whenever I see new SCP games, I get quite excited. We don't see those that often, and we especially don't see ones that look good that often (or at least I don't). And from the screenshots on Steam this game actually does look quite good. Unfortunately that's kind of where my actual compliments end- -because gooood dammit is this game unoptimized to hell. Listen, my PC isn't top of the line, but I've literally never had any issues running newer Triple A releases, so long as I'm on low settings. Yet despite that, this game runs incredibly middlingly on my PC, even on the lowest everything. Not to mention this game is TWENTY GIGABYTES. No, uh uh, completely unacceptable. This game should not cost as much space on my PC as ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Dragon's Dogma. Okay, so actually getting to the game, I'd like to say that right off the bat I am not in a good mood because the mouse movement feels like ♥♥♥♥. Floaty as all hell and not sensitive enough, even on higher settings. Feels almost like mouse smoothing is turned on permanently (Though, I will give +10 points for a FOV slider). The game looks alright, but also kinda generic. I won't knock the game too hard for this because it's obviously a very indie developer, but eh, I still am not a huge fan artistically speaking. And now the gameplay. Y'know I don't ask for my games to be walking simulators that often, but this game would be wildly improved if it was. If the gameplay was just walk around, experience scares, read notes, I'd be fine. Unfortunately, it is not, and in order to add in some "gameplay" we get a terrible sanity system that has apparently been rebalanced despite still feeling like a complete hindrance to any and all fun I would have in this game. On top of it dropping WAY too quickly, it also feels like I never find enough pills most of the time. Not to mention it still goes down while you are in your inventory screen, meaning you literally can't read notes without sacrificing sanity. You pretty much have to use clairvoyance and ♥♥♥♥♥♥' speedrun this game unless you wanna trial-and-error your way through. So is there anything good about this game? Um... the atmosphere was nice I guess. I mean it's not amazing but I thought it was good enough. But ehhhhh aside from that, nah, there's not a lot here. I think the dev should really go back to the drawing board on this one, as it's a pretty solid idea. But as it stands, nah, I do not recommend this. There's plenty of better SCP games out there, either being developed or fully released. Go buy Secret Files. Or play Observer, which is FREE! 4/10