the cabin game

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There is a lot of potential from a Developer that has already given up on other similar titles. The concept is good, and I think there is enough here to make for a horror co-op game with enough re-playability to warrant return. Successful runs take about an hour, and you're really not guaranteed a win. The monsters are great, but the meat of this game is a hodgepodge of 200 other games already on the market. It works on first pass, and I really enjoy the surprise elements at play. They just fade fast, and having seen these assets a million times over, it's hard for this to feel original outside of its core concept. I'd take what's here at face value and expect little to nothing else as an Early Access title given their track record. To this point, there is a lot to be desired and I'm somewhat hesitant to recommend it to everyone; giving it a slight edge towards recommend as I did enjoy what's here with some friends. It has about 5-6 hours of enjoyable exploration. There are game optimization issues and bugs ranging from game breaking, annoying, and funny, often times as a minor inconvenience. These issues are generally fine given this work is an indie title, but it'd cause review bombing otherwise. A few of the encounters are incredibly tense, and then you learn the basics and it's more laughable than anything else. This is true for a lot of horror games, but combined with the many flaws with this title it does tend to rotten faster. Ultimately, the cabin needs more content, and especially more to do in between rounds and hand building. Being able to run around and investigate clues without threat is a huge mistake and one that causes the general tension of playing to dissipate quickly. The clues are also fine, but there's not enough interaction or dimensionality to it outside of a very soft spot the difference. There should be tension to every card played, and that's just not the case. The house is rather small, and I think the overall concept would have benefited from different card decks as an option. Needs about a years worth of content for added re-playability (jump scares, unique modifiers, event cards that play out differently and subsequently change the house permanently after play, as well as rare cards that help out the players in novel ways) to be worth the full cost. Not bad, but be warned that this may never come.