The Entity

Seems very unpolished.... It mostly just froze my computer or showed me a blackscreen, so I had to play on windowed in a lower quality to get it to work. I doubt this is an issue with my setup. Starting with the good, the graphics are alright, above average when it comes to small unity indie games. The sound design is good too for the most part. UI and prompts are kinda mediocre, unfortunately. The gameplay however is pretty bad. The game establishes that you can turn on lights for exploration, but if the power runs out you get caught, for some reason. Shouldn't this be some kind of challenge? Like you have to turn on lights to find stuff, but leaving too many on can break the generator leaving you exposed. Oh that would require that light could be used as defense, of course, this isn't the case. While I am fantasizing, it would have nice if this one mechanic were consistent. Some light switches simply don't turn on, some doors don't open , some plugs don't work. Your phone is the other light source, and unless it's fully charged it's literally useless, since it barely emits any light. Finding keys is the central gameplay, they are so small and hard to see, that I just ran past furniture and pressed E continously to get it. I almost forgot, there is a monster, but it got stuck between rooms so many times, that I could see it easily, it's just a human model with a black texture. A little creativity? Also the game tells you stand still, yet the monster's pathfinding is broken so if you stand still in a doorway, the monster can't go through and will just try to walk, but since you are blocking him, neither of you will get anywhere. Also, if the monster touches you are teleported to another part of the house. Is that supposed to be a penalty? Shouldn't this be something that drains resources? It's just not thought out at all. It's not even scary, since half the time the monster touched I didn't even see it. There is also a story, which at least has some mystery to it, even if it's told through notes written by people, who would never say things like that. I liked that there was some effort put into a flashback, unfortunately it all feels unfinished and unpolished and nonsensical. Had zero interest in finding the last key, so I just looked at a walkthough for the code, at which point the game broke and I got a message, that I am not supposed to be there yet. WTF?? Maybe make the game more engadging then. Running around with broken flashlight in a boring house looking for almost invisible keys is the opposite of exciting. It's not like I glitched out, players looking up the doorcode is likely possibility with every game that has these. In conclusion: Is this game scary? No. Is it fun? No. Is it at least a little interesting? No...errr very very, very little. So, just don't bother with this broken game unless you enjoy half finished indie titles. There are better free horror games on itch.io.