The Forgotten Tapes: Analog Nightmares

When I found this game on Steam, it was mostly positive reviews, so I thought, how bad can it be? Well, that was a question I should have given more thought to. I hate to speak negatively about someone's hard work, but I must say, for 6.99 I was shocked at the quality of the games. Let me be clear, I'm not referring to the rendering or visual quality; I'm simply referencing the games themselves. They had nothing in the way of a cohesive story, nor did they provide any sort of horror atmosphere. I've played so many horror games, some free, some not. This whole series should have been free. A great example of this anthology style compilation done right is the PS1 haunted demo disc and the Dread x collection. The haunted demo disc was free and had many more games, all of which were of better quality. I'm sure the developers for each of these games worked very hard, but I regret this purchase. I only played 5 of the 9 games offered, but based on those alone, I felt as though I had a pretty solid idea as to what the remaining one's would be like. Up to you, but I would save your money to put toward another game, or slide over to ITCH IO and play something for free. You'll enjoy it much, much more.

Ok so I was given this game by the awesome DEV. I have played through only a few and I love where this is going. I am showing each gameplay with each video on my YouTube channel so if you want to see that then here ya go. youtube.com/@ionprime But overall I do like this game and have always loved the idea of housing games creatively such as this. You should try it yourself and if you are still stuck check my YouTube out to help you

game was sigma

El juego está realizado por 9 desarrolladores y cada historia es muy difernte entre si, tanto visualmente como la forma en que cuentan la historia de terror. Recomendadísimo! Lo jugué en stream y a mi comunidad le gustó bastante y me llamó la atención que cada quién le gustó una historia distinta. Tiene buenos sustos :)

Cool collection. Most games were fine, i felt like some dragged a bit too long but nothing awful. I would have liked it if there was more interactibility in the launcher, and perhaps an ending.

Not much point reviewing this I guess since it's now off the store (glad I got this when I did), but ah well, maybe it'll come back. Obvious comparisons to dreadx collections and haunted psx are bound to be made, but i think theres room for this too. The wrapper is nothing to write home about but it's functional and doesn't waste your time, you can just access the games and go, and it has a pretty decent liminal vibe. The games themselves well imho I enjoyed 4 of the 9, but I'd still recommend the whole thing since there's enough a range here in experiences that maybe your mileage will vary on how many you dig. Either way though, this is definitely for the hardcore into horror fans who can handle a lack of polish, a lot of jank, some weirdness and some wackness. All in all, if I had to summarize quickly I'd say this collection has two speeds: either the game is good/interesting/weird/engaging even if it's a bit jank, or it's just bad and or doesn't even work. Seems to be a pretty big talent gap between some of the developers here. A couple are at least kinda funny bad but most are just tedious and feel like creepy pastas for 11 year olds. I'll say this though, none of the games overstay their welcome (imho) and thats more than can be said about a lot of titles in some of these horror compilations. Here's my rundown: I enjoyed it: The Other One The Door The Mineshaft Garrison Broadcast Inputs flat out didn't work so I gave up and did not feel like redoing anything: UV Goggles Closing text crawl intended to be spooky made me absolutely crack up with laughter (you'll know why if you played it): Bobo's Quest A 5 minute long experience where you read a few text boxes and see a guy in a costume stand there... this one was SAD: Funhouse of Blood No way to adjust setting so runs like absolute ♥♥♥♥ with bad framerate so i didnt bother: Consume Gameplay includes flipping through camera views for over 100 seconds with nothing happening/no atmopshere: Night Sight Bring on Volume 2! lol