The Scarlet Harvest

There is no way people genuinely praise this game to the degree I'm seeing in these reviews. The dumb, campy tone is great for the first 30 minutes, but once the actual game starts, all fun goes out the window. And then drives off a cliff, in a car that's on fire. [list] [*]Signposting for some sections is entirely reliant on dialogue that's misspelled or unclear. (Zack and the windmill) [*]Lighting Issues make it IMPOSSIBLE to see in some sections, especially when you don't have the lighter/flashlight [*]Enemy hitboxes and grab points make crouching past zombies or shotguns tedious with janky controls [*]Platforming with the INCREDIBLY BAD controls is next to impossible and simply an exercise in how many times you can repeat a section. [*]Jumpscares aren't remotely scary [/list] Overall, this feels like a case of the developer not having someone in their ear telling them how tedious a lot of this game is. When competing a section is simply a matter of boring repetition while fighting both bad lighting and controls, there's fundamental issues here. I know the developer will say I'm too harsh on a $6 game, but the reality is that if your game isn't fun to play due to fundamental issues with how it's designed, then you shouldn't be charging at all for it. Go back to the drawing board if these disjointed, annoying snippets of a game are what you think is good game design.

Trashy Horror it is.

Puh... was soll ich dazu sagen. Ich bin hin- und hergerissen wie ich dieses Stück Software bewerten sollte. Die Atmosphäre des Spiels ist wundervoll und alles ist schön Halloween mäßig dekoriert. Alles funkelt und glänzt. Auf einmal hatte ich das Gefühl 49 Grad Fieber zu haben und meine Gehirnzellen verkochten beim Spielen dieses Spiels. Die erste Hälfte war ganz witzig aber dann wurde das Spiel plötzlich irgendwie merkwürdig. Ich hab auch nicht so ganz verstanden was so abging aber Kettensäge. Overall würd ichs aber empfehlen I guess. Also... ja doch... oder... hm. Doch schon. Glaub ich. GaLieGrü Hummus PS: MJOLKNOT spiele bitte dieses Spiel. Das wäre schön.

Bon petit jeu d'horreur dev par un seul gars ( on apprécie encore plus ). 2h de jeux pour un bon petit 8/10

I loved Jack Holmes : Master of Puppets and The Scarlet Harvest delivers! Great little title from @TonyDevGame once again!! Worth a play through. There were a few small bugs but nothing that stops you from completing the game.

虽然做过黑马级恐怖游戏，但依然想问作者：你到底喝了多少假酒？做出这坨游戏！详细请看https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Qx1aB9Efj

体验感还行 就是前期找人的时候有点恼火 那个扎克老登在水塔上 要炸烟火才有钥匙

Fantastic little campy horror. Just like with Jack Holmes, here you can expect some intentional or unintentional (?) cornball dialogue from the protagonist (this is a positive), surprisingly awesome music that'll have you stop and listen, and interesting vibrant visuals. Had some performance issues and FPS drops here and there, but otherwise an all around fun experience. If you haven't played Jack Holmes: Master of Puppets though, definitely go and do that before picking this one up.

I left my bad opinions about the demo and the dev gifted me a free copy. This isn't normally the type of game I play, but I thought it fair to leave an honest review, but the dev didn't ask or even reach out. I went into this with a bit of skepticism and it has it's ups and downs but it was a fun playthrough. The game doesn't take itself too seriously, the writing and plot are a bit campy in the way 80s slashers were; think overdrawn stereotype characters, over the top blood and chainsaw wielding cult members. The only thing missing is a slaughtered cheerleader. The gameplay is varied enough to keep it interesting, you go from a defenseless party boy being chased through the corn fields to chainsawing down doors looking for an ancient evil. The only thing I didn't really enjoy was a boss fight, but luckily they bugged out and I could site back and easily win. That was the only gameplay bug I saw, and the game never crashed. There are jump scares for instant game overs, and all but one felt fair and once you knew where they are you can avoid them. You'll probably die, but the autosave points are generous and I never felt like I was having to re-do things to catch up to where I died. The environments are suitably grimy and dim, with the dev not shy about hanging entrails where they don't belong. The scenes are well dressed and attention to detail has been paid to make the environments feel real and lived in. The sound design is mostly good, but some sound effect choices like the game over sting are a bit odd. The music is decent, though one of the boss choices felt odd to my taste. The game is not fully voiced, which is fair given it's a solo/small dev team. There are canned lined which vaguely relate to the text being read, they didn't get irritating. There are a decent array of graphics settings to tinker with, but as of the time of this review almost none of them seem to change anything for me. On a 3090 at 5120x1440 my FPS depended mostly on the environment I was in, with some having rate of 60-80fps, others were locked at my max 120. I spent a lot of time looking at the environments and probably an hour running in circles when it wasn't clear what I was supposed to do, but that only really happened twice. Overall a good bit of fun, and a pick worth of a halloween playthrough.

Nettes kleines Horrorgame! Wer lust hat sich an einem dunklen Abend zu gruseln ist hier richtig :)