Wardwell House

"Wardwell House" is a 360 degree black and white photo viewer with a simple "adventure" game stapled on. Click around various photos to explore the horror mystery presented by this "gamelet". The graphics in this game are passable, but could be better (couldn't they afford a colour camera?). And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. It's free... now, but it wasn't before. The developer was charging $2 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It's a nice gesture for the game to be given away for free, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at just a dozen or so concurrent players, and now there's basically nobody playing it. Even though it's free. This is a dismal public reception, but it's easy to see why gamers rejected it. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? This is a "maybe" experience... if you have a lot of free time on your hands and nothing else to do, why not? But for the purposes of a review, this isn't something I can say everyone must try. It's not quite there. Valve doesn't give us a "maybe" option in reviews, but if they did, that's what I'd choose for this.

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GOOD DARK HORROR GAME!

Interesting visuals. It kind of reminds me of an old flash game I played as a kid called Exmortis. But the story is told horribly, and doesn't even line up with what you're seeing. Apparently you've been lost at sea on a kayak for weeks, but the "ocean" you washed in from is clearly a creek. Somehow, the protagonist is able to tell what date it is from an antique windup clock. The house you explore is clearly not the one you saw from outside, and toward the end you're suddenly in another completely different house. The house has working electricity, freshly laundered clothes, and freshly killed corpses outside, but not only does the protagonist still think the place is abandoned, but that it's safe place to crash for a few days. References to the Salem witch trials keep getting thrown around, but no connection to them is made, unless "spooky things are happening" IS the connection. The narration is understandable, but still badly written. The "game" consists of clicking on arrows to move along a scripted path, with no choice as to where to go, puzzles to solve, or anything that would constitute as gameplay. It doesn't help that you're forced to go up and down the same forest path three times and through the house twice, always in the same order as the previous time. The game is free, short, and clearly made by amateur devs. But without any enemies or puzzles, a game like this lives and dies by telling an engaging story. The story in this game is bland and badly told, making it not worth playing even for free.

Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!

A breath of fresh air. It stands apart from the rest of the pack, due to it charmingly antiquated myst-like navigation, and art direction. While other games seem to have had more money to throw at development you can tell this small team did what they could with love. Well worth my time. I hope they continue to with more projects.

当年没钱买游戏的时候每天找免费游戏玩。这个就是4399恐怖游戏点点乐的3d升级版。很有氛围感，探索废弃老宅，全程可以放松地玩，[spoiler] 只有最后反转一下 [/spoiler]