Who Knocks

Too muck backtracking for every little thing you need. Have spent 4 hours just walking around looking for things that weren't there 20 minutes ago and now they are there WTF? This game has crashed 4 times in 4 hours... 2 times i hadn't saved and had to replay 30+ minutes. Game was poorly put together

The concept of walking around a spooky house solving puzzles and exploring new areas is always a good one. Unfortunately, a lot of decisions lead to this game feeling really awkward. There is a great deal of jump-scares early on, almost to a silly degree. Some of them the audio is blaringly loud (I took my headphones off multiple times). The "puzzles" so far are entirely checking cabinets for items and then eventually using those items on the right locations which then give you other items to use in another location. The only time an actual puzzle has appeared so far was putting the four weights in and that was decent but then for some reason the keypad had the keycode written on the wall next to it too. The story has not really come together to anything coherent so far, but maybe it does later. The game also, for some reason, features both limited inventory space and limited sprint-speed. Sprinting is exceedingly slow in the first place and the sprint-o-meter runs out within seconds. In Resident Evil, you have limited inventory making for interesting decisions about your loadout--do you bring healing items? Which weapon? Extra ammo? Will you need any key items? Here you have no control over your inventory (no item box) so when you run out of inventory space you just have to go walk to wherever you need to use a key-item and then tediously return to get your new item (all while waiting for your sprint to recover). There also seems to be some very basic combat in this game but it has been pretty meagre so far. For context, I got to the part where you get the gun in the bathroom before spending an extra 15-20 minutes walking around trying to find out what to do before giving up. An enemy spawns after getting the gun, but no other events seem to be triggered. My best guess is I missed one of the wooden animals in one of the dozens of cabinets across the home and need to pixel hunt to find it, but sadly I think I'm just ending it here. I think with some polishing and patching the game could be pretty cool (reducing the jump scares, audio improvements, more inventory space, more sprinting (or better yet no stamina system), and more logical/not-obscure progression), but as is it is just rather unpleasant and tedious rather than scary sadly.

This game was worth every penny!

WITZIG

So scary & so many genuine jump scares! The story is so well written & executed. The game looks amazing and has the right level of atmosphere to draw you in. It's brilliant.

POLECAM

This one is a lot of fun.