WORLD OF HORROR

There's some decent content here, but it's a $5 to $7 game not a $20 game. The game is absolutely nothing like the trailer at all. It's 99% static images with the occasional 2 second animation. The individual missions have a plot, but they're mostly random encounters vaguely related to the story padding out a single boss encounter and a few paragraphs of plot. Keep in mind that the missions have nothing at all to do with each other or the overarching plot and there are only a couple of them. The gameplay is pretty weak too. The spells are essentially useless. The ghost banishment sequence is the same for every single ghost and there's a flowchart of the optimal guesses to make. Combat is entirely dependent on getting a weapon that matches your character's primary stat and randomly getting the right perks. The timing system seems unique at first, but in reality it lacks any depth. It's also not actually unique so much as it is rare; it's called action points and there are quite a few games that use them. The interplay of decreasing stamina and reason along with increasing doom (failure conditions essentially) contrasted with increasing stats is sorta interesting, but from a practical perspective there's not much there. You have to balance those three stats so that you don't die, go crazy, or take too long allowing the cult to win, but what it really means is that you need decent RNG in beginning so you don't take a bunch of damage in combat before you can defend yourself. Some of the more interesting content requires a sequence of rare random encounters all in the right order. The otherworldly Thirst achievement comes to mind. At least the Strange Lights event has an interesting result. Then again the ending of the game is just, "congrats, you beat the eldritch god", so the bar is pretty low. I put a ton of hours into this game, so I can't say I dislike it, but I only recommend this game when it's at least 67% off. It's game jam quality at a professional game price. I'm a professional software developer for what it's worth. I can't draw, but I could throw the rest of this game together in my spare time in under a year. There's no excuse for this guy to take years to make this and him calling it a full release while leaving so many little things unfinished is pathetic. For those of you that weren't paying attention during early access he always had a new excuse as to why he'd blow a deadline then there'd be complete radio silence for the next year until he'd push out an update. None of the updates should have taken two years. He should have hired someone to help if he was struggling so much. tl;dr: decent indie game if you're into Junji Ito, but not worth $20. Buy it and enjoy, but find some people to play call of cthulhu with while you wait for a sale.

NO MORE ABANDONWARE!!!!

[h3] インディーゲーム開発って難しいのだと感じるゲーム [/h3] 　このゲームはかなり早くから期待していただけに残念だった。もともと更新が遅れていた節があって、元来カードゲームテクストなゲームであったと聞いていた。日本語化が遅れたとか暫く開発に更新がなかったとかそういうことは置いておいても、今の今まで出すと言っていた追加コンテンツがなかなか増えないのは流石にどうなのかと思わなくもない。 　肝心のゲーム部分は相当ネタバレを避けて話すと、所謂CoCにおける「一本道シナリオ」に近い……というよりシナリオブックを読んでいるような気持ちになる。良いのか悪いのかは置いておいて、シナリオ自体はよいものが多いのだが、良くも悪くもシナリオクリアまでの道筋はTRPG的ではない。このゲームに必要なのは一連のキャンペーンをまたいだ物資確保、ランダム要素の強力なスペルの厳選等々、やはり元々カードゲームで作ろうとしていた文脈の比重が大きいように感じる。前準備なくハズレシナリオを引くと難易度が異常なほど高いのは、海外のサプリメントっぽいと言えばそれっぽいが。 　全体的に上述のゲームテクスト部分がシナリオ毎にだいぶ異なっているため、謳い文句を額面通りに受け取ると「う～～～ん……まあ……TRPGか？TRPG……じゃないな……でもボードゲームでもないよな……」という印象を受けるかもしれない。いい点を話すと良くも悪くもパk……オマージュ元をうまくピクセルアートに再現しているので、ボディホラー物として消費するには結構十分なキモさが敵にある。音楽もいい。というか音楽がこのゲームにおいて一番いい。 　恐怖の世界はインディーズとして結構出来上がるまでに迷走していたような印象を受け、ゲーム内のシナリオ等はよいのだがゲームシステムと合っていない部分が多い。まあそれでも全体的には最低限のラインを僕の中では維持していたのだが、どうしても追加シナリオがこないのはいただけない。DLCなりなんなりでドカっと有料販売でもいいのでやってくれたらいいのだが、キャラのポートレートModが多いコズミックホラーものという点を加味しても、じゃあDarkest Dungeonでいいじゃん………………となってしまうため、厳しい評価にならざるを得ない。

Abandoned by the devs, not really worth the price given how little there is in the game. A lot of content is missing

I really tried to like it but the best part about it was the trailer

Unfinished

Abandoned. A real shame. it had an incredible amount of promise. This was released from Early Access clearly unfinished and it seems like the dev has no intention of continuing development.