County Hospital
Edit 2: Was asked to replay this game and maybe make a new review.
They decided to change the key locations so you can experience it again. I am sorry to say, but i do not know many people who want to run circles for nearly an hour looking for keys that exact thing happened again. Especially with motion sickness, you developers out there need to wake up and realize that motion sickness is a real issue. Atleast make the config. file easy to find, so people can toggle it out on their own.
Problem with changing the key locations is that people are lazy and doing so pretty much makes all the walkthroughs useless. I do not see many content creators playing this outside of day 1, because it’s pretty much pointless unless you have huge following that watches anything that is shown to them. Also because of that the new walkthroughs will be really really hard to find on youtube, because of the way it’s search algorithm works.
– Real player with 1.9 hrs in game
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This game is not, in my opinion, finished yet. The cues for starting some events is reset when loading a save. I couldn’t even finish the game completely because I saved right after escaping and it basically just started the game from the beginning next load. I was lost A LOT! Had to cut almost 15 mins from the video below because it was just me running around looking for keys in the most ridiculous places. The voice acting does not fit the game.
Sorry, cannot recommend the game in the state it is and it is definitely is not worth the price the dev is asking for.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
Cruelty Squad
Cruelty Squad is a game that assaults all of your senses until you gain the skill and knowledge needed to assault the game back. Once you have ground the game into the dirt for what it did to you and there is nothing left to accomplish, it asks you if you are proud of yourself. The words make you feel like you winced, but outwardly you have shown no reaction. You continue to punish the game. You just keep playing. You have enough money but you keep harvesting organs. You have beaten every level over and over again but you keep replaying them. You’ve gotten S ranks in each level but you just keep going for shorter times.
– Real player with 114.3 hrs in game
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The art style is like being born again. Merely the appearance of everything is so unfamiliar, yet the form has a purpose. What is at first is an assault on the senses becomes this journey to have a precision beyond that of machine, to retire at 30, to be a home owner. But now that you’ve reached your destination, there’s a distinct emptiness. What more is there left to do? You’re a high net worth individual now, and you can’t truly take that journey for the first time again. If you throw away everything, you’ll just navigate effortlessly back to where you were. Simply put, there’s no more destination to venture to, there’s no journey to be had, you’re at the end of what this planet has to offer and what a society of miserable chunks of meat has to offer. What do you do at the end? Desperately try to relive any past experiences, no matter how boring they’ve become? Or maybe keep doing the same routine every day in hopes that something new will cross your path? What purpose does man serve when they’ve done everything?
– Real player with 41.1 hrs in game
Loveland
Detective, we have received reports of kidnapping and cult activity centered around a small trailer park on the outskirts of Loveland, Ohio. The members of this cult are lead by Pastor Abram, a recently denounced minister for the Heartland Church of Christ. Pastor Abram has experienced a sudden change in his demeanor, exhibited by his increasingly radical sermons in which he proclaims that frogs will save God’s children from extinction.
We believe that this may be the actions of an anomalous creature.
Take on the role of an Agency Detective, as you explore a rural trailer park in Loveland, Ohio, and uncover the secrets of a frog-worshipping cult.
Every decision has a consequence. It’s up to you how this story will end.
Loveland is inspired by cult classics such as Deus Ex & the X-Files. By blending immersive simulations with the psychological thrills of beings beyond our understanding, Loveland delivers an engrossing experience that will have you playing through the story multiple times.
Psychological Horror
Dive deep into the depravity of a religious mind, corrupted, as you uncover the horrific fate of the many members of the Loveland Cove Cult.
Non-Linear Gameplay
You are open to investigate the Loveland Cove Trailer Park in whatever way you see fit. Whether you do the bare minimum, or leave no stone unturned, the choice is up to you.
Multiple Endings
Do not expect your actions to go without consequence. There are multiple outcomes to how this story can go.
Immersive Aesthetic
Engulf yourself in the sights and sounds of a warm summer night in rural Ohio as you traverse through the eerily quite trailer park known as Loveland Cove.
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Son.Light.Sleepwalker
This game is something else, in a great/scary way. I was surprised to be presented with full voice acting throughout the game. I was expecting it to be another fnaf clone but this is far from anything that fnaf has shown us. I have noticed very few bugs even though it is still in early access, so that is something you should expect.
I will now go through the pros and cons of this game…
PROS
*Full voice acting
*Engaging storyline
*Great jumpscares
*ONLY 2 DOLLARS!!
*Fantastic Lighting
CONS
*The only con for this game would be that you dont own it yet!! ;)
– Real player with 1.1 hrs in game
Dread
Dread is first-person 4 player online co-op survival horror game. Explore haunted environments ranging from abandoned manors, the underground catacombs below Paris, abandoned schools and more in realistic detail. Investigate, find evidence and get out to get paid.. Or stay and figure out how to cleanse the location of the spirit. No two games are ever the same as each spirit has it’s own unique abilities. The locations change becoming more dangerously terrifying the longer you stay but the payouts are also greater.
Some locations allow you to roam outside of the haunted environments in safety and play a supportive role. Sometimes the safest play isn’t actually safe at all..
Realistic Terror: Dread was built from the ground up around realistic graphics and minimal user interface for full immersion. This will feel too real.
Interactive: Most things in the world of Dread are interact-able. Open everything in the search for clues. Leave no stone un-turned.
Cross platform: Dread allows VR and flat screen players to enjoy the game together.
Never the Same Game Twice: Locations change in different ways as the investigation intensifies. While poltergeists will throw things around more and more the angrier they get. A demon may reveal the grisly details of the location’s past.
Trust No One: Sometimes death isn’t the end. A spirit may decide to possess a victim instead of adding their soul to the location’s list of victims. A possession victim must eliminate the remaining investigators before they can escape.
EXP: War Trauma
Attention: This game has high psychological terror and scares, not recommended for people with heart conditions. By playing, you accept the above term and are on your own.
With extremely immersive first-person gameplay, EXP is a short experience, but extremely detailed and terrifying, an intense psychological horror.
Gameplay
You are completely helpless, your only weapon is your intelligence and extinct. Explore a mysterious and strange apartment, solve riddles, and most important of all, when the countdown starts, be quick.
Narrative
EXP: War Trauma has a fictional story, inspired by some historical facts from World War II.
You are Krieger, a traumatized WW2 soldier, as you progress through the experience, you will discover more about his history, his traumas, and what happened to him.
EXP Meaning
“EXP” stands for “Experience” which marks the beginning of a series of short games, with different themes, with the first being “War Trauma”.
It’s time for you to… Experience: War Trauma
Being a new style of game, which brings a short but detailed and atmospheric experience, to bring the greatest possible immersion, which would not be possible to be created by Indies Developers, if it were on a larger scale.
Deadnaut
Deadnaut provides a lot of creepy atmosphere, fun and replayability.
When I bought Dreadnaut and entered the game, I didn’t expect much based on the trailers available. It seemed just like all those top-down squad RTS games, which there are hundreds of. It was only 10 euros, so I decided to jump it and test it out.
I immediately reached out for the character creation. I’ve always been one for creating my own party/character, since the game experience feels a lot more personal. The character creation has two minor bugs, which I did not realize were bugs until I read the forums for a tutorial on character creation. The bugs:
– Real player with 20.9 hrs in game
In one campaign your fighting off waves of fast moving xenomorphs, through the flurry of fast moving xeno’s you see one of your men get dragged away through a airlock. Yet in another campaign you may be contending with the possessed remains of a former crew driven insane by unknown artifacts, behemoths throwing your soldiers around as artifacts obscure your command and control with horrifying visions of death and torture.
Deadnaut’s is a game that wants to immerse you in its universe. Your hud looks akin to something from a WW2 submarine simulation and your control over your soldiers is sketchy at the best of times. There are a large amount of things to take into consideration with Deadnaut’s and many ways for those under your command to come to harm or die, this may be the one area the game faulters in. It is a real time tactical squad based game, essentially a rogue like.
– Real player with 20.8 hrs in game
SIMULACRA
When you are a mature person and your childhood and carefree days are already over, you have kinda stressful job, you don’t feel like playing hard games, or games where you have to concentrate a lot. Sometimes, you just want to come over to your place. make yourself a cup of tea and just relax on comfortable chair and just enjoy some kinda easy game. Preferably, with a mouse only controls.
But to be honest, you need to be ready that games will be strange, or better call them weird or maybe even creepy in some kinda way, cause variety of the titles, that can be played with mouse only is pretty limited and you should expect only chinese visual novels, or some nonsense clickers, or easy tower defense games, or some puzzle logic games.
– Real player with 15.9 hrs in game
After playing Sara is Missing and hearing about Simulacra through that purveyor of all things horror-related, Night Mind, I decided to check it out. I was pleasantly surprised. The story is much more developed compared to SiM, and I enjoyed exploring Anna’s phone. The concept of the game was much more interesting than SiM, though I feel like it could still be better developed and hope the devs continue with this idea. While the text speak used by the main “players” of the game was perfectly realistic, I felt that the primary antagonist of the game
! Simulacra would not have the spelling errors I encountered in that character’s texting. For instance, the character used “lead” instead of “led” and “it’s” when “its” was intended. I know, I know, others might not have noticed or been affected by this, but I felt that the character would not have made those errors.
– Real player with 12.1 hrs in game
Chair Simulator
This game has given me purpose in life. I sit down. I stand up. I sit down. I stand up. The simplicity, yet challenge in this task represents the dualism of the universe. The strain from standing up relieved from the bliss that is sitting down. From the short 75 minutes I spent on this game before writing the review has morphed my entire outlook on life. I have learned the pain of death, the stress of pain, and the stresslessness of sitting. I sit and think. Think about the meaning of life. Think about my purpose here on this earth. And I have received enlightenment. I am the chair. I sit here with my arms on its doing exactly what it’s doing. I am becoming a vessel for the universe to pass through and maybe sit, gifting me with knowledge. I was lost before finding this game. Mindlessly going through the factory of life without much thought, this game has opened my eyes to the possibilities of this world that are sitting right in front of us. Overall, this game has been an eye opening experience that I would recommend everyone should try.
– Real player with 24.7 hrs in game
! You came. You sat. You conquered!
You’ve warmed countless seats, leaving a deep and indelible impression on each and every one!
Well done, sitlord.
! But…
! Sitting has changed you.
! You look down, now, at these limbs, at all this sinew and flesh. It seems so excessive, doesn’t it? Limbs, flaying. Appendages. Poorly-designed. A bit old-fashioned. Outdated? The real you has been trapped here, hasn’t it? Here, in this prison made of flesh.
It’s a thought you’ve entertained before, isn’t it? Privately. In dreams.
– Real player with 3.7 hrs in game
The Dark World: KARMA
For some reason, you’ve returned here. Everything has become strange. Your name, your appearance, your voice, and all your memories.
Through the help of an old man, you connected with your past memories by way of a strange tape, and embarked on a journey to find your memories.
In this dark world, experience strange encounters and wade through fragmented memories. As an investigation officer, uncover the truth and find the source of all the happenings.
Gameplay
The player plays the game in first person.
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Horrifying and mysterious experience: Darkness, monsters, and unusual sounds. The bizarre environment changes randomly; turn on your volume, and always be alert of your surroundings.
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Fragmented memories: You have to pay attention to the time and space of your location. Observe and spot key personnel and events. It will help you find your way out.
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Dive: Dive into other people’s minds and experience a familiar but foreign world. You have to find the truth and solve the puzzles surrounding your memories.
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Gather, investigate and solve puzzles: Different events will occur during your investigation. In this game, you have to make inferences carefully. Obtain hints and report back to your corporation.
Features
The Shrouded City
After the Leviathan Corp took over, nothing has changed for good.
A large aircraft hovers above the city, overseeing them.
This dark forbidden zone is your home.
Solve Safety Case
As a Roam investigation officer, you’re required to move at night and complete the tasks given by the corporation stealthily.
Find the key evidence to solve the problem.
Your identity is intimidating, use it to gain entry.
Strange Hallucinations
Dive into other people’s minds. Investigate and uncover the truth.
Filled with unknowns; experience the dark side.
Final Answer
You should understand that you did not return here by coincidence. The source of all these happenings is the final answer you seek to solve.
Fulfill your duty, or…
