Scrutinized
If you are a fan of horror, Papers, Please, Welcome to the Game and challenging games then this is right up your alley.
Like other games released from the Developer, this one too features heavy jump scares that work and a real sense of stress.
This game is all about learning. In order to get better at the game, you need to keep playing it and really get multitasking down. Don’t expect to play it once and just breeze through it. I always see a lot of negative reviews toward these types of games without even learning 1/10 of what’s needed to complete it. Just be persistent, patient, and things will get easier.
– Real player with 48.8 hrs in game
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Warning! Spoilers and huge paragraphs ahead!
Scrutinized is a game where you play as a criminal analyst named Luna Youngman who files reports in search for the person who killed her cousin. Doesn’t sound too complicated, does it? Wrong. You also have two people named Tanner and Dmitri trying to kidnap you. You have to file a certain amount of cases a day to win the night, if you file too many wrong, you lose. If you get kidnapped or killed by either of the men trying to break into your house, you lose. If you don’t lock your windows before you go to bed, you lose. If you don’t check the cameras every 10-15 seconds, you lose. If you don’t check your entire house every 30 seconds, you lose. IIIIt’s a lot. As interesting as this game’s concept is, I just can’t bring myself to like it. I’ve made a total 3 episodes on Scrutinized at this point, and I understand how the game functions more or less. You lock your windows, you check the cameras, file or shred a report, check the cameras again, check the house, check the cameras, file a report and so on. It’s a constant stress that envelops in this game that is only resolved by beating the night, but not even then, if you don’t check your house the kidnapper will kill you in your sleep. And on occasions on the hardest difficulty you have a chance of just dying instantly. The developer has released multiple patches to try and fix this bug, but nothing seems to work. I have seen many, many, many clips on people just dying at the start of nights. Now I haven’t even touched the hardest difficulty because I honestly have no interest to. The ending is the exact same as the normal ending, and dying randomly doesn’t sound very fun to me.
– Real player with 29.1 hrs in game
20,000 Miles Under the Sea
Become a fearless underwater explorer and reach the bottom of The Mariana Trench to win 20,000* REAL DOLLARS!
Put on your suit designed especially for deep sea diving and get ready for the longest descent in your life.
This is a simple idle horror game, and all that is required of you is to observe the life of the underwater world and wait. If you get tired - you can minimize the game and continue to go down, doing other things.
– Real player with 952.5 hrs in game
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Garbage. It’s a terrible game. It’s really bad. It crashed again and again. And I opened it again and again. It’s just a waste of my time. Although you can see the fascinating ocean, you can also see a variety of fish. But unfortunately you can do nothing except watching. So why don’t I go to see a real ocean documentary? I think it’s much funner than this game. I don’t think it’s a casual game because it doesn’t make me feel relaxed, it makes me feel irritable.
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– Real player with 9.7 hrs in game
Dead Letter Dept.
After moving to the big city, you got yourself an apartment, and secured a temp data entry job- just to keep you afloat till something better comes along. Your official title is a Data Conversion Operator, but you’re really more like a warm body who types up all the junk computers still can’t read.
DAY TO DAY, you go to work & process the images displayed on your terminal, and type up whatever text is in front of you. Whatever can be made out, that is. Letters and lost mail, some mangled and twisted, that have travelled from place to place with nowhere else to go. Sometimes the mail you receive is a little strange. Sometimes, it feels like it’s talking to you directly through the screen.
DEAD LETTER DEPT. is a short horror game mystery experience, where you use your computer keyboard to type in various prompts, and attempt to decipher damaged images as oddities begin to appear.
Mouse & Keyboard are REQUIRED.
A keyboard with Function Keys and Control Keys (Insert, Page Up/Page Down) is strongly recommended.
M̶O̶R̶E̶ ̶T̶O̶ ̶C̶O̶M̶E̶…
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Dinobag’s Arcade
You have been hired to fix anything that breaks at the popular children’s arcade “Dinobag’s Arcade”. Each night you are given a list of things to fix, and it is your job to fix them… and then escape the monsters that haunt the arcade. Each night you receive a note with a list of things to fix, and then you must move around the arcade fixing those things while evading the arcade’s 5 mascots to try to escape with your life for 6 nights straight. Armed with nothing but a flashlight and the tools to fix the electronics that break, you’re in for a tough night, and a life of reoccurring nightmares, or no life at all.
KOSHMAR
KOSHMAR Gameplay PC | Horror Game 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI2oWX3vF6I
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
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– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
Pale Roots
You have sixteen weeks before the town ends.
Each week is comprised of your work at a local market, and buying what you need to survive.
The cost of dinner is always fluctuating with disaster.
Purchase food, bribe your boss, even saving the game has a price.
The narrative:
A local cult has slain the tree with pale roots. Tragedy and disease consume the town as an abominable new tree grows. You exist among a dwindling population, forced to survive sixteen dark and strenuous weeks.
Product features
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Earn money depending on your performance at work.
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Spend money to survive.
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Speak with many crazy characters as the town succumbs to tragedy.
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Keep your family alive.
BE HUNTED
A little challenging but fun. Good concept needs polish and some love
– Real player with 2.1 hrs in game
okay so first off I’m going to start by saying I’m glad i got this for 1.99
been playing this with my two friends and here is my experience
All the music in the menu is taken from labyrinthe, even the voice of the duck in the tutorial is taken from labyrinthe
The ghost models are from phasmophobia,
I chose to play hotel with my friends, only i was in the hotel while they were floating round my screen and they were in a totally different map, the EMF reader don’t seem to work nor does the thermometer, there is no clear indication as to whether or not your friend is ready or not ready when you click the ready button.
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
Fear Equation
I find it somewhat baffling that this mostly excellent game seems to have been released and then forgotten by most. While most games at least have a reddit sub dedicated to them, there is nothing for this game at all. Very few comments on indie game sites as well. Which is a shame, since it seems that, as a forgotten game, the chances of ever getting a sequel with enhanced mechanics is slim.
My only complaint with the game is that the social/faction mechanic is simply not as fleshed out as it could be. That whole aspect can be almost ignored with no consequence. Do they like you? Are they going to revolt? Meh…no matter most of the time. I would have liked to see some more interaction with the passengers themselves; in terms of maybe getting more detailed information by clicking on an individual passenger (relationship graphs to other passengers and to you. rumours, etc…) and perhaps be able to take more actions to affect their behaviour (ie. craft an edict. make a deal to send someone in with propaganda, etc…)
– Real player with 28.1 hrs in game
Overall, a visually beautiful, slower-paced game that reqiures you to manage the resources on the train, assign passengers to carriages based on their factions to prevent internal conflicts, and build defenses against the fog. Once you reach a destination, you can send passengers out to search for items/food/fuel, either through a random lottery or by rigging the lottery to send your stronger passengers.
It’s not a reactive game, like Deadnaut, instead you plan ahead and then watch it executed. Personally I prefer this style, but I tend to like management games anyway.
– Real player with 17.4 hrs in game
Find Yourself
I’m not quite sure if I enjoyed this game but I definitely don’t think I disliked it. I played Locked Up before playing this game and the dev does show some progression but the same basic premise is used in both games. Walk around and/or interact with certain items to trigger the next event. The biggest plus is that this game has a running option! So, it makes the game feel a lot less sluggish than Locked Up. There was a part where you were actively chased, which I thought seemed a bit unnecessary and out of place. However, it did add in a bit of a different kind of suspense, but I didn’t really like it. Unlike Locked Up, the main character can die which I did enjoy.
– Real player with 3.8 hrs in game
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EMIKA_GAMES is definitely a horror up-and-comer! Their first being Locked Up (LU) a bold haunted house starter. But one which I concluded was undone by its story and the overbearing, ravaging sound effects instead of the much-needed subtler silence to give a healthy mix. I had no notion this 2nd title Find Yourself (FY) was even in production, because I thought their 3rd From Day to Day in development now was going to be it!
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game
Head Worms
Steam suggested me this game and I gave it a try.
A little pearl in a sea of horror games. Highly reccomended if you like this kind of games.
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
This game does an AMAZING job of creating an intense and scary atmosphere that keeps you scared, stressed and on your toes. It doesn’t rely on jumpscares (there is one, aside from when you get caught by the monsters), but rather just keeping the atmosphere creepy through use of amazing lightning, noises, and audio cues. You keep feeling like something is watching you/ stalking you, especially when you’re outside.
The gameplay comprises of solving puzzles and avoiding the monsters - taking the time to work out the monster patrols and running behind them creates really intense vibes. I love it!
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game