Alone in the Dark

This is such a underrated game. It has good atmossphere , great and intresting story , good gameplay

For starters it is worth to note i have never before played any Alone in the Dark games, so i dont have any earlier experience to compare this with or nostalgic glasses. Okay, so how is the game... Game is rather pretty looking. Too bad it keeps stuttering, bugging out and being rather demanding for its provided quality. Story is so-so. Voice acting is somewhat average, though for this game they are also the best part, which is a warning sign for overall experience considering their quality. Combat feels like it was afterthought or if it wasnt, it was done awfully. Sure you can try to sneak your past some enemies and situations or distract them with throwables. For the parts were combat cannot be evaded however, it is atrocious. It is all clunky, unsatisfying and really brings this all down even more. Also for people suffering from "completionist" virus who want to have at least every collectibles/conversations/lores, this is nightmare. Oh, but by using walkthrough you will not miss any and can just play it once through and be done with it? Hah, you wish.. See, there are 2 characters you can play as - and you must play with them BOTH to get all aforementioned collectibles. So, suffer through this all AT LEAST TWICE to be satisfied with collectibles. This truly is horror experience.

I play it the first time and beat it through one of the two campaign and had a blast had I not tried to blitz through it through my first playthrough before going to sleep. It is a pretty game. It is an amazingly pretty game and the other characters you interact with are impressive when you want to look into detail for what it is. The game can feel like a GPU demo but I can assure you the combat at first can feel a bad for the first few enemy encounters. The game would have looked amazing but put it on the lowest settings so I can prevent fps drops with my current set up. The puzzles are decent when you have patients to do them, but kinda needed to get some help when it involves the saves in the game. The first one felt like it was bs to find on your own, but the ones after that not that bad. Storywise, I was certainly thrown multiple times into redherrings for what is actually going on when I thought I peaced everything out. I reccomend it when it is on sale or eager to play it, and easy to 100% complete for acheivement hunters.

The setting and vibe is really good, but the gameplay, puzzles, exploration, combat and basically every game mechanic it's utterly dissapointing. It's barely an OK game, I finished it just because I bought it. The acting is weird, the dialogs, behaviour, and verything is nonsense.

If you love Lovecraft's works and the early twentieth century USA, this game will captivate you, especially the characters and the setting. Unfortunately, some elements did not convince me, such as the fights penalized by a very clumsy camera management; furthermore, the monsters absorb several gunshots, to the point that it is often better to run away rather than fight. Furthermore, several puzzles are not intuitive, to the point that understanding them without using the internet is not easy. In the end we have a good game, but I recommend you buy it discounted.