Posted on: April 8, 2025
emblemparade
Verified ownerGames: 354 Reviews: 4
Disappointing
It's a throwback Lovecraftian horror point-and-click adventure, which sounds great, right? But it's mediocre by its own standards. The atmosphere is excellent, but unfortunately that's the game's only strong point. The story is at once full of holes and predictable and the gameplay is clunky and frustrating. The first issue has to do traversing the building. In order to force the story progression, you are barred from moving around freely. The rationale is so silly that it breaks whatever sense of immersion is created by the rest of the design. There are various other events that happen in the game that also make no sense. Not Lovecraftian weird, just plain ridiculous. Worse, perhaps, the silliness creeps into the puzzles. They feel so arbitrary, solvable by just backtracking and clicking on everything with every item you find. But this is tedious rather than satisyfing, because of the incredibly poor affordances offered. For example, those areas that are initially barred from you will "open" later on. But that change is very poorly indicated (there's a document you find that hints at some of it) and it's basically an annoying experience of running around and finding out what has opened up. In one case a door that was previously described as a "dead end" was suddenly open-able. Ridiculous. Likewise, you better have some patience for pixel hunting. Often the area on the screen on which you can click is extremely tiny. This completely threw me off for one puzzle, to the extent that I wasted an hour looking for an alternative solution. Giving up, I looked up a walkthrough and realized that I just didn't move my mouse over the right pixel. Yay. There are much better horror point-and-click adventures out there. Play them instead.
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