Conarium

The game is functional, but it's not really fun, the whole experience felt more like a movie than a game, except sometimes I'd get stuck for a few minutes because I missed a key on a shelf in the corner of a dimly lit room. It's about 4 hours long, it might be worth it if it's on sale and you have nothing better to do.

Story: 4/5 Worldbuilding: 4/5 Art Design: 5/5 Graphics: 4/5 Sound: 4/5 Gameplay: 3/5

If you read the other reviews, they're quite positive, but seem to come from lovecraft fans. I never read a lovecraft book, but bought the game anyway to give it a try. This review reflects this point of view. I finished the game, it's short. The graphics, setting and atmosphere are nice and all, but the story doesn't make a lot of sense. When the game ends, all is left unanswered, perhaps because I didn't read lovecraft stories. In this game, there's very little to do and not a lot to explore. The few puzzles are not very good. Not having read the original stories, I missed all the references, and the game per se, without them, is quite shallow. So, I can't say I enjoyed the game a lot. (don't misunderstand me: I'm not judging lovecraft stories, they're known to be at the very least quite influential and often praised) TL;DR: If you're not a lovecraft fan: there are a way better walking simulators, you can skip this one.

even though I am big Lovecraftian fan, this game unfortauntely falls short. No true horror, boring in the second half. Too many mixes of lovecraft stories makes it a mediocre experience at best

Playing on Linux and confronted to this error ? "Your aplication is built to load COOKED content was found; This usually means you did not cook conrent for this build." Edit start.sh script, add the line export MESA_GLSL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=150 under the "//options" comment line Enjoy !