MachiaVillain

I wanted so bad to love this game! On the outside it's got everything right: -Haunted House Sim. What's not to love about that idea??? I pictured The Sims but with monsters. But, unfortunately that was not the case. -The music is great, too. It gives the vibe of old horror films. -Lots of monsters to work with/train to do their various jobs, and cute pixel graphics to go with them. HOWEVER... Though the premise is absolutely amazing, the execution falls flat on its face: -The resource gathering element kills this game. It simply takes too long before you can do anything fun. And, while you are still gathering, you are forced to make sure your monsters don't starve and get enough rest. Also, the game expects you to somehow progress while still in this process. Really you shouldn't be prompted to progress for a long time into the building phase. I barely had one room when I was being told I had to do certain things that required many resources to do. -There is a serious lack of instructions. I was required to build a specific item, and I was being told to that I lacked certain resources... but I got no information as to WHERE to gather those resources. Wood? Trees... Obvious. Stone? The giant rocks... great. Metal? No clue. Gold? No clue. Evil Wood? Good luck because your monsters are too weak and will die trying to fight the evil trees this early in the game. It's a waste of time and energy. This game would have been fantastic if the resource gathering aspect had been left out completely. I wish it would have focused on the building and money collecting, like The Sims, and left the resource gathering out of it. Buy your furniture and whatnot from stores and be done with it. Instead you're gathering and building, which takes time, and your monsters are starving for people, which you can't get until you build a house and other objects. It's just too much too soon. Sorry, but I can't recommend this game, even though I absolutely love the premise of it.

I really like this game and still enjoy playing it but man does it have a lot of problems. The game runs fine until you get to a certain point, at some point you just get too many minions and the game starts to chug bad, and because you have to many workers you can really start to shape the map but all that building and piles of resources laying everywhere causes your loading times to spiral out of control. Deleting certain workstations causes your game to become incapable of saving. This can be worked around by disabling certain jobs for a moment but it still should not happen in the first place. The same bug also causes your minions to be unable to use those workstations. Certain workstations won't remember what options you select for them. The interface works fine for the most part but it far too easy to accidentally delete an object. The food needs of your minions need better balancing, too many minions eat meat and the other foods have little to no monster diversity. It's disappointing that your monster minions seem to have no personality, there are no monsters that can't get along, they have no preferences what so ever, and all have only the same two needs of food and sleep. Some of the monsters you can get are completely useless compared to other monsters. The suspicion meter also doesn't seem to do anything (other then lower the amount of victims) until you fill it up completely, at which point you get completely fucked over by a massive wave of enemies. "Luckily", the combat is kinda broken, you can just sent out a single minion for the enemy group to focus on and they will run after that minion and ignore everything else on the map. So with that distraction the rest of your minions can just pick off the enemies one by one with overwhelming force. The research tree feels uninspired, they just dumped all similar things together and called it a day. Most potions feel completely useless. I feel you can't make a mansion that feels really lived in.

Can't speak for others, but I've loved every second of this game so far. Build a mansion to lure in suckers, kill them with your horror-themed minions, and expand your property to be more elaborate and impressive. It's slightly annoying to have to reset traps constantly (no endless Rube Goldberg traps in that regard), but fully automating everything would also ruin some of the charm anyway. What's the point of having monsters if they don't do some killing themselves once in awhile? Worth a buy imo. Even off of a sale, it's not expensive for all the fun you'll have with it!

I was looking for something to play before bed that didn't require a lot of thought and this fit perfectly. Don't expect a lot of depth though. It seems that there have been many bugs fixed since release, but as of this writing it's still a bit rough. Hopefully the devs will continue to update it.

This is one of the game I find myself going back and playing every once in awhile. A fun create your horror house game, with resource management aspects. Truly one of the oddest games, I've brought. In that I prefer playing the non-updated version I backed up when purchasing the game. Less features and items, but a better game loop with less buggy game play and still fun. I noticed this recently when I attempted to install the game via the Gog Launcher, instead of from my external hdd. That game had been updated at some point, and the previous version was no longer available in the games download versions. Making me grateful I have the back up copy I like playing. Sadly I ran many bugs with the Electrocution Update//version 2.6, it is still 'playable' even while buggy. But I did uninstall and install backed up version from my hdd which is version 1.01 to casually play again.