Nosferatu: Wrath of Malachi

Nosferatu as a FPS falls into the same place as King Kong the Game and Call of Cthulhu: DCotE, it's a weird but effective experiment that resembles a fever dream. Try to remember those constant childhood nightmares after watching Bram Stoker's Dracula or any vampire flick, because this game recreates that to perfection. You can perfectly sense that you are not playing an adaptation, but more like the developers' memories about those works, creating that dreaful ambience that your mind created during that horrific nightmares from your childhood. But there's no best way of explaining this that with the randomly generated castle, which, because of limitations of course, has this design that doesn't feel at all right, but thanks to that, gives the same uncanny valley feeling that a dream does, while also not being difficult to navigate through. Also, it keeps things away from being repetitive if you do a replay, even though the maze like nature of it can be quite boring. But of course there's more that just wandering through rooms, and there is a word that can describe the other aspects of the game: rawness. From the stock music and sounds, to the low graphics and unstable shooting, and yet, I have enjoyed this, because, again, it resembles those childhood nightmares where your young brain had to use the sounds and looks of a movie just to scare you while also creating a place that made you feel uneasy, like this game's randomly generated castle does. This time, you are not a scared kid, but a Van Helsing like hero who has come to revisit those old nightmares in order to put an end to them with your full set of holy weapons and tactics, and boy, what a fun time I had while doing it. A truly cool videogame for retro gamers and others who want to try something different, but be aware of the archaic nature of it.

You must find you family before they get killed. The castle is randomized each round. This is not a game with a rich and deep story, it's a simple time-based runner. Albeit good at that.

This is an amazing game. When you think about it there are not that many games about vampire slaying out there, especially not that many good ones. There are some mainstays like Castlevania, but what if you're not in the mood for that type of experience? Nosferatu is a very good change of pace from what's out there and indeed it feels like if the old Vampire Slayer Half-Life mod had a real story campaign. If that sounds like something you'd like to play, give this game a whirl.

I'm finding this old game a lot of fun. The first thing I did was see if there was a way to set higher screen resolutions and I found a package of Noseferatu.exe files on the internet that allow you to play the in many different screen resolutions and aspect ratio's. You just copy the exe file for the resolution size you want and paste it into the main game directory and click overwite. The game is just good old fashioned horror fun. It's like starring in your own old vampire horror movie. You wander around, collect weeapons, like a sword, guns, stakes etc., even the cross acrts as a weapon that scares away vampires. The main goal is to find your family members and bring them to safety. There's monsters and vampires that spawn, some are easy to kill and others can be quite difficult. Where items are located is random and their are other random factors to the game that add some replayability. Overall I am very much enjoying this game and it was worth every penny.

This game is an absoutle bargin! Amazing atmosphere, Creepy music, Jump scares, and more! Sure there are a few bugs like getting killed by a door, and taking damage by walking downstairs sometimes , but nothing too crazy, just keep saving as this game lets you do this anywhere! And best of all no tutorial needed just jump straight in and play it's that easy!