The Mansion of the Macabre

This is going to be a short and unhelpful review I'm afraid, so I apologize, as I haven't had the opportunity to play this game. The first thing that jumps to mind when I see the male protagonist is Alone in the Dark… I only have a small bit of experience with AitD, but it’s obvious something is amiss with this game. If you watch the whole trailer, you will see scenes unfold that are deliberately stolen from Alone in the Dark. A model-T car drives up; a frog is watching you; guy hops out of his car; he walks to house as a creature is watching him (though you can’t see that in this game because its way too dark), find a room with a rocking horse and a lantern. Literally the same gameplay footage from AitD! Haven’t played AitD? That’s okay, you can either play the GoG version or check out the screenshots on Mobygames, and you’ll see it’s scene stealing using crappy assets. Final point I wanna make that caught my eye, that no one has mentioned so far, is that the two protagonist are very clearly Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence’s faces. This game is a complete knockoff and should have no place on GoG’s platform.

Other comments will explain the context behind this game far more than I do (originally a fan remake taken down, released now with a non existing copyright no., etc...). However, what really troubled me is the fact than when contacting GOG about this and about the mounting amount of what could be called "shovelware" on this platform, I was ghosted, I sent my first email on September 12th, never got anything other than the "we received your inquiry" email, and sent a second one on the 25th. I have yet to receive any sign of life to this day, no ticket closure notification, no answer, nothing. I feel like this game might be an example of where GOG is headed as a store. A platform without QA or vetting, and on the long term I fear we might get more and more "Hitman (2016)" releases which clash with the original spirit of the store. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

1. Why is GOG allowing asset flipping not even modded crapware based off a freeware game on this platform? 2. Why is GOG allowing "Me" a non customer for this product to make a heavily biased though ethical review. I'd like to read GOG's view on this. Curious if this dev/pub did a bait and switch asset flip with GOG once store approved, and GOG simply hasn't noticed (yet)... or GOG isn't as ethical a store front as I'd thought. A repeat of the link (Thanks Ragny) to Itch.io that clearly shows the illegalities and poor ethics behind this "paid" release. https://web.archive.org/web/20240814201031/https://teamtatou.itch.io/alone-in-the-dark-remastered

Everyone should be mindful that this game is Alone in The Dark 1, the very first made years ago. I wouldn’t buy it again, as I already bought the original trilogy from here

This looks exactly like it was Ripped from Alone In The Dark 1 from the early 90's. Im not even sure this should even be allowed on the GoG store.