Tormented Souls

Not bad, i started using guides about halfway through. Im having fun though.

I waited a very, very long time for this one to come on a big enough sale. It was well worth the wait. This game knows its audience, as well as its genre. Without altering any of the settings, you can experience an incredibly difficult, confusing, and frightening game or, if you're like me and love spoilers, you can go on a gleeful rampage from the get-go. This game, unlike certain other Survival Horror staples I could name, doesn't get in the way of a good time regardless. My complaints are few, and I suspect they stem mostly from the challenges of independent development. The enemies get a bit repetitive, I don't find 'That One Enemy' all that intmimdating, and I've found an odd rhythm to the combat, which I suspect was not an intentional one. I also find the character modles a little too unrealistic to fit in with their hyper-realistic surroundings, but that's just down to taste. I'm gushing, but then again I got this on sale for $0.99 down from $20, so it would have had to try to irritate me. Still, I've already recommended it to one horror-loving buddy.

I really love this game, it feels like some kind of resident evil and house of horror, idk but its awesome.

taking inspirations of the famous franchise like resident evil, alone in the dark and silent hill, this game offers a greatest soundtrack, immersive atmosphere and a classic S.O old gameplay (tank control). Im loved it and recommend too much.

Tormented Souls executes tank-control, fixed camera, locked room survival horror with competency and insight of the genre's origins. Environments are beautiful with only the odd asset overused. The game takes place in a mansion - nearly every room and hallway has a distinct character, the structure is interwoven in such a way that navigation opens abound once the applicable keys and latches are mastered, and the soundscape matches the sublocations beautifully. While the game is not without a few issues, the team excelled in a lot of areas : - The audio is top notch. Keeping an ear out is a vital component in surviving the mansion, and the various audio cues and ambient noises have an escalating unnerving element that's just perfect. - The positioning and management of the fixed cameras is nearly ideal. They control the tension in an area, giving time to be paranoid and time to breathe and decompress. - The "Nothing/Something Ratio" is great. Most high tension moments will pass without effect. The instances where "Oh No It's RIGHT HERE" occurs are just frequent enough to never allow the player to totally relax. - Environmental signposting is present and well executed. The most blatant example is a poster about being quiet to avoid annoying hospital patients being prominently displayed when you enter an early room with a sound sensitive monster lurking nearby. - Supplies are limited but sufficient. I never had enough ammo to feel like I could always use the weapon I wanted, so I had to adapt on the fly, but I was never entirely defenseless. Pushes riskier behavior, but isn't unfair. - Voice acting starts beautifully in the intro, then descends into line-read and narm. A real wink-wink tribute to the genre's classics! - Hard but fair puzzles. Why not five stars? - The final bit veers suddenly into Being A Video Game, hard. Lots of illogical bits and a genre shift where the climax of the horror crescendo be. - Three or four moments of seemingly unintentional jank.