WORLD OF HORROR

That's a mouthful of a title, but World of Horror fits the bill. With a heavy emphasis on single-run playthroughs this game is meant to take about an hour of your time to tell you a unique horror story with absolutely tons of original events. With art inspired by Junji Ito and thematic elements taken from HP Lovecraft, you have a truly unique looking and feeling game. You will not feel "settled" while you play, even the music uses binaural frequencies to elicit unsettling feelings, and absolutely nothing in the game wants to help you. This means almost every character interaction is more about how little you get screwed over, rather than 'if' you do. Sure, if you stack a certain trait you may get passed one or two unscathed, but the reality is you are not supposed to beat the game easily. You are meant to suffer and fail. Over and over again. And this is where the Rogue-Like comes in, each time the events are randomly chosen, and if you die, that's it. Game over. Saving is almost not an option as you have to choose between sacrificing all of your skills or possibly also items in order to load the save back up. Truly a twisted option, but with games lasting the 1-hour mark you should be safe as long as you know you aren't going to be interrupted; otherwise treat it like it is 1984 for real (the year the game is based) and leave the window running. It is a small game and switching between the graphics options, including windowed modes, didn't seem to impact the title at all. The Adventure elements come from your ability to choose your investigations, hold a limited amount of items which may or may not interact with environmental or story factors, and it is all controlled through point and click input. The RPG elements come from the health and skill points, as well as magic and talents. Combat is turn based, and you select options which each have a "cast time" to fill an active battle gauge. Once it is full of commands you activate and your turn is over. Really great!

Lots of potential in this early access. The artwork is great and legitimately creepy, the mysteries are great, the timeline system feels like it can add to so much to the mysteries and their outcome. The gameplay works really well with the presentation. The soundtrack fits to the 1bit/2bit visuals but it can feel a bit too arcadey for something with unnerving vibes like these. All I want is more mysteries, more events, more anything really.

Firstly, thank you dev for putting this game on GOG. Literally the only thing this game needs is a little more development, but the experience is already addicting and fun. This is a must-buy for roguelike fans.

The game is a great roguelike old school RPG that always has you coming back to play it again, even if you die horribly. I cannot express in words truely how fun, creative and genuinely enjoyabe this game is other than saying I bought 2 copies of the game. One on GoG and one on Steam and have showed it to all my friends. If you like visually alluring games, old school RPGs, horror, the works of Junji Ito or just want to support a dev who legit deserves your cash unlike some AAA companies then please pick this game up. Hell pick it up on steam and try it out just to give it a go and see if you like it before you pick it up on GoG if you must but you should at least give the game a go.

It's an homage to the classics without the jank! The tutorial is clear, challenging and fun and that's just the tip of the iceberg. What's in development from what I've seen is more content because the product as stands is solid as a rock. Runs beautifully, full adjustable, looks fantastic, sounds amazing. It is NOT an easy game. Randomization does lead to grim demise and you always seem a thread away from death but it fits with the theme. This is not an RPG where you become godlike, it's a horror game with RPG elements in which you are most often just trying to survive. As stands there's some full satisfying mysteries with more added constantly. I don't know how finished it will become eventually but I still have a great time with what's here. If you like Junji Ito, 80s/Dos game aesthetic, roleplaying games with choices and consequences, haunting slow burn and grisly body horror and spine-tingling chip tunes this is an excellent investment.