Daymare: 1998

if u love horror survival u might enjoy this despite its quirks. i give 4 stars since it is an indy title the defs deserve some praise

I´m problaby almost at the end of chapter 2 soo... this review is to this point. The game tries to be a Resident evil/ Silent Hill/ Dino Crisis clone. You have the classic RE4 style action, the sometimes hallucinations of Silent Hill and the mixture of medicine to have different types of effects like in Dino Crisis. The game is more or less enjoyable. My complaint is, like most Resident evil clones, the enviroment is too static. The character model, despite the gun swinging on it's back, is very dull and during the cutscenes, the characters are too stiff. This was probably their first efford in making a RE style game... nevertheless... it's better than most if not all before him. I give a 4 star review for efford and hope they did better in Daymare 1994.

Its a game without poolish, but its fun for de Survival Horror Classic Fans!

Definitely a good vibe, has some casual natures, but very much like RE, good times.

Made by an indie studio from Italy, the game really has one clear: be a tough survival horror title with hardcore mechanics. You play the role of a mercenary sent to clean up a shady lab experiment gone wrong and have to defend yourself against the classic Resident Evil threat, zombies plus a few more surprise enemies. The main hardcore mechanic that sets this game apart is the ammo management that you need to do on the intended Daymare difficulty. You have finite magazines to put inside your weapons and each magazine has their individual ammo count that is tracked in your inventory. You can then manually load your magazines out of combat if you manage to find spare ammo boxes laying around. Also there are 2 reloads, a slow one that retains your mag on the weapon, and a fast one that drops it on the ground. You can then later go back and search the ground for your dropped mag. The game also includes some classic survival horror puzzles, they aren't too easy or hard, I think they managed to balance them pretty decently. A puzzle might take you 5-10 minutes to figure out. Some enemies have very goofy/janky looking walk animations, which I can forgive. But the writing and dialogue can be extremely weird at times. I have my suspicions that the game was written in Italian and was just Google translated into other languages. The English translation was difficult to understand and the Turkish translation was just outright nonsense, gave me a good chuckle to be honest. Anyway, if you aren't scared by a bit of broken English, or happen to know Italian and are a survival horror fan, then by all means check this game out. I hope some of these hardcore mechanics make their way into more mainstream titles in the future.