Posted on: July 20, 2024

jeansjoe

Gry: 305 Opinie: 12

Yucky but worth it

It's a 5 hour game, the combat is clunky, there is no replayability. So let that reflect on how much you want to spent on it. But it also is a unique experience on a planet of yuck. The screenshots do some of it justice, but overall I would describe Scorn as an experience you reluctantly want to have. The game has no narrator but tells what little story it has with visuals or the interactions you can do with the world. It's a couple gunfights away from a narrative walking simulator. I have to say it took me a bit to want to play through this game. The whole setting is horrible, worse than that. You are on a planet that is barely alive, in a structure that used to do all kinds of horrible things to living beings and now you have to - And that question was the experience for me. This game doesn't need you to shoot up aliens to level up a hero, it doesn't need you to build a village for prosperity and the glory of your people. You cannot safe anyone in this scenario, but maybe you can safe yourself?!? but at the same time you as a human playing this are thrown into this uncanny world where there are clearly different understandings of morality and you are in a factory and you don't understand the purpose of it, but you know how to interact with it. So like a good worker boi you get up and you do your job. Because you have nothing else to go on here. And this feeling of looking for purpose and how you can find purpose and what you are and whom you are willing to sacrifice for it is what this game did for me. There are no answers to any of this but I really liked how this game asked the question. It took me around an hour to understand that the game can be more than puzzles and mediocre and frustrating combat mechanics. The game is super yucky, there are all sorts of body horrors in it, all sorts of horrific acts - so be aware of this. And the graphics and sound design drive this home.

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Posted on: May 10, 2023

Alex1989

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Gry: 177 Opinie: 4

Playable art installation

I was following the development of this game since 2016/17. It was a real pain for me to see, just how much this game struggled in development hell. The art of H.R. Giger and Beksiński speak to me on a deep level, they are as therapeutic as they are disturbing to me. So the possibility to have a game, which leans heavily into their style and philosophy sounded like dream come true. In the end i got something i did not expect. After god knows how many years, the original vision of the game deteriorated into an almost empty husk of it's former self. What i expected was a fully fledged game, what i got was an interactive art installation. As such it succeeds very well, so much so that i cannot rate it as a "game" in a traditional sense. Yes there are "gamey" elements here, like puzzles, combat, problem solving, etc... but they are so bare-bones and especially the combat, are more like a burden then anything else. Surely, if scorn wouldn't have been stuck in development for so long, the weaker elements wouldn't stand out so much, but it's a wonder it got released in the first place... So if you cannot stand games, that almost have nothing that is traditionally understood as gameplay, stay clear off, or wait for a sale. So why do i give this 5 Stars? As i said, i consider Scorn more like an art installation, a museum or an exhibition, then a game. So if this would have been a museum in the real world and you would ask me afterwards, how i would rate the experience, i would say: Well, the toilets were broken and the staff was a bit grumpy, but the exhibition was definitely a 10/10. I really enjoyed my time, wondering, pondering, soaking in the atmosphere and wandering around, trying to connect the dots for myself. In the end, i was a little disturbed and confused but as i stared into the abyss, it also stared back into myself and revealed something true about myself, humanity and life itself. That to me is the beauty of art and in that regard they fully succeeded.

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Posted on: May 9, 2024

CodAv

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Gry: 633 Opinie: 3

It's interactive art, not an actual game

Scorn definitely isn't a game for everyone. I wouldn't even consider it to be a real game, despite having some puzzles and combat - it's mostly a walking simulator inside a painting of H. R. Giger. Just like Giger's works, Scorn is very morbid, dark and sometimes outright disgusting, but not overly so, creating a really dense atmosphere or a rotting, half-organic world which was left by its past inhabitants. From a gaming perspective, don't expect much. There are a few simple puzzles which are reused throughout the game. There is no real inventory for multiple items, so anything the character carries is used right away. The combat mechanics are also very sluggish, taking a long time to aim, shoot and reload, and ammunition/health is relatively rare. This is by design, as combat is mostly optional and Scorn definitely isn't designed to be a first-person shooter. Scorn mainly lives from its art and interactive storytelling. The artwork and level design is simply amazing, often I've just stopped and looked around y taking in every little detail the developers put in there. The storytelling part though is the one I'm really not content with. You get some ideas about what most parts of the world were used for, but Scorn leaves you with more questions than answers after finishing it. There's no text or any other clues inside the game which tell you anything about the inhabitants, present and past. You actually have to buy the deluxe edition to get the art book, which gives some details about Scorn, but doesn't tell a cohesive story either. As a conclusion, if you like dark and gory horror and Giger's art - definitely play Scorn! If you are more into complex/challenging gameplay or don't like the genre, skip it. From the devs, I'd really like to have a DLC that goes deeper into the story, giving more details on the world and how all that what you see in Scorn happened.

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Posted on: July 23, 2024

Krasnoludek5

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Gry: 112 Opinie: 39

Positively disgusting, lite on substance

SCORN is... weird. It’s a game that’s very indirect about the story it tries to tell. You wake up without explanation in a decrepit ruin. You are clearly not human, as evidenced by you looking down at your own character’s body. The world you are exploring is also clearly not Earth – full of weird machinery, alien landscapes and even weirder, grotesque creatures. But the game never really TELLS you those things, or anything else. The best you can do try to interpret the story and the worldbuilding from the aesthetics and enviroments of the game. And the aforementioned aesthetics are the main draw of the game, and the main thing that makes it interesting. SCORN is positively disgusting, and in a good way. It’s populated by grotesque, mutated creatures that shamble about in unnatural ways, it’s full of bodily fluids, and fleshiness and weird variations of physical form. SCORN is not particularly original, mind you. On the contrary, it wears it’s inspirations on it’s sleeve, that being H.R. Giger and a Polish painter called Zdzisław Beksiński, but the thing is, I think SCORN is most likely the best recreation of those author’s styles I’ve ever seen in game form. And I think it’s worth experiencing just for that, because gameplay-wise SCORN isn’t really anything special. It has light puzzle elements and light combat fps elements, but mostly you just explore this weird, foreign world and wonder what all of the things you’re shown might MEAN. Mind you, if you have a low tolerance for “walking simulators”, SCORN might disappoint you as a game. But I think it’s still worth at least SEEING, so maybe I can interest you in my playthrough, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjlmyjiXEvo&list=PLp4TpsJ7HUWW-rHKte3d1YwFdXfNh3sxO

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Posted on: September 3, 2024

Lucid26

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Gry: 152 Opinie: 1

Oooozes immersion

Key word being immersion. I felt immersed in this games world. Being a huge fan of alien/s, H.R giger's and Zdzisław Beksiński's art and the interdimensional cosmic horror I feel when looking at said artwork I was very excited for this game back when I heard it was coming out. Many years later I had heard about the some of the bad reviews, while I tend not to look at individual reviews but do take them as a general consensus, and was frankly gutted. Well, I would have to wait for it to get low enough to buy before I delved in. Me personally I ADORE this game and wished I had played it long ago! I like games like dead space, resident evil series, alien isolation, souls games ( Kirby lol ) to give an indication of my general taste. A lot of those have this kind of dread and foreboding when playing them. Scorn Oozes that for me. Exploring a world that is so dreadfully alien, dark, depressing, gory, interesting. I haven't played to completion yet but I have played for 8hrs. It's called a walking sim by a lot of people. Well that's what I have been doing. Walking, using a controller. To soak in the atmosphere. The eerie music. The gorgeous environment. Looking at the world for clues as to what happened. People who rush through this and say they completed this in under 4 hours...why? Each to their own but for me this is to be savoured. The shooting/action is suited for this world where resources would be scarce, It isn't a balls to the wall action shooter. Nor should it be. It's akin to survival horror. I didn't get tricked into thinking that when watching the trailers either. The scenes are in the game, as is. The puzzles are interesting enough and hard enough to keep you guessing and trying. I'm not sure about the story so far, and you know what? That's ok for me. Souls games require online reading for some clarity. Same ball park. I am gutted that there will likely never be a sequel. Proper gutted. Hopefully I helped others see this game for what it is.

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