The reviews on GOG are much more accurate than the reviews I saw on steam in terms of overall score. This game is down-right awful, and I can't see how anyone could really rate it above a 1/5. For starters, the game isn't scary. I mean maybe if you've never played another horror game or never seen a horror movie in your entire life this might give you a jump scare once or twice, but even then it's a stretch. The game is actually just a simple walking simulator. One with a terrible story and the most edgy annoying lady of all time babbling nonsense in lieu of plot. There is zero interaction beyond reading sheets of paper spread throughout the area. Sometimes you have LITERALLY no control as you sit on "rides" and watch a non-interactive scene. For example (minor spoilers) the first "ride" is a water ride which tells the entire story of Hansel and Gretel. When I say the entire story, I mean the ENTIRE story. As in, you are sitting on this ride for 15 real world minutes watching shadow figures in the shapes of the characters on a virtual rock wall. If that sounds really bad, that's because it is. I think they wanted the story to be deep or something, but it just comes off as something that would be written by an edgy twelve year old. Mother loses her son, mother has issues, mother rants about the "true meaning of life". Made me want to jump out my window (my apartment is on the third floor). The game took me 52 excruciating minutes, and that was with reading most of the sheets of paper spread throughout the game. The one segment that has any semblance of actual horror-aesthetic is in the last ten minutes of the game, and it was stolen from the PS4 game P.T. (a looping segment that gets scarier as it goes on). The fact games like this get high ratings confuses the life out of me. I just don't get it. There has to be some standard for quality, and this game doesn't come anywhere close.
