In Sang-Froid you play as a lumberjack who must fight every night against creatures, mostly wolves and werewolves, to protect your home and your neighboor's. The game has a good atmosphere, very entertaining gameplay and quite some new ideas. There are many pros and cons, but the gameplay is definetly it's biggest strength. The description on the store's page brings attention to the fear factor system, which is quite an interesting and atmosphere-establishing mechanic, but it's far from being the main attraction gameplay-wise. It's in the strategic elements that the game truly shines. At every level you must carefully place different traps at different spost to try and outsmart the waves of enemies that are coming to ruin your structures. Planning the interactions, sequencing and timing of the traps is a very satisfying experience. Many of the traps need to be manually triggered and demand your attention to work properly, this makes the player get involved in the process in a way that tower defence games don't usually do since your "structures" often do the whole job by themselves. Many games in the genre give you a character to control so you can fight alongside your traps, but here you must also operate them in order for everything to work out well. Fighting, on the other hand, is pretty bad. The fear factor system is all about helping you in a fight, but the combat system way too slow and clunky. The game's story is bland. Graphics are also lacking, but fine. Animations, specifically cutscene animatons, on the other hand, aren't looking great at all. Despite this, the atmosphere is quite nice and so is the soundtrack. It is not scary at all though, despite being categorized as a horror game. I would definetly recommend the game to anybody who is after a good tower defence game or strategic gameplay in general. It is very fun to play, offers quite an unique experience with many new ideas and the atmosphere is on point. It just lacks is a little bit of polish.
