I love it when games go on sale because it means getting to play something fun for less money. However even though this was .99 on sale and it is a game, I didn't have fun playing. There are so many items that are used throughout the game,, but the game only lets you pick them up when they are needed and no sooner. This makes it cumbersome more than inuitive. You have to try and hopefully guess where in the game you have to go to get XYZ items, even though intuitively there could be more than one option. For example, there is a wood plank you must pick up which is fine right? Well you can only get that one wood plank instead of the 7 others that are in the scene. Clicking things does not always work and nothing happens even though it was the thing you needed to click. Other things you have to double click and there is no indicator to let you know this. The NPC you interact with all game is constantly making the game stop with dialogue that doesn't need to be said. For example when you click anything in your inventory. Things you tried clicking before with become active, making your mouse cursor change, and the NPC will come up to let you know that you've clicked an item you don't need. There is a game within the game, which I usually love, but in this case it was a point and click puzzle in a point and click puzzle. This just felt exhausting after a few hours of trying to get through the main game. The game was so tiring in terms of feeling like I had no alternative methods to find solutions to the task at hand that it didn't even spook me like I was hoping. The few jump scares that were present stopped making me jump because they were all delivered the same, The music was only eerie up until the second hour and then it just became a burden on my ears to hear. Words can not express how much I did not like playing this game. I didn't bother to finish it even though it can be done in an afternoon, if that is any indicator to how much I did not like this game.
