Curse: The Eye of Isis

Awesome classic game now on gog.com available. Don't think twice grab it for this price. regards

Wish I could stop getting strangled. But otherwise enjoying it immensley. What more do you want for 29 pence.

Curse: The Eye of Isis is a survival horror game, played from a fixed camera perspective. Set in the 19th century, you play as archaeologists Darien Dane and Victoria Sutton, investigating a statue discovered by their parents that brought upon a curse that turns people to the undead and brings mummies to life. Now, they must return the statue to the tomb where it was taken from. You play as either one of them at a time, sometimes switching as the story progresses. You can only save whenever your friend Abdul appears, and can switch out inventory items between the 3 characters. If you played the Resident Evil series you'd find many similarities. The fixed camera, undead enemies, being able to save only at certain points, inventory management, and puzzles. But of course it's not as well-made as the RE games. For example, the fixed camera does more harm than good sometimes, it moves around a bit and can make navigation confusing especially in the Ship level, kinda poorly designed and many hallways look too similar. There's also little enemy variation, mostly just reskins, but the boss fights are pretty cool. The clunkiest part of the game is the controls. You cannot remap the movement keys, which on keyboard are the arrow keys, to WASD. Luckily, other keys can be remapped, so I use the WASD keys to aim instead. With proper keyboard + controls it will make this game a lot more smooth, but honestly once you get used to the controls they're not too bad. You'll be a bit slow yes, but then again so are the enemies. The story is pretty cheesy, too, very plain and didn't fully use its potential. But if you like retro, Resident Evil-style horrors with fixed cameras and inventory management, Curse: The Eye of Isis is a game you should probably check out. It's pretty fun to play, just don't set your expectations too high.

A fairly decent survival horror of little to no renown. Most camera angles are good, and aside from a few targeting errors, pretty clean of bugs. needs little love to become a great title.

While I read that it is closer in spirit to Alone in the Dark, it gets lumped in as a Resident Evil clone. I had such a good time playing the game. The environment, mood, and characters are all perfect. You can remap controls or on a controller and just vibe. I will say something controversial, but this is better than the first Resident Evil. Yeah, I said it! It's not too hard on normal difficulty and I DID beat the game on a keyboard and didn't die once. It's a solid, fun, lighthearted, game for people interested in RE-style survival horror games. Does it have a few animation issues? Yes. But that is part of the charm! It's pretty obscure so if you like underrated games nobody plays or reports on, there are a lot worse than this. My review is biased but I really enjoyed this game way more than I thought I ever would!