"Song of Horror offers a truly dynamic terror experience: its antagonist, the supernatural entity known only as The Presence, is controlled by an advanced AI (Artificial Intelligence) that adapts to your actions and decisions. Experience unbearable fear as this otherworldly being responds to your way of playing and hunts you down in unexpected ways, offering a unique experience to every player and gameplay where tension builds up naturally instead of coming from scripted sequences. As a player, you will live this story through the eyes of a varied set of characters related to the story in their own way. Every character is different, and brings their unique point of view to the investigation, allowing them to approach clues and items differently. Their actions and decisions will shape the world: some of them will know more or less of certain aspects of the story; some will be more effective against supernatural manifestations, but all of them can die if the Presence gets to them – and death is permanent. If they die, you will have to pick the story up with another one, and continue the investigation so their deaths are not in vain. A mysterious antique shop, a forgotten abbey, an abandoned mental hospital... Each location in Song of Horror is inspired by the classics of the genre. Explore and investigate these haunted places to gather clues and items that will help you solve challenging puzzles while enduring the agonizing tension of the game's atmosphere." The Complete Edition of the episodic game Song of Horror, original available as a bundle of the base game and it's season pass. It has replaced the original Song of Horror page, episode 1, on steam. A bundle is available, discounted based on episodes already owned, for returning players to upgrade to the Complete Edition.
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This game is a good old school horror. It looked like the first Resident Evil, but without zombies. Instead, there are apparitions that pops randomly that gives you the creep and that's how the game is just perfect! If you run, you can trigger the Presence, but your character walk so slow to stay discreet that it gives you the chills.
Although, there is one big flaw in this game and it's about Daniel Noyer, the main character. If you choose to play Daniel and if he dies, you have to restart the whole episode and they take at least 2 to 3 hours to finish. So you'll basically never play the main character even if he has the best stats cause you'll prefer saving your game and continue the episode where you last died. It's kinda frustrating especially when you know how the game ends.
Outside of that it has mostly logical and great puzzles with an actually interesting story. It also looks and sounds great for an indie game.
I really recommend this one if you can stomach some frustrations while learning the games rules.