The Shopping list is a full length mystery-psychological story rich horror game experience that blends unsettling scenarios with intense characters and a nostalgic retro theme. Rediscover your past as you try to make yourself at home in a new town. Enjoy different encounters and puzzles while talking to the locals, and finish the shopping list as the mysteries of the town watches from the shadows.
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for a game with such silly writing, it honestly does a really good job of keeping up with the tension, but it doesn't know how to deliver on it the story is just too unserious for the allegories it's trying to make the ending comes off more as funny than scary
but also important to mention that this is a free game
but also important to mention that this is a free game
The Shopping List was a game that I was expecting so much more from. It was described to me as a very good indie horror game, so I went into it quite interested, and everything felt like it should have lined up perfectly, for me to like it, but I didn't.
So, first off, I love Indie Horror Games, this game is a Indie Horror Game, it has a PSX Aesthetic, I love PSX Aesthetics, the game was an hour long, I love when games are more shorter and digestible for what they are, (if priced properly) and it's also free! How could I dislike the game? Well...
The game felt way too amateurish for me. It tried little subtle jabs of humor throughout, that don't really work. And while I like a good Horror-Comedy, this game tries leaning into being a hardcore Horror game, but then out of nowhere, straight into Comedy, with entire comedic points. So it completely, at different times, switches its genre.
The game tries to build up this, ''You are being stalked...'' atmosphere, because there is a Serial Killer going around, and while I did expect this, it just feels so scripted. Like you know that you cannot die, so therefore its not that scary anymore.
And lastly, the ending... oh god, the ending. They try to pull a PTSD route with it, that again, feels amateurish and almost hateful, kind of insinuating that whenever you get PTSD you just become a terrible drunk, and a terrible person, and they pull it off terribly.
The games not that great, It's not worth your time really. Even if it's free, it's just bad.
Overall: 3/10
So, first off, I love Indie Horror Games, this game is a Indie Horror Game, it has a PSX Aesthetic, I love PSX Aesthetics, the game was an hour long, I love when games are more shorter and digestible for what they are, (if priced properly) and it's also free! How could I dislike the game? Well...
The game felt way too amateurish for me. It tried little subtle jabs of humor throughout, that don't really work. And while I like a good Horror-Comedy, this game tries leaning into being a hardcore Horror game, but then out of nowhere, straight into Comedy, with entire comedic points. So it completely, at different times, switches its genre.
The game tries to build up this, ''You are being stalked...'' atmosphere, because there is a Serial Killer going around, and while I did expect this, it just feels so scripted. Like you know that you cannot die, so therefore its not that scary anymore.
And lastly, the ending... oh god, the ending. They try to pull a PTSD route with it, that again, feels amateurish and almost hateful, kind of insinuating that whenever you get PTSD you just become a terrible drunk, and a terrible person, and they pull it off terribly.
The games not that great, It's not worth your time really. Even if it's free, it's just bad.
Overall: 3/10
Pretty amazing for a short indie production.
Gostei de como a história foi contada, um início meio meme e engraçado pra ficar gradativamente mais sério e com uma história no mínimo interessante.
por favor dejen en paz a the caretaker