Yuppie Psycho se nos presenta en esta executive edition como un survival horror de oficina en 2d pixelado. Ambientado en unas oficinas de los años 90, con mucho humor, personajes muy locos y que no se cortan en soltarte lo que piensan de ti, horror psicótico y con muchos easter eggs, pero infinitos: desde la búsqueda incansable por todo el edificio de VHS de películas caseras a puertas y habitaciones ocultas.
No os esperéis «por su apariencia» un juego cuco o sencillo. Las muertes están a la vuelta de cada esquina y los sustos asegurados, con esos agentes de vigilancia en persecución por zonas muy oscuras, y Brian con unas lastimosas barritas de luz y un simple café para curarse un poquito.
Consejo, id varias veces a la cocina y BUSCAR bien en cada lugar y cajón ingredientes y alimentos para curar a nuestro amigo Brian. Lo vais a necesitar.

Gran parte de Yuppie Psycho usa cinemáticas propias de un juego de terror, pero lo absurdo de la ambientación y cómico de sus diálogos, rompen la tensión y esa atmósfera de horror y agobio de sus escenarios, para darnos a los jugadores un respirito, y que pensemos: bueno, no ha sido para tanto.
El juego juega con el jugador con ese horror Psicótico de matar por matar. De descabezar y acuchillar a tus compañeros de curro por estrés y el agobio que produce estar sentado 12h en un cubículo a media luz dándole a las teclas sin descanso alguno. El horror estilo american Psycho, de ese sobresalir por encima de todos sin importar el precio ni lo que nos cueste, mezclado con las historias de terror japonesas, dan el toque perfecto a este juego, y lo hacen, diría yo, único en su genero.
Jugablemente, Yuppie Psycho navega entre una aventura gráfica y un survival horror. Se controla maravillosamente bien con mando o con teclado. Por un lado tendremos esa búsqueda infinita de objetos, y puzles sencillitos por todo el edificio y por el otro, los monstruos y ambiente infernal que quiere matarnos. Y no solo eso, si no que el toque de supervivencia viene dado también por la escasez de objetos de salud y puntos de guardado, los cuales necesitan de objetos para ser activados, algo así como las cintas del primer Resident Evil, pero aquí con tinta y folios. Os aseguro que encontrar uno os hará dar palmas con las orejas. Aunque esto anima a jugar sin guardar durante largos períodos de tiempo, para ahorrar papel, pero también es peligroso por las muertes…

El edificio es enorme y tiene una cantidad proporcional de secretos, rutas alternativas y zonas opcionales. Eso también da lugar a un par de momentos del juego en el que la forma de progresar en la historia varia, dando lugar a varios finales. El DLC gratuito y añadido en esta edición, añade nuevas salas y nuevas formas de ejecutar y finalizar nuestro trabajo en la empresa.
El apartado visual es magnifico, tanto en las zonas de juego como en las cinemáticas, el equipo español de Baroque Decay ha realizado un trabajo muy cuidado y precioso, incluso con las escenas de actores reales de los VHS de cine amateur de terror. De 10.
La Banda sonora viene a cargo de Michael “Garoad” Kelly y crea una atmósfera escalofriante cuando tiene que ser escalofriante y tranquila o de reposo en las zonas de dialogo.

Yuppie Psycho es para mí una verdadera joya. Intenso y escalofriante a ratos, y cómico y alocado en general. Con unas 22-23h de juego para ver todos los caminos y finales. Un gran descubrimiento que me ha encantado jugar a solas, sin directos, disfrutándolo poco a poco. Leyendo cada dialogo y comprendiendo la historia. Una historia de empresas, ejecutivos, familia, brujas y ¿sapos?
Sin duda alguna, muy recomendable.

This game is one of my all time favorite horror indie game, the soundtrack for the game is amazing, the gameplay put tension on you as you try to figure puzzles that are actually challenging to get away from a monster or simply trying to get to a new area, figuring out how to have you inventory perfect and have enough papers to save makes the game have a whole new puzzle making you think "should I use this?, should I pick this up or will it just take up space" the story itself is great and lastly the artwork for this game is stunning

Admittedly this is the only horror game I've ever played, so I have nothing to compare this game to. But easily the best thing the game does in my opinion is setting up a sense of mystery so consistently throughout the game. From very early on in the game the feeling that something is wrong at the company you're working at is present, and the way that with each answer you find or each milestone you achieve so many more questions arise keeps the game consistently interesting. On top of that with many interesting characters that you can't always tell if you can trust or not and the game's humorous moments, it's a game that I enjoyed quite a bit. This game has bosses too that are all defeated with puzzles and while some of the puzzles in general, even outside of the bosses, can be a bit cryptic, I wouldn't say there's any puzzles that straight up don't make sense, and all of the bosses use the game's mechanics in unique ways. As for the horror parts of this horror game, while they aren't nearly as scary the second time you play the game because a lot of the time they follow a specific buildup and surprise payoff that works best when you don't know what's coming up, I will say that some parts were a bit scary on the first play through. I wouldn't recommend this to someone looking for an extremely horror heavy experience, but the horror does work great for adding tension to some scenes.

One of the places where the game falls a bit short is the graphics. I'm almost never the type of person to complain about bad graphics, but in this game I think it's different because they clearly had a vision I think would've worked much better with more pixels on screen. There's a lot of parts of the game where they try to give characters expressive animations, and it somewhat works, but you can't see the emotions and such of the characters very well anywhere aside from their character dialogue portraits. For what the graphics are though, they are very functional. They're good enough that you can tell what everything is, like a file cabinet or a desk or whatnot. There's also some detail put into a lot of parts of the game to add to the dirtiness of each floor, like nothing has been cleaned in years, which really adds to the atmosphere of the game that this company is not right. I was also a bit disappointed with the ending the first time I played the game, at least the base game endings that weren't in the Executive Edition update. I was still confused about things like what happened to the monsters in the building as well as some other things that are too specific to talk about without spoiling the game.

Thankfully, any confusions I had with the endings were solved with one of the additional endings from the Executive Edition update. Solved isn't exactly the right word because the other endings still exist, and you still might be confused if you don't do the DLC content, but the new content cleared up most of the confusion I had originally. Even aside from that the Executive Edition update adds all of the best content in the game. The surveillance boss segment is amazing and the house section is one of the few sections that were still scary to me even on a second play through. The best parts of the game all being part of an update added a year after the game originally released makes me think that Baroque Decay is growing. While Yuppie Psycho isn't the most famous indie game out there, I'm confident that they have the ability to make something spectacular that'll get a lot of deserved attention.