This game is a beautiful, disturbing, multi-layered piece of art that draws inspiration from Swan Lake, early Resident Evil and Silent Hill games, The King in Yellow, and Mulholland Drive amongst other things. I'm a huge horror fan (movies, games, books, you name it) and I thought I was unshakeable, but Signalis proved me wrong. Now that I've finished I can't stop thinking about it. I think it comes down to the oppressively dark atmosphere, the ambiguity of the story, and the way you are left to draw your own horrific conclusions about what happened in the game. I'm honestly grateful to have had the experience of playing this. The only gripes I had were that the controls could be clunky at times (perhaps because I played on Switch), inventory management took up a larger chunk of time than I would've liked, and there was a lack of enemy variety, but those are small nitpicks when it comes to a truly unique, rewarding experience like this.

Reviewed on Dec 27, 2023


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