I'm getting kind of tired of the itchio horror vignette games that make me want full games I know will never exist. You don't have to make 30 hour long slogs but the indie horror scene's increasing trend of 20 minute long games is spending ideas that could be fleshed out into long, great games into games like this. I don't mean to say short horror games are bad by any means, but the best short horror games still manage to play out everything in their arsenal. I don't care for Squirrel Stapler but at least it does everything it can do with its premise. VHS Paradise, like a lot of similar games I have and haven't reviewed from the itchio horror sphere, is a great idea not taken remotely far enough.

Reviewed on Feb 28, 2024


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