Loved this game, I had a great time with it and knew that this would be the kind of closest thing to any H.P.Lovecraft story. Most of the game you don't have a weapon (until right near the end, but still) and you have to solve things by having good stats in things in spotting hidden things, investigation, psychology and such. The two annoying skills are Occult and Medicine as you need to pick up books to boost those skills and that's the only way you can do it so if you miss them then you may never get to a decent level in those fields.

The atmostphere is very creepy and a lot of the horror is in the walking in the darkness and hearing strange sounds so I recommend a headset for the full experience.

The game is not perfect however, there are some issues with lipsync and there are many times where it's not explained to you what to do, like when you're trapped by the Shambler and it says simply to escape that creature with only very mild hints earlier, like when I found a book with the answer. I enjoy that there are many other options in the game's dialog based on either things you've discovered and can bring up or on the skills you might've sharpened to read a situation or even fireback with knowledge.

Not for everyone, but I recommend it since it's pretty good with it's references to the lovecraftian lore and I'm not a big horror game fan, but I found I really enjoyed this personally.

Edit:
My first stream was this game, though I feel it didn't come off too well and I apologise to everyone for not having the game sound high enough

Reviewed on Dec 04, 2023


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