This game stinks to high heavens, I gave it an hour to do anything, and it's literally just wasting your time. There's nothing interesting or scary, it's not creating an atmosphere, it's just wasting your time. You have to walk to work for a long time, you have stock shelves for a long time, you have to walk back home, you have to do all of this twice, and what does it lead to? Nothing. Nothing happens. It could just start with the delivery job that they make you do for the next eternity. I can't tell you what happens beyond that. If I absolutely have to say something positive, it's that it looks kinda nice. The headbob can be kinda obnoxious, but I was fine with it. All the assets look neat and cohesive. With all this, it doesn't achieve any atmosphere or anything. The soundscape is lacking, it's playing the same spooky ambient over nothing happening from the very beginning, so at no point do I feel that there's actually anything threatening going on. It managed to jump me a couple of times with cheap fakeout jumpscares.

This feels like a PS1 style indie horror version of those Asylum films, that try to cash in on a more popular product by tricking people into buying it. In this case Stay Out Of The House, which is a fantastic PS1 style indie horror.

I was expecting a game about a scary murdering farmer, but I got an avant garde experiment in testing the limits of my patience. I lost.

Reviewed on Nov 07, 2023


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