Horror in the Asylum

UPDATE: Game completed, see below. I like to start any review with the positives, so let's get that over with: the game's got two genuinely creepy jumpscare deaths. The bad: This is one of the most trial-and-error horror games I have ever played. There are no checkpoints, no save points, nothing. You have no health; any enemy that attacks you will defeat you instantly. And any time you die, you are going all the way back to the start of this game. This is obnoxious enough in and of itself, but this gets far worse. Twice I have had the game glitch out and keep me from being able to move. One of these times was, no joke, about 10 seconds from the end of the game. The story is nonexistent, and there is no proper ending either. The physics are strange. Just try using the numberpads that come up with a 360 controller. I dare you. There's a meter that shows how...in trouble you are, or some

For a moment, let's forget the fact that this is just the latest unassailable example of Steam's quality control looking the other way so that it can profit from lazy asset jobs because the sheer regularity of that criticism sadly renders it more and more invalid every week. Let's focus on the difference between a 'challenging' game and a 'pube-wrenching monstrosity'. Challenging: Remove checkpoints of any kind from your game, forcing the player to return to the start each time they die. P-WM: Wait until the player has suffered half an hour of switch puzzles, hiding under tables from medieval skeletons, godawful controls for the doors and lockpick minigame which punishes you for its own hideous design by forcing you to run around waiting for bobby pins to respawn, and then outright MURDER them by inexplicably dropping a spider on their heads, forcing them back to the start of the game a

The entire premise of this game is basically summed up in its own title; Horror in the Asylum. It's a horror game, and it takes place in the overused setting of a decrepit mental institution. Taking a look at the trailer and screenshots on the store page immediately brings to light that this game is essentially an asset flip; anyone who has played a decent number of these Unity Personal Edition indie cash-grabs will notice that. While that doesn't necessarily indicate that the game itself will be garbage, more often than not, it will be. In this case, that's exactly what Horror in the Asylum is; cash-grab garbage that tries too hard to be difficult, and offers little to no scare value while creating near impossible situations. You wake up in a dark mental institution, read a couple of notes that talk about taking prescribed medication, pick a few locks, and proceed to solving overly com

*Sigh* 'Horror in the Asylum' One of those indie horror games, I thought it might be fun and since I was looking for horror games that were compatible with my xbox controller I thought I'd give it a go. Bought the game for 7 bucks, complete waste of money, there were no checkpoint or saving system to be found, the puzzles were seemingly meaningless and boring. And once you get killed that's it...your back to square one. What sort of bs is that, you could be 6 puzzles through and all of a sudden without warning you get killed by some skeleton or something and you have to start the ENTIRE game again!!! There were no tutorials to teach you how to play and most of the puzzles don't even make sense. I would hold off on buying this game unless you like your money to be wasted and like to play tedious games that have no tutorials, horrably designed levels, crap storylines, clueless npc opponent

This game is terrible I had a look on Youtube at a playthrough of the game the clip is 30 minutes long and he is dying over and over again as there are no checkpoints or saves this happened to me all the time. The (asylum) looked very much like a game I have played called Horror Hospital (wasnt much good). I certainly cannot recommend anyone playing this no matter the cost.

You find yourself locked away in an asylum, and you're going to be the only one who is going to get you out of there. So you will have to explore the asylum, find what hides in the dark, and solve puzzles that present themselves as the asylum doesn't want to let you go easily. In Horror in the Asylum you will have plenty of puzzles to solve, but there is always just one solution. This of course will come in handy when you die and start the entire game again from scratch. There are no save points in this game, there is no randomizing of the level, and to be honest there's not a whole lot of excitement when you're doing a specific section for the 15th time. My biggest issue with the game is that there's a good chunk of it that is trial and error, and the error sends you back to the very beginning of the game. Sure this game will keep you wondering what will happen next, but an even bigge