Near Death Experience

Alright, since there're only positive reviews out of nowhere, i'll give it a negative one to balance it out since steam doesn't want to give us a neutral review button. Pros: +An alright in-game design +Nice voice acting for a project like this +The ambient and soundtrack are nice Cons: - Animation is a joke starting with the intro cutscene - Perfomance is horrible for no absolute reason - Common visuals for a cheap unity horror - Default Unity's interface - Absolutely disgusting chasing sequences including poor designed "notes" like in Slender - Problems with in-game objects scale, everything feels wrong So-so: It's crystal clear that Distorted Games were highly inspired by the Silent Hill franchise while making this game, it seems that they (or most likely the only developer) didn't understand what made Silent Hill a great game. The scenery in Near Death Experience, soundtrack and t

I enjoy more atmospheric / story-based horror games, where the experience is disturbing/distressing, and it sticks in your mind long after you stop playing the game. That's what I thought this game looked like, but it seems to actually just be jump scares. It's also got that hide-and-seek horror concept where you're defenseless and the monster or whatever just kills you instantly if it finds you, which I find kinda ruins the immersion. Because when you restart & just have to keep running through the same areas, you start to get desensitized to the environments. When it's just an atmospheric experience (i.e. no combat) then dying and having to re-play can get tedious. Not sure it's a bad game, exactly, but it's definitely not the game I was looking for.

This game is such a blatant ripoff of Silent Hill, I'm honestly surprised the dev didn't name it "Silenced Hills". The gameplay is another one of those "run from the enemy" jobs. And you will do a lot of running. And dying. And repeating the same level over and over until you ragequit. Another horror genre game that fails to live up to the hype. Rating: 1/10

So the story is silent hill but thats whatever, I have no problem with games that take a story and switch it up a bit which this game does..but not in the right way. I dont want to go in depth into everything because the game follows a basic format. Enter zone, do puzzle, leave zone. The puzzles are veryyy hit or miss. Two of the puzzles were pretty interesting involving things like riddles and sound ques to know when you are moving to a new area, a bit of critical thinking, and a bit of clue deciphering. Other puzzles are things like: find a key on the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ground, find a piece of paper, find a couple of pictures while an enemy follows you (The slow moving 1 shot enemy cliche is getting soooo old) . Its just really odd how there's such a big difference between the puzzles. My two biggest complaints and by big I mean HUGE complaints are the flashlight and the perspective. The flashl

I gotta say, the game started off pretty well and then unraveled into an annoying repetitive mess. Let me explain, this game has a lot in it that separates itself from the annoying Horror garbage on Steam. It is very clear that effort was put in. The Assets were nice, I'll be very repetitive towards the end. The Graphics are good but Interiors are too dark. The Voice Acting and Audio was on point, nothing to complain about there. BUT! When it came to gameplay, it's very cookie cutter and very annoying. You're basically playing Slender Man, but with nonexistent Enemy AI, apart from 2 puzzles with one being pretty easy (if you noticed everything in the environment) and the other being downright boring and unclear. TL;DR Assets, Graphics, Sound were good, but the Gameplay is cookie cutter and boring. And please get a better flashlight, that thing is useless. But don't just take my word for