The Hole

What is The Hole? Well, given the level of "humour" on display in this "fantasy horror dark comedy" and it being solely crudely stupid innuendo, I can't be bothered to find out to be able to tell you. There's a couple of possible interpretations, what with it being how prisoners refer to solitary confinement and this is set in a prison. Yet, why if this is actually an eerie horror (which it atmospherically manages to be), is every single person mentioned in the game a stupid joke? Phil Accio, Harry Azcrak, Lou Briccant, and so on and so on. Here you are having woken up in normal suburbia and doing some mundane chores, when a series of spooky events sees you mysteriously teleported to a prison that is being roamed by some kind of monster. What then follows is a tedious and clunky hunt for clues and items whilst the monster can be heard snarling off somewhere in the distance, or occasionally appearing and then...well....it just disappears again. The game is weird because it seems l...

Overall I liked it. It's a fun short horror game. Not particularly scary, but it's good at building tension in the beginning and the monsters can really come up on you quickly enough to give you a good jump. I did have some gripes about it. First, the codes to the doors were *very* difficult to find in some cases. I think most people would have just given up. The AI isn't very bright, but might be a good thing because its a lot faster than you are. The story doesn't make any sense, but it could just be open to interpretation I suppose. None of those things were really deal breakers for me though. I had a good time with it.

The game uses a third person view, with first person vision. Meaning the players head bob is off the chart. The player walks or runs and the camera goes wildly like a third person camera would. Some good fundamentals in here, with markers to show where to go next. But after getting 3 keys, and finding a locked computer, combined with the head bob, I just lost interest in opening any more doors or story or anything with the game. I'm sure some might like the game. Might be too much grind for me at the moment. Best of luck.