Sinner 97

Let me preface this review by stating that I absolutely did not like Puppet Combo's "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/896520/Stay_Out_of_the_House/]Stay Out of the House[/url]". It was loud and frustrating, and I spent more time dying than actually enjoying my time with it. Sinner 97, on the other hand, is one of the freshest surprises I've had in a LONG while. It has similar gameplay to Stay Out of the House, but gets rid of all of that game's annoyances while adding mechanics that make the experience much less exasperating. The game starts outside a run-down Baptist church. You're a journalist who received a note and videotape from one of the congregation's members begging someone, [i]ANYONE[/i] for help. It seems the pastor has gone insane and has cut off all access to the outside world. The people are trapped, suffering, and in need of rescue, and you're the only one who can get to the bottom of it all! Now, don't mistake Sinner 97 for a narrative horror, 'cause it ain't t...

Updated For 1.0 Release! You can watch my full play through right here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhLRcW7wwlk&ab_channel=AlexMcLarry%27sLife Sinner 97 allows you to relieve those classic PS1 horror game days, With a graphic and sound design that reminds you of silent Hill and Resident evil, you will be squirming in your seat in no time! The father is a relentless enemy who continuously stalks you through the house, making you rely heavily on your hearing and map knowledge of hiding spaces. Gameplay, atmosphere, and map design is an easy 10/10 LORE! Upon early access release, lore was around in map design, and nothing else. BUT NOW! SO MUCH LORE! So much story to unfold! Every update this game gets the lore gets more and more rich! I love it Bubblegum, you have something special here and I will be following closely to see this game unfold to its full potential!

[h1]Experienced on the Meta Quest 2[/h1] You can view my initial impressions review & gameplay here: https://youtu.be/biZkZCW2DLM I bought this game before it had official Oculus support. I just saw the Steam store page video and knew that I would more than likely enjoy this game. I knew it would work well in VR. Sinner 97 has drawn comparisons to Granny, but while I do see the similarities, having played both, I enjoyed this game a lot more. I think it's a thoughtful improvement on the basic formula: hide from killer while doing tasks to figure out how to escape. The VR port isn't the best, because most of the interactions are of the point & click variety. This experience obviously wasn't made for VR. However, it is one of the best horror experiences in VR and also one of the best deals in VR. Even with the PSX level graphics, I was genuinely frightened while playing this game. There's a very tense atmosphere and there's some nice puzzles mechanics of having to figure out where to...

Unfortunately, I am thumbing this down purely on the basis that Sinner 97 does not allow you to take a natural break from the game. Allow me to elaborate, after carefully navigating to locate the safe room, which is the one and only location in the game that allows you to "save" to find that if you exit out the game/application entirely it totally wipes your run/progress and you have to start entirely again... despite the game telling you "game saved". I posted on the discussion boards to see if this was an issue/bug on my side, but looks like it isn't and unless gauging off other reviews you've got a solid three to four hours to commit to Sinner 97 without closing you're helpless. A real shame, because the game looks great and nails the atmosphere but doesn't cater to those with a limited time frame.

Good horror game, somewhat better compared to granny/getoutofthehouse ect. Still frustrating and annoying at times, just as those games can be. Some stuff was a pain to find, especially the code. I mostly sucked, because of Tunnel Vision and Old Age I'm not as alert as I used to be. Btw got some spare batteries? 8/10

you start off in a room that's too dark, there's no flashlight or lighter or anything there for you. it plays like granny/aka manto/deadly night, but worse somehow. you can't hear the killer until it's right up on top of you, but if you hear it, you're dead. you can't break chase by hiding, he's just up on you and you die. I felt like I was trying for half an hour, it was only 10 minutes, did not have fun. at least the house isn't super small I guess. there's potential here if the devs figure how to make this game fun, but this is just not fun at all how it is right now on release. edit: this game probably hasn't even sold more than 1000 copies (only 13 reviews currently) yet I have more awards than any other game I've reviewed that have way more helpful thumbs on it (this one only has 2). it's probably the game dev spending points on these lol, so they're gonna read this. still doesn't take away the fact that I played this on stream for 10 minutes and got bored, which is a way worse ...

So I beat it in 2 hours. Let's do a quick pros/cons. Pros: Gameplay is tight, engine is tight, no bugs that I could tell. Definitely what "Stay out of the House" should have been. UI is ripped straight from the OG silent hills and I'm all for it. Cons: It's short. No combat. No story. (There are 5 or 6 pieces of evidence to collect, I collected all but one and the ending was just a splash page with "you did it! all evidence needs to be collected for highscore to be submitted to leaderboard" type deal. All in all, it's stay out of the house except not buggy and annoying as all hell. Each time this killer came for me.. Whatever noise that played just kick started that heart. Map feels big, and it is, but it isn't that dense, if you get me. 2 Hours to complete, I could probably refund it if I wanted to, but it was only $4, so give me more games like this; just make them longer and more interesting please.

scary as shit, im going to void my bowls playing this. fr tho this is a ps1 outlast and its quite fun!

What an incredible Indie Horror game with all the elements you want - low lighting, scary sounds, chases, scavenging & more. I feel like there's an homage to RE7 in it which is fantastic. It took me under a little under 2 hrs to finish & it's well worth the price point.

the killer is deaf and stupid and when you realize it the game turns into a walking sim, you always have a hiding spot atleast 3 seconds away, the entire gameplay loop is finding a key to a box that contains another key to another box and you keep doing that until the game eventually ends and you get no payoff, the plot is as generic as an occult horror story gets and all the notes you read lead to no climax whatsoever.