The House

I cannot stress enough how much you should avoid this game. $5.00 is about $10.00 more than this game is worth. I will admit I got a few entertaining starts from the ridiculous jump scares (they are frequent, loud and awkward), but I did not enjoy this title. Allow me to elaborate: [u][b]Cons[/b][/u] [list] [*][u]Darkness[/u] - It is ridiculously dark at all times in the game. The light sources are laughable. While darkness is used in horror to stimulate the player and create a claustrophobic feeling, darkness is used in [i]The House[/i] to annoy you. It makes the game practically unplayable. If you are willful enough to play through it despite the darkness, you will find the most difficult obstacle is simply navigating the map. I only completed the game using a hedge-maze philosophy to walk through the house because you can only see the walls or floor if you are huddled close to them. [*][u]Story (or lack of it)[/u] - Probably the weakest of my points because story isn't necessarily ...

The screenshots and trailers made this game look pretty cool, like something similar to Amnesia The Dark Descent. When I saw the price, I had my doubts on its quality, and those doubts ended up being correct. First of all, the opening screen (eg when you press "New Game") is bugged if you have a higher resolution than 1024x768. Text disappears off the side into two black boxes. Then when the game finally started I couldn't do anything; I had to alt-tab out of the window and click back into the game for it to work properly. There are no transitions from the title menu to the game, nor from one level to another; so when the game swapped levels I thought for a minute the game had crashed. Transitions are so so so important. The controls are not clearly explained; it took me a minute or two to realize that I had to equip my lighter before I could start using it, since I was under the assumption it would be assigned a key like "F". Even when you pull the lighter out from your inventory yo...

Let me put this in bullet form on why this game sucks. *Models and textures don't fit *Your light sources get used up WAY too fast. Of course some of your light sources barely "light" anything at all... *No clear direction on what you're supposed to do (Wouldn't even be that much of a problem if you could at least SEE!) *The "scares" are just .jpeg's and models that just pop out in front of you and make a loud noise. It gets annoying after a while. *No story at all. You're just a guy who goes into a house. You have a car, but no flashlight! What sense does that make?! I wanted to give this game the benefit of the doubt at first. I really did. But I couldn't even play past the first 15 minutes. This game shouldn't have been greenlighted yet. There is a TON of work that needs to be done on it.

This game has no instructions. It looks pretty straight forward but, unless I did it wrong, the game does not work. Graphic and atmosphere is good but the game play itself is garbage. For example the match only lits up and goes off like 1-3 secs..a lighter with 35% capacity I assumed only lasts 5 secs??? and you start out with no lights only a lighter that use up in 5 secs and I can't lit anything to give light and you cannot play if there is no light. The button function does not work only basic ones like w a s d movements, left mouse button, dont know what right mouse button does it just use it to discard. If this is only alpha stage hope they fix it all these problems or this game is broken and I just got scammed 5 bucks...ridiculous..

I went in with an open mind. The opening sequence didn't explain anything and the words were pushed off the side of the screen so I only saw TH but I didn't mind that so much. I thought it was interesting ang I liked that there were multiple light sources but they use up way too fast and barely light more than two inches in front of you. The thing that made me give this a thumbs down though were the scares. They are just flat pictures that float in the air and sometimes just stick there. Flat floating pictures of green faces aren't good.

It Seems giving the game more time made it less awful, however i still beleive waiting for an update might be a good idea.

This game is probably the only game in my steam library that is literally unplayable. There is no way to progress in this game at all. When you run out of matches, candles, and light sources, which if you have even a cursory interest in exploring the levels you will, and very fast, the game is effectively over. Your options are to either memorize where the candles/matches/lamps are, or stumble around watching an entirely black screen. There is no way to see in this game without a light source, at all, so running out of light is effectively the end of the game. Turning up the brightness on your monitor does nothing, as the game's darkness is just a flat black screen with no detail whatsoever for the brightness to accentuate. The game's titular house is HUGE, so even if you do find all the light sources through sheer trial and error and memorization, you will be forced to backtrack through areas without any new light sources and will, guaranteed, run out of light and the game will be e...

Dreadful. I've seen alpha demos that are built better than this. Typos in menu screens, poor quality gameplay (ran out of matches within the first 5 mins and couldn't discover how to continue) and a dreadfully rendered intro sequence. If I'd paid any more than 99p for this game I'd have been really annoyed.

Watch this and you will know why you shouldn't buy this game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li65l_TGhss

Horrifyingly Horrible or Comedy Gold? You Decide! From the badly wrapped textures to the Engerish that gives you brain hemorrhages there isn't much good to day about the game outside the first few times the random jump scares worked then they became annoying... that and the game is funny as hell once you stop trying to take it seriously. Video Review Below: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=323895273