The Emptiness Deluxe Edition

Ugh... This was something completely macabre and unnecessary in my humble opinion. I've played some really disturbing horror games before, and enjoyed some of them to their inhumane depth. I played tons of HOGs, that one would think that I'd get sick of the genre by now. But by no means have I ever played a HOG that masquerades as a horror game before, until [i]The Emptiness[/i]. Our pessimistic little game starts with a booming male voice, announcing a state of depression, while a pretty, oh-so dark girl sits in complete darkness. We are informed that we are trapped in a "symbolic" house that consists of our deepest fears and unresolved (!) feelings. We should master the secrets of this 4 room apartment, collect letters of some obscure spells to open doors, redefine ourselves in the process and earn our right to leave this place. I suspect that our main character must be a sociopath rather than a sole depressed person, 'cause this is no way an ordinary subconscious with fears. In my...

I can't, in good conscience, recommend this game. I love hidden object games. Really love them. I've played so many of them it's stupid. But this one, I only got through about twenty minutes and the idea of playing any more makes me cringe. I will probably go back and finish, just because I have a complex about leaving things unfinished, but it will be when I have played through every single other game in my library. Twice. Because god, this was so bad. Gameplay feels extremely repetitive and boring. You essentially wander around the area looking for letters to form a word that will unlock a new area, and then you go back and wander around again looking for the next group of letters in the same area to unlock another new area, and lather, rinse, repeat. So it appears that you'll spend the whole game reexploring the same few rooms over and over again. Jumpscares are frequent and gratuitous. They are startling but not scary (there is a huge difference) and after several in ...

This is a hidden object game that tries to hide that it's a hidden object game. To it's credit, it doesn't follow the traditional pattern. The game has a single location that expands as you unlock doors and get access to other rooms, but you will continually find yourself looking through the same rooms and in all the same corners and shelves trying to find hidden clues and hidden letters to open up a new door that will give you yet one more room to look through when you reach the next door... and so on. There are also some puzzles, and again to the game's credit, they are different variations of familiar patterns... a switch-15 sliding puzzle that has tiles that can rotate along 4 different facings, a series of identical-looking room labyrinth puzzles... but they are the same kinds of puzzles that these games frequently use, and if you know how they function, the newness of the variant fades quickly. As far as the atmosphere, well, that's actually fairly cool. The game has a good nu...

Nice Puzzle/Adventure game. Not Scary But still very enjoyable With a vague hint you find letters to spell magic word that opened sealed door. Each door that you opened warps you to a new puzzle Puzzles are nicely executed and are skippable So Far all were differents Graphic are nice. Don't be scared to try it you might enjoy it. Worth the small asking price

Genius. Never has there been a more appropriate title for a game than this. I found myself wading through a sporadically bearable hidden object puzzler when the lights went out, plunging me into darkness. I fumbled my way to a box in the basement where the game asked me to locate a missing fuse. There may or may not be a fuse to find. I am long beyond the consequence of that scenario. I wander these same six rooms, checking the same drawers, turning on the same radio, looking behind the same curtain for the fuse. I am empty now. The game clock reads one and a half hours but it feels like this is the only game I have ever played. Maybe the fuse only appears to the truly insane by which point it is impossible to comprehend as an object of use, perhaps appearing as a talking fish or the screaming face of a loved one. Who can say. I am empty now. 10/10. I am empty now. Here is a log of my empty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Do0M_J2Oyo

I have played dozens of hidden object games and have to say that The Emptiness ranks as one of the worst. Within the first moments of the game, you are introduced to the two main problems with it: horrible video sequences (the actresses' mouths don't even sync with the dialogue) and clunky controls that make walking around the room a project in itself. Instead of getting with the 21st century and letting you walk around freely with the familiar WASD control scheme, you have to maneuver around the house by clicking on arrows at the edges of the screen. This would be tolerable if not for the fact that exploring a corner of the room sometimes takes multiple clicks, then you have to go backwards before you can move through the doorway that takes up half of your field of view in the corner you're mindlessly clicking around in. The "jump scares" in the game become so frequent that you end being more surprised when they DON'T happen. They're completely pointless and you can't click on an o...

This game is one of the worst games that i have ever played: - irritating sound effect that come with every move you do in the game - the story if can even say the game have it is the worst story that i have ever seen in computer games - game is just going on the same locations searching in the same places for letters, sometimes items - the items sometimes show only if something happened in the, so you will do and check every place hundreds of times - complete lack of logic, you need water and there is water in the bath, but the tap is broken and you must fix the tap and take water from tap XD. Water is for fire extinction, and the water in the bath is normal - the ending of the game is one pure stereotype - at the begining you have hints, later no hints, you just must to look on the same screens for hours and look for differences to find letters, with hint - it could make sense, without it doesn't make any sense I can see any good things in this game - and the worst part: At the b...

I think the reason for the mostly negative reviews according to the overall ratings is that this game is more cerebral and psychological, perhaps even some emphasis on the spiritual side of ourselves. This is not a hidden object game or really a puzzle game in the traditional sense. I think this game takes patience and a willingness to take their time on this game because you will be in a 'house' going through the same rooms many times to discover what you need to discover. Basically your trapped within a 'house' though this is just really within your own mind. You won't have other characters to interact with however you have a couple of 'guides' that essentially introduce you to the next 'puzzle' or 'mini-game'. The puzzles are spell words. The idea is to search the various rooms of the house and find each letter to the spell word which will open up a new door. If you think this very simple then think again. While some of the letters you search for may just be easily ...

Tedious, not scray and very repeatitive.

Terribly slow pacing kills any mood the story tries to build, all the while most of the scares are low quality 'jump-scares' that didn't really even startle me. Got too bored to even try finishing it.