The Empty Inn

Interesting Puzzle Game. That being said, this is more something I would expect to find on Kongregate than Steam. 10-15 minutes of playtime, tops. I hope the developer takes the profits from this game and attempts to develop something with a bit more meat to it.

So I bought this game on a whim, being that it is only a couple of dollars and I like supporting indie developers. I can't say that I recommend buying it, but I haven't fully completed it yet. I played it on normal mode, and beat it within 20 minutes. It seems that based on the game description & achievements that the hardest difficulty has a longer story, and that there is probably a secret ending as well. Pros: I actually like the core gameplay mechanic, which revolves around finding matches to keep your lamp lit, and finding keys to progress through locked doors. Since there are not too many matches, you have to keep moving at all times and search everything you can. It ends up giving you a nice mild anxiety as you try to find the next match. Cons: The game length is pretty short, although again I only played it on the mid tier difficulty level, not the high level. Another thing that was mildly annoying throughout the gameplay was collision. The doors you must go through are basic...

Not worth $4. The controls are really, really bad: Move with WASD, mouse button for actions... No, you don't move the mouse. Just the button. There's a remap in the options screen, but it doesn't work. You can't remap it to a keyboard key. The gameplay itself is also vacuous. A small area surrounding you is lit up and you navigate through small, not very complex rooms to find the next key, to open the next door, repeat, etc. Not worth money.

Nice NES-stylized graphics and 2.79$ price won my attention, but I was wrong. It would be better if this game was a freeware, like the other projects from Candlelight Studios' website - no matter how much money you'll spend on it, you will be frustrated. Lack of content, poor gamedesign choices, primitive level-design, confusing plotline, imbalanced difficulty, repetitive gameplay - all you need to do in this game is to search the small rooms for keys and matches for your lamp (they makes the flying enemy disappear). Do this for 10 minutes and the "Easy Mode" ends - with a cliffhanger instead of ending, or, to be clear, with the beginning of the story at the very end of the mode. Spoiler:[spoiler] for some reason our hero wandered around the empty inn for 10 minutes, looking for a keys and avoiding an enigmatic flying thing, and then someone killed him! What a twist! Do the same thing on the "Extreme Mode" and don' t forget to find all the purple orbs to get the second part of the stor...

First off to note, this is not a very long game. It also has a couple of bugs here and there. However, if you understand that, then I'd definitely say it's worth a play if you can maybe pick it up on sale, because it's quite innovative for what it is, and the retro vibe is very well done. It's a puzzle-focussed exploration game, with a little bit of a story. I have yet to reach the secret ending, and extreme mode has posed a challenge for me - so if you want to replay it with a bit more challenge, there's a bit more meat to this little gem.

Ok the first thing red flag was right after I'm launch this game. I even thought that this game is broken because no key on keyboard choose options in menu. Than I've relized that's left mouse button! Strange decition, I didn't recall it from any other game. You can't rebind keys and game has no support controller so it's just add to the problem... Oh btw if you click right mouse button you've just see your cursor he he "nice" coding. Main character has no diagonal animations, so it's look very ankward then you're going this direction. You're just collect stuff and there is no indication which key or item you had.

What?? 2/10 - The Empty Inn wasn't so Empty. She should just take the frickin matches and burn the place down.

This is a rather short 4 dollar game. Besides trying to unlock the hidden secret story or to get all achievements it doesn't have much replay. The limited lighting is a nice idea maybe if there were different arrangment of the levels for the difficulties it would have had longer entertaining value for some users. There are some random gliches ( I had a few gamethru with no monster ghost chasing me fixed by shutting down and opening up the game). The controls are simple (I kind of wish I could use a controller on it) The sound effects are decent, story short, graphics for 8 bit not bad just a lot of Yellow (which you can see in the screen shots). So that being said if you know your getting a short dectective, run-from-the-scary-thing (actully just don't let it see you your not going to outrun it in the harder difficulties) game then its not bad. If you want to work on getting the secret ending then this game can keep you playing for a while. Pretty much what you see in the description...