Days Under Custody

Cool concept but not so great execution. I really love the idea of an adventure game where I'm always being stalked by a monster. It's kindof like a gothic version of Alien: Isolation. Unfortunately the translation is really poor and it's oftentimes hard to know where to go or what to do.

*Update the dev says it has fixed the issues with the contorls and I found out if you press the G key things just start spawning in your inventory. *Old review The controls for this game do not make any sense or are no existent. I just hit every key on my keyboard with the blind hope something would happen. Then my hero started walking sideways and I gave up. There isn't mouse support yet it seems like you have to use a mouse to play this game. I have no idea why this would ever be a problem in 2015.

[h1] Pros: [/h1] [list] [*]Interesting concept [*]Creepy atmosphere [*]Couple good jump scares [/list] [h1] Cons: [/h1] [list] [*]Very short [*]Janky controls [*]Often unclear how to progress [*]Poor English translation (actually made it kind of funny though) [*]New notes often just duplicates of oldnotes - unsure if glitch or not [*]Wandered around each area for a long time and still couldn't find all notes [*]Continues running in background after exiting (reason for my high play time) [*]Option to interact with many objects, then told "don't need this" "can't do this" every time [/list] This game would be much better as a F2P game.

I gave it a try despite all the negative feedback this game gets because I really enjoyed Home that had a similar ratio of people disliking it. Unfortunately Days Under Custody is really bad and definitely deserves such reviews. Poor gameplay, terrible English translation, dull story. It doesn't even close properly when you click on exit, you have to kill application in a Task Manager. Don't waste your time and money on this crap.

Days Under Custody, developed by Abraham Carreola, is a side-scroller horror game with a lot of heart, but not enough presentation. You play as Duc Parkings (Yes, you read that right. Your name is Duc. I could hardly believe it either), who’s been taunted by horrible nightmares. One late night, after another fit of bad dreaming, Duc falls under a sinister impression; his inner demons are manifesting themselves into reality, and their trying to break into his apartment. It’s the player’s job to escape whatever madness peruses them, and to uncover the truth behind Duc’s murky history. We’ll start things off with the graphics. The quality isn’t terrible, but it’s pixel art at its simplest. There’s nothing in the design department that’ll keep you hooked, and character models and animations are very stiff and barebones. There were some moments when the game looked aesthetically pleasing, like the dancing of dust specs beneath the grimy light of a sewer lamp, but those m...

It's very much your classic find the notes, find the story. As cliche as it can get. Nice mechanics but that´s about it. On another note I agree with other reviews here, the English could do some correcting. A lot.

Trash.