UnderDread

This game looked promising at first, but I ended up requesting a refund after being dramatically disappointed by the gameplay. It is not scary, it is not spooky, it is not creepy. It has an atmosphere and that is it. It regularly uses audio and visual 'screen flood' jumpscares, which I don't mind, but if that's all you have, it quickly loses value. After the first part of the game, you are introduced to the game's stealth mechanic, which the second part heavily relies on. This 'mechanic' is simply crouching in one of the specific spots in an area before a monster that looks more like something out of an adventure game than a horror game comes into the area. You *have* to use these spots. It doesn't matter how much you think it wouldn't conceal you, if you try to use something that would offer far superior concealment, it will immediately spot you. It can spot you through walls despite being totally oblivious to you when you can look at it dead on in *plenty* of these 'hiding' ...

An unfinished mess. This game looked interesting at first. A horror game with some stealth and puzzles thrown in. Unfortunately as the game unfolded I realised this was not the case. The majority of the game involves hiding from a wraith, represented by a floating skeleton with some extra skulls thrown in, with a pretty flimsy stealth mechanic where in essence you just crouch near a wall. The biggest crime the game commits is in the final section of the game where you have to avoid the ghosts of dead miners. This was truly horrible. You walk at an absolute crawl, the run isn't much faster, and you have a stamina bar which depletes so quickly and replenishes so slowly. Coupled that with the fact there are very few places you can hide from the ghosts, you can't manually save, and you are forced to repeat the section if you are caught is a recipe for disaster. Speaking of the miner's ghost, special mention has to go to the design decision of how they were to be represented. They ...

First silly question: Is this a cheap Amnesia: The Dark Descent knock-off? Yes. I'm also told that it's a port of a mobile game, renamed for Steam because it originally had the word "Slenderman" in the title (why is anyone's guess, as there's not a Slender in sight). Next silly question: Is it anywhere near as GOOD as Amnesia: The Dark Descent? No. Of course not, you preposterous excuse for a human being. The good news, however, is that it's not as bad as it could have been, given what I've just stated. Alas, this ain't exactly the second coming of Frictional... Something which this game does a mostly decent job of emulating is Amnesia's ATMOSPHERE. The visuals are nice enough, all things considered, and the sound is pretty effective apart from the occasional jarring moment of abruptness, when a ghoulie departs the area you're in with all the subtle smoothness of someone pressing the stop button on an old cassette walkman. There's also some - emphasis on SOME - reasonab...

Very boring generic Amnesia style game. Very janky animation and movement, pretty terrible graphics that are either stock assets or might as well be. The funniest thing about it is the failed jumpscares, like a skull falls onto a desk and it does a music sting and I'm pretty easily startled but it wasn't even close. like how do you mess up a jumpscare it's literally an unconscious response. Don't bother with this.

I enjoyed this game. Get it on sale and you'll have a fun 5.9 hours of game play.

THIS GAME IS A MOTION SICKNESS NIGHTMARE! why do developers think that the bopping up and down while walking MAY be natural but theres no fooling the inner ear !! If you are dont mind that then this game is good. Sorry but unable to play so am not really at liberty to say if I would reccomend this game.

[b]UnderDread[/b] is indeed a re-titled re-release of 2015's mobile horror [b]Slender Man Origins 2 Saga[/b], the only changes being some minor bug fixes and the removal of in-app purchases, but don't let that dissuade you in and of itself. The Slender Man intellectual property banhammer is swung hard at everything from movies to books these days so the developers weren't exactly left with much wiggling room in that respect. As it stands, [b]UnderDread[/b] is a solid title; perhaps a little expensive for what it actually is considering the original's going for less than £1 on Google Play at the minute but still charmingly spooky in its atmospherics and inventively expansive in contributing to the Slender Man mythology. You play a father searching an isolated castle for his kidnapped daughter, as well as stone keys, ancient coins, holy water, daggers, potions, switches, planks of wood and anything else the game can conceivably force you to hunt down as you are stalked by various mons...

Well.. I was a bit mad when I realized immediately that this was not a new game but in fact a Slenderman game called Slenderman Origins (Origin 2) made for phones. I am not totally angry though as it is an AWESOME game. But I do feel a bit...lied to? Ripped off? I cannot imagine why they did not just put it on the steam page? I would have still bought it; it is that cool. So. The game. It is a first person walker where you play as a Dad in probably early 1800s Europe whose daughter vanishes. Fearing the worst, he heads to a local castle where there are rumors that the landlord has been abducting children. In fact he discvoers from the locals that a detective had just gone there a few days before looking for the kids. Off you go and what follows is a brilliant piece of gothic craziness. I love this game, I love it so much I recognized the music at the beginning! If you enjoy creepy, atmospheric horror games with a very large helping of mystery , with a few very distrubing monsters throw...

There's lots of potential here. I revisited this game after not touching it for a few years. It's still pretty messy. It has a lot of good points. The graphics and artwork weren't the most realistic, but the textures were nice and crisp. The voice acting isn't terrible either. That's about it. There are a lot of components that go well in a horror game like a story, puzzles, and just a little bit of danger. But... They don't seem to fit together correctly in Under Dread. The eerie atmosphere is kind of ruined by a thorough saturation of jump scares. So many jump scares that you are constantly hearing noises that indicate something happened, except you almost never see what was supposed to scare you. This left me wondering for most of the game whether the noises were supposed to scare me. They didn't. The story feels disjointed. A man's daughter goes missing, he finds out that other kids disappear too, then he hears about a man that 'sometimes brings them back'. From a dungeon. ...

I don't particulary like it, mainly because it feels like a scavengerhunt rather than a horror game. go here to find this many of that, but wait you need to go all the way back to the start to find five of this. It's tedious, painfully dull, although the atmoshpere wasn't that bad, brought a sense of fear. I spent far to long on this game do to its padding out with pointless fetch quests. Overall: Atmosphere is ok, gameplay is lacking, and to boring to say the least. Sincerely QuazzarQuadrant