I am upset. I am genuinely very upset. I want to love this game, or, at the very least, like it. It is visually stunning, and the concept is simple, I know I could get lost for hours trying to find my way out. HOWEVER. It's just way too dark. I understand adding to the atmopshere and wanting to nudge your players to using light sources, but jesus. Candles are so few and far in between, and IRL my eyes would have adjusted better than that. I don't disagree with having some areas be pitch dark and require candle light to see, but overall it is just too dark. Another fatal flaw is that you cannot remove the head bob during movement, and, for me at least, that makes me have extreme motion sickness. I can't play this game, and I can't recommend it as it is now. I'm very upset. FIX IT DEV SO I CAN ENJOY MYSELF PLZ

I awoke in a dim dungeon cell behind a locked door. A stack of crates on the wall hid a hole as large as a man, so I threw them aside and escaped! I found myself in a dark, stone corridor. I braved the shadows and heard a liquid dripping below. I descended some stairs, opened a door, and found water quickly filling a cistern... and the room. I was already waist-deep as I made my way back to the door, which had shut behind me! I pushed it back open and ascended the stairs, then I heard an unholy growl. The fear made my vision blur, but I saw the source of my terror: a ghoul crawling toward me on the floor. I froze in horror as it reached out for me... and vanished. Terror took me. I began to see glyphs and other strange symbols floating in the air as the halls twisted behind them, mocking me! WHERE AM I? Bear witness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eDDt112-3w

Very scary, spooky, and good.

I really did want to like this game, but the whole idea behind video gaming is for entertainment and this is too confusing and broken to be entertaining. First thing I notice is there is no tutorial of any kind, which fair enough, I skip the tutorial half the time anyways because most of them are a waste of time. Wouldn't be too far off the mark here however as it takes dying again and again or restarting to learn anything and every time you restart it everything changes. Second thing I notice in the dark cell you start in is that there is a table with some items on it. You can pick up flint and steel, 1 candle, tinderbox, and at first there was a candleholder (which then disappeared on subsequent attempts); as well as there being a note on it that you can't actually pick up only read. Once again here is where a tutorial wouldn't be off the mark however because first time trying to light the candle in the candleholder I ended up dropping it with no way to extinguish it or put it in the...

Love the dark atmosphere and mazes that this game offers. It is pretty easy to get lost and the map seemingly changes around you when you are exploring. This game is sort of like Agony in a way but in many ways it is not. If you are a fan of mazes and dark atmospheres this game is for you. As of right now I have 0.7 Hours and it seems like a good game that has potential. Forgot when I snagged this but its been on my list for a while and decided to give it a go. However there are its flaws too but since this game is in Early Access I will comeback and change my review if it ever leaves Early Access.

Way too dark. Clunky, convoluted controls. Even once you figure out how to read the note, which is amazingly awkward to do, it's too dark to read them (with brightness cranked up). Your warning about sanity is valid.. if I forced myself to suffer through more of this horrible execution, I would go nuts. To be constructive, these aspects can easily be fixed; games like Penumbra have a similar feel, and somehow they manage to be usable. Hope this helps to make version 1.0 actually playable.