Pineview Drive - Homeless

Asking me if I recommend this game would be met with an inhale, stutter, pause, and a heavy sigh. As someone who has haphazardly wandered into this game and has no experience with the first Pineview Drive, I find this game has a severe lack of thought in some areas and then some truly cool moments in others. Pros - Eerie atmosphere. Not really scary, but just creepy overall. As a directionally incompetent person, I found the house's layout to be decently memorable. Which is a huge plus for me. Small cool factor. If you turn your flashlight off, the scene gradually becomes slightly brighter (than pitch blackness) as if your eyes are adjusting to the dark. Neat! There's some great audio cues, creeps, and scares. I do hate horror games that employ just loud shrilly noises to scare you for no reason. This game does it a bit, but it excels when it has those subtle hint of footsteps, creaks, and voices. BUT Cons - Good dear lord. The audio mix for this game is absolutely horrendous. Th...

Bottom line, it's fun. It's also creepy as Hell. Not the best graphics, but I love the lighting effects, most notably the lightning and the reflections. The flashlight almost seems to project it's light in front of or apart from the source, if that makes sense. The audio is pretty good at creating sounds "off camera". The music doesn't really seem to cue anything, it seems to be dramatic at times just to be dramatic...which still absolutely helps sell the atmosphere of the game. The controls aren't bad, nothing stellar, just basic. A layout of controls in the options menu would be helpful, but everything is laid out around WSAD. This game is one that relies heavily on psychological terror in the beginning, in that, nothing much is actually happening, but the atmosphere is freaking you out...and then it gets more terrifying as the game moves along to new corridors and rooms in the mansion. I am enjoying this game a lot more than Infliction. It's not as pretty to look at as Layers...

Update: I've written up a walkthrough complete with all the statue locations and added it to the guides section. It is far from perfect but it might help if you're stuck. This review has an ending spoiler! It should be blacked out. Good golly. Several hours of my life that I can't get back. I am a fan of the first Pineview Drive game. I didn't mind that it was basically a door unlocking simulator. I didn't mind the backtracking that never seemed to end. I didn't even mind how dark it was that much. This game is unnecessarily difficult to pad the amount of time spent playing it seems as there really isn't any kind of depth to the story at all. You're a homeless guy who gets locked into the estate and you have to make it through the night to get out in the morning. That's it. The end. The most frustrating thing for me was the almost complete lack of direction. I would have to wander around checking the tiniest details of every single room in the house to try and find something in i...

Pineview Drive - Homeless is a awesome game. The first pineview drive was also a great game also.

Game itself is really just mediocre and a worse copy of Pineview Drive. But as the game has one or two partially bugged achievements (one of them just won't unlock for me) and the devs aren't responding nor fixing it I have to give a thumbs down. EDIT: So with some help I found out that there is a legal way getting this achievement, it is not completly bugged. I also made two achievement guides for the game if you wanna check them out. So 100% is possible. Still the game is mediocre and the devs didn't even answer me, so my review stays negative.

If you have played the first Pineview Drive and found it extremely tedious due to how obscure and random the puzzles were, then I'm happy to say that this does nothing to improve on that. It's literally just Pineview Drive with less content, it's the same house layout, but now it's a lot shorter, and it doesn't have that cool ending sequence. How do you make this mistake twice, VIS-Games? Every single Pineview Drive lets play ends with the player getting stuck and wandering around for 20-30 minutes before some arbitrary thing pops up for them, or they go and look up a walkthrough. And you want to charge 15 dollars for a gloryfied reskin (Even though it looks exactly the same) of the original Pineview Drive. The game also features random nonsensical jumpscares and no real threat, which once you realise this, makes the game hard to take seriously. The ending, OH GOD THE ENDING! I'm not gonna spoil it, but it's just as disappointing as you could imagine. It doesn't really close up anyt...

I played the game for about an hour and I can say the game definitely has a creepy atmosphere and some jumpscares here and there, but in the end this game is not really all that fun due to a combination of a few things. One major thing was the fetch quest concept where the solution to go forward is to get an item from another room and use it to progress. Now that alone does not make a bad game, but that along with the uninteresting story and the price makes me not want to recommend this game. The game does seem long, but the quality of the game plus the story is not worth the price. If the game was $10 I would say it is a decent horror game, but for now I would not recommend it. But as always you can judge for yourself here is the first 15 mins of me playing https://youtu.be/RW2-RPbvJFA

Non-linear = absolutely no sense of direction. Wandered around for about 30 minutes and listened to the music get louder. Might try again another time. Edit: this game claims to be psychological horror, which is also a known category for the game "Pogostuck: Rage With Your Friends"

Its pretty much the same tedious boring game play of the first PINEVIEW DRIVE with its lack of rewarding the player for exploring and a endless buildup that never goes anywhere. Too bad since am a big fan of haunted house games and was expecting more especially since its the same house as the previous game.

This was a great horror game. Took me 6 hours to beat but it did not answer any questions. A 10/10