Imagine something huge, beautiful, but completely unappealing.

In this game, we’ll wander through an underground location. What awaits us is literally a massive maze of mines, torture chambers, and bunkers. And there’s only one goal-to escape (preferably alive).

Each area will have several mini-puzzles. To solve them, you’ll need to pull a lever or press a button. The catch is that you first have to find them, and what stands in your way are poison, electricity, and axe-wielding maniacs.

It does sound intriguing and exciting. The graphics are stunning, too, everything is detailed, well-optimized, and the eerie atmosphere is perfectly conveyed. But. God, is it booooring. You just have to mindlessly run through a ton of rooms searching for something. And yes, around the middle of the game, you get telekinesis so you can pull levers from a short distance, but that doesn’t really make things much better.

In the end, we get what should be a great game-one with an interesting premise, a genuinely enormous underground base, and attention to every little detail. But the actual gameplay doesn’t keep you on edge; instead, it quickly gets tedious repeating the same actions over and over.

I can’t bring myself to give such a polished project a negative rating, but I also can’t recommend it. Unless you’re really into these kinds of games and are willing to wait for a sequel.

Lethe - Episode One is an okay atmospheric horror game, Okay then the story. A young man and a journalist named Robert Dawn is on a little ship headed for a little known Island mining town, he goes there after cleaning out his deceased step father's home in order to pay the debts that he had left him.

As Robert was cleaning he discovered a letter that told him everything he believed about his life was a lie, he wasn't born in England as he was born in a quiet mining settlement, so desperate for the truth he sets out. But perhaps there was a good reason for his father hiding this information, perhaps the past is better left alone.

Alright let’s talk about the likes, the story is pretty good it does have a problem but that's for the dislikes, but besides that the story is told mostly through notes and some visuals and there's enough clues in most of the notes to piece together what happened and what’s going on while still leaving room for some mystery and questions.

The gameplay is okay it's styled after Amnesia the Dark Descent basically explore while sneaking past enemies and solving environmental puzzles, but what helps the game stand out and is it's telekinesis mechanic, basically later on in the game you get the ability to move objects with your mind and it's quite simple and helps with solving difficult puzzles and platforming in later levels, it's also pretty simple to use and not too complicated to figure out what to use it on.

The graphics were good pretty distinct with a nice uses of dreary dark colors and designs that really gives the right kind of depressive, lonely and creepy atmosphere. The levels are good and is a bit diverse with some visual distinction from a creepy mind to a laboratory to even a medieval style dungeon, you can get a tiny bit lost sometimes, but it wasn't too bad.

The enemies were okay they had their own interesting looks and had some creepy and tragic back stories. The music was okay, fit the game quite well. The notes were good as it did good job in telling the story and the backstory of the little island itself.The atmosphere was very good, nice and spooky kept you on the edge for the first time playing it as you wander this creepy mind and dread every sound in every lever or button you push.

Now is this game scary, for the first time yes it can actually be pretty spooky as you are wandering around the mine dreading every sound and noise, especially when you see enemies. Also the scares were well placed and the game didn't rely on jump scares, only atmosphere and creepy sound effects.

Alright let’s talk about the dislikes, now just to warn you there is a motion sickness problem with the game as I was playing it I kind of got sick to my stomach a little bit, so you might want to take breaks through each of the levels if you're feeling queasy.

Anyway with the warning out of the way some of the achievements for the game can be a bit of a pain in the ass to get, the worst being first class explorer because for some reason the counter for it doesn't immediately go up in certain areas your supposed to explore in order to get this achievement, you have to wait like a few minutes until the counter registers that you explored that area, it was a real pain in the ass.

Also this game doesn't have level select so if you missed a note or something to explore you're going to have to start the game all over again. Lastly like I said in the likes there is a slight problem with the story and it's the fact it ends on a cliffhanger and since this game was made in 2016 we will probably never see episode 2 released which is sad.

So now that you know all this Lethe - Episode One is an okay atmospheric horror game, with a pretty good story, okay gameplay and very good atmosphere. Now do I recommend this game, I do even though it's probably never going to be completed, but I will say get it on sale.