I've played a plethora of bad horror games before, but I'm not entirely sure where to put this one. I bought this game on sale for like $1.20 or something cheap like that, and to give the game credit, it does go on sale often. But a base price of $12.39NZD is absolutely criminal for the half hour of lacklustre gameplay you're gonna get.

You play as.... I don't actually know, I think you're meant to be a prisoner of sorts in an underwater penitentiary. You wake up next to a corpse with an awfully written note, and then are sent on your way to figure out a way out of the place.

First thing to acknowledge are the god awful controls. You feel clunky and unresponsive half the time and the inventory system is weird, I never actually feel like I'm using the keys I find laying around. You're given a flashlight with minimal battery life, and by the time you've run into the first monster, there's a good chance it'll be dead. I ended up using the glowstick for the rest of the game as it didn't have a lifespan on it. We need to normalise not having batteries in horror games, the only time it's ever worked is in Amnesia and Outlast. Every other attempt has felt half baked and unnecessary.

The monsters aren't scary. I feel like the dev left out jumpscares on purpose, thinking the monsters would do the heavy lifting, but they're so easy to ignore that they may as well not even be there. I've seen people complimenting the design of the big dude with horns, but I'm sorry to say, he's not an original creation. I've seen the same asset used in many other horror titles before, same goes for the weeping angel type creature. The only original model I could see was the mutated scientist that was locked in the security room, but he looks like he's running around with flippers on his feet. It's wasted potential, especially when you notice that all the threats are locked to their designated areas.

The story is non existent, you get no explanation as to why the monsters exist, (except a note saying a scientist "got sick"?), 99% of the experience is key hunting in almost complete darkness, and when you do beat the game, all you're given is a dry "congratulations" and a couple of courtesy claps before getting hustled back to the main menu.

If there were achievements and something more to do, I'd feel more inclined to recommend this, but as it stands,



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