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Do you like old-school horror games? Do you like cheesy B movie slasher and monster films? Then, my friend, I introduce to you the obscure (pun intended) world of ObsCure.

It takes heavy influence from Video-Game titles such as Resident Evil and most notably Silent Hill. But then, as previously suggested, it also takes inspiration from horror films. The film it seems to take the most inspiration from, though, is a little 90's gem called 'The Faculty' starring none other than the legendary Elijah Wood. The characters in ObsCure are in many ways inspired by the characters from The Faculty much like the premise, scenario and location all seem very similar. In both the movie and the game it takes place on a school where something very dangerous and menacing is in a sense hidden within the school without anyone noticing.... seemingly everyone being oblivious other than a few cast of characters all with their own teen stereotype and differences. My favorite character of Stanley Jones (ObsCure) is for example heavily inspired by the character of Zeke Tyler (The Faculty.)

ObsCure is in my opinion the perfect game incarnation of a B movie horror flick. The quality of it all isn't the best, nor is the writing, graphics and more. But the game STILL holds up if you'd ask me. Ever now and then I see myself coming back to this game. I've beaten it around 2:30-40 hours as my quickest (yet as of writing this) playthrough. The hard difficulty does NOT play around (something I have not beaten as of writing this) and will test your skills "to the max" (enter cheesy 90's commercial here.)

While the game is relatively short I still do think it has a lot to offer in the sense that you'll always be on edge (especially as one of the many game mechanics is PERMA-DEATH if a character dies, which is the point where I personally always seem to reload my latest save.) It also introduces a back then unique "crafting system" as you could put a flashlight onto your shotguns with some ducttape. This makes the game both more interesting and also easier when you can combine a firearm and a flashlight (mind you there are different variations of flashlights, as all differ in power.) And this is key to survival as enemies CAN be killed through regular means but I would highly suggest you use their biggest weakness against them: Light sources.

As a little finisher to this review of the game I just have to tell whoever might read this that when I first discovered this game as a kid it was SUPER frightening and I literally couldn't get myself to play any further than a couple of minutes (if even that.) But then as I grew older and also grew to love horror I eventually revisited the game (last year, 2016, to be more specific) where I fell in love with this game! The character of Stan even got such a big impact on me that I've tried ever since then to somewhat mimic his hairstyle (it looks REALLY great with that sweet beanie of his!) and I also fell in love with the idea of having two layered shirts thanks to him. Lockpicking is actually also something I found myself surprisingly interested in due to none other than Stan here.

So you could definitley say that this game indeed has affected my life and personality to some extent. Also I've grown EXTREMELY fond of the intro/outro music for the Steam version. I cannot for the love of me find ANY information about that song ANYWHERE but started liking it so much I even made a cover in the music program Renoise quite awhile back of this specific song.


This was a pretty long, none structured review but I just HAD to write it all as I do indeed love this game for what it is. I've played through the sequel, ObsCure 2: The Aftermath several times and really like that game too (although the first one is thus far my favorite in the ObsCure franchise.) I even had fun playing through the reboot, Final Exam (although this game is by far the most repetitive and also lacks all the characters and spooks of the original two games so it's the worst in the franchise in my opinion. Still worth a playthrough though if you're into 2.5D side-scrolling beat-em-ups.)

Do you like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, slasher and monster films? Then buy this game or at the very least look up some Let's Plays on YouTube as it feels like a great tribute to all of these things while staying original to an extent. Happy gaming!