Scarlet Hood and the Wicked Wood Reviews
Scarlet Hood must lead a hapless Munchkin troupe through the Wicked Wood. Too bad the Black Witch, LeFaba, doesn't take too kindly to strangers gallivanting in her domain. Our fledgling witch soon realizes she's reliving the same day. Can she overcome the disaster that awaits at every turn?
App ID | 1141120 |
App Type | GAME |
Developers | Devespresso Games |
Publishers | Headup Publishing |
Categories | Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, Full controller support |
Genres | Indie, Adventure |
Release Date | 8 Apr, 2021 |
Platforms | Windows, Mac, Linux |
Supported Languages | French, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, English, Korean, Thai, Ukrainian |

252 Total Reviews
216 Positive Reviews
36 Negative Reviews
Mostly Positive Score
Scarlet Hood and the Wicked Wood has garnered a total of 252 reviews, with 216 positive reviews and 36 negative reviews, resulting in a ‘Mostly Positive’ overall score.
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Recent Steam Reviews
This section displays the 10 most recent Steam reviews for the game, showcasing a mix of player experiences and sentiments. Each review summary includes the total playtime along with the number of thumbs-up and thumbs-down reactions, clearly indicating the community's feedback
Playtime:
227 minutes
Ok game, lots of puzzle's and sometimes you have to dodge the attack. Story is Red hood mixed with Alice in oz. It's not as good as The Coma from the same studio, but still enjoyable.
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
42 minutes
Art is fantastic. Setting is pretty good. Writing is unbearably awful: LITERALLY EVERY NOTABLE CHARACTER I SAW SPOKE IN A STEREOTYPE HEAVY SOUTHERN DIALECT. My last straw was main girl having another girl tell her shes "having a wardrobe malfunction" referring to her missing the full witch outfit apparently needed to cast magic and being like "u giving me fashion advice what are you Queer Eye". Been ages since I played a game with dialogue so terrible it breaks immersion with each and every textbox. And the puzzles that are the gameplay? each of the few I saw were simple enough a kindergartner could figure it out yet still somehow mostly managed to be slightly frustrating to execute. I'm baffled how ratings aren't lower on this flaming trash heap :SILENTMIMIC:
👍 : 3 |
😃 : 1
Negative
Playtime:
655 minutes
Was a really fun pick me up with interesting puzzles and some very nice atmosphere. Characters are charming and the overall colours are very aesthetically pleasing. Even tho there was one part of the game that just made no sense to me, I'd highly recommend those who enjoy a good adventure puzzle game to pick this up and give it a shot.
👍 : 2 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
537 minutes
Fun, if a bit short. Characters and situations you find yourself in are some of the best parts, comedy with slight horror elements. Replayable since you have various different ways of solving things leading to different endings. Gotta enjoy Puzzling at least a bit, since those are spread out throughout the game. Near the very end they also increase in intensity and feel a bit forced.
👍 : 1 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
91 minutes
It's a decent puzzle game. The introductions to puzzles are unfair at times and the overall walkable areas are covered with unnecessay enemies.
However, the music is SO GOOD. Animations work fine and the engine works great. Give it a try!
👍 : 5 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
255 minutes
This game is strange: it is an adventure with puzzles for the most part, but it also forces a few difficult timed mini challenges on the player and embraces action elements in a form of evasive movement and a single survival-style super enemy. I still recommend playing it but note that "Scarlet Hood and the Wicked Wood" is a weird mix.
👍 : 7 |
😃 : 1
Positive
Playtime:
1814 minutes
It's a fun game with some really gorgeous art. Though some of the puzzles can be a bit vague and the clues can be really confusing (I still have no idea how I solved the last bull's gate puzzle, random attempts did it for me).
Also, the entire story of the opening segment feels mostly unrelated to the rest of the game.
But all in all, it's a good game with some really good visual treat and decent story.
👍 : 10 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
267 minutes
This a fun little game. The puzzles aren't mind boggling, but they aren't trivial either. It can take some thought to get through them, though all the clues necessary to solve them are generally located nearby. Each area is fairly short, but there are multiple ways to get through them so the game actually has some replayability.
The art is great and the controls are intuitive. Overall it's a very well made game. The story is pretty straightforward though. I could see the plot twist coming well before it happened. But still overall I liked it. I'll play it again to get the other endings, but maybe not immediately.
👍 : 11 |
😃 : 1
Positive
Playtime:
2274 minutes
Alright IDK how people finished the game so fast. I think I'm pretty good at puzzles and some of the puzzles in here were hard. There are very few clues for solving so it is a rough ride tryin got solve some of the puzzles.
There are a lot of hidden sequences as well, slight alternative endings depending on you clearing certain hurdles in the game.
The worst part of this game has got to be the damage/poison, new players won't know how to deal with it and you can get camped basically so you die over an over.
I enjoyed Vambrace and wanted to give this a shot, it's no Vambrace and not nearly as interesting.
👍 : 13 |
😃 : 3
Negative
Playtime:
324 minutes
The story is fun and the gameplay is solid. The biggest problem Scarlett Hood, as mentioned by many reviews before this, is the game does not explain or give enough clues to solve many of the problems. This is a real problem when you advertise the game as a puzzler. Playing becomes a lesson in frustration as you scour the level for details on how to solve a problem, only to turn to Youtube to find the solution.
👍 : 29 |
😃 : 5
Negative