Peekaboo Collection - 3 Tales of Horror Reviews

Although it may not show much time played I have finished all of the games as I am a Patreon of Vidas games & completed them through this medium. The Peekaboo Collection 3 Tales of Horror has been a labor of love for Vidas & Abbey for the last few months.The duo dev team have put 3 of their best & most recent horror stories into one package for an awesome price. When you get a duo such as these two who pour a lot of effort into their craft & also consider games to be more about Art than profit, you get this. 3 awesome games! 3 awesome stories! Theater Unrest is a creepy pasta inspired game about a guy who must traverse a never ending loop of sinister movies whilst also avoiding 2 creepy characters haunting the theater. Balavour is about a demon who lives in the form of a plant & when unsuspecting victims fall prey to it's guise, it consumes them from within using their body as a form of soil. Eventually becoming a perfect copy of the host. Also there is a dog & you can pet it! A+ for this Solumcess - A Silent Hill & Lost in Vivo inspired game with undertones of suicide & guilt. You must make you way through an alternate reality & escape the nightmare that is Solumcess. A great game with a deep atmosphere & tense horror setting. This one will send shivers down your spine. In summery For $2.09 you really can't go wrong & if you ever want to see more & stay up to date with their other games you can look for them on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/VidasGames

In my opinion that was pretty weak. Theater Unrest and Solumcess were testing my patience pretty hard because they were lame in their gameplay and they were so pretentious in the way they were trying to convey messages that I ended up not understanding anything. I don't know, maybe I'm just being a smooth brain but that was so boring. By gameplay you will see what I mean, Theater Unrest is basically just a PT clone mixed with the famous little Theater creepypasta, so it's basically just a walking simulator with someone that talk to you in gibberish non stop instead of going to the point so you don't understand anything and it lengthen the experience for nothing. Solumcess is a bit better but really repetitive, you just do an audio minigame over and over and story wise I still didn't understand anything even after getting all the endings. By the way the endings are tr*sh, there is no point to them, for example in one [spoiler] You just kill yourself by jumping off a building lmao and that's it.[/spoiler] and another one [spoiler]You stay in a zone delimited by fangs on the floor or wathever and you just do the sound minigame until the fangs reach a certain point in the air and the screen turn to black.[/spoiler]. Balavour was the only good one because that one respected my time and was fun to play. You have to fetch some things but it's the only game in the bunch you can actually run (That's a really big plus, believe me.) so you don't really care and the fetchs are really few. I liked that there was combat, finally a bit of action apart from just running away and the antagonist was silly but in a good way and interesting. [spoiler]It's a plant.[/spoiler] It's a damn shame it was the shortest. Overall even for the price I'd say it's not worth it at all, I am extremly suspicious of the people that gave good reviews to this.

Well I can't say much that hasn't already been said. It's a three game horror series for a very affordable price so at the price point I would definitely recommend this package. After watching the trailer I decided to start with Theater Unrest and everything I thought I knew was wrong. The jumpscares came when I least expected them to, the creepy/suspense factor is consistent throughout the whole gameplay and the mystery as to what the f*** is going on never leaves haha. Now this is coming from a individual that is on the low spectrum for horror tolerance so take the review as you will. Regardless I would definitely recommend shutting the lights off and jumping in to this title. I'll leave this here to add on to the reviews: https://youtu.be/Tg5Ix_mo9xA

Played the first two stories and to be honest it's a bit cheesy ... That does not mean it is bad, and maybe the last story is the best one(who knows). But as far as I have played, well it's standard horror fare with the occasional jumpscare and running, fighting sequence. The story tries it's best tho(no complaints there). For this price , give it a shot for 3 rather short games.

It's super cheap and You support talented author buying it. You should buy it especially for Solumcess - it's like small Lost in Vivo experience. But also I'm recommend to play Theater Unrest - this one was surprise for me. It's like walking on David Lynch movie plan! Only one I don't like it is Balavour.

The Peekaboo Collection is a collection of three short horror games by Vidas Games. I finished the whole thing in around two hours. I enjoyed it as a whole. Vidas Games is good at crafting games with ominous atmosphere and interesting stories. [h1]Theater Unrest [/h1] Inspired by the Creepypasta "Theater", Theater Unrest is a game about a spooky theater. You collect your ticket, walk down the hall, go to your movie, and creepy things happen. It's a bit walking-sim-ish, but I liked the atmosphere of the game, and the monster designs are really creepy. [h1] Balavour [/h1] Balavour is a story about killer plants. You play a woman lamed Luna who picks a flower, which causes her to slowly turn into a flower herself, and be attacked by plant monsters. It's full of body horror elements, and honestly tells a kind of sad story too. The combat is kind of jankey and barebones, the focus of this game is definitely on story, but I appreciate it being in there. [h1] Solumcess [/h1] I REALLY enjoyed Solumcess. It's full of creepy atmosphere, frightening monster designs, and fun and interesting puzzles to solve. The core mechanics revolve around scanning a radio for empty frequencies which allows a "ghost" to contact you and helps you solve the trials ahead. It explores some interesting philosophical values as well. [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mWfgwBmPRQ] Full Review [/url] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mWfgwBmPRQ

just some notes i took while playing~~ theater unrest + i thought theater unrest wasnt as scary as the original theater creepypasta. but then i went back and read the theater for the first time in 10 years and, no, i was wrong, the opposite is true - the kitty horrorshow-inspired black&white segments with dialogue werent anywhere as interesting as the segments where you have control + the noise the lady makes when she moves is very Very good + despite the nature of the game, the loops always had enough different that i didn't feel like i was wasting my time - however, i felt that the game overstays its welcome by about 5-10 loops and some in the middle could have been cut down some + this ended up being my favorite of the three balavour + you can pet the dog - CW because the dog fucking dies horribly + i think i like that scruncho's voice is a consistent guiding friend throughout all three of these games but, as an irl speech teacher, i would push for more vocal variety through the different games - stopped playing when i died to the boss battle, i was uncertain how to not die + first person animation work is charming solumcess - i dont think these names mean anything theyre just words that sound like horror game titles - took a Good Long Time to find the first door and almost quit before finding it. it wasn't lit up at all to be recognizeable as separate from the wall, and a nearby ladder mentions that there isn't a door. good game design trick is to put a light on somethin you want people to look at + scrubbing through radio/tape static is always a good mechanic idea, ive been looking for an actual successor to sylvio 1 for years - implementation is less fun, i like the L+R channel listening-for-silence idea in principle but it wore out its novelty after a while, since you gotta find it, then hold the button down, then just sit there still while the voice talks. + all these games use sound cues for direction which is nice, but adding stronger/consistent visual cues would be even better - especially when youre supposed to find items under, say, heavily-shaded water that you dont even know are there until your character mentions them - the THREAT of failure is a lot more fun than the actual failure. give us a chance to figure out what to do! - there's a point where you have to run from a monster, and right before the exit door your character just pulls out their radio and stops you from moving or doing anything until the monster gets right on you, then disappears. its a scare tactic disguised as a bug

Enjoyable little collection of horror games. I'd recommend to play them in order, left to right. First one, Theater Unrest, is probably the best. It was definitely the most extenstive, and the groundhog day-esque approach works really well, and it had me on edge and creeped out on more than one occasion. Balavour is okay, but it's pretty much the low-point I think. It has the most story but it also seemed the most straightforward and the "normal world" actually expose how ugly the graphics in these games can be instead of hiding it behind a wall of grime. And the last one, Solumcess, was intriguing enough. Definitely the weirdest of the bunch, and I'd recommend once you complete it to dive back in and get the last two endings. It only takes a couple of minutes as the way to get the other endings becomes obvious when you complete the game the main way. Will definitely be checking out more of Vidas's games.

Theater Unrest, the first and only 'tale' I played, was extremely boring and confusing. It seems to have copied PT, but walking down the same corridor over and over was just so boring. It was only 30 mins long and I was already desperate for it to end. The random ramblings in between each theater segement was just confusing and I have no idea what the story was trying to say. This first game was such a chore to play that I will not be trying the others. 2 pounds may seem cheap, but I am sure there are much better games you can pick up for that price. If you liked this review, check out my [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/28344664/]Steam Curation page![/url]

I was skeptical about all the positive reviews, but this ended up being a neat set of games(mostly). The first game was very art house with looping hallways. I always judge looping hallways harder than I do other tropes because lots of people do them. I liked this one. It felt pretentious in the beginning, but the longer I stayed, the more it grew on me. The ending was a nice cherry on top and it had me sashaying away feeling satiated. Well done. :) The second game wasn't too scary. It was more...unsettling. The kind of beast that pries open your jaws and gets deep inside. I won't say too much because I don't want to spoil the story, but I didn't really care for the combat at the end. It was a little janky-- I managed to get through after 3 tries. The third game I gave up on because I had to sift through a gajillion frequencies on a radio and I got bored with it pretty quickly because the stuff I managed to pick up wasn't scary. This is probably a personal preference thing. :P The Peekaboo Collection is fairly priced at $2.99. Give it a whirl if you're a fan of creepypasta or artsy indie projects. :)