FM Reviews

This was a neat little P.T like game. Cliche, yes, but done in a fun way that kept me interested throughout. Although there are tons of games in this category, this one did a pretty good job. It has taken me ages to actually download and play this game due to some of the reviews but am glad that I finally did.

It´s a pretty good horror walking simulator. I like the storytelling on the radio with the hints to continue. All acievements are story related except the secret one. If you don´t get it yourself look in the forum =)

Pretty good scary game. It has the ominous elements; you can definitely sense the PT inspirations. Its not bad, it's short and sweet, the story is comprehensible, and I feel fulfilled. It is rough around the edges though, I explain that at the end of my video. But overall, not a bad game! It was definitely worth playing, but I'd wait for it to be on sale. My Gameplay: https://youtu.be/WTC-Yczl5t8 Other Playthroughs: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNW0DVlIT01Gk0VEMHy4skA

FM is an interesting puzzle game where you zoom and click on certain objects or locations of the room while listening to an FM radio to solve the mystery. Overall the story is short and simple with four acts of game play which can be completed in roughly an hour. The achievements are also easy to unlock and require no skill whatsoever. There is a secret achievement involving the television, but this review does not contain spoilers! The psychological parts of the game where the map would loop or flip were not that scary. The transitions between scenes and lack of sound effects during the supposed jump scares made this horror game basic at its core. Considering price and length; this game earns a rating of 6/10

Short, mostly okay experience. I wouldn't say it's bad, just not the most terrifying experience, nor the most interesting of gameplay. I'd say pass on this unless you can find it for a dollar.

The clicking areas to trigger events are just tedious. You never know if you're clicking the right object or if the game didn't detect your click. You spend your time walking around the same rooms, clicking everything until the game finally detects your clicking. Often, it was the object you clicked first but that the game had not registered. So, you have spent 10 minutes walking around for nothing and you become frustrated and bored until you quit. Also, it's not scary at all, not even the cheap jump scares. Paid $1.50 for this and requested a refund anyway. It's bad.

About one hour long horror game. Not terrible, but I still didn't enjoy it. Walking speed is incredibly slow and you often have to do some sort of puzzle where a radio is telling a chunk of the story and then you have to interact with a certain item which should correspond to something you just heared. But this is just aweful. I was heavily stuck in the first of these puzzles and even in the others it's just way too hard to tell which items are the right ones. In fact because of that I think this is more a puzzle game, but mostly not very enjoyable.

Played on Linux using Proton, Played for less then an hour and was falling a sleep, Very Dark and very boring, Jump scares are knocking on doors, bulbs popping, all done before, might be something better later on, puzzles?, listen to the radio and take a guess at what to look at (right mouse zoom) as it's somewhat to dark to see what you should zoom in on most of the time. got as far as the school and setting the clocks, picking up books, but that was as much as i could take, boredom and heavy eye lids makes for a dull game, as for being like PT, nope, only thing it has in common is walking down the same plain corridor which was done much better in PT.

I love this game! I will not lie I did struggle a bit with how to progress in the game. It is super creepy and made me jump several times. I do have to recommend this game to all horror lovers.

As always, I want to preface this by saying I'm generally more critical on horror games than most, but all criticisms are to lend a perspective for what I enjoy in horror and hope to see different in future games. FM is an indie horror game that is more or less a walking sim, which is cool with me, however, the story elements are very dry, incoherent at times, very slow paced, and the interactive parts aren't compelling. - The gameplay mechanic the game uses to keep you engaged or to at least have an interactive element to it is that you are to listen to audio cues and hold RMB to look at a corresponding object. It's a bit bland and repetitive. It just leads to you walking around and zooming in on objects. There's one other element where the game has you collect several items in a relatively small area. It's tedious and incredibly slow paced to an already slow paced game. Which leads me to.. - The walk speed in this game is dreadfully slow. I don't know if the thought was to draw out dread or tension, but the game doesn't really do this particularly well. There's long hallways (yes looping hallways too) and it takes forever to walk down them with nothing happening in between. - If there's a looping hallway mechanic, I'd like to see more things change between loops. Even more on pacing, each loop the game feeds you one or two lines of the story and the slow walking pace leaves a lot of silence until you reach the next loop where you learn a little bit more of the story. It's nickel and diming and I feel like it could be tightened up to make the game more cohesive. - FM takes a lot of inspiration from PT. All things are pretty derivative, but this game almost takes a little too much and it makes it pretty predictable. - The horror elements are almost non-existent. There's not a lot of atmosphere and for whatever reason there's a lot of furniture being upside down and red lights are thought to be scary. - The story wasn't engaging enough for me to follow it properly. That's probably just me being dumb, but I was a bit confused between who died when and it didn't make sense to me chronologically. So instead of a moment of a plot twist or reveal, I was just confused and unsure if I just misunderstood something before. Look, this game is more than I could ever accomplish on making a game, but there's a lot of elements that could be tweaked for what I would see as a more enjoyable experience. The game is inexpensive and it's about an hour long so it could still be worth a try for you.