October Night Games Reviews

I liked the atmosphere and music. Ghouls with an artifact from Cthulhu briskly bring resources!

This is the most unusual game of its kind that I have ever played. The game is exciting from the first day, I was pleasantly surprised by the pantheon of Gods, which are available in the rituals. Although to be honest, it is not easy from the point of view of ritual composing and social deduction. You need to make an effort to understand how everything works at first, but it makes sense and it's totally worth it!! It's very curious, how the plot always develops differently depending on my choices. Each of the characters gives nice bonuses and familiars (animals helpers) are soooo cute! Most important, the game is much deeper than it might seem from the first sight. I will definitely check all the roles and familiars ;)

I love the idea. I like the aesthetics, graphics, music and SFX create nice mood. Unfortunately there is no gameplay. Most of time player must make blind decisions. Many elements in the game don't seem meaningful at all, just creating impression of complexity. Good game is supposed to present a set of interesting and meaningful decisions to the player. I hardly found any in this game so far.

The combat is weirdly imbalanced especially with no feedback or information during/before the final event. This mystery is thematically appropriate almost, but completely falls apart after the first playthrough. The deduction seems almost like a non-factor with the length of the game and inscrutability of the meaningfulness of interactions. Especially in my playthrough, I had all the roles figured out by day 10, although the interactions event chose the same 3 characters three times in a row for no reason. Visiting the market seems mandatory for good play, but is slightly out of the way to do every single turn. Does the familiar have any gameplay effect?? It was an interesting experience for one go, but ultimately doesn't seem worth the time to play it.

The game has no way to save manually, and the auto-save feature doesn't work very well. First game I continued was an hour behind where it should have been, and the second game I played did not save at all. Completely destroyed the fun I had with it.

Tentative thumbs up. If you like the Cthulhu theme and board games then you will probably like this. The main problem is that it's just a very confusing game. Even after reading the entire tutorial and playing the game a few times I still have a few unanswered questions.

This is a nice little puzzle-like game, and it's more complex than meets the eye at first time. I enjoyed it more and more, when exploring how things worked out. I found the hunt for manage the achievements fun, and I have collected 21 of 23. Coming Halloween I will reach 22, but to get the last we all have to wait until 2039! (Playing during Halloween, beneath full moon) But ... after 98 hours playing the "Halloween" campaign I have reached my goals, more or less. Will I play the game again? There is a second campaign "Freezing Moon". I didn't see anything that interested me there. The only effect I could see was that you take injuries by the freezing cold. I will check it out again ... but I don't see it as that fun. Do I recommend the game? Yes I do. It absolutely have a place in your game collection. You play it now and then 1-2 hours and come back when you have time. It's so quick that it doesn't matter if you fail. Just give it another try.

I love the idea. I like the aesthetics, graphics, music and SFX create nice mood. Unfortunately there is no gameplay. Most of time player must make blind decisions. Many elements in the game don't seem meaningful at all, just creating impression of complexity. Good game is supposed to present a set of interesting and meaningful decisions to the player. I hardly found any in this game so far.

I played two runs and failed two times. The game is deeper than I expected. What's bad is that I'm alone and can only play with bots. Bots are strong. Is this because they don't have sanity?

1. Actually good music 2. Nice art. 3. You will have to take time to understand the game, overall it is not that difficult - and it has some Cultist Simulator vibes of "learn while you play", but, honestly, in certain cases hints would be extremely helpful. It took me a lot of googling to find out what exactly "pure essence" is, for example. Nearly every info you need is in the tooltips, but you do not always know which images on the screen actually give you tooltips. 4. The gameplay itself is actually rather good and engaging. The game doesn't take too long to complete - but as it is a mixture of Mafia and a card game it seems like it can be fun in multiplayer too.