Parasomnia Verum Reviews

A very enjoyable experimental indie-horror game. You go through constant dream sequences that slowly change. Nice atmosphere, interesting style, cheesy and campy, very short, decent jump scares, dirt cheap.

I enjoyed this. I wasn't overly fussed on this developer's outings in the Dread XP bundles but I decided to take another punt on them as their games seemed to be rated fairly positively and I am glad I did. This was a very enjoyable mini-horror, and for all the price of it it's hard not to recommend it. It nails the atmosphere, and though it does reuse the same areas over and over, that is justified given the story, as mentioned in the description, revolves around recurring dreams. There's also a couple of good scares included to boot. Worth adding to any horror aficionado's collection.

The game wasn't too bad to go through, and they definitely included creepy elements as well as some scares! It does feel more like the beginning of something longer rather than a standalone game, but I didn't have any playability complaints or bugs! It was just a kinda neat, short journey into the very weird, ominous place that the main character in the game is going through when she dreams. I will give it a thumbs up! Here's my run-through of it, please don't mind me if I screamed: https://youtu.be/X5cXSOKHhNQ

Solid build-up of tension. Sound design was unsettliing as hell. Especially liked the dull pulsing in first dream sequence where you walk around. Also thought it was neat how the surprises felt fresh despite it all being in the same setting. Maybe I'm dumb though and that's just how horror works.

Honestly this game wasn't very long but it hit the spot that a lot of recent short horror games have been missing and scared the absolute shit out of me! I for sure give this atleast a 9/10!

It's 30 mins. it's worth the price I paid on sale at 20% off? it's not scary, but it's one of those games you wonder what the developer was on when he thought it up, and I still don't understand the watermelons? I wish you were allowed to recommend a neutral score, but I'll put it as a thumbs up because well it's a wtf game am I playing? kind of fun.

I was super surprised at how good this game was. It isn't anything mind blowing but for the price it was for sure worth a play through. The atmosphere was creepy, the story was intriguing, and it gave me a few jump scares. It also looked and ran great as well. The music choice was a bit odd but that kind of added to the strangeness of the story. If you want to see some game play you can check out my video below. https://youtu.be/fpl78xxZtaE

Found this developer through their contributions to the "Dread X" anthology series, enjoyed it enough to check out some of their other projects. I was stoked to see they had a bunch more little horror games on Steam and decided to pick this one up. There's definitely some solid atmosphere and creepy stuff here, and one very effective scare. However, it's extremely short I mean like 30 minutes short, if this was a game included in another anthology that'd be awesome but on it's own it's kinda underwhelming. The entry fee is really cheap tho and gave me at least one good scare so I think it's worth it. Will check out some other titles by the dev I think i'm becoming a fan. 7.5/10

I am a big fan of Vida's games! Everything really worked in harmony here! Damn good atmosphere, dreamlike illogical environments, a fiercely well-placed scare, unpleasant shots, extremely good sound design! It really gave me an uncomfortable feeling! Just wow! Love it!

[h1] Very Loud Noises, Not Much Else [/h1] I look all over Steam for random / unknown Steam games to play. This was one of the chosen titles this week! If you'd rather watch than read, you can do so here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP7s0Xh8lSo [b] [Thoughts and First Impressions] [/b] This game is 75%+ the same area that you'll be walking through again and again. It's easy way to think of it is if the whole world of 4 or so areas are all one big PT loop. You go through the sequence of places again and again, usually spending most of your time in a large empty warehouse with one other person (and sometimes a spooky shambling ghost). That's gonna be about 20 minutes of your 30 minute playthrough or so. Once you've gone through the big empty warehouse twice you're kind of over it. It quickly just fades into the background of "IM BACK HERE AGAIN" each time. You'll be there some... 4 or 5 times. Maybe more. Oh yea did I mention that parts of this game have EXTREMELY LOUD NOISES? Insanely loud. Almost ear shatteringly loud and I had my volume for the game set to 25. When the scary shambling man chases you, for instance, you are treated to the sound of being in the middle of 3 jet aircraft being launched off of a carrier. It's real loud, in other words. It really takes away from the scariness factor of the game as well. If you are drowning out everything else then I am just not going to be very scared. More for my eardrums than anything else. All-in-all, the game took me about 30 minutes and had some nice areas to explore inside the apartment... but other than that the game was a bit of a loop of not much happening into VERY LOUD SECTIONS into the game ending. I have no idea what happened or what the story was either. That may just be because I'm dumb though, that may not be the game's fault. Join the Curator group for more reviews and "unboxing" of unknown games! https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34634494/