Polarize Reviews

This is my first indepth review, so apologies, now, lets get into it. The horror. Generally, I do believe the idea is great. But the execution just makes me have to give this a negative review. The horror element in this game is odd, in my opinion. For it does not execute it in a usual way. There is no noticeable music that plays in the background, other then the final bosses theme. And the other part of it is a jumpscare that occasionally pops up. The soundtrack. I can't exactly comment on it, since I didn't notice it much. The gameplay. It consists of one of these four things. One, pressing the E button three time, then moving and pressing it again, before pressing the e button again behind you, and moving to the tub, and pressing e. Two, either pressing rmb a few times, or pressing lmb a few times after you press rmb. Before flipping a switch. Three, walking in the large area to do simple tasks for people, getting a lost child, getting groceries, getting cigars, etc. Four, hiding from the finder, before walking over to the next switch and doing it again, three times. The graphics. Its intentionally going for the PS1 style, so I can't knock on it. And now we are in spoiler territory. The final boss. It consists of hitting the resized finder twice, then moving back. And repeating that however many times. Flashing then hitting the creatures inbetween "Phases" before moving forward and repeating the first step, but for longer. Then inputting a code, going through the door, and dying immediately because you die in a single hit, and there are enemies hidden behind the door that only spawn when you go through it. Then you have to repeat it again. At this point, I quit. TL;DR It is a good concept but lacking in execution and experience. Good try though!

This game is a short horror-themed experience with some semblance of a story, although i'm too stupid to figure it out. Don't expect a life changing ending or something that alters your perception of the world, from what I can tell, this game doesn't touch the real world or any of it's issues. Some gameplay elements like the final escape sequence and the few fetch quests seem rushed and kinda just filler; while the escape sequence was just plain bad with enemys that oneshot you spawning right in front of you, and mechanics not fully explained (im looking at you; falling rock segment) The reason why im giving this game a positive review instead of a negative one despite all of the subpar things mentioned above, is because this game is well advertised. Not that it spent a lot of money on marketing or has a large following, but that the game states what it is and delivers on it in a pretty decent way. This game doesn't have any jarring issues that render it nearly unplayable, or anything that would ruin your overall experience, but in return it just has a lot of little things, like introduction to new mechanics and no subtitles, etc that add up to produce a fine but not perfect game. This is mostly due to the development "team" quite literally being one person, minus say free assets and voices. TL;DR: short game with many tiny issues that you should try only if you are bored out of your mind and have $5 to spare