The Forgotten Tapes: Twisted Forms Reviews

For the price I'd say it's not worth it. The games aren't terrible, they are all just ok.

Very fantastic and good game to own. I had fun to play the Forgotten Tapes: Twisted Forms. Visuals are really excellent and VHS tapes being played can take less than an hour to go through. Love the first-person perspective on all of the games.

Sadly I can only barely recommend this and only if you know the kind of thing you're getting into. Unfortunately, and unlike Analog Nightmares, there are some significant problems that really hinder the overall experience. For starters, I was forced to use the freeplay mode because the framing game for the story mode seems to have a bug where triggers sometimes don't work on the drawers in the morgue and that left me soft locked 3 times. Worse, you're forced to redo the little item hunt at the beginning every time you fire it back up. It's a collection of little games made by creators with varying degrees of team size and experience, so the quality varies significantly and that's expected. For the most part these at least are bug-free enough to be played to completion, but several of them lack any saving and a mistake part way through means repeating everything up to that point. Ultimately this meant I didn't finish a few of them. Still, if you're into this kind of thing the price isn't bad for what you get in my opinion. If the worst bugs are fixed and saving is implemented in the few games that really need it, it could be as good as its predecessor.

A collection in the likes of the DreadX Collections, with a low poly/PS1 aesthetic and spirit. A few bugs here and there, but overall a great collection of horror and gore games.

gotta be honest here, there were maybe 2 games in here that were ok, the rest were boring. one of the 2 games seemed to be broken as the crowbar didn't work on any of the planks of wood or anything I could find. a lot of these games also didn't have v-sync options, so they showed up really choppy on stream and were not interesting enough to put up with. the snowy lab one also broke and I got stuck in place by the doors (also no clue how to progress, found a keycard, couldn't find where it went). also the launcher stopped working the 2nd time I tried to get a new body; just froze gong from row one back to the lower row, didn't feel like starting over so I just selected freeplay after that. the only game I enjoyed was vlad's game with the character creator, but also, it just sort of ended? I think I did every possible path combination, but there's no way out of the cube movie reference section as far as I could tell. also one of the games said coming soon, so one's just not even in here yet. real disappointed because the analogue collection last year had mostly good games with only like 1 or 2 bad ones, expected this one to be similar; that's usually how horror compilations go: half good, half bad. this one was unfortunately all bad & broken. even updating the games and launcher game to fix the issues, I'd say still not worth it. sorry

Another fantastic anthology of microgames, with some highlights with Vaporwave & Autopsy - well worth the priceline for the amount of time that you will have with each game entry. Great work by this collective of devs, looking forward to what comes next!! Strong product - 8/10

Great collection of games, and the perfect way to relax with spooky vibes for an evening. Only real criticism is that a few of these titles were too linear. I often missed specific triggers, leaving me wandering around trying to figure out how to advance. Devs are super responsive on fixing bugs and listening to feedback. Hub World: Really well done. Unironically, one of the best parts of the collection. Great tension. Opening scene was paced really well. I demand a loop option for the radio. The Sculptor: Love-letter to the old Resident Evil games, tank controls and all. Pretty fun, solid scares. Flesh Simulator: Very different in substance from all the other games I've played from this dev, but its definitely retains his signature style. Very well themed. Definitely made me uneasy. Vaporwave: Beautiful game, dev clearly has a sense for detail. **Small spoiler** The environment after the lights went out was very unnerving. It was WAY too quiet. Great job. Make Beautiful: My personal favorite. Very short, but had a ton of charm. The vibe of the character creation screen was a great. Nano: **Small Spoiler** Favorite premise and setting, by far. The idea that your body could be haunted by microscopic ghosts (or whatever those were) was really, really cool. I'd love to see where else the dev could take the idea. Autopsy: Scariest game, with genuine moments of dread and tension. Well paced, with solid production values. Second favorite title. Looking forward to the last game coming out later this year!

This is great just like the first Forgotten Tapes. The games are interesting enough and fun to explore, some more than others. The hubworld has evolved from the last collection, there's more stuff to do in there. But strangely there is no save function which is really annoying in a game like this where you might wanna jump in and play a couple, then come back a few times. Exiting the game means you have to redo the whole opening sequence and re-collect the tapes/games. And there were a few bugs in the hub too, sometimes I get stuck when I open the corpse hatches. And I'd be stuck there until I exit the game, and like I said that meant replaying the whole hubworld and gathering the tapes again. This is gamebreaking and hopefully fixed really soon. Then when I filled gas in the generator my character shrunk to the size of a leprechaun and the camera was stuck on ground level. Fix those things and it's all good. A solid recommend if you like short horror game collections like DreadX.