REC: Beyond The Lens Reviews
REC: Beyond The Lens is a first-person horror game that tells the story of an unresolved past, with realistic graphics. Explore an unknown location, investigating dark secrets while using a body camera to document every step
App ID | 2466400 |
App Type | GAME |
Developers | Samuka Gomes |
Publishers | Samuka Gomes |
Categories | Single-player |
Genres | Indie, Action, Simulation, Adventure |
Release Date | 3 Jul, 2023 |
Platforms | Windows |
Supported Languages | English |

1 Total Reviews
0 Positive Reviews
1 Negative Reviews
Negative Score
REC: Beyond The Lens has garnered a total of 1 reviews, with 0 positive reviews and 1 negative reviews, resulting in a ‘Negative’ overall score.
Recent Steam Reviews
This section displays the 10 most recent Steam reviews for the game, showcasing a mix of player experiences and sentiments. Each review summary includes the total playtime along with the number of thumbs-up and thumbs-down reactions, clearly indicating the community's feedback
Playtime:
75 minutes
Great indie game! Like someone else said very disorienting but gives off a really frightening experience. It reminds me of walking around at night without glasses not being able to see too far.
Don't forget that you're a paranormal investigator so you have to walk around in the environment!
I believe that triggers the game to progress.
It was a fun game to try :)
👍 : 1 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
12 minutes
Graphics glitches screwed up textures, I'm walking through a door, walking speed is stupid slow, and alot of the in game text is in spanish despite me selecting english. Its crap. I'm requesting a refund.
👍 : 1 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
58 minutes
The best part of this one was guessing if the left click or E key would work when you tried to interact with something. All jokes aside, this is a good project for the price and length of the game
👍 : 3 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
26 minutes
Wow, this is a disorienting nightmare.
Imagine body cam distortion on max with a very small field of view setting.
The atmosphere is bar none in this game. Its a walking simulator and very short but for 2 bucks you get a frightening experience. You can kind of tell this is their early attempts at making a game and keeping it simple definitely helped. There are some really unsettling moments and I particularly liked how the ending happened.
Thi sis a fun 15-30 minute exercise in terror and disorientation. Id recommend it if you want to get scared.
👍 : 9 |
😃 : 1
Positive
Playtime:
38 minutes
This one is gonna be a non-rec for me.
Between the fish-eye type lens with minimal visibility & no obvious way to correct it. After pressing random keys on the keyboard I assumed I was looking for a light for the candles (there was none), a flashlight (there wasn't one), a torch (nothing again) & even a night vision possibility which never showed up.
This was essentially a dark walking sim that leaves you hanging about in the various rooms until something happens that culminates into a white screen ending with nothing really being learned. Supposedly an old woman in black is kidnapping kids but not once did I see an old woman in black, just a random chick in white.
IDK if this was a first attempt at a game or not, but as is I cannot recommend tbh. It leaves a lot to be desired while attempting to tell a story we've all heard before with nothing new to make it worthwhile.
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
140 minutes
This game really brought the atmosphere of a Horror game, but it kept crashing for me at a certain point, the screen turns white and then i don't know what to do. [edit]..if they update and fix the crashes, I'll definitely recommend it.
👍 : 2 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
26 minutes
Rec: Beyond The Lens is short, but pretty good. It does capture the limited vision using Body cam style pretty well. The scares wasn't bad either.
Honestly for a short experiment game I say it good for the price.
👍 : 1 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
14 minutes
very low lighting and lack of obvious clues as to what you are trying to do. Graphics seemed good, but for the visibility of the room, it was sadly unenjoyable. Best of luck with figuring out more in regards to this game!
👍 : 7 |
😃 : 2
Negative
Playtime:
84 minutes
REC is short...and dark. So dark in fact I could barely see what happened, why, and when, and this will move the game into an absolute non recommendation.
If you suffer from motion sickness, I advise you to stay away.
Spoiler alert:
The game ends in a white screen, and I couldn't realise if it was finished or not.
The game runs well on Steam Deck.
If you want to check how it runs both on PC and Steam Deck, just press the link below:
https://youtu.be/VnsDzCf8bEs
👍 : 8 |
😃 : 1
Negative