Outbreak: Shades of Horror Chromatic Split Reviews

WOW....this game is terrible and overpriced! Played for almost an hour but cannot play it anymore; keeps crashing and locking up my controls. I plan on refunding? The game is unbalanced; player is always infected, hurt or lost. And as i stated above the game also suffers from poor performance and needs a lot of optimization. The map is useless and you will die a lot. The save feature is horrible, no auto save so you have to find one of the very few save places. Once you die then you go back to the beginning because you don't have a save. A very frustrating game!

I'm a big big fan of classic survival horror games, and unfortunately this isn't worth the time or money. I've given it a fair chance but it's just so rushed, cheap and sloppily put together. Core game play is breaking open boxes, finding numbers to open doors and hitting zombies with a tiny metal bar that breaks your characters arm each swing. Stamina drains from every single action, the biggest drain being...picking up items... Infection rate is constant and goes up way too fast to the point you need to plan your route almost perfectly. Only way to lower it is a rare blue herb. Zombies are everywhere and running past them is difficult due to their hitboxes taking up whole doorways, stairs and corridors, so you need to fight them, wasting time, ammo and infection. You can't take bites to push them off either, so you need to fight them or die to the immovable zombie wall. Enemy placements are not well thought out at all. You can't force players to fight so many enemies when the infection rate goes up so incredibly fast. Environments are ugly. All underground and industrial. Long stun boxes when knocked down, or when falling from forced falls, resulting in enemies getting free hits. I'm all for a game being difficult if it's fair, but janky controls, bad combat, and limited save spots just make it brutally unfair and just the to pad the game out. It's a 2 hour game forced to be probably 4 hours or so due to overly bland big areas to slog through, repetitive 'hidden code' puzzles, and an unfairly hard difficulty. There are so so many small and single indie devs releasing incredible survival horror games that this dev's constant defence of 'two dev team' doesn't work when people call it out for the rushed slop that it is. All of this doesn't take into account the price! if you must try it, wait for it to be at least 85% off. Probably more like 95% though. Avoid, and play something else.

Don't be dumb like me and not get the irony of the other reviews. This game is like Resi but if you gave it 30 FPS and every time your player jumped, it screams. Not to mention the "monster screaming" which will shake your entire screen to the point of motion sickness every 5 steps. Maybe buy it for like a 95% sale. but still probably not worth.