Blackbay Asylum Reviews

Fun, scary and has challenging puzzles. I legit needed help from a guide to beat 3 or 4 of the puzzles in the second half of the game. There are some bugs still present like when you are leaving the church but read the poster on the wall at the same time. It will teleport you to infinite darkness. I hope to see a remaster of this game some day or a mod to explore everything in first person haha.

I would like to state that my whole review will be extremely biased, offensive and discriminative against game types, publishers and developers so if you become easily offended please do not read this review. I bought this game because somehow it reminded me the sanitarium and maybe the 1994 movie In the Mouth of Madness. Well I can clearly say that it has nothing to do with them. - It is some type of psycho-funny thriller with some gore elements. It is nice. At least not ordinary. - It is fun, it is short but it is not a big deal. - You will be curious to find out what happens at the end of the game. - But you will forget its existence right after finishing it. - Considering that it is an indie game, it is s good game actually, Fort the price it provides some good time. - Old Gamers: Do not expect something like sanitarium! - No! The puzzles are not at mind shattering level. They can be mind shattering for limbecille racing and sport gamers though.

I've been interested in this game since I saw Jim Sterlings greenlight video mocking it. Twenty dollars was too rich a gamble for me, seeing it on sale for 5 though I bought it immediately. No regrets. It's a funny little puzzle adventure game with early nineties PC graphics. They're not beautiful, in fact they're really ugly but they fit well with the games flippant attitude. Doug, our protaganist, is the mouthpiece for the majority of the game and to be honest I thought his goofball one-liners were really at odd with who he is but whatever. The game doesn't take its self seriously so why should I? The puzzles are pretty good. The first few are infantile but they get harder and more interesting. Sometimes you'll get stuck because you missed an item which is a common failing of Point-and-Clicks. But to be fair this is not a Point-and-Click, its a Move-and-Push-Space and Doug is one bigass cursor. So comparitivily it's a little easier to find things you missed. My only solid complaint is the voice acting, it's terrible. Doug is mercifully mute but you meet NPCs whose voices are somehow both obnoxious and boring. I can't skip through their dialouge fast enough! I still dont think its worth twenty dollars but it was a fine game for five.

I came across Blackbay Asylum while it was on sale. Being an avid horror lover, I figured why not give this game a chance; I am definitely not disappointed! I currently have nearly 5 hours on record while on Chapter 5, which for those unaware there are 10 Chapters included in the game. The graphics may not be the most amazing you have ever seen. However, you will not be disappointed as the game is packed with puzzles that will not only challenge you, but also test your ability to retain information. Some people have complained about "typos" or the fact that there is no ability to save between levels (that's right folks - you have to beat the chapter or it won't remember your progress). Despite the whining of others out there, I found the typos to be apart of the game's charm as you are playing a psychotic killer who obviously is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, lol. I also want to mention that Doug has a very dry sarcastic personality, which can sometimes be downright hilarious as well as borderline offensive; you will see his personality is based on his limited understanding of the world and society in general. Also, the inability to save challenged me to focus and complete a chapter either in one sitting or retain where all the clues were so when I came back through I could catch-up to where I was quickly. Thus, I would not let a few minor things that people did not like keep you from this awesome indie horror game that you are sure to love. I highly recommend this game to anyone who loves horror, puzzles, or adventure in general!

Regular price $21.99 (Do NOT buy it for this price) Sale price $2.19 (As of the date of this review its 90% off, still, do NOT buy it) The game will not get more than 5 fps on Windows 10, the developer stated back in Aug, 2016 that they were looking to fix the problem, nothing has changed yet here in 2018, it's still broken and not enjoyable at all. As the developer has abandoned it, so too should the community.

Do not buy this if you're running windows 10. They posted in 2016 that there is an issue with the game running at 1 FPS and that they were looking at it. It's still doing the same thing over 2 years later. Just don't. I bought it during the Halloween sales and I still feel robbed.

I was enjoying this game even with its ocasional bug backtracking, the ugly artwork fits the horror setting. Sadly what ruined it for me was the end game boss having a bug where it would move insanely fast and be impossible to avoid, apparently an issue with modern pc's. Still I got to watch the ending on youtube and I enjoyed the experiance up to that point. I wish I could give this a middle review, but I have to take its bugs into account.

[b]Warning! Contains minor spoilers ahead![/b] [h1]"Sometimes you play a game that defies all expectations. When you go in expecting roses, sometimes you get daisies and sometimes you get smacked in the face with a rotten tuna fish. Blackbay Asylum is like having both of those things at once."[/h1] Blackbay Asylum is a top-down/first person puzzle/horror game set at the eponymous Blackbay Asylum, which is located off the coast of Innsmouth, Massachusetts. For those who are unfamiliar, Innsmouth is a fictional city known for it’s relation to the HP Lovecraft mythos. In here, you play as Doug, a large and heavily muscled man who recently incarcerated at Blackbay for being a mass murdering sociopath. Gameplay in Blackbay Asylum generally consists of moving Doug through the level, collecting the equipment and knowledge to solve each puzzle as it pops up. Speaking of the game as a whole, the puzzler aspect is much stronger than the horror one. Although the first few chapters left me unimpressed, (if you can make sense of it then you can get through the first level within 10 minutes) it was probably designed that way to bring people into the game a lot more. The puzzles in the first level aren’t too difficult and they get you really immersed in the game and also makes you feel more intelligent than when you started. And it doesn’t take long for them to get genuinely tricky. Some of them have fairly simple gimmicks to work out before you can progress, but for the most part they’re cerebral enough to keep the old noggin’ working. Just like any good puzzler, the challenges you’re faced by start off fairly simple but ramp up the difficult as you go on. Characters in the game are rare to come by; a lot of the other people that you see in the game are dead, dying or will soon be dead (either by monsters hands or by you) but the people you do come across aren’t overly well written. For instance you come across a man who is hiding in a dumpster in the first level who sounds insane, ironically, and some of the things he says just seem a bit too wild even for an insane asylum. Also a receptionist at the front desk who is working and on her cell phone the whole time doesn’t seem to care when a giant man covered in blood walks from Isolation into the lobby which is a bit odd. That being said, it’s worth reminding you that [i]Blackbay[/i] is indeed a horror game. While the dialogue and descriptions are exceedingly silly, every aspect of the game is eerie. So, I’d played through the first two chapters of the game and then I landed in Chapter 3. The third Chapter of BBA is almost flawless. It is genuine horror, perfectly executed. The camera moves from being a top down puzzle adventure game to a first person perspective and it’s at this point where you start to notice the graphics of the game, allowing you to see more of the surrounding environment more than before. From the top down perspective the graphics don’t really seem to great however once you start looking through Doug’s eyes you notice some smaller things in the game. And this was a great way to use the shift in perspective because there are things that you can only see through Doug’s eyes at this point such as items on the middle shelf or a piece of information written on a notice board. While in this first-person section, there were times when I had to stop playing for a few minutes, and just breath. I don’t mind admitting that I got genuinely spooked by the atmosphere it managed to create. Whether you should play this game is determined by your tastes as a gamer. If you’re on the older side and looking to play as many adventure games as you can or don’t like puzzles, horror games, or any horror games that don’t take themselves seriously, I can’t say I’d recommend BlackBay Asylum. As for me, I think that Blackbay Asylum is a welcome addition to my Steam library and hearkens back to the days of top down action adventure, with a touch of horror, and some first person puzzle games which is terrific.

Good. This is a puzzle game with a bit of adventure in it. It is not a horror game just a gory one and also funny. Plenty of bad taste jokes around. The graphics are decent for an indie game. The story is a weird Lovecraftian thing with a murdering maniac as the hero. No bugs, just minor stuff that is not game-breaking. Runs fine on Win 7. The game is entertaining and keeps you interested. Most puzzles aren't hard, there are just a few head-scratchers and some, right at the end, might make you to rage-quit, especially cause there's no save and you gonna need to replay the whole level every time you make a miscalculation. Unnecessary punishment, I would say. Nevertheless, is a good ride and, despite some flaws, you might have fun as long as you like to indulge in some grotesque stuff to fill some empty hours.

Don't let the graphics fool you! This is a very good adventure game, well worth your time and money if you found yourself fascinated by the imagery and concept like I was. The story starts out simple, but as you progress it becomes clear there is more going on. The personality of the psychopath you play is quite amusing. Many objects in the game can be examined twice for humorous responses, and sometimes hints about what to do. There are 10 chapters in all with varying length. If you don't use a guide the game will take 6 hours or more to beat (about 7 for me). I've personally found no bugs or glitches. What sound there is is well done and in certain places adds to the tension, as does the music. The game will occasionally switch to 1st person and this is done very well and further adds to the tension (this is first done in chapter 3, and if it had stayed in birds-eye view that section would not have been as interesting). The meat of the game is indeed the puzzles. I admit I found myself stumped for awhile on several of them, but they are solvable without a guide. I did need a hint for one of them, and one particularly aggravating puzzle had me stumped for over 15 minutes. And this was just chapter 3! The puzzles continue to be challenging all the way to the end. My only complaints are the numerous spelling and grammar errors, and the lack of a save anywhere feature. Otherwise I had a blast! I therefore recommend this game to anyone who is a fan of adventure games and wants something bloody and freaky.