The Dark Inside Me Reviews

The Dark Inside Me is an okay but still kind of a mixed bag of a horror, point and click game, okay then what is the story. A man wakes up in a hospital handcuffed to the bed, he has no idea who he is or what he's done, he only knows he must escape. But doing so will unlock a mystery that will push him to the brink and make him see horrors beyond his wildest nightmares. Alright the likes, the graphics are very good richly detailed with a great use of colors and designs, especially when it comes to the monsters, it just makes you just stop and look at all the details and designs and what’s its even more impressive as this was done by a single man. The levels are good each one is richly detailed and quite memorable from a hospital to an apartment and even a concentration camp and not one level looks the same each one is visually distinct, it just makes you want to explore and just look at all the detail. The story is okay, but it does have some problems, but anyway the story does a good job in setting up the mystery and it also takes a good amount of inspiration from both Hellraiser and Jacob's Ladder which is nice. The gameplay is kind of a mixed bag, it’s your standard Point and click game, you know find items, combine them and use them with certain things in order to progress in the level, but although has something that holds it back from being good, but I'll get to that in the dislikes. The characters are okay, they are serviceable for the game, probably the most interesting character is the main character but even then he can feel a little wooden sometimes, interestingly enough his design reminds me of Max from the sanatorium game. The animation for the kills is very good basically if you don't do a thing you will die and each kill is visually gruesome and quite enjoyable. The music is good; it has some nice tracks to listen too. The voice acting is okay although the main character sounds like he's whispering sometimes and it can be hard to hear. Okay then is this game scary, not really it's more disturbing than actually scary, it does have some jumpscares here and there, but it’s not bad. Alright the dislikes, there are some bugs in the game but nothing really game breaking, although the game did close on me one or two times though. And like I said in the likes the gameplay has a problem and that is in other point and click games you put your mouse over to an item and that item's name pops up in subtext like if there is a hook it says hook, but this game doesn't have that which can make the game quite frustrating as your trying to figure out what's clickable and what's not. Also some of the answers for solving certain segments feel a bit too obtuse and obscure; it feels like it comes out of left field. The story can also feel a little too vague like you're wondering wait what the hell's going on; apparently it took years for the sequel to come out so anyone who just played the first game would feel frustrated. The game needs to have a quick tutorial just to explain of certain things. Moving the character also feels a little frustrating like its in tank controls like you want to walk over to a thing, but it's not making you go over there even after clicking it. You can use the keyboard to move your character as well, so I found that using the keyboard and clicking works the best, even though there were still some moving problems. Finally this is not a dislike but a warning, the game can be very gratuitous to the point where maybe it's in poor taste especially when we're in the concentration camp part. Now that I have told you this The Dark Inside Me is an okay but still kind of a mixed bag of a horror, point and click game, very good graphics, an okay story and good kill animation. Now do I recommend this game honestly it's kind of hard to recommend it, but if you do want to get it I suggest getting it when it's on sale and also picking up the sequel with it.

The Dark Inside Me is a point-and-click horror game that, just a few minutes in, is filled with numerous bugs, making it hard to continue playing. The gameplay is extremely frustrating and strange, to the point of being unbearable. With this state of the game, I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. 3/10