Stifled - Echolocation Horror Mystery Reviews
Stifled is a multi-award winning, Sound-based Stealth Thriller Mystery, where SOUND is the only way you SEE and the enemies HEAR your fear through your microphone input. Microphone input and VR Features are optional.
App ID | 514830 |
App Type | GAME |
Developers | Gattai Games |
Publishers | Gattai Games |
Categories | Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, Full controller support, VR Supported, Remote Play on TV, Steam Trading Cards, Tracked Controller Support |
Genres | Indie, Action, Simulation, Adventure |
Release Date | 10 Jul, 2018 |
Platforms | Windows, Mac |
Supported Languages | English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Thai |

106 Total Reviews
79 Positive Reviews
27 Negative Reviews
Mixed Score
Stifled - Echolocation Horror Mystery has garnered a total of 106 reviews, with 79 positive reviews and 27 negative reviews, resulting in a ‘Mixed’ overall score.
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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:
59 minutes
This game has been extremely well since I started it. It is unique in its audio based mechanisms, and it also makes it an interesting game for a let's play because of the microphone being a fundamental part of the games originality.
👍 : 16 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
11 minutes
First thing i have to say is, that i only tried to play it with a HTC Vive, no idea if or how it works non-VR.
To keep it short and simple:
Motion controllers doesn't work, even if it says so on the store page.
My head was stuck in the ceiling, after trying to restart from the last checkpoint nothing happened, ESC didn't even open the menu anymore
1\10, does not work as advertised, would refund again
👍 : 12 |
😃 : 9
Negative
Playtime:
190 minutes
Neat concept, but the ending is literally a Yes or No choice with no prompting of what you're choosing and there is no closure or explanation. There's no replay value other than wanting to know what the other choice would do, but it's not enough to make me even consider playing again. Also, very short at about twoish hours to finish.
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
363 minutes
Despite it not being the longest game, it was an experience all its own. The other worldly feel around the game adds a perfect amount of atmosphere to this game
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
103 minutes
This game does a really cool thing with the echolocation. The level design is does a good job of steering the player in the right direction in almost all cases. My only real issue is that the player is locked out of using the mic to see since it alerts enemies so it basically ends up being just playing the game blind. With more tools on top of throwing rocks to be able to make noise to see, it could get very fun. It is currently very overpriced.
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
222 minutes
Good game to play once, it's a lot of walking that did not want me to replay the game. There is no clear story, but it's all open to your interpretation. Great psychological horror game, would recommend.
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
121 minutes
Game has very interesting gameplay mechanics. Game was not at all scary kinda breezed threw the game. Ending was kinda eh. But honestly game is intriguing and love the idea.
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
216 minutes
i dont know if this is just me but i just bought the game and as soon as i get out of bed, my pov/camera wont move. It will only move up and dow, i cant move right or left. Please if anyone knows how to fix this
👍 : 1 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
80 minutes
Honestly Screw this game, frick it. this game scared me so bad i screeeeeeeeeeeeeD, literally like 1% of my way through this godforsaken game i had the most ungodly encounter with one of these hell babies that just made me peed a little. 10/10 would screeeeeed again. gg baby hillary
👍 : 7 |
😃 : 10
Positive
Playtime:
224 minutes
I really wish there were a better game in here somewhere. The use of mic input is a well thought out novelty, and they match it with a depressing enough story and simple mechanics that allow the user to concentrate on the game. So far so good. It's pretty short, but then a lot of games of this nature can be short (though by no means all of them).
That, however, is where the good things stop.
Part of the game is stealth and part of it is standard walking simulator. The walking sim part is boring, the story obvious and the interaction with most objects in the environment pretty rudimentary. The walking sim parts of the game generally aren't long enough to warrant being completely bored, but they're not very involving and are too simplistic.
The stealth part of the game is fun for a while, but ultimately, walking around in a crouched position not being able to see anything at all is only fun for so long. You can make noise and see a little more, but again, it's just not fun enough for long enough, despite the short length of the game.
Somewhere in here is a pretty good game, but the developers haven't quite found it. It's like a version 1 and I'd look forward to them doing it better next time round.
👍 : 13 |
😃 : 0
Negative