Martha Is Dead Reviews

LKA the morbid dev from Italy...

I wanted to love this game, and I would love to reccomend it, but I just can't, and here's why. The crashes: Once I got IN the game, I had a single crash. But in the opening cutscene alone, the game crashed a total of six times, each requiring me to go through the same 3min+ scene again. I verified my files, I swapped to DX11, nothing helped. At some point, There was a save between cutscenes, then that one crashed once, and I was able to play. Speaking of crashes, the game froze up if I was in the photo album for too long. For a game where the photo taking was advertised, this is really frustrating. I ended up just taking screenshots of my photos directly after developing them to circumvent this. The Camera: I don't know what was going on with the camera for this entire game. My fps was stable throughout, but the camera was AWFUL. It was jittery and constantly stuttered (Why? I'm running an AMD 5800X3D/6800XT/64GB RAM and installed on an SSD, and the camera stutters never came with FPS drops) Tested with other games before and after this one, and had no strange issues. I also checked my mouse (a stray cat hair under your mouse can cause that issue, but it was not the case here). This issue also made certain I would have loved an FOV slider; playing on an ultrawide monitor felt a little too zoomed in. Speaking of zoomed in, the bicycle. My god, the bicycle. The camera while riding it made me entirely nauseous, and it didn't use the same sensitivity as i had set in the settings. I rode it for maybe 25 seconds the entire game. The map is small enough you don't even need it to get around, anyway. The Story: It was actually really good! There were a few scenes that felt like they could have been placed earlier/later in the story, and I think the game could have been maybe 30-45 minutes longer with lore that could have tied things together better. One of the side quests felt a bit shoehorned in, but I didn't complete it so I can't say for sure. I ended up dropping off of it as it felt like meaningless fetch quests instead of a story to be told. I'd play the game again to find out,, but my previous issues are stopping me from doing that. The nightmare scenes ranged from really, REALLY good, to just confusing. They tie in towards the end of the game, but just don't hit that "ohhh!" mark for me. The Map/UI: This was almost my biggest frustration with the game, and it had me ready to quit more than once throughout. The map is awful. It's embarassingly bad, even. trying to click and drag the camera barely functions; it could have been m made zoomed out by default and been fine, but instead, you click and drag and it jitters around before moving slightly, rinse and repeat. The icing on the cake, you press M/K to open the map/journal, but pressing those buttons again doesnt close them. You either have to press close on the bottom left, or escape (that closes the menu, but opens the pause menu) and then again to exit the pause menu. This doesn't seem like it would be a problem, but it gets really annoying really fast. The Audio: The soundtrack is incredible, but it tended to cut off awkwardly at times. I played in the Italian voice as reccomended, and the voice acting was very strong from the main character, but the parents voice actors didn't live up to the same quality. I did have some issues with some subtitles not showing, but this issue was rare. The audio balancing was a bit frustrating to deal with. The biggest scare in the game was a plate smashing, so loud it hurt my ears compared to the rest of the game. Another segment, the boat engine made me turn my audio down from where it usually sits at around 40, to 12, and it STILL felt very very loud. A small rant about the boat segment: it was awful. It felt entirely unneccesary and just a pain controls-wise to navigate. Final Thoughts: If it's on a large sale, maybe I would suggest it, but it's one of the games that I won't be thinking about in a week. There are similar games, with lower price tags, that convey a compelling message (like Martha is Dead tries to do) in less runtime. I appreciate the effort from the devs, though, and I think if it had more time, it could have come out much better. The bugs surrounding the game, and the strange issues I encountered took away a huge chunk of the enjoyment I got out of it. The potential is there, and this game wants to be amazing. I want(ed) it to be amazing. I will give the devs a massive shoutout for the warning pre self-harm scene and option to censor it, though. They didn't have to, but they did, and they deserve props for that.

A LOT OF HORROR, ADULT CONTENT IN THE GAME. The game is good. It has beautiful artistic style, interesting plot and cool mechanics. Its like Town of Light but with better visuals and worse story. And let's talk some bad stuff: - violence feels unrealistic and unnecessary - story gets less and less realistic making it way worse experience as the game progresses - ending, without spoiling is just leaving you with nothing - and last irritating thing, the controls get fuzzy when there are many objects nearby Overall good game, but not for everybody.

The Game itself is beatiful. The Story is intriguing. I would love to spend hours just roaming the italian Countryside in Summer here. I WOULD love to but I can't...because this Game is so poorly optimized that crashes are frequent and now I'm at a Point where I can't progress because it always crashes upon start. It saddens me, because I will never know the End of the Story and now I'm too bitter to watch a Playthrough.

The game is atmospheric, story rich and moody. Unfortunately not really my style.

Even with some hiccups which are normal coming from a tiny studio, Martha Is Dead has a strong personality and it offers a story that will soak our brains for a long time. It's not for the faint of heart, that's for sure. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3424153155

This game isn't hard or scary in the traditional sense. The gore isn't scary. But the entire thing, is still quite disturbing and menacing. From the background soundscape, to the eerie environment set against the beginning of WW2, to our unreliable narrator. The game is an easy play if you're a casual gamer. Puzzles are pretty simple. Not much for jump scares. Just a lot of point and click and walking around. The story though could be quite triggering. Even if you aren't normally triggered by content that touches on mental illness, miscarriage, war etc... this one is done in such a personable way. I wouldn't suggest anyone currently pregnant play the game, I am glad I didn't when it first came out because I was. The game also includes self harm. I had tried watching this game online to see if I'd be interested, and it seemed boring. It's a different experience when you're actually playing it. One piece of advice, try to do your side quests and achievements during chapters that have daylight, and before the last chapter of the game. I didn't realise I was at the end and had to cram in a bunch in the dark, it wasn't easy!