Near Death Experience Reviews

This is a really scary and well made game that i am enjoying allot to play thru! you can see me play it on youtube [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIIMCLRvJdY]>>HERE<<[/url] Pro's amazing atmosphere great animations real genuine jumpscares. cons lamposts.

You want cheap jumpscares, asset flips so obvious it hurts, and literally no build up to the horror? Then this game is for you!

I enjoy more atmospheric / story-based horror games, where the experience is disturbing/distressing, and it sticks in your mind long after you stop playing the game. That's what I thought this game looked like, but it seems to actually just be jump scares. It's also got that hide-and-seek horror concept where you're defenseless and the monster or whatever just kills you instantly if it finds you, which I find kinda ruins the immersion. Because when you restart & just have to keep running through the same areas, you start to get desensitized to the environments. When it's just an atmospheric experience (i.e. no combat) then dying and having to re-play can get tedious. Not sure it's a bad game, exactly, but it's definitely not the game I was looking for.

If you are like me, you read the reviews of this game with people claiming how terrifying this game was. How it scared the literal fecal matter out of their buttholes etc. And if you are still like me, you properly asked yourself " Is this game really that scary? Or, are those people just actual full of the same substance that they claim the Near Death Experience scared out of them." Well, being an indie horror gaming guy, I took the plunge and parted with the wallet crunching $4.50?!?!, and decided to find out. First and most importantly, is Near Death Experience (NDE for short) actually scary? Well, I've played all the way to chapter 4 (7 chapters in total), and I'd say on a scale of 1-10, 1 being a bright sunny day in the park with singing birds and shit flying everywhere, and 10 being HOLY FREAKING SHIT GET THIS AWAY FROM ME, I'd give NDE a conservative...6.5 possibly 7 so far. The game's main screams have come in the way of fetch quests whilst you are being chased by less than friendly creatures. So it is jump scare heavy when and if they do get ahold of you. I'm not going to lie, one time I tried to hide in the bathroom in the dark from the zombie guy, and I didn't hear him come in there. When he grabbed me I about knocked my cam and mic off the desk I jumped so high out of my chair. The atmosphere is also well done. Dreary backgrounds, rust and blood stained school hallways and underground basements, and otherworldly places where I'm not exactly sure where the hell we actually are. The music is on point. Rising at the right times. Plenty of unsettling creaks, squeaks, and monster growls. They actually have the old Silent Hill tornado siren thrown in the beginning of the game as well. But, and of course there is a but, this game suffers from the same problem as most games that rely on items finding and jump scares do. After you've died a few times looking for whatever it is you need to collect, you already know what's coming...and it isn't really scary anymore. it becomes more of a game of just ring a round the rosy, dodging whatever is chasing you while you try and pick up what it is you are searching for this time. (To be fair the game did include a math puzzle as well...Yay math! *sarcasm*) Like I said, I'm only half way in, so the rest of the game could pick up in that aspect. Also a negative is there is no control options at all. The default mouse sensistivity was stupid high, so I literally had to turn my mouse DPI to stone age slow speeds just to get a playable turning sensitivity. No audio or visual adjustments, button remaping, etc. Also, you can skip to and from whatever chapter you want, right from the beginning, which I thought was a little odd. All in all though, as far as indie's go at this price point, I feel confident in saying this has been a enjoyable little ride so far. I don't regret my purchase, but I would caution you if you go into this thinking this reinvents the indie horror game wheel. It doesn't, but it has a been a nice addition to the genre so far. I am including a video of my first playthrough. It doesn't contain a review or anything special. Just me trying to help get my upstart channel out there. Everyone else does it, so fuck it right? If you feel like seeing who the scrub behind the mask is, then by all means check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AE22obh8MA

Ok so I watched Nuttyape play this on YouTube & immediately bought it because he was totally funny as the game scared the crap out of him & the game reminded me so much of Silent Hill. Yeah I was only able to play 20 minutes, because it's the middle of the night here & IT SCARED THE CRAP OUTTA ME!!! Without giving any spoilers, let me just say, when I came out of a room where you get important info & the zombie nasty fricking monster popped up out of nowhere & ate me!!!!! I literally screamed. I bet my neighbors just called the cops. SO I will wait for daylight to play some more because this is the scariest fricking game since SIlent Hill. Oh and you get NO weapons so if the zombie nasty fricking monster tries to eat you, RUN!

I gotta say, the game started off pretty well and then unraveled into an annoying repetitive mess. Let me explain, this game has a lot in it that separates itself from the annoying Horror garbage on Steam. It is very clear that effort was put in. The Assets were nice, I'll be very repetitive towards the end. The Graphics are good but Interiors are too dark. The Voice Acting and Audio was on point, nothing to complain about there. BUT! When it came to gameplay, it's very cookie cutter and very annoying. You're basically playing Slender Man, but with nonexistent Enemy AI, apart from 2 puzzles with one being pretty easy (if you noticed everything in the environment) and the other being downright boring and unclear. TL;DR Assets, Graphics, Sound were good, but the Gameplay is cookie cutter and boring. And please get a better flashlight, that thing is useless. But don't just take my word for it, give it a watch if you like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dplk2prtvLM

So the story is silent hill but thats whatever, I have no problem with games that take a story and switch it up a bit which this game does..but not in the right way. I dont want to go in depth into everything because the game follows a basic format. Enter zone, do puzzle, leave zone. The puzzles are veryyy hit or miss. Two of the puzzles were pretty interesting involving things like riddles and sound ques to know when you are moving to a new area, a bit of critical thinking, and a bit of clue deciphering. Other puzzles are things like: find a key on the fucking ground, find a piece of paper, find a couple of pictures while an enemy follows you (The slow moving 1 shot enemy cliche is getting soooo old) . Its just really odd how there's such a big difference between the puzzles. My two biggest complaints and by big I mean HUGE complaints are the flashlight and the perspective. The flashlight moves and sways without you moving. So basically throughout the game your flashlight is always doing a figure 8 motion and you have to move your mouse to try to compensate for the position of the light. The perspective in this game is amazingly odd. A bit of info for those who dont know, an average door is 6 foot 8 inches. Throughout the game you will either be half the height of the door or taller than things like ferris wheel gondolas which vary but on average have an 7 foot opening, so that means your character is either in a parallel dimension or they switch between 3 feet and 9 feet tall. And dont tell me its a dream, fuck that. At the end of the day its not a terrible game and I know it was made within 48 (24?) hours which I have no problem with but given how short it is it really doesnt deserve the 5$ price tag. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Z_MwX1d4g&t

Some youtubers are saying this isn't any good but I thought it was pretty good. The graphics in some areas in the game are great and the use of sound is brilliant. It can be a bit frustrating in areas when you die and have to start over and over and the numerical code is a tricky one. overall a good game. took abot 1.5 hours to complete. Check out the vid and take a look for yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R15NQq9-hXw

This game is such a blatant ripoff of Silent Hill, I'm honestly surprised the dev didn't name it "Silenced Hills". The gameplay is another one of those "run from the enemy" jobs. And you will do a lot of running. And dying. And repeating the same level over and over until you ragequit. Another horror genre game that fails to live up to the hype. Rating: 1/10

Alright, since there're only positive reviews out of nowhere, i'll give it a negative one to balance it out since steam doesn't want to give us a neutral review button. Pros: +An alright in-game design +Nice voice acting for a project like this +The ambient and soundtrack are nice Cons: - Animation is a joke starting with the intro cutscene - Perfomance is horrible for no absolute reason - Common visuals for a cheap unity horror - Default Unity's interface - Absolutely disgusting chasing sequences including poor designed "notes" like in Slender - Problems with in-game objects scale, everything feels wrong So-so: It's crystal clear that Distorted Games were highly inspired by the Silent Hill franchise while making this game, it seems that they (or most likely the only developer) didn't understand what made Silent Hill a great game. The scenery in Near Death Experience, soundtrack and the atmosphere reminds you of SH, but at the same time they doesn't provide you anything new except poor gameplay and first person perspective. The puzzles are the same, the theme of the game is the same as SH and i would say that it's an absolute rip-off, but i feel like i craved those grim features and the mood of hopeless town of Silent Hill since it was a long time without new games in that spirit. I bought this game as a joke and altought i didn't think i would like some aspects of it, i did. Maybe, if you buy it as a joke you will find it alright as well. I wish Distorted Games will continue to make games and improve their skills, and i hope i will recommend you to buy their new creations.