Devil in the Pines Reviews

Very Scary, worth buying. The jump scares in this game are crazy and i love it, haha freaking bear trap scares make me throw off my head set.

I had a lot of fun with this game. Fun game to play in the dark with headphones. Those cursed bear traps kicked my butt for a while. I would recommend being able to map keyboard controls for those who have preferences. Also wish the crossbow would reload faster lol. Great job by the developers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r5paQXBxpc

An interesting but difficult game (when it wasn't crashing). The premise of the game is honestly quite refreshing, but the rng is pretty annoying. From what I've seen from my friends, the biggest takeaway from this game is the unique death animation. That's about it. Decent experience, 5/10. Worth playing, but not with how crash-prone it is. Gameplay from when it didn't crash on me : https://youtu.be/-cToj8FgBjc

think my pants need a clean awhile ago lol this game requires more chapters to keep it going. make a story out of it. one of the best legit scary games I have ever played o-o

This game is perfect for its price point andhas fantastic atmosphere and a slightly randomized playthrough system to make your game different enough for added replay value. If you want to support small indie developers and you like horror games this game is perfect for you.

For just a few dollars, this is a pretty scary game. I recorded all 3 levels of difficulty cause why not, and there are some pretty interesting mechanics and scare tactics and the harder levels have added encounters it seems. It's very interesting and worth a look at. As far as replayability is concerned, I'm never going to touch it again since I've beaten all 3 modes, but I am still glad I checked it out to begin with. It's sort of more of a one off game, or if you do all 3 levels, a 3 off. Overall, it's decent.

Nice little survival game. Just keep in mind it can be finished in about 15 minutes or less. There are 3 difficulties, it took me 40 minutes to beat the game on each. Also the game felt a bit random for me, especially when enemies appear. Still I had fun.

This game will literally not work. I open the game and my screen goes green and staticy and I can't do anything to close out of the game except restart my computer. 0/10 Would not recommend.

The good! - Solid atmosphere, good audio cues (if not a bit too good at telling you exactly what's coming), and generally good at being creepy. - Nice variety of enemies and events, and seemingly pretty solid randomization and AI. Not perfect, especially with regard to item pickups, but we'll touch on that in a bit. The bad. - Items are totally randomized, but each item is necessary to counter a specific threat that can also appear randomly with little notice. It's near impossible to spot what an item is from a distance, so this means you'll spend a lot of time running between them and praying you maintain at least 1 of each lest you face certain death. - "Running between them" is a bit of a lie, because your intrepid survalist is actually an 800 lbs man that hasn't left his power scooter in decades and has a bum leg. He's capable of sprinting for about 5 seconds. Total, in the game. It recharges so slowly as to be almost irrelevent, unless you like standing around in safe zones for several minutes doing nothing on a regular basis. This is also a problem because one enemy type can only be countered by kiting them with short sprints, meaning all of your precious stamina has to be saved in the event they spawn on you. So, mostly, think Dear Esther in the dark with spoopy noises. And bear traps, because bear traps. - There's really no indicator of where to go initially. I get that it may be intentional, but you really have no indication that there's *anywhere* to go apart from an also-randomly-spawning npc that directs you. He seems to be pretty generous with his appearances, but I did have a couple attempts where I was already battered and bruised before he showed and gave me any indication of what to do. THE VERDICT I'm super on the fence about this one. There's great potential, but in it's current state it plays more like an RNG rage game in the guise of a horror game than an actual survival horror. Maybe I'm just missing something since I was playing pretty quickly on stream. My opinion would flip quickly with a bit of balancing work on the random elements. Video first impressions: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/186746859

"You've accidentally crashed into a haunted forest. What would possibly go wrong?!" "Quite a lot, as it turns out. Starved of protection in to the form of flashlight batteries and matchboxes/campfires, and hunted by unimaginable horrors, you must rely on quick thinking as well as the 6 arrows in your crossbow to postpone becoming a meal for the denizens of the woods. But carry on you must as your sweet daughter's life hangs in the balance. One way or another you will see her again soon." Devil in the Pines is a great little survival horror game by the fledgling studio Rebelware Games. If you have a taste for indie horror, or if you're looking for something not satisfied in the rest of the steam catalog, I'd definitely recommend it. As with any indie horror game, prepare to die a lot before you learn the systems. While consequences in a game like Dark Souls might make you afraid to die, Devil in the Pines makes you afraid to live. Don't worry though, regardless of where you are, you are most assuredly seconds away from death.