Highlands, Deep Waters Reviews

Pure Lovecraft and True Detective. A real joy, one of the best, if not the best, of Choice of Games.

Where to start? Lovecraftian horror story in the hills of Scotland? Two stories in fact. You start off as one character and then you end up a second character. It is very long, took more than five hours to do my first play-through. Kind of dark and both my characters went a little cray-cray. A few spelling and grammar mistakes but nothing to derail the story. Only problem is that afterwards you feel kind of tired and don't plan to replay for a long time.

I've played many games like this but wow, this was deep and really impressive, have really enjoyed playing it and will restart again to see where else this great story can lead me, would recommend Highlands, Deep Water for anyone thati s a fan of these type of games as it is definately one of the best I've played.

A small seaside town in Scotland. A mysterious murder. A desperate man seeking justice. With every page, the plot gets denser and denser and soon it seems that the madmen may be the most sane ones. If you like horror/mystery novels, you can find this one entertaining. An atmospheric game inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's works.

Great game. Both story and the investigation/deduction mechanic are very enjoyable. Will definetly play a couple more times at a later date to see the other endings. It's a shame there's no save feauture 'cause it will make playing the game again to get other achivos/endings a bit of a chore. However I know that's not the fault of the developers, merely a standart for this kind of games. Oh well. Still very much worth checking out.

Quite honestly one of the best, if not, the best Choice of game I've ever played. Hosted or otherwise. You make two characters and control both at different intervals. You'll actually be gathering evidence and looking back at it a lot. Shit fucking HAPPENS. Like crazy shit. It plays with the program used to make these games to an amazing degree, fucking around with visuals depending on how low your sanity stat is. I'll never forget one particular scene where [spoiler] saw the weird ass baby thing the cult was raising that just fucking flashed on my screen before disappearing.[/spoiler] In my opinion, it's a must play on it's technical merit alone, the great writing only further cements that opinion.

This is a great game with a lot of details, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I would like. the story is very interesting, and overall this game is great if you are looking to solve a mystery. but one con that really drags this experience down is how easy it is for you die, you are keep playing with another new character in the next storyline but that's not an option for people like me. it is acceptable if this actually have a save system, but to play the whole game again? it gets old really fast really quick, at the end of the day this game is too hard for me, with heavy emphasis on trail and error.

As others have said: good story, but destroyed by lousy writing. Luckily I got it on special! Its the sort of game you play when the only other thing you can do is bath the cat!

Can't recommend it . Pros : -mostly interesting story -lots of files on crimes cons: -the classes .I chose the criminal for an evil playthrough . With a stat for sanity that sounded like fun ! Beeing a criminal is supposed to make me a better fighter and better at intimidating than the others . Still intimidation basically always fails if the option doesn't say that you draw a gun on someone and that's just stupid . Anyone can intimidate people like THAT ! If you try intimidating people any other way it just ends the conversation . So playing as a bad guy is really boring and gets you nowhere . -stats .Don't exist so you have no idea what you're good at or how good since the archetype discription doesn't seem to have any meaning during the game . -fighting .As i said you have no stats so you can't see how tough you are . Again as an experienced criminal armed with a gun and knife i thought i could fight a guy with beer bottle . Nope ,died . I even got a trophy for figuring out he's in the next room ,drew my gun BEFORE entering and STILL he "surprise"-attacked and disarmed me when i entered ! Tried to fight using my hidden knife then and got killed with the bottle...yeah great...good thing i chose the charackter with the best fighting skills... -cases .Lots of effort put into them but if you actually read everything and investigate it's barely possible to come to a wrong conclusion . Much too easy . -safe games . There are none so if you rely on your charackter beeing able to fight anyone you have to start ALL OVER again wich is extremely boring in a game where you already know the solutions to all cases from your last playthrough so there's nothing to do differently except for not trying to threaten people . -gets less and less interesting . In conclusion : Good idea ,one cool twist early but extremely disappointing all the rest of the way .

Can't really recommend this one. The typos are killing me and the grammar is absolutely atrocious at times. Considering the fact that this game is purely based on text, this is very annoying and very prominent. I usually love these games but I didn't love this one. The story was exciting at times, I'll give the authors that much. It definitely has potential to be something great, but in its current state it is sadly not. Pros: Original story Case solving Class system Cons: Less than stellar writing Typos and grammar mistakes galore Class system never really affected the story Sexual orientation means absolutely nothing considering no romance options really presented themselves Story gets really boring in certain places The game is a bit overprized considering the overall quality Better luck next time, guys.