Call of Nightmare Reviews

Unless you do rails of something else before playing, this on rails shooter is not worth your time. https://youtu.be/3XKG1W82Ig8

This is quite...A very bad game. I don't know how you can screw up a rail shooter but these lads have done it. All packing in a whopping 56mb! You get 3 levels, stolen assets and a UMP that can only carry 9 bullets! In this outstanding 15 minute adventure, you kill zombies, spiders, zombies, spiders and what do you know; a random boss. The hardest parts are timing your reloads, and hoping to God the AI is slow enough to let you reload in time to shoot them, there are no health pick ups so if you get hit, well that's all you get for the rest of the level. If you die, you go back to the start of the level. Also good luck predicting when the zombies or spiders will be coming because sometimes you're walking for about 20-30 seconds, listening to the repetitive footsteps with absolutely nothing happening before, BANG! A generic zombie or spider appears out of nowhere, you'll probably have a heart attack with their sudden appearance because they literally pop out of thin air. There are two bosses in this amazing experience, one in level 1 and another in level 3. Don't ask me why there isn't one in level 2, maybe because they didn't want to spend a little extra on a random model they can find on the asset store. They require so much strategy and that is...Just shoot them. Mash that left mouse button, not on specific places that signify weakspots, no no. Just keep firing and they'll fall down eventually. There is no ending by the way, once you complete the third level (which is easier than level 2 for some reason) you will get the generic "level complete" you unlock an achievement that will be the equivalent to the Noble Prize (I will be showing that to the world, thank you very much) and...There's nothing you can do from there. You can click that "next" button all you like, nothing is going to happen. But hey, at least the game ran at 1500fps. Don't waste your time with this game as I did. Buying this for 50p was not worth it the slightest. I have made a playthrough of this game because why would I miss the opportunity? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWLry8gz-4E Oh by the way, the uninstalling part was quite interesting, this was named "%game%"...I'll be getting my refund now.

[quote][b][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/b] "Call of Nightmare" is a Digital Homicide style asset flip, or what Valve calls a "Fake Game". The "developer" paid for/pirated a few Unity asset store packs, dumped them all in a blender, and submitted it to Valve as if they're real game developers.[/quote] Two notable criteria for what makes an asset flip instead of legitimate use of stock assets are whether those assets comprise the majority of the game, and whether the "developer" properly credited the people who created most of the assets in the game. This game fails both of those tests. The "developers" here didn't credit any of the artists and real, actual game developers who created the assets here, so this is plagiarism, as well as cash grab shovelware. In this case, the asset flipper took an on-rails shooter template from Unity and slapped some really bad stolen assets on it (some from GameGuru FPS Creator apparently). It has no value or merit as a real game. Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game, it doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. One of the important quality checks for any video game is the audio. The bare minimum of audio controls must be there, so the experience can be tailored. The audio and music must be of high quality. Bizarrely, "Call of Nightmare" doesn't even have any music at all. That's an immediately failure and yet another reason to avoid this game. The controls and game handling are notably very clunky and unsmooth here. It's janky and unsatisfying to play... and any experienced gamer will tell you, the handling, responsiveness and general gameplay feel of the control scheme must be well polished for this kind of game to succeed. Unfortunately, this is something the developer seems to have phoned in, with little to no apparent gameplay testing. They dropped the ball on this one. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 3 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam? "Call of Nightmare" is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, and the questionable ethical nature of the developer and/or their associates (as outlined above), this is impossible to recommend. Remember that if you buy a game from an unethical developer, you're putting your money at risk.

Wow, boring lifeless desert setting, with wet shit mountains, and one spontaneously reapearing clone of a shit zombie model. All with shit mechanics. 10/10 would pass a wet chunky bowel movement again.

On rails shooter that doesn't understand the concept of proximity. Needee to use an auto clicker in order to beat level one, but level two has spiders that spawn so close even that doesn't help. Generic Unity asset flip as well. Genuinely not worth your time in any regard.

There isn't much to say about a game that took little to no effort... Call of Nightmare is possibly the worst rail shooter ever made... POSITIVES: + Stable + No performance issues NEGATIVES: - Horrendous presentation - Only one weapon (UMP45 with 8 ammos!?) - No background or ambiant music - Repetitive - No health pickup - Overly difficult A cheap House of the Dead knock off made with FPS Creator assets! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpZ1uMOSaeE Rating: 0.5 / 10