Sinister Halloween Reviews

I have had this game for a while and would play it here and there for the last few Halloweens. I have to say, Halloween 2024 is when I really got into the gameplay, and I really loved this game. It's not perfect, and there are tons of reviews that articulate why, but these developers captured just enough of the Halloween mood that I was looking for. Honestly, I have a lot of fun walking around the virtual town and visiting the houses like pretend trick or treat. I really wish the Devs would consider adding more DLC for each year, but that's only encouraged by sales I guess. I'll just say thank you for a game that really captures Halloween well.

Dev is clearly a D1 gooner (real). Game is funny as hell

I really wanted this game to work out. I liked the premise, the atmosphere and artwork was nice and the sound effects played perfectly. Now the bad. 1. There is no way to change your key bindings. Going to the tutorial shows you the hard coded bindings but they are not very user friendly. I could not properly move, crouch or jump without having to physically look at the key and hit the button. 2. There is no menu with a save and/or load. There are checkpoints you have to get past. 3. There is no HUD for your stats. You don't know how close to death you are, how much ammo your weapon has or has left. 4. You don't really know the objectives of the level. The campaign mode and the abandoned house is not something you get past by killing the main foe. You just have to escape. Fine, but tell me that before I waste my ammo on something I cannot defeat, ever. 5. There are very, very few weapons to choose from. No biggie since some games play better and it makes the game more of a challenge. Too bad this game was already challenged. 6. It is hard to interact with objects you pick up or doors you must open. They have hints on what to do or what doors can be accessed but you nearly have to be right on top of it to do so. 7. While the sound effects are cool and add to the atmosphere the voice acting is just bad, really bad. Something you would expect from a game made by people where english is a second language. No biggie there though since the game does not have to have good english. I will give the devs a pass on this. 8. When you die you re-spawn in certain locations. Sometimes that location can be right where you died, resulting in you getting caught in a loop where you die then re-spawn in front of the monster that killed you. Expect to die often. At least your ammo replenishes with each re-spawn. Wish I knew how many shells I had for the shotgun. 9. There is no walk or run toggle which would have been nice. This was a game that wanted to be 100% VR, not a PC, and it shows. I am so disappointed cause I saw it and wanted to enjoy it. I know the devs spent most of their time on the atmosphere rather than game play. I should have noticed from the few reviews it had that it was not anyone's choice to pick up. If you want to wait until its either free or charged at less than a dollar then you might get some kick out of it but I do not think it is worth the current price when I wrote this, $7.99. I do not recall the price when I bought it. I did not play it immediately either which is what I should have done so that I could have gotten a refund. To the devs. Thank you for trying. I liked the concept and applaud your efforts but there were just too many aspects lacking that I cannot recommend it. If I thought recommending it would result in your getting more money to spend on improving the game then I would have done so but I doubt that is the case now seeing how old the game is.