For Rent: Haunted House Reviews

Honestly a great story. I only went through it so quickly because I had already read it on my phone. I'd give it an 8/10.

Good game. Has some great humor in it, and it's fun to play. It lets you make some pretty fun and unexpected decisions that impact the rest of the story. Recommended

Very charming and smirk-inducing. Combines the Jeeves-esque with the spooky, with engaging results. The only weakness is a slightly slow start.

I quite enjoyed it! I've got only 1 ending so far but I'll definitely play more! [spoiler] I feel like I did my boy Russell dirty, so gotta try and save him next time! [/spoiler]

1. You can't be male or female as the game treats you as a genderless brick. 2. The stat increases are inconsistent with the choices. What I mean by that is that you may choose 3 choices to increase one stat and yet if you restart and repeat, those same choices may give you less than the previous play through even tho none of your choices have differed. 3. The whole point of this game is to rent out your (supposedly) ruthless boss lady's property and make enough money to prove your worth, beat your rival and get a promotion. Problem is, every time you have a nice chunk of change coming in from tenants, the author throws in some asinine wrench to disrupt your cash counting. Examples: 1. My first tenant was a Man and his family. This paranoid loon kept blowing up my phone every 2 minutes saying he heard weird noises in his place. I go to check it out, find nothing and he apologizes for disturbing me. Again he calls me claiming he is hearing things and ask to be let out of his lease. Of course I'm not going to let him out of his lease because that would be detrimental to my goals. He can leave but I'm keeping the deposit and there's a termination fee for the lease. That's business. Those noises he supposedly kept hearing ain't none of my doing. He chooses to stay. So fast forward a bit, his wife ends up dying of poisoning in that house under mysterious circumstances. Heartbreaking & all, but it ain't none of my doing so I'm still keeping the deposit if he wants to leave. My (supposedly) ruthless boss lady doesn't feel the same and forces me to not only let the man out of his lease but return the deposit too, running polar opposite of her initial goal to make some money off that abandoned property. At this my friends, I am fuming and frothing at the mouth. WHY do I have to return the deposit when that poisoning was neither I or my company's doing!? And how does this show of weakness fit with the ruthless real estate tyrant my boss is supposed to be? To me it looks exactly like being hit with the wrench just for the sake of it, and you know what? Even if the wrench needed to be thrown in, it could've been done in a far less nonsensically crappy way. 2. My next set of tenants were some loaded rich kids packing mom & pops credit cards with their blessings. Of course I'm getting the approved leases ready before we even start the tour. So I get these kids in, charge them an exorbitant amount of rent which they don't so much as blink at and get back to smoking my cigar & counting my cash. Well low & behold one of the kid's father calls me in the middle of my cash counting complaining his daughter has been acting distant and moody. How is this my problem? I'm her landlord, not her couch psychologist, pops. If you're going to send her to counseling, do it, but make sure to leave her rent check in the mail is how I feel. However the author felt differently as he dragged me by my collar to spy through my tenants window in the thick of night like some crazed peeping tom. So during my peeping I see these kids have drawn a pentagram in the middle of the floor, lit some candles and drawn symbols all over themselves. By all accounts, it looks like they have some untoward ritual/rite going in there, but what business is it of mine to infringe on their religious freedoms in their own home that they're paying me top dollar for? Author disagrees. Forces me to reveal myself as a crazy peeper by making a fuss outside their window in the dark of night and then kicking my rich tenants out of the dump I bamboozled them into inhabiting for 'worshiping demons' (even tho a single demon had yet to be seen) and because apparently 'they didn't exhibit the type of qualities I'm looking for in a renter'. They were rich, stupid and taking a molding dump of building off my hands for enough cash to smoke & wipe with. Seems like they were overqualified to me. But you know, inane wrench for the sake of inane wrench. The final straw with me was the next set of tenants were a cuck of a man and his tiger lady wife. As I'm negotiating with her, the author scripted in some stupid scene where she locks eyes with you and knocks your intimidation stat down to less than a quarter due to some nonsense about being the alpha samurai just so you automatically fail to get them to rent the place for more than a pittance. And yes I said scripted. No matter what choices you make or how hard you grind your intimidation, she will knock it down when you come to that point over some inane theory on samurai mental warfare. By that point I had had enough these nonsensical wrenches being thrown at me just for the sake of progressing a broken shell of story that can't progress on its on without gratuitous deus ex machinas to push it forward. TlDR? If you value your monetary investments, avoid game. It's a waste of time & hard drive space. Not worth 5 dollars, much less 5 cents.

Usually I very much enjoy Choice Of games, but this onw was honestly a little boring. There was almost no social aspect, and no real relationships. It feels quite short and left me with no strong feelings. This particular story is genuinely just a straigtforward "What would it be like to be a real estate agent who isn't particularily good at anything and has a kind of vreepy house?" There were so many spots I thought so much more would happen, but ended up being a loose end or just not flushed out at all making it feel rushed. My biggest complaint though would probably be lack of control over who my character was. Several times throughout I was forced to choose options I would never want to pursue and just left me feeling bad about it. I genuinely don't feel satisfied having spent money on this story. I really wanted to like it.