Inner Voice Bewertungen

This game is similar to Layers of Fear. Really good. 8,5/10

I wanted to take a brief look at the game yesterday evening and I found myself finishing the game in the middle of the night. Well, just to be clear, this is less of a game than an intense experience. It reminded me strongly of the nightmares I used to have as a child. Dim light, loneliness, abandoned places, the architecture… although it’s hard to say where the eerie atmosphere really comes from, it triggered all those feelings I experienced during my nightmares in my childhood. Uncanny sensations created from common buildings, environments and objects. The game plays with your mind and your emotions in a subtle way, similar to works like The Stanley Parable, Twin Peaks, Blair Witch Project, the Backrooms or Shining. You experience loneliness, an eerie kind of nostalgia, claustrophobia, a hard to define feeling of being in the wrong place, dreaming a bad dream, spiced with an occasional jump scare, placed so well that it got me every time. The puzzles are rather easy to solve and serve more as a guideline for the story. The great graphics and sounds contribute to the immersive atmosphere, the Unreal Engine did a really good job there, which was used in a creative way in this game. The sounds and the music a great and I strongly recommend playing the game in the dark at night with headphones on. So if you are a great fan of dark, intense, uncanny and hard to grasp atmosphere like David Lynch managed to create, this is absolutely worth a look!