Loathful

Отличный, хоть и небольшой хоррор. Да, сюжет чутка банален (ууу, злой ИИ), но реализация качественная и нагоняющая ужас.

Loathful is a psychological indie horror game where you are a 'Neural Net Solutions' employee who is testing out a new form of tech that uploads your mind into a cloud, giving you an AI designed digital getaway for future people who will use it for things like vacations or to go places if they are incapable of physically doing so. You go through a process of getting into a pod, where you are sent to a digital hub to explore, but because its still new tech, you come across some noticeable bugs and glitches. When in the main hub you have to get floppy disks and insert them into a computer, which gives you a short video of what to expect and opens the door to these "zones". can be areas from a tunnel of love swan boat ride, to a walk down a train track. once getting through each area, you will return to the main hub to repeat the process. while going through the motions, the main hub has its own hidden things to find, which can only be progressed via items you find within the zones. You also can find small ball maze mini games, which reward you with a CD that gives you more stamina to run. I havent gone into detail on the horror part of the game, but id prefer to keep it vague for people who havent played it yet. Just know its mostly a walking simulator with some simple puzzles and the occasional section where you have to run or hide from something. Overall it was a great game. The stamina for running could use some work because it goes away fast as well as taking forever to recover, so theres little reason to use it until you get some CDs, and even then, there is few times, if ever, you need to sprint other than to speed up your progress. Other than that little hiccup, its still worth playing. there is also a little museum thing after completing the game that shows the games models and dev notes, which is always a nice inclusion. I ended up beating it twice because i missed a CD, which you need to get all in one save to get an achievement. Its roughly a 2-3 hour game.

Good puzzles, scary atmosphere, did not rely on jump scares to be scary. Overall a good phycological horror game about ai going rouge.