False Mall

A very fun Exit 8 style game with some hilarious, creepy, and hard to find anomalies. I highly recommend it if you want a few good hours of catching details!

as far as these games go? it's good. I wish the "reveal" for things you missed was a toggle you could set to off so that early on i didn't accidentally look at the map and see what id missed. its hand holding but one i think should be a start of the game pop up you can ask be disabled unless you change your mind later. otherwise. its good. Never felt like an anomaly was unfair. some were very subtle but i managed to catch them and im terrible at games XD

I've been playing a TON of "anomaly walker" games over the last month, and this is my new favorite. I never would have suspected a game with such unassuming screenshots could be so good! Something that I’ve found is a common problem in anomaly walker games is that the player can miss anomalies; if they mistake something normal for an anomaly in an anomalous area, or if they just “get bad vibes” and turn around and leave, they can miss seeing whatever clever thing the anomaly is. This game fixes that perfectly by making you take a picture of each anomaly (and uses a moving reticle to assure you that you’re taking a picture of what you want to). If there’s no anomaly in the room, you proceed through the exit door. If there is an anomaly and you take its picture, then the exit door opens automatically to let you know you got it (sometimes there are multiple places you have to take pictures for an anomaly, and the door opens to let you know that you’ve taken all the pictures). The anomalies here are all “fair” and clever, and many of them are laugh out loud hilarious. Because of the “camera” mechanic, many of the anomalies also play a ridiculous special animation when you take a picture of them. This game has another fantastic “quality of life” feature, in that each time you miss the anomaly, a map in the “lobby” between areas shows you exactly where the anomaly was, and the door to the previous area stays open, so you can go back and see exactly what it was so you know to keep an eye out for it next time. This felt SO much better than having to look up subtle anomalies in a guide, which I always end up having to do for the last few in a game. Another great feature that the camera mechanic facilitates is that once you get the “normal ending” and are hunting down the remaining anomalies, you can set to game to always have an anomaly. Because the camera means that you can’t just duck in and out of a room to score the anomaly; you have to find the anomaly and take a picture of it, which is still often a challenge even when there’s guaranteed to be an anomaly in the room.