Death Relives

Quick time events if you are hiding. Like playing a dancing game. Didn't made it through the proloque, played with xbox controller and something was messed up with the icons. if there are quick time events as part of a minigame, okay. But here it looked like it's a core game mechanic and me, like every other sane person hates this ♥♥♥♥.

It's so slow and they make it even slower for you as you wait for your flashlight to recharge. The kid sounds like a 40 year old man. Nothin but a walking simulator making you check every inch of a room. You have to get so close to something to trigger an action.

A fine indie horror gem featuring a highly original monster from Aztec mythology and hide-and-seek gameplay that never feels tedious. Recommended on sale.

I have quite mixed feelings about this game. It’s a horror game built around a familiar concept: a monster that constantly pursues you, but that you can also interact with to temporarily drive it away. While avoiding it, you need to solve various puzzles to progress through the story. Most of these puzzles are fairly simple, although it’s not always very clear what the game expects from the player. One of my main issues lies with the gameplay, which I found quite simplistic and often a bit clunky. The animation sequences, especially during deaths or monster interactions, quickly become repetitive and sometimes frustrating over time. The stronger aspects are mainly the atmosphere and the narrative. Even if the storytelling isn’t always perfectly handled, it still manages to keep you engaged. You can feel a genuine effort from the developers to create something meaningful despite limited resources. Visually, the game isn’t particularly impressive, but some lighting and atmosphere work makes certain moments enjoyable. In the end, despite its flaws and overall clunkiness, I mostly appreciate the game for its intentions and the good ideas it brings.

Death Relives is a decent little horror game for one evening. The horror side is pretty light since the game gives you a shotgun and a knife because at that point most encounters stop being scary and start feeling more like “come here, little b*tch.” At some point, you start feeling like you’re the horror they should be afraid of. The story is actually okay and has the classic horror-game plot twist without going completely off the rails. My main issue is the pacing. For a game that lasts around 2–3 hours, it still manages to squeeze in quite a few annoying “find the battery, find the fuse, find the next random item” sections, which started to feel more like busywork than tension. Still, I had a good enough time with it. Short, simple, a bit creepy, a bit dumb in places, but easy to finish in one sitting without overstaying too much. I bought it in a bundle for about 3 € but 5–10 €, it's also a fair buy so a 6.5/10.

Horrible sound design, hard to see what is happening, excessive use of qte, slow story pace