Shellshock

Big fan. Great game. No jump scares but genuine creepiness and challenging gameplay. It wasn't easy for me to get to 20 and it was enough fun that I kept trying until I did.

Interesting setting + a good mix of obvious & sneaky anomalies. Cool Exit 8-like!

Very fun game and a good experience in Psychological Horror.

Cool little anomaly game

S teir game

The trenches were already horrifying enough... Shellshock takes the anomaly genre and puts it somewhere that already feels like a nightmare before anything strange even starts happening — the trenches of the First World War. I really enjoyed this one. Walking through the same muddy, battered trench again and again creates a surprisingly oppressive atmosphere. There’s something particularly unsettling about the WWI setting, and as things begin to change it starts to feel less like you’re simply walking through a trench and more like you’re trapped inside the mind of a soldier who has seen far too much. The name Shellshock is very fitting. The repeating trench, the bodies, the sounds of war and the increasingly disturbing things you encounter give the whole experience an almost fever-dream quality. It plays nicely with that line between something actually being wrong and the possibility that your soldier is simply losing his grip on reality. It’s a short game, but I actually think that works in its favour. It doesn’t drag the idea out until it loses its effect. I enjoyed my time with it, liked the WWI setting immensely, and found the darker anomalies genuinely effective. For the…