Dread X Collection 4: The Hunt

This one is a very mixed bag. Some of the games are good, some are ok but rough. Uktena 64 is a fun time, and I enjoyed Black Relic and The Fruit. The others are fairly meh, save for Seraphixial, which just feels like a badly made asset flip type of game. The 'hub' world game is the worst of the bunch up to this point, not counting the first game, which barely had a hub world. The protagonist is obnoxious, constantly making marvel style quips and jokes, the traversal and navigation is slow as molasses, and the story uninteresting. For an example of how obnoxious the protag is, she has a literal hissy fit tantrum on her self recorder after listening to a recording she finds of her 'mother' or someone accidently 'dead names' her, in a setting with a literal mass infection pushing the human race to the edge. Yeah, very fitting and appropriate stuff. I can't remember the last time a game's dialogue made me roll my eyes, but this one managed it.

Dread X Collection 4: The Hunt is a distinctive horror anthology built around a simple but flexible concept: the act of hunting. Released in 2021, the game was developed by a large collaboration consisting of DreadXP, David Szymanski, Christopher Yabsley, KIRA, Philisophic Games, Dan McGrath, TorpleDook, Abbey “Scruncho” Smith, Vidas Salavejus, Redact Games, Wayward Preacher, Mr. Pink, and Aaron Wise, while DreadXP serves as the publisher. Co-produced by David Szymanski, the collection contains seven short horror shooters created by different independent developers. Instead of demanding that every developer follow the same formula, the anthology allows each team to interpret shooting, pursuit, investigation, and survival in its own unusual way. Connecting these individual games is an explorable hub set inside the abandoned ARK 2 research base. Players control Artemis, a newcomer to the wider Dread X storyline who travels to the facility after receiving a mysterious recording from someone connected to her past. Wandering through the isolated arctic installation and uncovering its secrets gives the collection greater cohesion than a conventional menu of unrelated games. The facility…

It's a flop. I know this one was hyped quite a bit, but it has the least games, and the same goes for how they play. The hub was 50/50. I really love the setting of The Thing and similar stories and concepts, but here it was a miss. Black Relic - It's a mid game about hunting demons and cultists with a crossbow Rose of Meat - One of the best games in the collection. Weird, up to the point that the bizarreness of it makes it scary Axis Mundi - 50/50 game about photohunting. Looks good, feels highly repetitive Seraphixial - Why is it here? I don't understand. It's lagging, it's impossible to play, the gameplay is horrible, everything looks bad. It has the feeling of those bad Unity horror games from 2013-14. And I still up to this day ask why it was added into the collection. The Fruit - I don't recall whether the game turned off when I died or if saves and checkpoints didn't work in the game. The experience was quite good, and I liked the gameplay. I still think I had some technical issues, but the game was good. House of Unrest - Did you have enough fun shooting with a crossbow? Well, let's get to the same topic, but now you will shoot demons with a glock and dest…

UKTENA DOESNT WORK :((((((((((((((

In terms of quality i think this is possibly the best collection next to Dread X 3 and i'm mostly saying that given the devs had extra time to work on their games. Maybe not the best overworld as i think it's a bit hard to top Akuma Kira's hub from the last one in terms of style and fun. Regardless i hope they stick the landing with the currently 5th and final Dread X Collection so we'll see.

overall enjoyable! I had a good time with most of the games in this one