KEEP OUT

Bought this game with my love for little nightmares in mind. However while little nightmares was able to capture a gruesome nightmare in the warped eyes of the youth, this game managed to capture what fully grown game developers would assume to be scary for a child. The controls? are awful. The amount of times my lil prince guy committed hilarious suicide while climbing up a ladder was frustrating. The directions? not clear enough and once figured out left me in irritation rather than a legit sense of satisfaction for solving the puzzle. Plot? I have to say the concept for this game is amazing, the moments I loved was beginning. I was genuinely under the assumption there was some virus loose and the toys was symbolic representations. However the ending result of.... robots and killer toys left me more empty and felt the story could've had large potential. The price? not worth the time you poor into a short game like this. You're looking at 2 hours tops, that's not even sonic forces level of short. Overall? I could not recommend this and the replay value? is not there. I played it just now and have no reason to play again. There's no secrets I can find, no collectables, no mul…

This is more of an thumbs sideways review. For starters, certainly not worth it full price. It's short, a bit janky, but it's an interesting take on the platformer with an interesting enough story told through visuals only, and a couple of good horror moments. But it's short, and the runtime was unnecessarily padded out by an abysmal section near the end where you're trying to dodge grabbing hands. The hitboxes of the hands, combined with the angle of the camera (which isn't changeable) make this section an absolute nightmare, so I was very glad the game ended shortly afterwards before more of that nonsense appeared. Also a word of warning, it's not complete either - there's a defunct 'Epilogue' button which never unlocks, so proceed with caution.

This game is actually good and fun, but because I have a phobia of explosion sounds like firecrackers or popping balloons, I couldn’t continue playing it. The game is filled with those kinds of sound effects.

If you like games like Limbo, Inside, or Little Nightmares, STAY AWAY from this game. DO NOT BUY, even on sale. You WILL be disappointed. The game's a visual treat... but that's the only positive thing I can say about it. And even that one positive isn't without its issues -- while the art style is visually compelling, it does not read well at all in terms of gameplay. It's not at all clear what is just foreground/background and what is actually an interactable part of the environment, especially in the first couple areas. Controls are pretty much terrible, especially for a game with so few inputs. You press the joystick away from a ladder to jump off, but you press the jump button to jump off of a rope. Unless you're using keyboard; then you press jump to climb up a rope and you press the action button to jump off. There are very few tricky jumps, but the ones that do exist are frustrating, because the game doesn't seem to have coyote time and it's not clear when your character's hitbox leaves the platform. Do I have to jump before the midpoint of my character is past the edge? Before his trailing foot is past the edge? It didn't feel consistent, which maybe goes back to the art…

Better than Little Nightmares. Interesting twist at the end. There is an Epilogue that hasn't been released as of the time of this review. Can;t wait for it. Controls are clunky but manageable so don't shy away. Not a 20 dollar game but i'd let 15 slide.

It is in all intents and purposes, a fun take on the small child scary world dynamic that you see on steam, i.e Little Nightmares, INSIDE, etc. What we have here is some quality but I find 20 bucks to be extremely, extremely hard to justify for a game that you can knock out in less than an hour, even without mentioning the slippery control scheme that doesn't favor controller in the slightest, leaving me to tip-tap my keyboard awkwardly to the finish. Its VERY jank, very short, and probably not what I'd recommend for 20 bucks. If you really are interested regardless, wait for a 5 dollar sale or something, this is a very hard sell. As of now I only managed to beat it in 46 minutes on the first try through trial and error.