Dement

I wanted to like this. I liked Organ Quarter, and this is a very similar game. In fact, much about the technical presentation is superior. Level design is more detailed, gameplay mechanics more complex, overall more polished in most respects and less janky. However, what the devs of Dement do not understand that the devs of Organ Quarter (Outer Brain) do, is that horror games exist to be scary above and before anything else. Frustration isn't scary. It's the furthest emotion from fear, and the one which does the most to make a player feel fed up and put a game down for good. Some level of challenge is good to ensure the threats are properly threatening, but failing challenges is frustrating. When a horror game frustrates me, it loses whatever grip it had and it's tough to get it back after that. The main problems which took me out of this game were related to enemy design, placement, behaviors, and weapon balance. The basic enemy of this game looks like it came from the Unity asset store. It's the same humanoid spooperman that looks like a dude in a rubber gore suit that's also in every indie horror demo on itch.io and Gamejolt. To be fair, I saw two other enemy designs besides …

I'm so happy that I finally got to play Dement after following it for years! It's pretty much exactly what I'd hoped for which is a true old-school survival horror game for VR. It reminds me A LOT of Silent Hill and I can spot some Twin Peaks in it as well. Playing this brings me back to my childhood, feeling the same feelings I felt playing SH and RE on PS1 & SH2 on PS2. Take this review with a huge portion of salt since there's basically a complete overhaul coming to the game in a future update, I'm just reviewing the game as it is right now hoping it can get some more attention which it really deserves. The gameplay holds up surprisingly well, though a bit dated by today's VR standards. It can be pretty frustrating at times but you get over it. The puzzles have been fun and clever, exploration is great and there's item combining, ammo crafting and a lot of other good stuff. My biggest problem is with combat, especially melee but the game is pretty generous with healing items which compensates a lot so it stopped bothering me after a while, I also got better at the game eventually. Graphics hold up really well and look great on the Quest 2 but the scale on some of the object…

This seems like i would up my alley , but atm the combat ruins it for me. While I dont think a horror game should have amazing combat, i still think it needs to balanced. Fighting anything in this using melee feels so awkward, from dodging to the stamina meter (which i find odd in a vr game, even for saints and sinners). I'll keep my eyes on it for now but atm, I dont think i can recommend it.

It has been over two years since the last update. Update before they a year and a half prior. Stay away and keep your money.

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Couldn't progress. The game spawns you in a long hallway and tells you to go to a specific room. At the door nothing happened and i couldn't interact with anything. Other ways are blocked off by invisible walls telling you to go to the room. Can't really comment on gameplay but the game doesn't really seem worth the money as it has no hand tracking, weird menus and overall just looks really "Indie" in terms of graphics and communicating with the player.