Camouflet

Short but tense, I'm glad I bought and played this game for the experience. I wouldn't say it fantastic (I don't know what drugs this other reviewer takes) but for the price I paid on sale, it's alright!

A very atmospheric game that had me actually scream when i first died. Absolutely fantastic. Great job!!!

TL;DR: Very good game with unique setting and gameplay, but much too expensive for what you get. Camouflet was a game that I had my eye on for a while and as it was sold half off at the last sale I finally got it. One thing upfront: as much as I will sing this game's praises in this review, it only is worth the half price it's currently sold for. The amount of content and replayability does not warrant 5€ or so. That said, the game is still unique in many ways. First of all, there is the setting: there are not many WWI games and this is one of only two I know that plays underground (the other being Amnesia: The Bunker) and the only one that treats the mine war aspect of WWI, which makes for a unique horror game setting. While there are a lot of horror games that play in abandoned mines, this is different in that the mine is not abandoned, which brings me to the story. We are a (probably) British deserter, whose sentence is a suicide mission: find four charges in the mines and bring them into the German mines to collapse them. For that, you are given only a couple of items: a flashlight, a blank map of the mines which you fill in as you go, and a shovel to dig tunnels to find a w…

So coooooooooool

a lovely idea, but held back but the balance of the game, the Ai has aimbot and even you make no noise, they're so ready to shoot that the moment a pixel of you show a pixal of yourself you're being gunned down. They can actually use the camoflet effectivly, the distance of noise is the same once your in it's sphere, meaning you could be 3 bombs aways but sound like they're inches away. But the AI doesn't have this issue and can bomb you on a whim. You are restricted to a pitiful number of items, finding single shot pistols and grenades that bounce back to you. while the enamies have plentiful ammo supplies and you can't use anything after killing one. What I was hoping was to a fun little indie project, turned to an effort of quitely stalking in the dark to be gunned down by soldiers who blocked the tunnels ahead, and if you try to dig around they'll hear you and be watching whatever angle you try. It quickly becomes less about stealth and more luck of somehow the AI not being where you need to go. Because the AI are so quick on the draw with aimbot. And it crashed when I was about to plant the last bomb, so not wanting to play again I uninstalled and left it there.

eventually you run out of ammo and have to just keep running through tunnels until you either walk the mcguffin to the area or die on the way and restart.