La Salamanca

After enjoying the demo, I had high hopes for the full game. Alas, the game is riddle with bugs and bad translations. I was soft-locked more than once. A puzzle in the morgue made absolutely no sense even after discovering the solution and then we're faced with having to navigate a mansion in the dark with a flashlight that depletes its battery at an insane speed. The monster chasing you can also block you into a room with no escape so even though game advises you to run... you can't. After bashing my head against this game repeatedly because of how much I liked the demo I just cannot finish it. Not recommended in its current state. This game needs major fixes.

I unfortunately cannot recommend this game. La Salamanca is riddled with game breaking bugs and poorly executed mechanics which blur the lines between puzzle and mistake, ultimately throttling any meaningful progression. What started off as a promising horror experience quickly went sideways and lacked any of those impact moments where the payoff felt worth it. That's assuming you can even experience the game. I expect a few issues here and there with these kinds of indie horror originals, but there are many problems here which are beyond acceptable. Some examples include: -A key despawning before it was used for all of its intended purposes - with the solution being to "restart the chapter". This softlocked an entire section and wasted close to an hour for me. -Interactions not triggering, notably in the sewer area where I was unable to interact with the pressure gauges. If I hadn't found an online walkthrough, I would have unknowingly been hard stuck here, because it's a required interaction that bugged out. Frustratingly enough, I did everything that was shown in the video did down to the T, and still had this issue. This happened numerous times elsewhere as well, with this be…