Marlene Betwixt

I found this game really aggravating. It's like a demo for VR that's really in love with picking up books and soda cans. The play is one pixel-hunt after another, and your reward for finding the pixel is a jump scare. The story is a cliche, the sounds and music are very primitive (free downloads, I think) and objects, including critical objects, can clip through floors and walls and get stuck. Have you ever wanted to try and find the marble in the oatmeal, while dodgeballs rain down on your head? This game has that experience, for some reason. An hour of gameplay, if you can plow through the frustration. Play for free or maybe for a dollar, if you have literally nothing else to do. Definitely not worth $7.

Where to start, well let's start with the soft drinks Marlene is obviously addicted to. I mean there are soft drink cans everywhere, even blocking up gutters FFS. Was it a free asset you just couldn't stop using? Next, let's talk about the voice acting and sound effects, just making funny voices is not good enough. Making funny voices that sound like a 6-year-old would in a play ground who has just met a man with a large bag of candy and a van with blacked out windows is worse. As soon as I walked into the first free asset rich park and heard "leave her alone" in what can only be described as a high pitched adult gay man's voice and saw that voice was supposed to be coming from a scary chainsaw another free asset killer I knew where this game was headed. From there it was all downhill, from the terrible escape the room puzzles to the soft can cans ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ everywhere. To the crappy story, home done sound recording, over used heart beat and just the general another first time I'm going to make a fortune VR call me a dev now I've released a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game on Steam Direct. Every time I find a VR game that gives me hope, 10 of these "I can make a game" muppets send me straight back dow…

If someone told me it was the work of a teenager, spending his free time on his computer putting a game together as the early efforts to start a career in game development, then I could at least respect his ambition. But in the context of a fledgling VR market with genuinely good quality titles thin on the ground, I can't review this game except as the serious gamer I am. This game is appalling. The plot is completely detached from the game, literally the plot could be anything and it would still "fit" this extremely basic piece of work. The game world is sparse, graphics are basic, game mechanics are basic, any logic to the puzzles is basic to non-existent.

Very well done. Had a few jump scares and the atmosphere left me unsettled. I'm very curious about the next few installments and I'm looking forward to playing them That being said...Don't play this game when you are at home alone, at night and with most of the lights off. Especially don't play this game if your husband comes home unexpectedly and thinks the best way to get your attention is to lightly touch your shoulder. When you didn't hear him come home because you had headphones in. I'm pretty sure he didn't scare me to death but I'm not positive yet.

2/10 Pretty Rubbish quality No option to use locomotion so movement is utterly rubbish, you just teleport around like an idiot, which really breaks immersion. Graphics are good. Clipping and object interaction is all over the place. This doesn't feel like a thing I should have paid for.

A fantastic horror game brought to you from the creator of cyberdrifter great sound effects , great controls , easy to pick up and play , a must for any horror fan