The Castle of Dr. Hoot

I just finished the game, and I cant put into words how amazing of an experience this game was. I thought I knew what I was getting into when I started the game, but I gladly had my expectations subverted. The game has a very charming art style, and the writing genuinely surprised me. I feel like I only scratched the surface of the game because I didn't encounter many of the things I saw in the trailer, or other gameplay footage. I also can't express how happy I am to of experienced this game blind. I feel the more popular this game gets it's going to become very difficult to do. I can safely say that this game is well worth its asking price. I can not recommend this game enough.

Honestly a really good game for cheap, not too hard and quite fun, did manage to get scared once or twice.

I'm so upset at how short this game was, I was able to beat it in roughly 2 hours, and I really would've loved to got to see more about the story. Regardless, this was a great game, I love the Clickteam Fusion type of style that this game has, reminds me a lot of Scott Cawthon's older games, and overall this is just a really great bait-and-switch horror game, I especially love the personality that the characters have, victims of Dr. Hoot in a way. Overall, this game is great, and I would love it if it had more endings or more lore to it! <3

if you try to name yourself an obscenity the game crashes. except ass which is a valid name

the mini games are so tedious and confusing i honestly just gave up. it makes it so hard to get invested in the story because the only way you can advance is if you beat them. it just makes it so unenjoyable. also having to completely restart after messing up one time is absolute ridiculous and a waste if time tbh. I had such high hopes but i just cant.

To put it simply, the game is buggy and not fun to play. During one of the minigames, I walked straight through a wall. I didn't clip through it weird or at a strange angle. The entire wall just lacked any collision. Thinking maybe it was on purpose and there was some secret out of bounds, I wandered the empty map until the game progressively broke more and more and I was trapped out of frame, unable to do anything. I had to close the game and reopen it to continue playing. Also, multiple times I would try to enter a room at the same time as the in-game clock struck 3PM, and this would bug the game as well. I'd be stuck in the main lobby, unable to interact with anything, but time wouldn't progress, no characters would spawn for me to speak with, and my energy would slowly deplete until I was forced into a game over. The in-universe minigames are also strange and difficult. In the spelling one, the letters often bunch up in the same corner and you have to dig them out while they all try and run into the same corner after you move them. The computer lab minigame was just strange and confusing? There was no real tutorial for it the way there was with the other ones, you have to…