ALLON3

ALLON3 is a short-form psychological horror game that relies on isolation, unsettling sound design, and surreal environmental imagery to create tension. Developed by Vidas Salavejus, Aaron Wise, and Matt Reeves, and published by Vidas Salavejus, Trial By Fire Games, and Matt Reeves Production, the game takes a deliberately minimalist approach to horror. Instead of surrounding the player with complicated mechanics, weapons, or elaborate progression systems, it places them inside a strange abandoned city and allows uncertainty to become the primary source of fear. The premise begins with the player awakening in a dark and seemingly deserted urban environment. Almost immediately, a desperate voice can be heard calling for help. That simple event provides both motivation and suspicion. Someone may genuinely need assistance, but the player has little reason to trust anything occurring in this distorted place. As the journey continues, additional voices emerge through whispers, screams, and direct speech. The unsettling contradiction is that the city appears largely empty even though the player's ears repeatedly suggest that other people or entities are nearby. Exploration forms the co…

Clown is Hungry, this is not. It's rough, VERY rough, and the sound effects are incredibly loud, which is annoying since there is no volume level in-game. I got far enough to die, and didn't even realize I was getting attacked until it was too late. At least more of the dev's newer games are rough around the edges but still MUCH more enjoyable.

Very clearly not for everyone, but I highly recommend it to any indie horror fans out there who are craving a different sort of crushing atmosphere, dread, and terror. YMMV a lot with experimental stuff like this, but to me this is the best kind of experimental, where it's not extreme/overcooked or convoluted with either its design, gameplay, or atmosphere, and is more about just making you FEEL something you normally wouldn't feel in a game - really letting you seep in the mire of the game's locale for its own sake and none other. I've played a lot of abstract surreal indie horror games that try to scratch this itch but they fail either because it's TOO abstract or too on the nose. To me this game is just right. The combination of the relatively grounded and muted levels with the albeit exagerrated but still very human voices whispering, screaming, and both taunting and pleading to you it really feels like you're stuck in a nightmare. The performances are obviously amateur sounding but that doesn't stop some, and thankfully id argue the most important ones, from being completely soul arresting leading me to what is now one of my favorite memories in indie horror. I don't want to …

Vary loud and not that scary of a game. More annoying then anything.

One of the worst games I played this year. Good job! It's not so easy to make such terrible games!

IT IS NOT GOOD AND VERY VERY LOUD IN MY EARS WITH NO SETTINGS TO HELP 1/10