Connection: The Nightmare Within

This game is, to put it nicely, a professional copycat. It borrows (or perhaps ... heavily studies) almost every aspect from other horror games. The concept feels heavily inspired by The Devil Within, with elements from Resident Evil and puzzles borrowed from games like Tormented Souls. If you’ve played enough horror games, you’ll probably recognize most of the puzzles here. But somehow, I have a love-hate relationship with it. I actually had a pretty good time. Since they copied the puzzles I already love from other horror games, I ended up enjoying most of them. The combat is clunky, but enemies are easy to beat, so I’ll call it a draw. The story is simple and linear, the atmosphere is creepy enough, and the boss fights depend heavily on how well you save your resources. Good and bad, right? Well, let me put it this way: if a horror game gives me goosebumps, I’ll call it a good horror game. And this game is that one. Everything else? Just details.

Very decent survival horror game. It plays very similar to RE games. -short -no quick binds on weapons -the fast enemy type that also makes itself invisible is very annoying -voice acting, especially character models and animations are quite bad -story is all right -combat works good enough -too many (and sometimes too hard) puzzles for my taste -2 endings, but they are mostly the same

A decent enough retro survival horror for the fans of the PS2/PS3 era. Around the level of Hollowbody, not as good as Tormented Souls or Post Trauma. Pros: - The difficulty is just right, but the boss fights are more difficult than average. - The puzzles are quite decent. - The story is not bad, but the voice acting makes it cheesier than it's supposed to be. - The game never outstays its welcome. - It has an optional "retro" filter that makes the graphics pixelated and it actually looks better that way. Cons: - There's nothing memorable here. - The monster designs leave a lot to be desired. - Gen AI was used for a few pictures, and one of them looks horrendously out of place.

the puzzle is great, the combat is unbelievably awful, clunky. guess that's a trade off 6/10

A very fun and classic feeling survival horror game that doesn’t overstay its welcome. I’ll be largely reviewing this game as a fixed camera survival horror game, as that’s my preference. I did give it a go with the over the shoulder mode after beating it on fixed camera, but it wasn’t really clicking for me in that camera style so I gave up about halfway through. Connection: The Nightmare Within is...surprisingly challenging. Maybe I'm just not that good at it, but I dunno...I play a lot of fixed camera survival horror and survival horror in general, and I found some segments of this game to be pretty damn tough. The game sets itself aside from many of its peers with the inclusion of a dodge roll. No, it doesn't really take away from the survival horror-ness of the experience, the enemies are quick and you'll be needing the dodge roll to evade attacks. There are a couple of combat arena sections that'll have you under high pressure to manage all the threats, so expect more reaction time/skill based action than you'd get in many fixed camera style games. Honestly, overall it was handled pretty well, but yeah, challenging for sure (with the exception of the last boss - that was not…

What a fantastic surprise :) This is a great old style survival horror, highly recommended