Crimson Ranch

Like many great indie horror titles, Crimson Ranch is dark, weird and unsettling. The simple RPG Maker presentation belies a well crafted narrative filled with strange iconography, bizarre rituals, nightmarish monstrosities and sinister arrangements between the forces of good and evil. The story follows the intertwining fates of several hapless characters, all set around the plantation house of Crimson Ranch. Likely set in late 19th century America, there are period specific narrative choices which some may find upsetting, but help to underpin the bleak and harsh reality of life at that time. Each character is either looking for, benefitting from, or trying to destroy a cursed book which may hold the power of resurrection. The game plays a little like a survival horror in that the map must slowly be unlocked through finding objects or solving puzzles, and there are enemy encounters which must be avoided. Given the limitations of the RPG Maker engine, the variety of puzzles is quite imaginative. While there will be little to truly perplex those familiar with the genre, there are some sections which will provide a decent challenge. There is absolutely no combat and the player char…

Length <1hr 20 Crimson Ranch is a Top Down 2D narrative game in which the player learns the story of a cursed book and those that interacted with it. While most of Crimson Ranch is narrative based, there are multiple puzzles within the game which makes the player plan out what they need to do to survive, with the items they have on hand. While at times I found some of the chase scenes annoying, they only took a few tries to get past. Crimson Ranch does have a lot of nice visuals and monstrous scenes created in a unique visual style and it was enjoyable seeing the horrifying moments. I found the story really confusing at first, as the game is shown through multiple different people’s perspectives to what is going on. With the quick changes and short story beats, I found that putting the story together became muddled. While as you get through the game it does become a lot clearer. I still can’t remember each character's early interactions that well. Overall Crimson Ranch was an Ok game, puzzles were interesting and did take a little thought. The problem was the story, the multiple quick changing character perspectives only confused me and dragged the game out, while at the end o…

Frustrating game that makes zero sense. The art is cool.

If you like this kind of games you should buy it. I personally love 2D pixelart games so I didn't even bothered to refund after finishing the game.

oooooh no its right behind me isn't it

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