Demented
VisualTech48 · 2022 · Indie, Casual, Horror, Stealth, Early Access
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Mostly Positive74% · 95 📉 Recent reviews down 64%
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About Demented
Waking up as Bennet Helms you find yourself in a unknown place, however you do see your family which questions you deeply.
You remember almost nothing but you see that something is wrong with this place, and given a choice to either just run or find your family.
Survive, look for clues and items, hide and try to uncover the mysterious truth of the Visual Corporation.
Sanity controls you. It will decide many things, and you can even use it to your advantage. But what is it actually?
The main character is Bennet Helms has a brain tumor on the cerebral part of the brain (The part which controls communication, feelings, sense of reality, etc.). The tumor however can be contained with constant taking pills.
Now, a few effects of the Sanity are:
To simplify WCD is the "brain" of the Demented world. However it depends entirely on the players Health and Sanity (We will get to that in a moment). Now what does WCD do? It:
Radiation is also a strong part of the game, as it can be rewarding but can be quite opposite as well. Also it can stop the decaying of Sanity but as the Radiation is higher it will hurt you too! Since it is a big part we cannot reveal all of the effects of the radiation.
Some effects of Radiation are:
You remember almost nothing but you see that something is wrong with this place, and given a choice to either just run or find your family.
Survive, look for clues and items, hide and try to uncover the mysterious truth of the Visual Corporation.
Key features:
Sanity
Sanity controls you. It will decide many things, and you can even use it to your advantage. But what is it actually?
The main character is Bennet Helms has a brain tumor on the cerebral part of the brain (The part which controls communication, feelings, sense of reality, etc.). The tumor however can be contained with constant taking pills.
Now, a few effects of the Sanity are:
- Makes the player hallucinate things.
- Spawns critters ("They can, and they will hurt you", the lower the sanity the more critters will come to hunt you)
- Decreased vision field. (Depends on the %(percentage) of the players sanity)
- Lowers your mental condition (Highlighting of things will be drastically decreased)
- 45% Critters starts start spawning
- 25% - Walk/Sprint slower
- 15% - Disabling the ability to sprint
- 10% - Black/White picture
- 5% - "C-Condition" - You will be very fast, you will ignore pain of the critters (This means you won't be effected if a critter pushes you, for example but you will receive damage), ability to see far objects, medication will be highlighted.
- *By hurting yourself you can go down to 15% of your HP (hitpoints). Every self-injury gives the sanity bar 20% sanity.
WCD
To simplify WCD is the "brain" of the Demented world. However it depends entirely on the players Health and Sanity (We will get to that in a moment). Now what does WCD do? It:
- Changes the world (A wall was there buddy? Well now it isn't.)
- Changes the perception of many things
- Spawns Critters (Critters are the "monsters")
- Adds "corruption" to the world
- Plays trick with your mind
- System Shutdown (SS) - Changes the power in the facility.
- And other
Radiation
Radiation is also a strong part of the game, as it can be rewarding but can be quite opposite as well. Also it can stop the decaying of Sanity but as the Radiation is higher it will hurt you too! Since it is a big part we cannot reveal all of the effects of the radiation.
Some effects of Radiation are:
- Slows, or stops sanity from decaying. Depends on the percentage of the radiation.
Even with little radiation you lose bits of health. It depends on the percentage of the radiation. - 40+ REMs - Occasionally image blurring, and noises in head.
- 85+REMs - Walk/Sprint a lot slower, bad reflexes, decreased hearing.
Future Development
- Make the WCD a heavy impact on the game, by changing, adding or removing whole parts of the map.
- Add more effects to the Sanity \
- Add more effects to the Health\
- Improve the A.I - I have a great idea for you and am developing it as we speak! It'll be a lot of fun \
- Implementing Physic Engine \
- Optimize and polish textures, models and UI
- More intractable objects and voice overs for characters
- A lot more to come!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
An adventure game where you explore an unsettling world and encounter unpredictable situations ✅Good graphics for a small indie game ✅Good sound design, Im referring to the music that builds tension whilst playing ✅The price is good ✅Good horror atmosphere ✅The game has this so-called ‘psychic mechanic’, i.e. hallucinations when your health is low or your field of vision is limited ❌Why didn’t the developers show us that we have a torch at our disposal? ❌Major drawback is the lack of checkpoints; if we die, we start from the beginning ❌Few puzzles in the game ❌No clear instructions on what we need to do at any given moment ✅✅ Verdict: [strike] Terrible [/strike] , [strike] Bad [/strike] , [strike] Mediocre [/strike] , [b] Decent [/b] , [strike] Good [/strike] , [strike] Very Good [/strike] (Rating scale for tested game) [quote] If you'd like to see more of my reviews, you can find them on my curator page: [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45994324/admin/reviews_manage/]CuratorKingViking[/url] and on my group: [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/CuratorKingViking]GroupKingViking[/url] If you have any questions about my reviews, feel free to ask. I'm happy to …15 found this helpful
[h1] Walk through some laboratories while trying to find the exit. Very buggy, clip through doors. Walking speed will take forever to get somewhere. Another complain, can't see too much except glowing door buttons and looking for items feel like a chore. Prepare for earthquake when running, camera sway up and down like some possessed person. Overall hard to play and very tedious first person horror. [/h1]7 found this helpful
Could the developer of this crap have made the character move faster than a half-dead turtle? Even drunk out of my mind and high, I’d walk way faster than this character. The game has no horror atmosphere at all—it’s just a walking simulator with boring puzzles. At least thanks for the trading cards.3 found this helpful
Could be better, get it on sale.1 found this helpful
Demented is a small-scale but ambitious psychological horror title developed by VisualTech48 and published by Volens Nolens Games that focuses less on traditional jump scares and more on sustained mental pressure, systemic dread, and the slow erosion of the player’s sense of control. You play as Bennet Helms, a man who awakens in an unfamiliar, hostile environment with fragmented memories and an overwhelming sense that both the world and his own mind are unstable. Rather than guiding the player through a clearly structured narrative, the game drops you into this broken reality and asks you to survive long enough to piece together meaning from scattered clues, distorted spaces, and unsettling mechanics. The core gameplay loop revolves around exploration, survival, and managing overlapping systems that constantly work against the player. Demented places heavy emphasis on a sanity mechanic that steadily deteriorates as time passes, creating a persistent feeling of urgency. As sanity drops, the game becomes increasingly hostile: hallucinations intensify, vision narrows, environmental distortions become more aggressive, and hostile creatures appear more frequently. This creates a layer…1 found this helpful
truly a Demented experience HARD RECOMMEND1 found this helpful
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