Don't Look Back (2025)

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It's a good first game, but it has no place on Steam, especially not for money.

Don’t Look Back is a small indie horror game/“I See You” simulator developed by Damage Control, a group of three to four developers from the city of Karlovac in Croatia. The game was developed in five days for the first chapter before expanding over a period of ten months for the last two, releasing on Itch.io and Steam. I haven’t found much else about these guys other than the fact that the lead programmer and director Matija Cerovac had directed numerous short films over the years which got accolades in the local film scene! Truth be told I’m not even sure where I found this game, though I’d probably chalk it up to a couple reasons: I either got it for free on a random recommendation or lack thereof from a curator on Steam, or it’s PlayStation 1 styled graphics. Whatever it is, it’s been ok my backlog forever for one of these “Cheap/Free Halloweenthon” binges I go on for October. I have some feelings on the game so I guess let’s get into it. The plot is simplistic: [spoiler]you enter a home it seems and the Crooked Man strikes, so in order to escape you need to find six keys. Scrounging he house for six keys is simple, and luckily it doesn’t feel too frustrating when you realiz…

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ehh, i don't remember too much of this game but what i do was just getting caught over and over being unable to progress

"Don't Look Back" is a low key asset flip, a bunch of other people's assets assembled badly to make a basic game, typically this kind of thing is done by amateur developers without sufficient budget, talent and/or staff to do the job of game development professionally. It's then quickly rushed into Steam Direct. And, unsurprisingly, this never results in a product with any quality, interest, or value for gamers. You couldn't get more generic with this lazy Unreal asset flip, almost certainly the result of a basic Unreal first person horror game template and a few "borrowed" assets lazily arranged to make a minimum viable product... a simple haunted house asset with 6 keys and some jumpscares. And yes, they were trying to get paid for filling out someone else's game template with flipped assets. This is the kind of thing that keeps giving indie devs such a bad name. So, the game might look better than you'd expect from an amateur project, but this is because it's partially or completely made up of stock assets, "borrowed" from asset stores and free asset websites. Very little in this game is truly the creation of the "developer", it's just a bunch of rearranged assets. While…