Dread X Collection

[h1]Dread X Collection, a fascinating concept serving mediocrity[/h1] Dread X Collection as a concept is fascinating. Giving multiple horror developers limited time to create their own small work of horror immediately intrigued me. What you get is ten completely unrelated short experiences packaged together as one. One off games, proof of concepts, weird experiments, everything is here. [h2]The Pay Is Nice, psychological detachment to cope with one's job[/h2] The Pay Is Nice follows a professor working on a secret government project. The game is vague, but that's what it wants. It keeps the player guessing and asking questions they'll never receive answers to. The professor constantly repeats "the pay is nice" and phrases like "we're helping people." To me, this shows how he psychologically distances himself from his actions because deep down he knows what he's doing is wrong. This is also where I connected the masks in his office to him. To me, they represent the mask he wears day to day. My main criticism is the PC puzzle. The instructions are worded weirdly, and especially with English not being my first language, I had a harder time than I should have. It feels o…

Well that was something... I guess "Dread" is the perfect name for this collection because playing through some of these games was genuinely dreadful. It's a collection of "horror" games, although I'd honestly say that maybe 2 out of the 10 games actually felt like horror games. Most of the others were just weird and not in an interesting way. They ranged from below average to genuinely terrible, and there were a few that I really had to force myself to finish. It took me several weeks to get through the entire collection because some of these games were just so painfully bad that I kept putting them off. There were a couple of decent ideas here and there, but overall this was honestly just a miserable collection to get through. I wouldn't even recommend it to my worst enemy.

I got a bunch of these in a bundle for dirt cheap so I figured 'why not'. I purchased even though I saw that [i]The Pony Factory[/i] was one of the games, and having played that and thinking it was pretty crap I knew the bar was going to be set pretty low. I did a quick peek into each of the games and even beat a couple of them in my short time trying them out, and having done so, to my dismay [i]The Pony Factory[/i] might actually have the most enjoyable gameplay of the lot. This collection reminds me of those mixed lollybags, except all of the lollies taste pretty bad.

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+ The Outsiders - The reason to get this collection. Super scary, just wild Summer Night - Nice little unexpected jarring romp. The Pony Factory - Surprisingly good FPS. +/- The Pay is Nice - Promising, great atmosphere but didn't go anywhere and horrible last puzzle. Don't Go Out - Original concept, but too short and easy. Hand of Doom - Wish it was more as it was kind of dumb. Bad chanting mechanic. Shatter - Love the aesthetic, but not much of game - Mr Bucket - Glitchy, bad concept. Rotgut - Everybody hates this one for a reason. Carthanc- Lots of hard platforming jumping, annoying enemies, annoying sections.

its a shame this game was the first one innthe collection, i say this cuz its so bare compared to the others, theres no overworld or really any story linking the games, its just “heres a collection of games” thats simple and what was promised but i wish it got updated with an overworld that issue aside i think of the dreadx collections ive played this is the weakest and i think its largely due to a lack of theming leaving the games feeling like a random collection rather than something cohesive, thats not to say their bad infact a lot of them were reslly cool but this just feels so bland compared to the others collections and unfortunately the collection as a whole is just as important as the individual games i do hope the developers of these games get to continue with their passions but this collection just isnt as good as the others and the replay value isnt there as much as it is for games found in other collections