Escape from Hornhead

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It's time to feel cornered. You are fast and cunning, but the insidious monster is hot on your heels. He won't give you any peace. So don't waste time. Inspect the area. Collect all the necessary keys and potions and escape before it's too late. Don't be surprised if you don't succeed the first time.

Hmm, I guess I am the only one who dislikes this game. Escape from Hornhead is right up there with the fifty worst games ever made. Yes, it looks nice, but that simply isn't enough... I would rather experience a pixilated retro game that has actual gameplay than to suffer every step with Escape from Hornhead. There is no settings, options menu or save feature, red flag right there. Player movement is dodgy, always hanging up on things or getting into major trouble using the crouch feature, even getting into major trouble just walking around in rooms without crouching. Items are also troublesome, having to be precisely at the correct distance and angle to pick them up. Then there's Hornhead that eccentric weirdo who has nothing better to do than endlessly patrol while augmented with most remedial AI. If that wasn't bad enough Hornhead is also silent, no sound cues, he's just there - gotcha. Then there is all the dying and that's what happens the most in this game. Again, yes it looks great, but that will never be enough to make up for all the flaws which ultimately waste the player's time and only provide a frustrating experience.

What can I say, it's a fun game. Running around the house, looking for keys, hiding from this dude with horns. Graphics, of course, not super, but the atmosphere is on top. There are some strange sounds, creaks, rustles.... In short, it's tense. Locations are quite confusing, sometimes you enter the same room a hundred times. But this is probably to scare you even more. In general, if you like to sweat and get nervous, you can try it

Overall the game is done pretty well, scary sounds, scary atmosphere throughout the game and a monster, but whether it's because I've played a lot of more frightening horror games before or I don't know why, but I didn't feel the slightest bit scared or tense. Nevertheless, I still recommend it, the game is well worth the time spent playing it.

Escape from Hornhead - is a worthy representative of the “find your way out of the room” genre of horror games. The game perfectly builds up the atmosphere of horror, using clever mechanisms and avoiding cheap tricks. Despite the possible linearity and high difficulty, the game deserves the attention of all fans of tense and atmospheric horror games. Recommended for those who appreciate clever puzzles and are not afraid to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of hopelessness and horror.