Eternal Escape: castle of shadows

[quote][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/9686972/]Follow "[b]First Person Exploration and Puzzle Games[/b]" for more games like this![/url][/quote] Another Exit 8 clone. It suffers from the same frustrating, low-effort gameplay that the entire genre suffers from. If you like those sort of games, give this a try. Otherwise there's nothing new to see here.

The game is advertised with the tags "puzzle" and "RPG" so i expected a bit more - instead i got yet another one "anomaly hunting" game. And not a good one.

Eternal Escape: castle of shadows, developed and published by Robot, is a tightly scoped first-person horror puzzle game that builds its identity around repetition, awareness, and the quiet dread of being trapped in a place that refuses to behave logically. The game wastes little time establishing its premise, placing the player inside a mysterious castle filled with vampiric undertones and an oppressive atmosphere, all while stripping away any clear explanation of how or why they arrived. This lack of context becomes part of the experience, encouraging players to focus less on narrative clarity and more on surviving the strange rules that govern the environment. The central gameplay loop is deceptively simple but highly effective. Players traverse a series of corridors and rooms that reset repeatedly, with the objective of progressing deeper into the castle by identifying whether the environment has changed. If something appears different or out of place, turning back is the correct response; if everything seems normal, continuing forward is the only safe choice. This binary system transforms even the smallest detail into a potential threat, forcing players to scrutinize every ob…

[h1]WOW This is AWFUL[/h1] 1. Walking down a hallway 2. Suddenly can't move 3. Pressing all inputs, nothing 4. A skeleton model in its default pose spawns in front of me and disappears with a horror.mp3 sound playing You can't make this stuff up. Reviews are definitely bots. All of the art for this game is AI generated. The sound effects are stock. The language defaulted to the dev's native language, which I had to guess around in the options menu for the language setting. This is very, very bad. I recommend it if you want a so-bad-it's-good game. I think this whole thing was made with AI.

Finally one that works great on the steam deck. perfect game love one . 10/10 would recommend to all anomaly lovers out there. Great anomalies fun game . Would love to see some achievements added later on in a update. great addition to my anomaly collections. If new games are made please make available to work on deck . Thanks

It's a short game. It has a story. It isn't obsessed with the number "8". There's a cat. There's food. I think I might be Batman.