Fear Of The Dark

RPG Maker strikes again! Fear Of The Dark is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction. As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the intention of RPG Maker is to make demos and small games to pass around friends, and shouldn't be used for "professional" game development. There's a badly done "horror" theme slapped on this RPG Maker copy+paste, which is a break from the usual generic anime fantasy theme... but it's still bad, and this is certainly one of the worst RPG Maker games on Steam. Gamers who want a good retro JRPG experience would be better off playing the originals, like Final Fantasy, Star Ocean or Chrono Trigger. From…

Good horror game, even more now that some of the glitches are fixed , worth it. ps: you had to take the first keycard to re-use it, enjoy

I wanted to play the game but I couldn't get past title screen. I'm stuck listening to the midi cover of "In the House in a Heartbeat" from "28 Days Later".

This was such a sweet little game. RPG Maker games are what got me into horror gaming in the first place, so I like to find some to support indie devs because I firmly believe that games don't have to be super intricate and polished to be fun. I have a couple small criticisms, mostly just that there was a bug where sometimes if I died and reloaded my autosave, it would load me right to the game over screen. Lost about half a playthrough like that. Just make sure to have multiple saves. The other is that I think there were far to many ghosts and sandworms popping up everywhere. Sometimes only a step or two apart! Got a little tedious, even though you can run away, which I honestly did most of the time. Aside from that this was a great time! Definitely check it out if you're into RPG Maker horror at all. Totally worth it.

UPDATES: The dev replied to my review with updates on fixes for the game breaking bugs and some quality of life improvements. So I change to a recommended. However, it's still kind of borderline. I'd wait for a sale. A decent horror game that has several grammatical issues, and TWO game breaking bugs (Why I don't recommend it right now.) Once those are fixed my review will change. Also, the game maps are missing some doors, and it's often not clear what to do next. If you must buy, wait for a sale at the very least.