Horror Story: Hallowseed

[b] P. S. If you have difficulties in the walktrough, this guide will be very useful: [/b] https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3561496240 [h1] Careful: the devil's evil, God's good. [/h1] Right from the start, you should throw out all that flowery nonsense that developer Jeff Winner dumped on Steam, promising a "deep story," "reactive AI," and a "tense atmosphere." In reality, Horror Story: Hallowseed is complete crap. Yeah, for an indie project it tries to look decent visually, but in practice, it’s a janky and blatantly sloppy piece of code. As a horror game, it’s not scary at all. The three hours of gameplay are just pointless wandering through a gray corridor forest, a tiny cottage, and some mines. How are these locations connected? They’re not. Does the story have any logical conclusion or real development? Nope. It’s not even survival horror: the only way to die is from rare, painfully predictable "micro-jumpscares" that are awkwardly tossed in. And the scripted scenes where you can’t move just make you want to laugh. Playing this game gives you a strong feeling that the creator was inspired more by Amnesia: The Dark Descent and the first Resident Evil…

i actually liked this short game! gave me some small heart attacks .

game bricked on me. monster spawns in wrong spot. tried to reinstall the game and still same issue. please avoid this game at all cost. i never write a review and this is my first one, which should tell you how upset i am at this game.

Horror Story: Hallowseed suffers from aimlessness where you literally walk around for 7 - 10 minutes within an area with no way to progress until the game decides that it's time for you to move forward and opens a random door for you. Rinse and repeat and that's the game. By that time though, the horror aesthetic has already grown dull and when something remotely scary actually triggers it falls flat. Some other glaring issues are the max sensitivity still feeling far too slow, no way to turn off the awful motion blur when you get too close to walls, the forced nauseating screen shake during horror sequences (Both of which cannot be turned off) and the game turning your character so fast it breaks the camera for a second or two...

So bad

If you took the story out of this game and made it into a novel/novella, I believe you could have a really solid product here. As a video game, though, unfortunately, I could not recommend this to my friends. The biggest problem for me was the constant up-and-down of the camera while the main character walked and ran...I had to play this game in two different sittings because basic movement in this game gives me motion sickness. I have played horror video games my entire life, and never once has any of them given me the motion sickness this game did. It was hard to appreciate the story when I was feeling nauseous. The enemy spawns are also awful. They aren't scary at all, and they spawn so close to the player that they are impossible to dodge if you don't know they are coming. The seven pages search was also a hard to take seriously; Slender did the page-search task the best, and every version of it created in the hundreds of video games since feel like a lazy knockoff at best. If proper character development occurred and if the gameplay was more refined, I could give this game a thumbs up. In it's current state, however, I cannot. Maybe I'll revisit this game after a f…