In The Dark (2018)

6 levels for 4 euros? Your time is even less worth wasting on this trash. No idea why i've spent an hour playing this. The pacing is slow, AI either shoots you from another end of the level or just stands dumb until there's one hit left on it. The floor textures are hard to tell if they are passable or not, until you find yourself stuck with enemies firing at you. Utter garbage.

https://youtu.be/IQG7W9puaVc Poor controls and lackluster enemies are done no favors by the worn out narrative hook of 'scary mental patients'.

This one is bad... this one is really bad! You play a paranormal investigator, that is asked by the mayor to investigate the mysterious events in a mental hospital that has fallen to chaos. PRESENTATION Pretty bad; lots of typos and spelling errors, controller that doesn't work at the start screen, and sometimes some of the buttons fail to work in the levels. Simple menus. The story is revealed through files, that you find at various places throughout the entire game, which is quite short. Sadly, these files cannot be read at times, obviously due to a bug. SOUND AND GRAPHICS Sound is probably the best part of this game; spooky sound effects, groans, lightning, weird eldritch spell noise, all of that. There are some cool lightning effects, and the overall graphic aspect looks appropriate, albeit low budget, but the bad thing is, you cannot tell apart what is an obstacle and what is not! There are furniture pieces such as beds and tables, that you can simply walk over as if they are tiles on the floor, and then there are some amorphous grey objects (slabs?) that stop you from moving; how are you supposed to know which affects your movement? Walls block movement and projectiles, …

Twin-stick horror shooters are something I buy with no hesistation, cause even if they're terrible, i'll still find enjoyment, somewhere. That said, I paid like 60 cents, euro, for this, and I wouldn't recommend getting it at full price. As for quality, there's not much of it. The levels, while different, aren't good looking, interesting, nor are they ever stage for something new. You do the same thing in all 6 stages. Fighting the same 4 kinds of bald man, with mostly the same attack. You have 2 weapons, where the only difference is ammo and fire-rate. Nothing is pretty, most things are obviously assets, the textures used to make the levels look dirty are so bad you can't ever be sure what's an obstacle until you bump into it. The english is almost so bad it's good. That all being said, I still enjoyed the hour I put into it, especially for under a Euro. Think of it as a novelty, of a developer who cared just enough to make a really bad homage to Alone in the Dark. Yes, that's not a joke.

In The Dark is yet another construction kit template copy+paste from serial shovelware pushers, Conglomerate 5. These guys do nothing but copy premade game templates and game tutorials, fill out a few things/stamp out basic levels using the construction kit templates, slap on an asset flipped set of sprites/assets, and dump them on Steam and into cheap nasty shovelware game bundles as cash grabs. Trying to get paid for someone else's game templates, assets... at best, this is shovelware, at worst, it's a scam/cash grab. This time, it's "In The Dark", yet another of literally hundreds of lazy amateur 2D retro top-down shooter/brawlers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. It looks like the Russians at Conglomerate 5 got someones abandoned homework assignment they slapped together with Construct 2 and are staging it on Steam for some future review manipulation/money laundering/bundle fixing or whatever other shady crap these guys do [i]all the time[/i]. Conglomerate 5 have shown a repeat pattern of unethically dumping other people's work onto Steam as a cheap, nasty cash grab, through this account or through closely linked/alt accounts. …

The game consist in collect three generators while you shoot some zombies that shoot poop? at you and read some notes with the story. Only 6 levels, while thats not bad on itself the game also lacks a proper ending and ends with a cliffhanger. The really bad part is the extreme slow movement since you need to backtrack more than a couple of times. Not recommended but guess the dev doesnt care anyway.