JANITOR BLEEDS

Quite a decent small indie/horror game it takes around a hour and a half to beat it Rating: 7/10

Janitor Bleeds is filled with great ideas and has so much potential but all of it is ruined by that annoying creatures that starts to hunt the player around the mid point of the game. The game has a really good atmophere that is scary on it's own and there are scary moments coming from other elements than that annoying monster. That entity only serves as a way to slow down the pacing of the game and annoy rather than scare.

https://youtu.be/2XzMw7YJbY8 Lacking focus combined with slow pacing this horror games struggles to get out of first gear.

Major pacing issues. You move around too slowly, especially in vents.

It's not bad for what it is. A survival horror stealth game about a guy who gets into a car accident and wanders into an arcade with a possessed janitor, or something. The one cool gimmick is going into an arcade game that's basically an Atari 2600 cart where you clean up messes and pick up items. Some really cool interaction here, like putting items in a machine nearby to have them appear inside the game as tools you can use, or cleaning up garbage piles in the arcade game to clear obstacles in the arcade. And yet, I wish there were more arcade games. The one that's in there isn't even really an arcade game. You need quarters, which can be found laying around or by jamming a screwdriver into other machines. There's not much of a puzzle element other than just figuring out what you need to do, and the stealth is kind of awful but very easy once you know the exact place to stand to avoid the enemy. There is surprisingly a final boss, and the production values are not bad at all. It's not very memorable, but I had fun with it, and the achievements add a little extra play time, with one being a speedrun challenge that's super easy and another a little subquest that involves huntin…

6.4 I liked it. I played the demo twice from the 2021 Haunted Demo Disc and this does extend on that quite a bit to be a full game. There are aspects that I feel either were in the demo or were in my head that could be done moving forward from the demo that wasn't in the full game which is a little disappointing. Most of this is quite formulaic in it being A-B-C-A-B-C for a while with only a couple parts changing it up. But it's not too short overall so doesn't overstay it's welcome really. The visual effect of being near the Entity is kind of annoying at times but not enough to really give any major complaints over. Only ran into a couple bugs really, one of which did keep the Entity stuck in a corridor until it was scripted in a portion a little after. The other bug being that putting coins into a certain machine, then walking out of the room before interacting made the coins reset to be put back in. But you do use that machine a few times so I'm not sure if I just stacked up the other times.