Japan Stigmatized Property -日本事故物件監視協会-

i liked it a lot!

10/10 game, scary and a tension building game, no jumpscares, just a surveillance checking horror game, with a realistic background, and overall well executed anomaly placements, and are random per playthrough, it is a fun game.

https://youtu.be/ewWbUFMA0JQ

Gameplay is just clicking around between various cameras and looking at static images seeing what has changed on them since the last time you viewed it. Going by the trailers I was kind of assuming the "anomalies" would be a lot more obvious but I found myself losing attempts and the summary page was filled entirely with missed reports of "Object Moved" or "Object Manipulated". While playing with with some friends I joked about how the photos were all of messy houses and how I'd probably lose "because one of these dog bowls on the floor will have moved but since the entire place looks like a hoarder house I won't notice it" and honestly that seems to be the actual case. It's really just Five Nights At Freddy's but somehow there's even less to do here. At least when you lose in that game you get an animated jumpscare of some kind, this game the screen just flashes white and tells you you've lost. I like the superstition of "stigmatized properties" as they are in Japan, but this game is just really boring and not very good. There's another game on Steam based on the same folklore that's a lot better and less than half the price.

yes

spooky/10