Katharsis

This game is a kind of Stanley Parable walking sim with a couple of puzzles and about 5 endings. Its an easy 100% cheevo game that took me about 2 hours to get through it all. It gets the thumbs up because it doesn't deserve a thumbs down but to be honest it doesn't really deserve a thumbs up either. _______________ [h1] PROS [/h1] + quick and easy exploration game. It doesn't overstay its welcome and I was in the mood for something short and simple. + some fun little vignettes. Each 'level' has a little goal and some of them were quite funny. Others were a political statement. Some were almost like self-help LPT's. It borders on preachy but didn't go far enough to make me cringe. + multiple endings. _____________ [h1] CONS [/h1] - sound. There are very few sound effects or music tracks in the game. There are no footsteps for walking. Everything is too minimal for me on the sound side. - quite pricey. I didn't pick this up at full price that's for sure. 5 bucks for the playtime and content is a bit steep. Get it on a sale for sure. ____________ Short review for a short game. It is in the same vein as The Beginner's Guide and The Stanley Parable but …

Katharsis, in a nutshell, is a poor man's Stanley Parable, with no voiced narration, some interesting ideas and overall an extremely short total playtime of not more than 4 hours, even when counting all secrets and different endings. It's exceptionally cheap though and feels somewhat experimental but all in all, it's neither a truly good game nor a high production value. Not even remotely. But is it fun? Yes, I do believe so. I wasn't bored playing it, it had enough variety to keep things somewhat interesting and I actually liked some of the ideas implemented. Won't spoil anything story wise, but this is a very abstract game, so if you aren't into abstract storytelling, this will leave you confused and unhappy. Otherwise, dive in.

This game is truly awful. I think it tries waaaay too hard to be the stanley parable and to be "mind blowing," but it just doenst challenge the mind, but moreso makes me insane walking aorund for so long aimlessly for some picture and a map??? I want to say it had been an hour i'd been walking around but It wasnt even that, it was just so intensely boring that it wasnt even entertainingly confusing. For example the stanley parable and games like portal are actually confusing and intruiging to the mine, but this is just mindLESS. Now I havent played the game all the way through so I am not sure of the rest of the game and may look at some gamelay of it, but of the time I wasted on this game, although not a lot, made me unsatisfied for the price it was at. I got it on sale, but it definitely isnt worth $4.99 USD for something that could easily be made into a fun and somewhat good gameor that could be found by thinking about world events and not mentioned but hinted to the vietnam war. Pay for some good documentaries or something for an actually helpful and mind-enriching thing. Being a gamer I dont consdier much of what I play to be mind-enriching, but if I do play these types of gam…

The first part sucks. If you do not do something before the maze, you will be perpetually stuck in it until you exit ans restart the game. If you don't do something before the exit, you will be wandering perpetually in the desert. The game has a message that I have heard 100 times before. It gets better after the first ending.

This was awesome very useful

What the f*** did I just play? Obsurce, surreal thing, if it's your thing, it's well made.