Korpus: Buried over the Black Soil
Korpus · 2020 · Action, Adventure, Indie, Horror, Story Rich
PC
Positive82% · 17
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About Korpus: Buried over the Black Soil
Knowledge is power. By a sudden circumstance, everything you read and learn becomes true in front of your eyes. When a gruesome verse written on a wall in blood turns into reality, do you want to keep reading? Knowledge is painful.
Korpus is a first-person horror game in which you have been sent to evaluate an abandoned house in Eastern Europe as a real estate agent. Uncover the houses past as you learn what horrors it hides.
The game is inspired by the video games of the 90s. The game hasn't been made to look like a carbon copy; instead, it has been inspired by the visual style of that nostalgic era of gaming and has brought it to the modern standards.
Korpus is a first-person horror game in which you have been sent to evaluate an abandoned house in Eastern Europe as a real estate agent. Uncover the houses past as you learn what horrors it hides.
The game is inspired by the video games of the 90s. The game hasn't been made to look like a carbon copy; instead, it has been inspired by the visual style of that nostalgic era of gaming and has brought it to the modern standards.
Features
- The house changes based on the things you know. You just learned that the dark hallway has one more door in it and a vengeful ghost is coming after you? There is now.
- The game is an unconventional horror game perceived from the first perspective. There is no combat – all the monsters must be dealt with indirect means, either by avoiding, hiding or something cleverer.
- The ghosts lurking in the dark corners of the house work in different ways. Some are hostile, some or not, but only one thing is clear: they will not make your journey to the source of the madness any easier.
- In order to solve the secrets of the house, you need to figure out how the house works. Is one specific bookshelf in your way and need it to disappear? Read a note that contradicts its existence.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
[h1]I know you are in my house.[/h1] [i]Korpus: Buried over the Black Soil[/i] is a short but clever game, with a pertinent reminder about an event that has been neglected in western history. The game's main pull - that the house reshapes itself depending on the notes you've read - is sadly a little underexplored, given that notes are seen only in a linear fashion, so the game has zero replay value. The game also falls prey to that all-too-common horror game trope wherein the main protagonist can only run for five seconds before wheezing and slowing to a crawl. However, the way the house does reshape is very clever, the graphics and atmosphere are impeccable, there are some very, [i]very[/i] good spatial puzzles, the story is neat, and the game is a decent length for the price, provided you got it on sale. I think this game has been unfairly overlooked (probably due to the price), but it is worth a look. It is well made, even if some of the chase scenes are a bit lackluster (especially the last one, with an enemy who looks a combination of spooky and absolutely ridiculous). Very much worth it on sale, hopefully the developers (who seem to be from Ukraine) have another go at horro…1 found this helpful
A genuinely scary, and thought-provoking title.1 found this helpful
Pretty darn good.
It's decent, worthwhile on sale as it is quite short and full price is a bit much for what you get. I like the art style, and the levels are well designed. It's not terrifying, but it is unsettling, and draws attention to an atrocity that is little known in the west. Although with that said, it's almost like two separate stories - the transition between those two stories was quite jarring. But overall it's fine, and worth a look if it's on sale and you need a decent horror experience for an hour or two.
I was ready to be disappointed with this game - BUT it proved me wrong. The mechanics were smooth and the puzzles and story roped me in right away. I was not a huge fan of the visuals - and I think in a more modern aesthetic this game would have blown it out the water.
I was pleasantly surprised by this game and would definitely recommend it. During the first section I thought it would just be a horror game where you have to constantly run from the enemy, and not much past that. But I really enjoyed the story, I usually don't care about story when its presented in this way but this was actually cool. And the art direction/aesthetic was super cool too!
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