Mar

Mar is a wonderfully scrappy little horror game that I enjoyed mainly because it embraces its deliberately rough old school presentation. I am dropped into strange locations with a monster hunting me, and the basic goal is simply to search the environment for the items I need to escape. I liked how uncomplicated the premise is because it lets the atmosphere and chase mechanics carry the experience. The exploration is built around finding the required objects while trying not to get caught. I have to move through different environments, search carefully and keep track of where the monster might be. I enjoyed that tension because even a simple search becomes stressful when I know something is actively trying to stop me from reaching the exit. The different locations also help keep the experience from feeling completely repetitive. Some areas are underground and claustrophobic, while others feel more dreamlike and strange. I liked the contrast because each setting gives the same basic objective a slightly different mood. The low quality visuals and camera effects are clearly intentional, and they give the game a retro horror feeling. The monster is the main source of pressure, and …

Gameplay 10/10 update 10/10

Pretty good game. It wasn't really scary, but the atmosphere was pretty good. I think the monster should get some animations too. I also don't know if there is any ambience/music because my headphones are dead so I'll have to check later. Good game! EDIT: Replayed it again and there were a few more things I wanted to say about this game. I think the items needed in order to escape should be different each map, the ambience is pretty good, and maybe there should be different monsters for each map. I also wanted to say this game heavily reminds me of Slendytubbies 1.

need sum badass soundtracks, looking forward for more games ;)

I'm not sure if the final level, there's another way to do it besides picking up the 5 things but this game is about what you'd expect from most small free horrors. Sure, there's plenty of really really good free horrors around but you can't ask for too much when it's free. None of the achievements worked for me even though I passed every level. The game is very repetitive, I didn't even see the creature in multiple of the maps {not sure if it was even there or not} but I like to give these games a try to promote small game devs. My Playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL4UdYnvc50&t=1341s

kinda hard on my pc, only broke 30 fps (rarely). other than that, good game