Night Patrol：Barracks

After playing for ten or so minutes, it feels quite playable, and you can appreciate the designer's original intent and ingenuity. It has great potential for development, but it lacks some specific instructions, so at first, it might be a bit confusing.

Recommended if you get trapped in a dark room for 20 minutes with nothing but a PC with this installed.

No. This inevitably draws comparison to Exit 8, and you can see why the develop had made the changes they did. These games are horror games, so... let's lean into that! Darkness is scarier than light, tight hallways are scarier than wide open ones, cluttered environments are scarier than simple ones. But; no. The tight corridor means that your views on the environment are heavily limited. In Exit 8, one of the ways it trips you up is that you can see almost everything at once... But not quite everything, and not very well. You can miss things, unless you go and examine everything closely, which also gives more opportunities for the game switching things behind your back. There's none of that here; everything is right in your face, so close your torch can barely show it at once. The lighting... OK. Look. I could try to be smart. I could try to do some actual game design analysis here. I'm not going to bother. It's all just too dark. The torch sucks. The overhead lights suck. Having to push a button to active the overhead lights repeatedly sucks. Put the darkness, and the dim torch, and the awful overhead lights together, and it all [i]really[/i] sucks. I cannot see the differen…