Norbert's Diary
Amiragian · 2025 · Psychological, Survival Horror, Retro, Story Rich, First-Person
PC
Mixed42% · 12
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About Norbert's Diary
Norbert's Diary is a single-player indie horror game with simulator elements, in which the player imagines himself as a young Norbert who decided to rent a gas station in the wilderness of Adygea. You have a difficult choice - to lower prices or raise them? In addition to threats from bankruptcy, you may be killed or kidnapped. But do you need it? Of course not.
- Aesthetics of VHS cassettes
- Dialogues with NPCs
- Gas station management
Why Norbert's Diary might you like it?
Norbert's diary has an interesting combination and realization of two completely different genres - psychological horror and simulator. The game implements interesting mechanics of conversations with NPCs and their maintenance, earning money and improving gas station, it has several different modes with different goals and meaning. Do not forget that Norbert's Diary is a horror. You will have to face the horrors of loneliness in the wilderness of Adygea, and maybe not only with them.Main Features
- Atmospheric and alarming graphics- Aesthetics of VHS cassettes
- Dialogues with NPCs
- Gas station management
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Players appreciate Norbert's Diary as a unique atmospheric horror experience that blends mundane gas station management with creeping psychological dread and a mysterious killer stalker threat, but the game suffers from significant usability issues including overpowering visual effects with no toggle option, unclear interaction mechanics that force blind clicking, some untranslated Russian text despite English settings, and unintuitive object locations that can create frustrating progression blockers. The retro aesthetic and mysterious tone are engaging elements, but the execution falls short
Completed the game with bad ending and 0 achievements. A cool mysterious horror game where you work at a gas station stalked by a shadowed killer as you experience electrical malfucnctions and chill tasks to complete2 found this helpful
I should have watched the gameplay video. The visual effects are overbearing and there's no way to turn them off. Also despite having an english language setting, there are still some game elements in Russian. There is also zero visual indication of what you can/can't interact with aside from doors and the generator, leaving you to click blindly a chunk of the time.2 found this helpful
Norbert’s Diary is an indie psychological horror experience developed and published by Amiragian that attempts to merge everyday business simulation with creeping existential dread. Set in the early 2000s in a remote region, the game casts players as Norbert, a young man who takes on the responsibility of managing an isolated gas station. What begins as a grounded slice-of-life premise gradually shifts into something far more unsettling, blending routine economic decisions with escalating psychological tension. At its foundation, the game operates partly as a light management simulator. Players must set fuel prices, interact with customers, monitor income, and keep the small business afloat. These mechanics are intentionally simple but serve an important narrative function: they root the experience in mundanity. The repetition of daily tasks—serving customers, adjusting pricing, maintaining the station—creates a baseline sense of normalcy. This routine becomes the canvas upon which the horror elements begin to intrude. The contrast between the ordinary and the ominous is one of the game’s defining qualities. As Norbert’s isolation deepens, subtle disturbances begin to surface. St…
I like the retro theme but unfortuantely, when having to grab the newspaper at the start of the game, it would not let me do anything (i tried clicking everything and pressing buttons). I wouldn't recommend it, the location of the generator and jerry cans were quite un-intuitive too.
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