Shattered Haven
Arcen Games · 2013 · Action, Adventure, Indie, Puzzle, Zombies
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About Shattered Haven
An Environmental Puzzle Game About Family, Grit, and Survival.
Grays roam the land, largely in the absence of human interference. These aren't your typical Zed -- theirs is a very different sort of apocalypse. Animals spontaneously transform into twisted, violent beings. The earth decays, collapsing into a network of abysses. The wilderness thickens.
It has been nine years since That Day when it all started. Pockets of humanity still exist, but are ignorant of one another. Within these isolated havens people try to live as best they can -- for even in a world so broken and dark, daily life must go on.
Darrell and Mary Williams were able to build such a life inside a five-acre fenced yard out in the country. They were even secure enough in their isolated compound that they had a daughter five years after the zombie-like grays appeared.
Life carried on as normally as it could, until another refugee on the run is killed during a nearby attack. Her son is saved and taken in by the Williamses -- who do not realize that this kind action will destroy their home and threaten their entire family. They find themselves caught in the midst of a struggle between two eldritch horrors, and the path to survival is anything but clear.
Grays roam the land, largely in the absence of human interference. These aren't your typical Zed -- theirs is a very different sort of apocalypse. Animals spontaneously transform into twisted, violent beings. The earth decays, collapsing into a network of abysses. The wilderness thickens.
It has been nine years since That Day when it all started. Pockets of humanity still exist, but are ignorant of one another. Within these isolated havens people try to live as best they can -- for even in a world so broken and dark, daily life must go on.
Darrell and Mary Williams were able to build such a life inside a five-acre fenced yard out in the country. They were even secure enough in their isolated compound that they had a daughter five years after the zombie-like grays appeared.
Life carried on as normally as it could, until another refugee on the run is killed during a nearby attack. Her son is saved and taken in by the Williamses -- who do not realize that this kind action will destroy their home and threaten their entire family. They find themselves caught in the midst of a struggle between two eldritch horrors, and the path to survival is anything but clear.
Key Features
- Solve environmental puzzles under pressure. Figure out how to use the tools, traps, and weapons in each level to clear all the Grays.
- Nearly 100 hand-crafted levels with multiple difficulty levels ranging between casual and hardcore, developed end to end by two experienced adventure level designers.
- Complete bonus objectives for higher scores and gold markers.
- Follow the story of Darrell and Mary as they try to save their family from a new and unexpected threat through in-game storytelling and painted-style cutscenes.
- Guide different members of the Williams family through branching story paths that result in one of several endings. Depending on your actions, the story may end very poorly, happily, or anywhere in between.
- Music and sound by composer Pablo Vega provides a chilling atmosphere for players to experience.
- Included level editor: The same editor used to make the main adventure will let you make your own levels, cutscenes, or even entire adventures.
- Local 2-player co-op. Using two gamepads, two players on the keyboard, or any combination of the above.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This one was so bad I felt like I was being punished. :-(13 found this helpful
Shattered Haven (2013) The plot is set in a post-apocalypse where you have to protect your family while fighting of zombies and solving puzzles. Never knew you could make a zombie game so bland and slow as this title. The best part of this game is all the descriptions on the Steam store page, rather read that and imagine what this game could have been, its cheaper and saves you a lot of time. Rather get another zombie game with better story and gameplay, they exist on Steam. 5/104 found this helpful
A zombie survival/puzzle game. I love a lot of Arcen's games conceptually but they tend to be hit or miss gameplay wise, and this one was a miss for me. I can't make heads or tails of it. Go around, collect items, and try to solve levels but I found the controls and the puzzles to be inscrutable.
A challenging artstyle, poor UI, gimmicky levels and bugs.
Literally fell asleep, cool squid tho
Shattered Haven is a 2 player co-op retro pixel 2D top down puzzler/post apocalypse zombie survival horror game. Control 1 or 2 retro pixel characters and solve various puzzle/minigames to progress through the game. As the description implies, this really is a game that does not know what it wants to be. The developer has produced some good games in the past, but this is not one of them. Technically, there's support for 4K graphics, but there's no UI scaling so you end up looking at a tiny postage stamp in the middle of your screen. The text is impossible to read. This technical failure fits perfectly with the awful retro pixel graphics. There's no way this confused mess is worth $14.50, even if it did render properly so you could actually play it.
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