Snowsquall Grip

this game is dog sh*t do not waste your time or money. I do not know why the reviews are mostly positive

A very cold, thawed and flawed horror experience. Level design is pretty good, it gives you the freedom to explore each area in any order and barely any invisible walls to stop your exploration which is always welcome. However using fire to help heat yourself up is a cool idea, but it happens abit too quickly and abit much to where it starts to become repetitive and gets in the way of solving puzzles. The visuals look great, snow details are well done on the props/items aswell as the sound design which is great. It feels immersive at times with how both parts are very well done. Solving puzzles is the main part of the game and it's okay i wish you could solve them in any order as that's what i was expecting from the level design. Using physics objects to solve puzzles similar to Half Life 2 is always welcome though grabbing items is very clunky, sometimes you need to find that sweet spot in order to grab it and juggling between that + needing to heat yourself up can be annoying as it feels like it's more the games fault rather than your own. The puzzles themselves are decent, i really liked the gravestone one where you bring it to a fireplace to melt the snow revealing a numbe…

Short and sweet. This game can be beat in less than an hour but manages to fill that one hour well. It's a simple environment but the little notes and details you find are enough to peak your interest in the world they are creating. Think of this as a prequel game, or a demo, as it ties into the events of this devs next game, "Synthesis of Corruption". Both are priced appropriately and worth it to check out.

As a werewolf and a retro fan, I can recommend this game! But if you aren't counting yourself as one of those, I would think twice before purchasing it. The reason for that is the gameply-length isn't very big and the game-mechanics are not explained well, too. Tried therefore to make a "survival guide" here in Steam as some kind of tutorial (hope that helps for supporting gamers and the developer themself). What really stands out (as a werewolf fan) was to find out more about the person behind the beast. A real, evil person if you ask me and worse in his human form than in his animal-alike shape! It's not only about werewolves in this game, but... that's up to you if you are willing to find out what kind of horrors are hiding in that cold, snowy abyss.

It's alright. The visuals are quite appealing and the atmosphere works well. Unfortunately every mechanic is quite clunky. - You need to stay warm at fires which ends up meaning running from fire to objective to fire again over and over. - When you die due to the heat you need to go through this weird jumping puzzle section. All feels quite unnecessary. - Puzzles are solved by grabbing and dragging items through physics but the hitboxes on just about all items are so far off. Half of every puzzle is figuring out the angle to grab the object, which is really quite frustrating. - The game has mouse smoothing that can't be turned off and it's the worst kind of mouse smoothing, ending up feeling like some backwards mouse acceleration. Moving your mouse slowly means you turn fast, moving your mouse fast means you turn very slowly. I'm still recommending the game because I did enjoy my time, but this game could use quite a bit of quality of life improvements.

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