Sunshine Manor

Cute little game to pass the time.

A fun haunted house adventure game. There's more happening here than the previous Camp Sunshine. The edgy humor and shock gore are gone, letting the game find its own horror and humor from its story. This one is a lot of fun. Using your limited psychic powers to fight monsters and save restless ghosts gives you a lot to do and explore. The demon-world levels bring the most fun, with different enemies and hazards unique to those levels. For the cheap price of admission, expect a few hours of entertainment.

Good game with consistent story and easy control.

"Sunshine Manor" is a short 2D-top-down action-adventure with a nudge to to survival horror. You play a young girl with psychic powers trapped in a haunted house fleeing from its cursed owner and rescuing some ghosts and your fellow kids in the process. The pixel-visuals are nice and colorful, the tracks and the sounddesign are banger and on point, gameplay itself is a little rough around the edges (some sections and boss battles are rather barebones for example) and it is not really challenging, but it definetly has charm for it really catches that 80's-cheese-horror-retro-vibe and goes down nostalgia lane! Not a masterpiece, but a joyful package throughout!

Unfortunately I can not recommend this. A year ago (possibly more at this point) I had an issue where a cutscene would freeze when 2 robed figures would stand in front of some open portal. I contacted support and received thanks for making them aware of this issue and assurance that it would be fixed on the next update. The next update dropped and the issue remained so I dropped the play-through. Fast forward to today and I still cant get past this point after a few larger updates. Replay is and should be expectedly poor. This is the type of game you'll play once and never pick it up again. Somehow steam didn't keep my save so I had to play 35% of the game all over again and there is a LOT of talking and explaining why you're doing various fetch quests and what an enemy's backstory is. Not interesting if you're already familiar with it. The gameplay between cutsceens/talking is too basic and short to feel 'worth while' playing again. I think this should be expected given the scope of the game and that's perfectly OK.

About a third of the times I try to save, I get dropped to the title screen, losing my recent efforts. Irritating.