

The Collector (2021)
Alaska · November 26, 2021 · Horror, First-Person, Physics, FPS, Mystery
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About The Collector
The Collector puts you through multiple interconnected horror stories across different times and places, where you'll decrypt mysteries, engage in tense combat, and uncover dark secrets through exploration and escape sequences. The game stands out with its evolving horror anthology approach, receiving regular story updates and holiday special editions alongside immersive audio design and refined physical interaction mechanics.
Multi story collection, experience many different nightmares, integrate physics, plot, battle and other rich content, and provide horror games with continuous content updates.
The Collector — game info
- Platforms
- Windows
- Player modes
- Single-player
- PC Game Pass
- Not included
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
The Collector suffers from significant issues including poor English translation, awkward controls with separate hand mechanics, and an extremely short campaign that ends abruptly after opening one room, leaving players frustrated by the lack of content and polish. While some appreciate the graphics and frame rate, the overall execution—bizarre UI design, minimal gameplay, and an unsatisfying ending—has led most players to conclude the game is not worth their time, free or otherwise.
I had a lot of expectations when launching this game as the store page led me to believe this would be some sort of an anthology horror series. The translation is one of the weirdest I have seen in a video game. The other language available is Japanese so Alaska is probably a foreigner and not a native English speaker. The selection text for graphics is way too strange. Wonder if Google Translate was used for this - I assume it can translate sentences wrongly if there is no context, at all, even in English. In any case following the weird translation you have two levels available. One is a sort of tutorial with room after room teaching you of the controls. That are... weird, to say the least. Objects can go into our right and left hand, separately, and a separate key allows them to change hands. When launching the second stage (taking place in a hotel) I saw no use of this mechanic since I mostly picked up keys to open doors. But to open said doors I needed to open the inventory and select the key. 3 options to choose from: putting them into your left and right hand or using them. What's with this weird hand mechanic?! In the hotel we pick up the phone at the reception. You can …21 found this helpful
[h1]Before I played The Collector, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]1 found this helpful
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I see why this is free now.
THAT was the entire game? Open room 104 and you die? What a joke. Rating: 1/10
Nice frame rate a very nice graphics, i thought i was going to get a good go on this one but when i saw that ghost in the corridor that even got me in my room it just looked so bad... Sorry, Nope
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