The Patient: After Hours
Aaron Wise · 2022 · Action, Adventure, Action-Adventure, Walking Simulator, Exploration
PC
9 user reviews89% · 9
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About The Patient: After Hours
A new psychological horror game from Aaron Wise.
What is worse than working the night shift at your local mall? Not knowing that what you are doing is real. Experience a dark & foreboding story set within the confines of a seemingly abandoned shopping mall. Experience the epilogue "After Hours", an introductory chapter to a bigger story set within the same universe.
After Hours features a realistic low-poly Playstation aesthetic with low-resolution textures, per-pixel lighting, vertex snapping, dithering & many other classic PS1 throwbacks you can shake a stick at!
You are a night worker who has to clean up after a long day of trading at the local mall. But as the night quickly progresses you start to unravel things that don't appear to be real.
Who are you?
What are you doing here?
Discover the truth & escape your darkest fears that will hunt you down around every corner. Can you find a way out?
Features realistic PS1 low poly graphics with multiple rendering options.
Per-pixel lighting to give it an authentic look
Vertex snapping
Saving between levels
In-game music library, so you can check out the tunes from inside the menu
Psychological Horror
I am a huge fan of retro games, especially the Playstation era. At one point in my life, I had over 1000 PS1 games & still to this day love playing them. I have always wanted to create an accurate rendition of what a PS1 game actually looks like & after spending months fine-tuning my post-processing materials, I finally feel like I have achieved what I set out to do. I love horror games and I wanted to be the one to throw my hat in the ring & have people experience what my version of a PS1-style game could be.
Love the artwork? Me too! My friend & University peer Miranda Bennett Margrave handled the box art for After Hours. Please drop her a follow on Twitter!
What is worse than working the night shift at your local mall? Not knowing that what you are doing is real. Experience a dark & foreboding story set within the confines of a seemingly abandoned shopping mall. Experience the epilogue "After Hours", an introductory chapter to a bigger story set within the same universe. After Hours features a realistic low-poly Playstation aesthetic with low-resolution textures, per-pixel lighting, vertex snapping, dithering & many other classic PS1 throwbacks you can shake a stick at!You are a night worker who has to clean up after a long day of trading at the local mall. But as the night quickly progresses you start to unravel things that don't appear to be real.
Who are you?
What are you doing here?
Discover the truth & escape your darkest fears that will hunt you down around every corner. Can you find a way out?
Features realistic PS1 low poly graphics with multiple rendering options.
Per-pixel lighting to give it an authentic look
Vertex snapping
Saving between levels
In-game music library, so you can check out the tunes from inside the menu
Psychological Horror
I am a huge fan of retro games, especially the Playstation era. At one point in my life, I had over 1000 PS1 games & still to this day love playing them. I have always wanted to create an accurate rendition of what a PS1 game actually looks like & after spending months fine-tuning my post-processing materials, I finally feel like I have achieved what I set out to do. I love horror games and I wanted to be the one to throw my hat in the ring & have people experience what my version of a PS1-style game could be.
Love the artwork? Me too! My friend & University peer Miranda Bennett Margrave handled the box art for After Hours. Please drop her a follow on Twitter!What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Always a fan of the Dread X family! Hope to see the full game in the near future.1 found this helpful
[h1] A great experience from start to finish [/h1] The Patient: After Hours is the latest and one of the best games from Trial by Fire Games. The game did not fall short of being captivating and horrifying. At this price point, I think the game is absolutely worth picking up. It's a great piece of horror that will keep you on your toes!1 found this helpful
The graphics, visual style and the idea of the game are great but there is very little content. Just walking through a corridor to get chased endlessly through a maze at the end. At the end of the maze, there was a door you need to go through and exactly as I was doing that, the game freezes. Restart? No thanks.
Oh no! My Walkman! This game is hilariously bad and the ending makes no sense. I somehow enjoyed it. It has a PS1 vibe that works, but this is more of a demo than an entire game. Doesn't take long to complete, like roughly 30-40 minutes.
It's a walking sim but has that real indie charm to it, lets you know it was made with clear intent. Sadly the game's third act is nonsensical and unnecessary, leaving a sour note in an otherwise weirdly relaxing horror game. Without spoiling anything, I think it's criminally short but succeeds in leaving you wanting more stuff to do, more jams to vibe to, and more inadvertently funny dialogue. Grab it for a dollar on sale and I hope the devs expand on this game and keep the same voice actress.
https://youtu.be/3BOjYB-Vv9w Honestly I expected more from this game after reading the reviews. I've played free games that had more gameplay time, and better monster AI. I did buy it when on sale, but still... I will only recommend it on sale, otherwise there are far better games for this price. Click the link to see my gameplay and judge for yourself. I died, so no spoilers for how the game ends.
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