Lonely Places

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Horror
2006

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Yet to be perfected, September 10, 2008
by Fra Enrico (Torino, Italy)

A short horror with a common setting: a dark rainy night, lost in the woods with your car. (Spoiler - click to show)You drive in the woods. Your car goes astray and crashes. You are alone in the dark. You meet strange people. You find yourself in the middle of a bloody ritual, the cultists evoking some disgusting goddess from the ancients, inspired by lovecraftian commonplaces like dreadful language, a cursed book, human sacrifices, etc etc.

The game is very short, both in the gameplay (few minutes if you go straight to the end) both in the accuracy of the descriptions. Written with standard short sentences and situations (which is good, very old style) but a lot of lacking in details (too many "I don't see it here" errors).
A lack of accuracy is shown when managing end-of-lines (blank spaces, full points, etc.).
Some bugs are quite annoying (a telephone ringing when the battery is discharged, the car going out of the road while the engine is off, etc.).
The game deserves few minutes in fixing those things. This brings me to give a star less in my rating.

The game could be very low-rated if it were not for the original scoring system: we find a kind of personality test which judges your behaviour in the game. It's very funny, and it's really worth the playing! Very good!

Unfortunately, the different choices the player does replaying the game don't lead to many different reactions from the world, but it's worth trying anyway.

In the end: a game too small, which gives few minutes of a nice horror atmosphear, not very original but very funny in the end when the score comes out.

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