I went into this with very low expectations. I honestly wasn't expecting much, but here goes.

This is the WORST video game I've ever played.

THE WORST.

Now, why am I complaining so much? Let me start with the technical issues. 1. I was greeted with a resolution setting that only goes up to 1680 x 1050. Not even 1080. That pissed me off. 2. The graphics. This looks like Half-Life 1, and for a game that is awfully new, it should looks somewhat okay, but it doesn't. This game tries to shove in your face that it has bloom and SSAO in it, but seriously, even with them, the game still looks like ♥♥♥♥. 3. Voice Acting. Dreadful. 4. Highest mouse sensitivity is still really slow for a person like me who likes to have a high mouse sensitivity.

Alright, the story. Nothing special. And by that I mean pretty much non-existent. You and a bunch of "teammates" go to the castle, after it has been attacked. Turns out the girl of your dreams has been taken. Now you have to get her back. And there you go. I'm not gonna complain about the small amount of story I've been given, because honestly, I just want to try the hack and slash.

The first level. Why they made it so complicated did not make any sense to me. The first level started off with a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ keyhunt. It made no sense. It confused the living hell out of me. I needed to use a walkthrough, on the FIRST LEVEL. That's just awful. The area was big and the objects were all over the place. The controls were poor and didn't really help this game out at the slightest. Everything about this game just screamed wrong. For everyone asking about the keyhunt, imagine trying to find keys that do not even show up. That's right, you can't actually see them. Not to mention, you need a torch to even find one of them, which is just silly, because if there's a key there, then I wouldn't need a torch to actually see the key. It's a pointless quest to go find keys to open chests with other keys. But have I mentioned the fact that you literally have to walk on the walls to get an item you need? Yes, you do. You walk on the walls. YES. You literally jump on a small side railing on the wall, basically hovering to the side of it when you walk on it. I'm sorry, but I would never be able to figure that out because in a video game, I've never had to do that to actually get something. I just found that bizarre.

Then the main section of the game. The fighting. Oh my.
OH MY. OHH.
You get three attacks. All of which are ♥♥♥♥ and don't feel natural. Combat was godawful. All you do is stab the enemy, move back, then just keep doing that until it's dead. That's it. That's the game. Oh my god. The attacks are all mapped to mouse buttons, including the middle mouse. I went immediately to change it, but WAIT, you can't change the controls. But for some reason, they have options for Bloom and SSAO instead of options for controls. Come on. Congratulations, you have shader effects. Yay.

This is the worst. Day One, Walking Dead Survival Instinct, and Postal 3, are all better than this. I didn't want to say this, but I had to. I'm here for you so you can save money. I would not wish this on my worst enemies. My point has been made. Nothing in this game works properly. Everything is bad.

0/10. This is a technical nightmare. Even if this game looks fun to you (which it really shouldn't), remember that it is 10 bucks, and you can do so much more with the ten bucks. I'm genuinely upset that I spent nine dollars on this.

I typically dont review games. Especially ones I've played for 44 minutes. But, thats as far as I could play this game. Its.. really, really bad. I felt like I was playing a FPS from the late 90's. Graphics are substandard, sound is reptitive and quite low quality, and the cutscenes are quite laughable. They are literally 2 characters standing there, with the camera rotating around, and occasionally focusing on.. well.. a dark field? I wasnt sure, as there was little to no detail.

Now Ive bought plenty of games in early access, and if this was an Alpha, with additional graphical upgrades, sound, etc to come, then I wouldnt be too critical of it. But.. this is it. There is snow falling inside of rooms. Fog in closed off hall ways. Bricked up rooms. Stairs that are so steep that you have to hop up when you get to the top step. The punch animation looks like a piece of paper with chain mail on it.

The final straw for me was when I entered the dining room, to obtain the oil needed to light my torch. It was on top of a cabinet. A cabinet I could only climb by backtracking in the room, climbing a oveturned table, climbing half way up the wall, and then walking over to hop on top.

Is this what the waitress would have done had I asked for some oil for my green salad?

This game just changed my screen resolution to 800x600 or so and stucked at black screen so I have to close it manually in task manager but this piece of gamedev won't close saying:

Unable to terminate process.
The operation could not be completed.
Acces is denied.

So the only option was to restart my PC. Hilarious.

There isn't a whole lot more that can be said about this game that hasn't already been said. It's bad. Not even fun bad, just plain old regular BAD. But let's go over it, shall we?

First, the graphics. Everyone knows this. Take one look at the screenshots, it's not too difficult to tell how utterly atrocious they are. The game's description on Steam says that the game has an old-school look to it, (or something like that, I can't be bothered to look up the exact quote) but old-school doesn't even begin to describe it. Castlevania is old-school. Zelda 64 is old-school. Doom is old-school. This game's graphics, on the other hand, just look like they were ♥♥♥♥ out by the leftovers from Morrowind, which in my admitedly unpopular opinion, has not aged well at all.

Second, let's talk about the controls. You can't keybind anything. You can make some adjustments to mouse sensitivity, and invert the mouse's Y axis, but that's it. Don't like the layout? Well, ♥♥♥♥ you. Your character's movement, too, is just weird in general. Movement is very sluggish. Everything seems a bit zoomed in, but if you zoom out, it still just feels nauseating. Combat, if you've got the patience to even get to it (I'll get back to that), is painfully bare. There's no strategy involved whatsoever. Hit your enemy, pull back, then go back in for another hit. Rinse and repeat.

Third, let's talk about the story. What's the story? A bunch of monsters and/or people in scary get-up have been ravaging the land, and got into the castle. They killed all the guards, and took all the money, taxes (yes, taxes), and swords. Also, they took this guy's sister, and you better save her, because you're in love with her. The only image we see of said woman is awkwardly animated, with flailing arms and a grand total of one facial expression. Now normally I wouldn't complain too much about the damsel in distress trope, overused though it may be, but the way this game goes about it is just stupid, to the point where I had to stop after the cutscene to finish laughing. Basic isn't even the word, bad is closer to what I'm looking for.

Okay, now here's the big one. How would you expect a fantasy hack and slash video game to open? A tutorial level? Sure. What's in the tutorial level? A few low-level baddies for you to kill, with a few different weapons to try out? Nah, that'd just be asinine. Instead, let's have the tutorial level be a stupidly complex find the key quest, in an overly large castle? Yup, that sounds good to me. Yeah, no litterally, the FIRST instructions you are given in the game are to find a bunch of keys so you can get a sword. But it's not like you just find one key and get your reward. A key opens a door, which opens a chest, which gives you some unnecessary item, which lets you get another key, which THEN lets you get the sword. And all of it is separated between different rooms in this quite large castle.


All this makes the game seem REALLY bad. It is. But the worst thing about this game, I repeat, the WORST thing about this game is nothing I have mentioned thus far. What pissed me off most about this game is that Barnabas Collins didn't even get a single appearance. Or Quentin, or Angelique. 0/10 Worst Game Ever.


No, but really, what's with the title, guys? It's not some super obscure thing, Dark Shadows was pretty dang popular back in its day. And okay, even if you didn't know about the show, how could you completely avoid the recent shipwreck of a remake Tim Burton ♥♥♥♥ out a couple years ago? That's a lawsuit waiting to happen there.

The Slaughtering Grounds has better combat.
Pac-man has a more gripping story.
The original Resident Evil has better voice-work.
The graphics hold up worse than Pong, and this was released last year.

This game stars a knight who is so inept that jumping hurts him, walking into crates paralyzes him, and swinging his sword causes him to spin 30 degrees. The first level is a key-hunt that is completely impossible to complete without a walkthrough. Even with one, it's still absurdly aggravating. The second level forces you to wander a tiny forest killing enemies that may or may not respawn. After killing about five enemies, I made the mistake of pressing the spacebar, causing me to jump and promptly drop dead.

... and this game costs 9 euro?!? i started with hope that atleast the beginning of the game will be bug free... find a key and sword... i was walking around for 20 min until i decided to look walktrough aaaaaaand... the enemy is not spawned i can't get a weapon and can't continue. WOW.. just wow! this game is in my list for worst games ever! i can't pass tutorial!

the UI is horrible, the game crashes often, save works 50% of the time, the loading screen reminds me "the forest" in its early aplha versions...

its like pre-aplha stage game!!! i will never install this JUNK on my computer!

... FROM NOW ON I WILL READ REVIEWS BEFORE BUYING SUCH GAMES!

Where do i start ...
First of all i didn't buy the game, I bought a 5 key pack for 2 $.
This game is incomplete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, the problem is the developer wanted to earn money like the big companies but he failed at 1 point : the big companies only give u a half ass game like AC:Unity but this ♥♥♥♥ is not even 20 % finished. It is the biggest piece of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on steam which i have explored.
Furthermore, the textures and the performance of this game (in this case it's just a piece of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥) are just ridiculous.The Dev's deserve a punch, right in the balls, for this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ trash. EVERYTHING IS WRONG WITH THIS ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!!
DO NOT BUY THIS GAME !!!!!!

While it's an impressive effort for mostly 1 person, there isn't much to this game. It starts very slow and only picks up a little; once you're a few levels in, you've experienced most of the game. There are a lot of weapons... that act the exact same way (besides the projectile weapons).

The visuals are passable as is the audio, and I rather liked the music. Unfortunately, it was tedium going through the game performing the same actions all the time and only varying it simply to see something different. I can scarcely recommend this game, even if you can get it for super cheap. Overall, not terrible but nothing great either.

There is nothing good about this game... It looks and feels like a student rushed this in a week as a project due for their college course or something. DO NOT GET THIS UNLESS YOU ARE RICH AND WANT TO WASTE YOUR MONEY!

This is the worst combat-based game of All Time