Ranking all 3 games so far

[Brovah]

Personally I'd say Little hope is best, then house of ashes and lastly probably man of medan.
House of ashes was good but not great, not scary enough and dragged on quite a lot. Looking forward to the next one though, looks a lot more like a horror game.

[Smith]

I agree with your ranking. A lot of people hate LH because of 4 out of 5 characters turned out to be not real and fake mysticism, but I don't see any problem with that, the story in LH was deep and emotional, demons' design was badass, it was really intersting to read all these papers to discover the history of the town and witch trials, great atmosphere of small abondend town.
HoA has a couple good twists, interesting dynamic between the characters. Boring monsters design though.
MoM was kinda boring and straight into your face, there was no intrigue, from the very prologue it was obvious what was going on.

[john doe]

little hope was boring as hell with terrible storyline man of medan was way better and also MUCH scarier then little hope there were so many unexpected jumpscares but in little hope the jumpscares were all the same and so boring it almost made me fall asleep

[[HdF] Almut Grete]

Agree with both of you.

Story and characterwise LH was the best game. PTSD is not offputting for me, but it strenghtens the story and the little hints all over it. I do not see the story as "fake" in any way.
MoM comes in last for being not realy deep in story overall, spoiling the story right in the Tutorial and simple Quicktime spam.
HoA comes shortly before MoM, but way way way behind LH (Prolly ending up 3 out 4 when the last game of volume 1 comes). It was scary at parts (blood river, was very good) , has a lot of replayability, but then again nearly no twitsts (or achievments) and no diversity for the story. Yes, the chars offer some more "twist-like" things, but it feels off and late. Story is straight forwar action, with fewer Quicktimes. Kind of feels like it is not part of teh anthologie so far (and not for actually haveing monsters/aliens in it).

[Brovah]

Originally posted by Smith:

I agree with your ranking. A lot of people hate LH because of 4 out of 5 characters turned out to be not real and fake mysticism, but I don't see any problem with that, the story in LH was deep and emotional, demons' design was badass, it was really intersting to read all these papers to discover the history of the town and witch trials, great atmosphere of small abondend town.
HoA has a couple good twists, interesting dynamic between the characters. Boring monsters design though.
MoM was kinda boring and straight into your face, there was no intrigue, from the very prologue it was obvious what was going on.

Yeah I agree the monsters in HoA felt super generic and boring. Personally I think that faceless demogorgon monsters are getting a little stale in horror in general. Overused in too many films/games. Little hopes atmosphere was incredible as well and I don't really have any issues with the "fake team members" I thought it was handled wayyyyyy better than in MoM.

That being said all three games are a blast to play through and I hope that they continue to make them because they're something to look forward to yearly!

[ivanproff]

1. Man of Medan
2. House of Ashes
3. Little Hope

[john doe]

01 house of ashes
02 man of medan
03 little hope

[Venena]

1. Man of Medan
2. House of Ashes
80. Little Hope

[Hutetu]

1. Man Of Medan
2. House of Ashes
3. Little Hope

[PrinceXavieR™]

Until Dawn, we need that on PC, these games fail to impress and deliver

[maxh107]

Man of Medan is my least favorite part, since nothing is more frustrating than losing a character because you messed up a quick time event. Quick time events are handled way better in Little Hope and House of Ashes. However, the setting is great.

1. House of Ashes
2. Little Hope
3. Man of Medan

[Zandercode]

1. House of Ashes
Mostly because I thought it had the least annoying characters with some actual development - Salim and Jason bromance! And it's also the lengthiest of the Dark Pictures entries, almost as long as Until Dawn and arguably has even more choice and consequence possibilities overall if you factor in the Curator's Cut differences. I'm also a sucker for sci-fi and may be one of the few players that appreciates the monsters being aliens instead of either supernatural or not real at all (more on that later, ugh).

2. Until Dawn
Even though it has the unfair advantage of being a "full" $60 game and is the longest of them all, this one is the worst offender for "annoying characters" imo and the original PS4 release had terrible performance, though I do think this one does have the best pure horror aspects of them all.

3. Little Hope
Might've been higher if the whole "it was all a dream" thing wasn't a part of it, but the monster designs were great at least.

4. Man of Medan
Like Little Hope, it hurts a lot that it all turned out to be just a series of hallucinations, but it also felt the buggiest, shortest, and most anti-climactic of the bunch, with the characters making weird decisions all along the way even when not hallucinating.

[Andeddu]

1. MoM 2. HoA 3. LH

[Goozlo]

Originally posted by SarCrypt:

Personally I'd say Little hope is best, then house of ashes and lastly probably man of medan.
House of ashes was good but not great, not scary enough and dragged on quite a lot. Looking forward to the next one though, looks a lot more like a horror game.

[Goozlo]

Originally posted by Andeddu:

1. MoM 2. HoA 3. LH

[Steffi]

1. Man of Medan
2. House of Ashes
3. Little Hope