UPDATE (Jan 11, 2021):

Because of the users posting comments attacking me under my review stating I have "no proof" that this developer used stolen footage to make his steam page trailers, this is my response:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOJut3jn-jc&t=906s
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JANUARY 13 THOUGHTS TO PONDER BEFORE BUYING OR PLAYING:

The fact that this developer knows damn well he's been busted on stealing trailers from the Unreal marketplace to make his game trailers.. and that he still hasn't taken those videos down says everything we need to know about his character and his integrity.

Do you really want to support an indie developer who has such low levels of honesty and ethics? Please carefully consider who you support with your hard earned money. This developer has proved now that he doesn't give a damn about his actions or the intellectual property he has stolen and claimed as his own. If he gave a damn, he'd already have removed all the current trailers which don't show true gameplay from his game anyway.

------ HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT IN ALL NEW UPDATE 1.20! -----

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw6BQbXZqes


---------- ORIGINAL REVIEW (Jan 7, 2021) -------------

I want to thank the developer for offering me a free key to this game... I'm sure in hopes that I would praise it and say that it is great and that it is amazing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKXc58ORlXI

NO. This game is just more extremely low effort garbage made up of pretty assets purchased off the Unreal marketplace. Much of the video footage and the trailer itself is stolen from asset pack trailers on the Unreal marketplace as well.

Avoid this like you'd avoid Covid or erm an Ebola plague. Save your money. Stop judging games by their pretty graphics err assets and look for games made from real effort and inspiration rather than made from assets.

My score... an unimpressed 2 out of 10. The dialogue seems to be made from the developer. Unless of course this is all just an asset pack called "Thesin" as the executable for this game is thesin.exe which I find interesting too. Things that make you go hmmm..

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** WORTH NOTING: The developer of this game can't even be bothered to show actual gameplay of his game. His current three videos on his store page are made up of STOLEN trailer footage from Unreal Marketplace trailers. ..Why is this developer so scared to show "actual gameplay" and instead makes game trailers using stolen trailer footage from Marketplace assets that he doesn't own and has NO rights to use?
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NOT RECOMMENDED. - If you want a good indie horror game made from the heart instead. "Don't Be Afraid" is less expensive and a much better indie game where the developer used assets, but put at least 10x the work into it. The difference in effort is huge between this game and a game like "Don't Be Afraid"

Ebola 2 while at first might seem impressive with its models and visuals, you soon realise that its a complete glitchy hack job of a game. The game literally tries so hard to be a poor resident evil knockoff, that it forgets to be its own game. Many of the assets are simply Unreal Engine assets, which means the developer didn't make any effort in crafting their own models. At least have some of your're own models, for Christ sakes. This wouldn't be too much of issue, until you realise by watching game footage of ebola 1, that the developer has reused the same unreal assets and just applied a different coat of paint in Ebola 2. The voice acting is bad, the story is generic and predictable for a resident evil type knock off. Sound effects are ok, though that pistol shots sound is really bad. So sick of indi developers literally just trying to copy resident evil, thereby having no real vision and creativity of their own. THE GAME IS HIGHLY NOT RECOMMENDED!!!

awful quality on the cinematic scenes waste of money.

This game feels cheap, low-budget, clunky, and poorly optimized. The graphics are outdated, ugly, and mostly all black and white. You cannot adjust the fov or mouse sensitivity or remap the controls. There are random frame rate drops no matter what graphical setting. Save points are also far away and the gameplay involves backtracking between floors in a dilapidated building looking for keys to all the locked doors. I cannot recommend this game at all.

A game composed of poorly slapped together assets from a developer known for making games with poorly slapped together assets, only this time they desperately want to be Great Value Resident Evil.
In terms of design it's a copy-paste job from the first (also terrible) EBOLA game.
It runs as well as a horse on rollerblades.
It has voice acting more robotic than Microsoft Sam.
I can only recommend this to people who have a fetish for stock footage, as it keeps showing up in awkward fahsion.

When you first check out the store page for Ebola 2, you might question its validity if you notice the developer's name is indie_games_studio; a company title so generic it beckons the call of 'obvious scam' to those who've been burned by one too many of the shovelware releases on Steam. It also doesn't help matters that the game was removed for some time due to a DMCA complaint regarding the soundtrack, a qualm which has since been resolved, and a developer behind the curtain who was less-than-mature about the whole situation. However, beyond the veil of everything that has attempted to keep Ebola 2 from surviving lies a game that strives to revive the long dead challenge of survival horror classics.

Make no mistake about it, Ebola 2 is far from being a unique entry into horror, but not much is these days. Everything has been done to death, and this title does nothing to try and reinvent the wheel. Put simply, it's the original Resident Evil, in first-person mode, and the developer doesn't even try to hide that fact. The similarities are shamelessly in-your face; you have to save using ink and a typewriter, there's a chest for your items, you heal with herbs, and all of the generic stock weapons are included. Except this time it's not some mysterious virus that a power-hungry corporation has unleashed, it's Ebola, and you're not escaping from a mansion, it's a storied military complex. Now, you may be thinking about passing up on this release since it could simply be a Half-Life mod, but stick around and listen to why you might wanna consider otherwise.

Game developers have strayed far from the light of what true 'survival horror' means; most of the time, the classification is broad and generic these days, with some releases seeming to think that limited inventory space is a sole qualifier. Much like the original Resident Evil, survival horror is meant to be tough, and most modern releases have neglected presenting a real challenge. Ebola 2 absolutely fixes that, and it scratches an itch that has long been out of reach within this sub-genre. There's limited, non-expandable inventory space; there's extremely limited ammo and health items; there's limited ink for saving. If you do not micromanage yourself correctly and you go into a boss fight with inadequate ammo or health items, your run is pretty well done, and that's what makes this release so difficult, yet at the same time so fun and immersive. Hell, you even have to burn zombie bodies to keep them from coming back to life... remember that old-school mechanic?

The graphics here are surprisingly good, even if the enemy models are a little cheesy. The developer even went as far to include a few minimal FMV sequences, just like in the original Resident Evil release, and that's an attention to detail that shouldn't go unnoticed. There are, however, a few questionable assets thrown in, and despite the game being pulled from Steam for its soundtrack, the safe room theme hearkens an eerie similarity to that from the PS1 Resident Evil 2 title. When placed side-by-side though, the two tracks are distinctly different, and it just goes to show how close in nature that the developer wanted this game to be to the original Capcom releases. Additionally, optimization here seems just fine, and I didn't encounter any bugs, glitches, or crashes.

Now, a lot of my long-term readers are probably sitting there thinking, "But Horror, you normally knock this kinda stuff", and it's true; if you flip through my review history, I do knock this kind of thing all the time. That's because most of these generic, idea-less, blatant ripoffs fail to deliver anything worth playing. However, through its punishing campaign, Ebola 2 manages to do just that; it delivers something worth playing. Moreover, it breathes musty, repugnant life back into a sub-genre that lost its way aeons ago. There is nothing new here, expect nothing less than a game that feels like a first-person Resident Evil 1 game inside of a Half-Life mod. But there is something beautifully old here, and those who are tired of challengeless "survival horror" games will find hours of enjoyment navigating the obstacles that Ebola 2 brings to the table.

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The developer provided a free copy of this game for review, through The Horror Network's Curation page.

Ebola 2 is like Resident Evil from Wish dot com.

This is not a bad game, but it is far from being a good game. I understand that this is an Indie game, but some of the things inside are a way too much archaic. And it copy paste too much Resident Evil, from the locations, guns, by monsters to the bosses.

Let's start with the STORY. It's very poor, there is no way to know more about it, there almost no in game information. A few notes that don't really say anything. The developer advertised this game as replayable, with many choices. It's not true at all, there is 0 replayability & 0 choices you can make. In the end of the game, there is one dialog which makes you think different but it one big ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. The story has only one stupid ending.

Playability, controls, are normal for indie game. At least headshots works as intended. There is even stamina system, after running a while our character start to "bounce" funny. It looks more like he broke his leg, than get tired.

Inventory is way too small, compared to the number of things we find. There is no separate notebook for notes, so they take up additional space in our inventory until we find our magic "resident evil" chest in one of the save game locations.

Choosing textures are sometimes quite funny. From a worn wooden corridors, we go to a beautiful marble wooden library, with no trace of any damage. Voice acting is terrible.

Cut scenes, you can see that this is a random collection of anything that does not make much sense. They were put there, just to have some. They don't make any sense, at least the initial ones. Ending ones are more connected, but still ♥♥♥♥ <the developer did not pay attention to the fact that to keep the same character model in the scenes, he used ready-made movies, so your wife is played by various similar-looking characters>.

Guns. Don't save your ammo for action rifle, it's the biggest trash in this game. Make less damage than basic pistol. You will find enough ammo to kill everything few times lol. Guns sounds are ultra bad. Reloading animations, are the worst, our character is looking like noob, while being the guy from "police special unit".

There is few kind of monsters, but don't worry. You won't encounter much variety till the last few minutes of the game. Each floor got zombies, only one of the floors got few werewolves, other got some mutated plant and some invisible guys, ahh and zombie dogs and other 2 crocodiles <there are so stupid, the you can shoot the water infinite times and you won't kill them, till cutscene appear so gg> . So it make 6 monsters and 3 dumb bosses.

Some people complain about puzzles, if you track all your progress, and continue going how the game is telling you, you won't have a problem at all with anything. Game is holding your hand and telling you step by step where to go and what to do.

There is a lot of smaller or bigger bugs, and you can see that many ideas, were never finished e.g. safe box in the starting area. Boss animations have been cut. Fight with 1st and 3rd boss is ultra bugged. Even if the game give you some "hints" in the notes which you find at the same floors, there are more or less pointless. You just need to shot the boss till it bleed out and die. <1st and 3rd>. 2nd boss is one big joke. You can only kill it will boring repeatable "action", so don't waste your ammo.

Most of the achievements are ok, but the ones for complete of the game on each difficulty are stupid. Doesn't matter at all if you complete the game at the hardest level, you will have to rerun it for each difficulty level to get them all.

Most of the screen shots, match the game, only the Fallout look a like doesn't, it's not in the game at all.
There are 3 trailers, which are funny because, 1st on contain combined all materials from 2nd and 3rd.
1st one is mix of all cutscenes from the game <which don't have any sense>, plus some part of the game from alpha stages I guess? Because this places doesn't look like that in this game, when you play.
2nd is only cutscenes visible in 1st trailer, and 3rd is only game parts from previous version of the game. Kinda strange way to make trailers.

To sum it up. Not a bad game, but nothing special at all. If you are a fan of crapy indie horror games, this game is for you. It got few nice jump scares, which you won't expect, but nothing more than that. It's easy repetitive and dumb. There is no choice and the ending is only 1. If you are bored, and it is at 50% sale or more get it.

This was actually a decent survival horror game that lasted about 5 hours. It has some VERY bad scripting and acting but I can look past that. The core gameplay itself was actually really fun. Combat was satisfying, puzzles are very simple. You cannot customize controls and you can NOT adjust FOV however I did not have an issue with the default FOV on a 2k 32” screen. I took a big chance with that because I get bad motion sickness in games with a narrow FOV. If you are curious about this game and love survival horror you can’t go wrong especially if you get it on sale. I always appreciate these small indie games.

Decent indie survival horror game which is made by one person (I think).

The good:
-performance (mostly)
-graphics
-level design
-some puzzles, not too much, also not too difficult
-gunplay
-item balancing is mostly pretty good, except fuel which is very scare

The bad
-story, cutscenes, voice acting
-just 4 weapons but this didn't bother me that much (pistol, shotgun, assault rifle, magnum)
-what is more annoying is that you can't change weapons with the keyboard numbers or the mousewheel, instead you have to open your inventory and then double click the weapon
-not enough save rooms which isn't a problem because of saving but rather to have access to the item box because...
-...inventory space is too small (just 11 spots), especially since even documents take space in your inventory
-the whole burn mechanic is kinda annoying: so if you kill an enemy, you can then burn his body if you have a lighter and fuel. If you burn him, he is gone for good. But if you don't, he will respawn after you changed the floor of the building. The annoying part is that fuel is very limited and also used for other things. Which means you can't just burn everyone. This is annoying because if you have to revisit areas, enemies will have respawned if you didn't burn them. And at least for your first playthrough you don't know which areas you have to revisit. For the other runs I basically optimized it to revisit areas as little as possible and burn those enemies which are in those. And in those runs it was mostly fine, I barely had to refight enemies. And ammo isn't that scare, but like I said, fuel is. But this also is part of the reason why inventory space is that tight. Because if you wanna kill enemies for good this already takes 4 inventory spaces: a weapon, ammo for it, lighter and fuel. But then you also wanna take lockpicks with you for obvious reason, then ofc one weapon isn't that much and as soon as you get your second weapon you at least wanna take 2 weapons with you, meaning 2 more slots. Then maybe a health item. Those are already 8 slots, meaning just 3 left. And documents, story items like keys, other ammo or health items all take more space. Which all means I often had to backtrack to a save room because I simply coudln't pick up everything which isn't that bad because of the design of the game: you are in a building with 9 floors and change constantly between of them with an elevator and each one isn't that big.
-then the boss fights aren't great, especially the third one as he can teleport and instantly hit you or hit you from distance with no way of dodging or blocking the damage. I also thought the first boss could do that too, but that's actually not the case, took me a while to figure that out tho and how to kill him. The second is kinda easy but also there I had to figure out how to kill him. Also not a great design choice that you basically can fight the first 2 bossess in direct sequence
-small bugs like enemy ragdoll physics acting crazy sometimes, also often can see enemies through walls, but also encountered a single game breaking bug once in 4 playthroughs which could be easily fixed tho by saving and reloading the save

So yeah, if you like the genre just like me this game is worth it. Also the price isn't that high.

Good game with its own style, definitely recommend))