How scary is the game?

[himmatsj]

Can somebody please comment on the scare factor? Is it as scary as say, Alan Wake?

Thanks!

[aDistraction]

Not scary lol. Demons sometimes scream but thats all

[himmatsj]

And the story is good?

[DarkWingzSA]

Stupid game can go back and finish achivements once u hit the last stage Not scary at all !!

[bujablaster]

Scary factor ZERO. I can't play games like Penumbra or Amnesia, those are true horror games. Murdered:Souls suspect is rather some kind of chilling and slow story evolving ghost thriller (well, to me it is more chilling than thrilling, but game itself isn't bad for 8€).

Be warned it is an adventure game. Lot of walking here and there, lot of dialogues to listen to, lot of text to read. A lot of people realized this too late after buying it as "horror FPS adventure"which it is not ;).

[himmatsj]

It's still not as slow as something like Gone Home right? I may get it for the story, but I really do dislike old school adventure games.

[bujablaster]

Originally posted by himmatsj:

It's still not as slow as something like Gone Home right? I may get it for the story, but I really do dislike old school adventure games.

Didn't play Gone Home so i can't compare. It depends on personal taste, but i think i can compare Murdered to Alan Wake (which i recently finished and which i liked) - IMHO Murder could feel maybe like Alan Wake without that action part when Alan survives hordes of Taken (AW has also much darker atmosphere, which is done not only by story but also by visual srylization).

Saying it not as universal truth, just my feelings.

[himmatsj]

Ok. Does this have many cutscenes, or is the story done by reading stuff and taking to people mostly?

[bujablaster]

Game has some cutscenes, prepare for super loooong intro, but i liked it, everything was said. But game has some another prerendered videos of flashbacks/seeings etc., when i was running around taking some collectibles and doing some side missions there was let's say a video or two per mission, it depends. Anyway everything is skippable.

One can play it just as main story tells him, but much more fun is reading local papers, letters, revealing historical items which lead as clue to another (side) part of story etc.

Murdered really reminds me some old adventures. There is no pixel/polygon hunting, but one has to really search for "clues", there is nothing like game tells you "hey! There on the other side of map is this item", it pays to visit every dark corner to see if there is something or it is not.

I am not into adventures (my last was Full Throttle a decades ago), but i like Murdered.

[Creep]

This isn't horror, just mistery, but a great game!

[Zombie Fry]

I bought this for like 8 bucks while waiting for the evil within. Was surprised how good the game actually is with no hype or word of it.. Was worth the money imo

[Loli Hunter]

dont feel scary in it the game that have scare people away would be outlast

[Sreve]

Not very scary. Once in a while after a long time of Silence a Demon will howl and startle you. Only level were I was a bit nervous was the Mental Hospital level.