Poorly designed game with terrible fps drops (I have a very high end PC). Cluttered textures with notes being place in extremely generic block houses that lack any logical sense. Barely any interaction with the creatures mentioned in the notes, what is funny is that you do see the creatures walking in the dark in preprogammed sequence with no unpredictability.

It does have a nice menu but for the most part it's unfinished, unloved and deserves a medal for ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Horrible optimization, can't even play on the lowest settings.
All you do is explore houses that all look the same and avoid some generic blue demons who run towards you and start jabbing you.
Nevermind if you run for 5 seconds they will stop chasing you.

Garbage.

A very weak horror movie with a strained difficult storyline. Although the picture is good and retains an atmosphere of mystery, but I can not call the totality of what is in the game a masterpiece

Whatever the ending of this asset flip garbage is, I don't care. Clearly there was no effort put into any aspect of it.

This is a clear example why we need Steam Quality Control.

Another indie project, with the horror subgenre, from the publisher SA Industry. The game was released almost 6 years ago, has mixed reviews.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2778419430
The plot will send our hero to the old village, as his brother disappeared there. On a fairly large map, which is rarely covered with trees and is a wasteland - we have to visit several buildings in search of items and notes. The buildings in the game are made in the genre of gigantism. A one-room house - occupies a place like a residential three-story condominium - while the same emptiness awaits us inside. Apparently, the inhabitants of this village are terrible ascetics, since they only need a table, a chair and a small locker for the whole house.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2778419639
Surprisingly, in this project there is an enemy - a Skrull, covered with the texture of a bag of potatoes. The enemy's clothing also has a similar texture. The Skrull will chase the player and try to destroy them.
Fun fact - there is no visual effect in the game for taking damage. The game simply gives you a window asking you to start from a checkpoint.[/b]
In addition to the pursuer, in the game you can find one logical task with candles.

Pros:

• + Average level of graphics
  
• + Good sound
  
• + Trading cards

Minuses:

• - Large and empty map
  
• - Price
  
• - Lack of advanced game settings
  
• - Lack of control settings

Total:
Pretty simple indie game. I would not classify this project as a horror movie. The game is very empty and boring. The main plot of the game can be completed in 30-40 minutes.
The game has collectible cards for sale - and this is its only plus. I do not know why some of the players sing praises to this project - since there is nothing outstanding here.
I do not recommend this game for purchase. Since it will not bring you any joy from the passage of the plot, nor money - for selling cards.

Warning: Asset Flip![en.wikipedia.org]

Darkness Ahead is a Digital Homicide style asset flip, or what Valve calls a "Fake Game". The "developer" paid for/pirated a few Unity asset store packs, dumped them all in a blender, and submitted it to Valve as if they're real game developers.

SA Industry are known asset flippers (evidence below) and this is no exception... it's a basic Unreal Engine "adventure" game where the "developer" dropped a few house assets and things around a basic map and has you walk around and click on stuff using the old Unreal first person adventure engine stuff. Looking for your missing sibling, apparently, but does the intricacy of plot matter when confronted with such low effort asset flipping? Not much more than a weekends effort to dump a minimum viable product onto Steam and wait for the cash to roll in. This kind of low effort asset flipping is a great disservice to gamers.

Two notable criteria for what makes an asset flip instead of legitimate use of stock assets are whether those assets comprise the majority of the game, and whether the "developer" properly credited the people who created most of the assets in the game. This game fails both of those tests. The "developers" here didn't credit any of the artists and real, actual game developers who created the assets here, so this is plagiarism, as well as cash grab shovelware.

SA Industry/Useless Machines have shown a repeat pattern of unethically dumping other people's work onto Steam as a cheap, nasty cash grab, through this account or through closely linked/alt accounts. Here's some examples so you can see for yourself:

• "Falling Words" = 2D Typing Game[assetstore.unity.com] developed by Steelkrill Studio
  
• "Kingdom Defense" = Tower Defense Basic Pixel Art Pack[assetstore.unity.com] developed by FreeThePlayerOnGame
  
• "Drive For Your Life" = Zombie Drive - Full Game Template[assetstore.unity.com] developed by Puppeteer

Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game, it doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.

The developers didn't design the game for modern gaming PCs, as such the display resolution caps out at around 1440p, there's no support for the state-of-the-art 4K or higher resolutions. The game simply won't look right on modern gaming displays due to this failure on the part of the developers.

The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts.

These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.

It's also important to note the "developer" here has connections to a number of shady Russian asset flippers and review manipulators who show an organised pattern to scam and defraud gamers with fake reviews and asset flipping the work of others for profit. While reviews are about the games, gamers should be informed when developers act unethically. Whether these connections are the same developer using multiple accounts, or just working closely with other unethical developers, gamers should be warned about the harm to gamers by this developer and their associates. Buying games from unethical developers puts your money at risk.

You're forced to sign a highly questionable yet legally unenforceable End User License Agreement... for such a relatively low effort, low quality game this comes across more as a delusion of grandeur than anything else. This agreement includes questionable requirements that may attempt to revoke consumer law protections that gamers expect to have, which is also highly problematic. Developers must learn they are here to serve gamers, not control them. I had my cat walk over the keyboard while the EULA was displaying, which fixed that problem for me.

So, should you buy this asset flip? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam?

Darkness Ahead has the farcical price of around $5 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the unethical nature of the developer. For comparison, the $5 asking price for this game could get you games like "Left 4 Dead 2", "Batman: Arkham Origins" or "Just Cause 3". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.

good thing i bought it on sale.
All you have to do is explore houses that all look the same and dodge the common blue demon that will come towards you and start stinging you.
It doesn't matter if you run for 5 seconds no, they will stop chasing you.

Rubbish.

Darkness Ahead is an adventure game with horror elements. The main goal of the game is to find your little brother, who disappeared many years ago. You study the places of loss with the help of tools that you will find along the way of your adventure. The game has many features to make your journey unique and unforgettable. The game has a variety of collectibles, some of which are necessary to complete the game and solve puzzles. If you want to find out what happened to your brother, you need to collect all the useful items and stay out of trouble!

Apparently, our main task is to find some pieces of paper that will explain the loss of our brother. The game area consists of five castles, a very large area and an intermediate area. All the houses seem to have the same architect, as they are all built the same way and consist of a huge room on the ground floor, most of which is almost unfurnished, and a staircase leading to a small room on the second floor. the second floor. There are even opponents. These so-called Guardians are big, dumb, and very slow.

The only 30 dumb candle puzzle, stupid game design, terrible architecture, ridiculous enemies and constant fps drops. At least Unreal's graphics aren't that terrible, and even the lighting and sound are fine. But this is not enough for an acceptable game.

Hello darkness my old friend!

Horrible optimization, can't even play on the lowest settings.