Looking for bad horror? Then look no further! It only takes about 10 minutes to realize how big of a steaming pile of turds Duder is. The game is essentially a Slenderman clone, as you have to run around a spooOOoOoOooky forest and find 7 "truths", aka notes, in order to access some church; all the while being chased by a deranged psychopath named... Duder. The notes themselves aren't difficult to find; their placements are stagnant, and you're led around by trails and candle light. Learning their locations is easy. The problem is the god awful AI, yep... Mr. Duder himself, which is an unrelenting and broken mess. Taking into account that a stalking AI is the only real "feature" in this game, and that "feature" is game-breakingly broken, is pathetic to say the least.

It doesn't matter if you crouch or stand, if you sneak around or run, if you leave your flashlight off or on, Duder will find you. If you run fast and long enough, you'll eventually leave him in the dust... but not for long. The AI system in this game is set to where it knows your location at all times, and it simply depends on how far away it is from you or if you're in its line of sight as to whether or not it saunters toward you, or bolts straight at you. You have to constantly be on the move, which would be easy enough if there wasn't a hidden stamina meter constantly depleting and eventually making you slower than a 90 year old. Worse yet, the "heartbeat system", aka the terror radius that audibly tells you how close the AI is, is broken. It'll just randomly disappear and then all of a sudden you're jumpscare mauled by some ugly SOB. To get out of the grapple hold of Duder you have to mash random assortments of keys, which aren't on the screen long enough for you to read and start mashing accordingly before you die. Yeah, real fun. Couldn't think of any better way to spend my time.

So what else could the developer slather over top of this awful abomination to make it even worse? Graphic that are way too dark, really bad fog "atmosphere" (think overlayed Photoshop effects), a flashlight that doesn't do anything at all except highlight notes if it's shining directly on them, no coherent story, and a nauseating headbob effect that can't be turned off. Oh, and if you have VR it fffffffffking turns that on, too, so now I have to reboot my system. Words cannot express how sick and annoyed I am of developers that can't turn off the VR feature in Unreal Engine. Now, granted Duder can be bought on sale for somewhere around $0.66 CAD, but its full price of $6.69 CAD is exactly why people have become so skeptical of buying any indie horror titles. Trash like this sweeps good little hidden gems out of the way, and it's infuriating to say the least. I bought this game during the Lunar Sale 2020 specifically to round my purchase up to an even dollar, and I regret it. What a waste of 10 minutes.

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Looking for bad horror? Then look no further! It only takes about 10 minutes to realize how big of a steaming pile of turds Duder is. The game is essentially a Slenderman clone, as you have to run around a spooOOoOoOooky forest and find 7 "truths", aka notes, in order to access some church; all the while being chased by a deranged psychopath named... Duder. The notes themselves aren't difficult to find; their placements are stagnant, and you're led around by trails and candle light. Learning their locations is easy. The problem is the god awful AI, yep... Mr. Duder himself, which is an unrelenting and broken mess. Taking into account that a stalking AI is the only real "feature" in this game, and that "feature" is game-breakingly broken, is pathetic to say the least. It doesn't matter if you crouch or stand, if you sneak around or run, if you leave your flashlight off or on, Duder will find you. If you run fast and long enough, you'll eventually leave him in the dust... but not for long. The AI system in this game is set to where it knows your location at all times, and it simply depends on how far away it is from you or if you're in its line of sight as to whether or not it saunters toward you, or bolts straight at you. You have to constantly be on the move, which would be easy enough if there wasn't a hidden stamina meter constantly depleting and eventually making you slower than a 90 year old. Worse yet, the "heartbeat system", aka the terror radius that audibly tells you how close the AI is, is broken. It'll just randomly disappear and then all of a sudden you're jumpscare mauled by some ugly SOB. To get out of the grapple hold of Duder you have to mash random assortments of keys, which aren't on the screen long enough for you to read and start mashing accordingly before you die. Yeah, real fun. Couldn't think of any better way to spend my time. So what else could the developer slather over top of this awful abomination to make it even worse? Graphic that are way too dark, really bad fog "atmosphere" (think overlayed Photoshop effects), a flashlight that doesn't do anything at all except highlight notes if it's shining directly on them, no coherent story, and a nauseating headbob effect that can't be turned off. Oh, and if you have VR it fffffffffking turns that on, too, so now I have to reboot my system. Words cannot express how sick and annoyed I am of developers that can't turn off the VR feature in Unreal Engine. Now, granted Duder can be bought on sale for somewhere around $0.66 CAD, but its full price of $6.69 CAD is exactly why people have become so skeptical of buying any indie horror titles. Trash like this sweeps good little hidden gems out of the way, and it's infuriating to say the least. I bought this game during the Lunar Sale 2020 specifically to round my purchase up to an even dollar, and I regret it. What a waste of 10 minutes. [h1]Rating: [b]0.5/5.0[/b] - Abysmal, avoid it like the plague.[/h1] The Horror Network [url=http://store.steampowered.com/curator/28221963/]Curator[/url] | [url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/thehorrornetwork]Group[/url] Click for Gore