3 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 3.0 hrs on record
Posted: Jul 27, 2021 @ 8:19pm

The game's too short to really say anything about. As you can see, I 100%'d it in 3 hours. So there's about 3 hours of story. Problem is, if I say much of anything about it, I might spoil important plot points. Clearly, the game is story-heavy.

Here's what Stories Untold is in the simplest terms: an anthology of four short horror games. Think Dread X, but the games themselves are more involved in the overarching story. If you like Dread X, you will probably like this game. If you dislike the story of That Dragon, Cancer or Among the Sleep, then this game's story will probably annoy you.

Gameplay is somewhat varied but doesn't innovate. It starts off with a text adventure, and for the first 80% of the game you'll be solving puzzles. Nothing too extreme. For example, one of them has you using a microfilm machine to read instructions for what to do when a code comes on the screen. Another puzzle has you looking at a manual on a computer to know how to interpret the directions. If you are RTFM-phobic, then it's not for you. The last 20% of the game is walking simulators, you know, it's a psychological horror game, so that's when the ♥♥♥♥ hits the fan. You can probably imagine how that goes.

Visuals and Audio are par for the course. The microfilm machine actually impressed me the most. Nice attention to detail.

And yeah, that's all I have to say.
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