Detention

The story is rather short, but well written and its pacing is good. Detention is not a traditional horror game in the sense that it relies of jump scares or constant chasing. Instead, it focuses on solving a mystery and discovering the tragedy that revolves around abuse and oppression. I rlly love how the game inlcudes some real historic events, which influence the characters behaviour. Combined with the great visuals, it creates an unsettling atmosphere. Good soup, quick gameplay, would recommend :D

Yet another game i've played where I really wish steam had a "neutral" option for reviews. giving it a thumbs up because I really enjoyed Prologue--Chapter 2. but Chapter 3--Chapter 4 fell flat for me :/ I LOVE the setting/story of this game, the music/audio was awesome, as well as the art. The two big issues: 1) as most of the negative reviews point out, the puzzles in this game are *very* easy and feel like they're a time sink/padding. I didn't need the puzzles to be impossibly hard of course, but for some of them...there was literally no "puzzle" to it? it was more like "I need to take item A to place B, where it is *very obviously needed*" rather than something with multiple steps like "i need to take item A to place B where i think it could go, which would maybe get item C to take to place D?...etc" if that makes sense. not necessarily actual puzzles and more so moving items around to the place where they'd logically go 2) the second half of the game really let me down.....I feel like this is a recurring thingwith indie horror where the later parts of the game just get so cerebral/psychedelic/abstract to try and be deep/shocking/dark but it just doesnt work and it loses the plot? detention's story does the same and it just doesn't finish up strong. I was particularly disappointed with the second half because there were basically no more enemies and no more puzzles (all very easy to begin with) so it's just you walking the character to different locations to hear dialogue, with weird visuals and ♥♥♥♥. I don't mind a walking sim but not when this is tagged with things like "puzzle" "survival horror" "exploration" :( the worst thin is that I thought the ending scene was great (i got the bad ending lol but i loved the framing and the way it was done), and I just knew it would have been outstanding, not just great, if the last 45min-1hr before it hadn't been kinda lame. no puzzles, no enemies, getting too cerebral/psychedelic, all while walking slow AF

Without Karl Marx, this game wouldn't exist, so thank you, evil Santa Claus. Extra Note: Konami, hand this team the Silent Hill Franchise.