Worth it for the right player.
It's at its lowest recorded price, $2.24.
- Story and characters: 39 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 27 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Audio: 14 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 10 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Difficulty: 8 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 170 player reviews · updated 6 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 106 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
even though it's an escape room-like with some foreboding, it's just as much a touching story of friendship and reminiscing about the good old days, with stanley constantly commenting on various items and documents scattered around the house.
while controls definitely need a lot of improvement, there are plenty of settings. besides rebindable keys and all sorts of graphics quality settings (that may or may not work), there are numerous languages, resolution options, windowed mode, v-sync, separate volume settings, mouse sensitivity, invert and left-handed mouse toggles, and save & exit. not as good as manual saving over multiple slots without leaving the game, but better than nothing. there might also be some autosaving happening, but if so, there's no indication of it anywhere.
is an excellent escape room game, with an exquisite presentation: beautiful environments, high quality voice-overs for all of Stanley’s lines (one of the best voice-overs I’ve encountered in a game, I must say), immersive and chill African-styled soundtrack and puzzles of increasing complexity.
I was playing on an obsolete pc, glad I could run the game in the first place, even if it looked nowhere near as good as the screenshots. they look wonderful, but I didn't mind the early-2000s aesthetics I had to deal with either. excellent music too, especially the song in the menu.
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Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $2.24 (−85%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.
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