Adelion

Unforgiving

I am not sure what it is. But the percentage of Horror Games in my library has an unhealthy high value. I actually despise jump scares and I do not really enjoy those horror games. Nonetheless I have recommanded several of them. Als,o there are a lot of Horror Games which i despise or which just don’t interest me like Slenderlike or FNAF-like games. Still, every few months another horror game finds it way to my library. Last weeks addition:

  • Unforgiving - A Northern Hymn

    8 hours playtime

    16 of 16 achievements

Unforgiving - A Northern Hymn: An interesting one. From the gameplay it is mostly walking/running around and solving simple puzzles while avoiding creatures from the Swedish Mythology. The game itself with you finding yourself of the backseat of a car being kidnapped by your own brother as it is heavily implied that you have some kind of addiction problems (all said in the first five minutes of the game. In your “heroic” attempt to rescue yourself you bring the car to crashing and find yourself in a Swedish Forest with a whole new set of problems. Most of them potentially deadly. Actually, large parts of the game it is impossible to die unless you drown yourself. Point is, you don’t know when those parts are as in irregular intervals you encounter new or old creatures which can actually kill you. So you have a mixture of scripted events, active sequences and cutscenes. The reason you are always on edge is given by the games most brilliant aspect: the sound effects and music. Always you hear something irritating, menacing. Expecting to be jumped at any moment, even if there is nothing (Screw you Skogsrå!!). The eerie atmosphere is supported by disturbing children drawings.
The story itself is interesting enough to follow along with an …. odd ending I will say here. All in all the game is quite interesting if not alone for the view on the darker side of the swedish mythology. Normally, I would have waited with another post but as the sale started today I though I’ll post this one as the game is 75 % off. For this price it is actually fair as the game IS rather short with a first playthrough of 3 hours. You can get 7-8 hours out of it if you go for all achievements WITHOUT looking up a guide. So think about it (unless you despise all horror games). Don’t think it is a bad investion. On a sidenote I bought the game a week ago with a 66 % price of. Technically I could refund and buy anew. But I think it is fair to support an indie developer and the 1,20 € is not really much money. I waste more for Chips. With this said find here the OST and an image:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehrvXNIB8VU

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As I was on buisness trip on Chile recently and read a similar thread on SG I started to wonder a bit. For those of you working already, what is your job? Like, I’m a chemist. No I work neither with drugs nor with explosives. I’m salty most of the time as I work with salts.

stef

I saw a let’s play of this game and it is pretty good. I’m surprised its not more popular. I enjoy games that incorporate mythology or culture in some way.

Great review!

Adelion

Yea, if normally hear about the nordic mythology it is Asgard and Ragnarok. So this was somehow a fresh view. I would have to think really hard to come up with any german horror tales O.o