Daerphen
  • Observer

    12 hours playtime

    19 of 19 achievements

Report #252: Observer

Casual day in Krakow


Just finished my second PoP pick for the cycle. It is a psychological horror game and plays in a future version of Krakow. You play a detective, who is in a house during a lockdown, trying to figure out, what is going on.

After a couple of scenes, it gets very weird, not every scene I was sure, if it was a dream or the "real life" of the protagonist. The developers made a very good job here.

The story itself is not very long, but has a lot of sidetrack paths to discover

Trent

Yeah, I watched the trailer twice for that game and still had no idea what the actual gameplay was like. I did pick up the game via trade once it came out in the Humble Monthly last year.

Marpfie

Can you describe how the horror aspect plays out? Is it all just atmosphere and psychological or do you actually have to liek escape stuff or so?

Daerphen

All of it.
Most of the time you are investigating areas, where there are no enemies, but there is stuff that give you creeps, for example an animal suddenly jumps scared away. The horror comes from connecting with memory chips of NPCs and living their memories. Sometimes there are monsters which you have to avoid or you die. Maybe something similar to Alien Isolation. When you can see the monster, the monster can see you and kills you.

You won’t get near enemies though (or else you die), so the most part of the enemy horror is actually their sounds (like breathing, walking, etc)

Marpfie

Alright so it’s not a game for me :^)

Kyrrelin

Wow, you have completed the game in 12 hours. O.O
My one playthrough took me 13 hours. XD And I had to do two runs to get achievements when you had to choose one option.
But I have enjoyed it very much and I wanted to play it once more right away as I was full of emotions after beating it. Great game, little disturbing, but great! :)

Daerphen

I made a copy of the savegame, because I wasn’t confident in playing it twice.
Also I used a guide for collectibles