The Guilt and the Shadow

One of the best buy's of 2015 so far :) It's a bit like "neverending nightmares"... Only better. The level design is lovely and everything just works. The puzzles are simple enough but there is a bit of random key pressing in the game sometimes to get things to work. Hopefully that can be patched. Apart from that, the story seems to unfold nicely and has a dark tone. It's a slow game, reminds me a little of...

42 found this helpful, 2015-02-03

This game was like a punch to the gut. The whimsical art style matches the slow, subtle psychological horror perfectly. I was worried at first that the strange graphics would make this less enjoyable, but after starting the game it definitely fits. Overall the puzzles were simple and the game quite short (I finished it in three hours), but the experience is definitely a memorable one! You play as a man suffering...

15 found this helpful, 2016-02-07

So, this is yet another gloomy indie game about psychological disorders. There's little to say about this one. In its own genre it's probably OK. The visuals are stylish and the sound design is quite awesome. But the story doesn't really catch your attention. The monologues and occasional dialogues are quite unnatural. And the gameplay part just plainly sucks. You walk slowly, you need to backtrack the levels all the...

5 found this helpful, 2020-11-04