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This actually seems like a reasonable skeleton of a plot by skip 12/31/2013, 1:00am PST
fabio wrote:


This game tries so hard to be a haunted house sim and make you think there's some supernatural aspect to it. Did the family die horribly? Am I a ghost? There are strange noises. Lights flicker. The uncle who owned it went crazy and it's now called "psycho house" by the locals. The answering machine has two messages by a frantic sobbing woman. You find books on poltergeists and notes of strange shadows. A crumpled note tells you not to tell the parents what you find in the attic before the writing is cut off. The hallway to the attic is bathed in creepy red light. You find another note telling you to expect the worst in the attic. The very end was tense as you found your way to the attic and made your way up. Reminded me of finally fixing the elevator in System Shock 2 and approaching the office of the chick you'd been talking to the whole time.
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spoilers wrote:

The parents were in a troubled marriage and were away on a couples retreat, the younger daughter ran off with her high school lesbian lover. The end.


I'm sure it's ultimately an execution issue, but you're making this sound more interesting than it probably is. Instead of some bogey man coming out of no where or the family being eaten by Satanists or some other retarded plot hacked together from FearNET, they all just left without worrying too much how it would affect you. The horror is fully realizing the self-absorption of a sister and parents who value their romantic entanglements more than welcoming back a daughter or sister who's been gone an entire year. Narcissism is better than some ghoul since ghosts are indiscriminate and attack everyone while your family is theoretically supposed to love you enough to buy you a "Welcome Home" cake. It sounds like they got waylaid by the lesbian angle, but there's an interesting idea buried there.
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Steam sale purchases part 1 by fabio 12/29/2013, 5:12pm PST NEW
    This actually seems like a reasonable skeleton of a plot by skip 12/31/2013, 1:00am PST NEW
        This is a horror novel jk it's the Babysitter's Club Halloween edition NT by Fullofkittens 12/31/2013, 12:30pm PST NEW
        It makes me sad defending this by fabio 12/31/2013, 2:02pm PST NEW
            So you definitely made it sound more interesting that it was by skip 12/31/2013, 3:11pm PST NEW
    part 2 by fabio 12/31/2013, 2:18pm PST NEW
        State of Decay by Only Gets better 01/12/2014, 12:56am PST NEW
            I love this game but should hate it by Roop 01/13/2014, 6:09pm PST NEW
                I'll probably get back to it by fabio 01/13/2014, 8:28pm PST NEW
                    Re: I'll probably get back to it by Roop 01/14/2014, 3:46pm PST NEW
        Update: about to uninstall by fabio 02/05/2014, 12:03am PST NEW
            Re: Update: about to uninstall by Roop 02/05/2014, 7:07am PST NEW
                Re: Update: about to uninstall by fabio 02/05/2014, 2:16pm PST NEW
                    Re: Update: about to uninstall by Roop 02/05/2014, 8:12pm PST NEW
                    Re: Update: about to uninstall by Roop 02/06/2014, 7:37pm PST NEW
    OF COURSE this game is from Portland by fabio 01/09/2014, 10:20pm PST NEW
        *shudders* NT by Eurotrash 01/09/2014, 10:50pm PST NEW
        Re: OF COURSE this game is from Portland by douche chills 01/10/2014, 5:14pm PST NEW
        Gone Home: A True Story Based On Developer Experience NT by stupid newbie 01/10/2014, 7:14pm PST NEW
        This game I swear to God gave me flashbacks of the late 90's NT by WITTGENSTEIN 01/15/2014, 5:26pm PST NEW
    Hijacking this into general multi-review post by Rafiki 01/19/2014, 3:28pm PST NEW
        Super Mario 3D World by Rafiki 01/20/2014, 12:33pm PST NEW
        Little Inferno is a game made for reviewers by skip 01/20/2014, 8:11pm PST NEW
            Tom Chick loved it NT by fabio 02/05/2014, 12:15am PST NEW
 
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