Blinding Dark

Game showed promise. Short, buggy, uncomfortable in general it still felt a bit somewhat like the great old Clive Barker's Undying. At the end of the game there was clearly a hint for continuation. Then the developer disappeared. The forum's dead, noone's answering. If there's ever going to be the second part, if it will be at least not worse than the first one, this review is gone. Until then-it's an abandonware.

Blinding Dark starts in a promising way, but soon you'll realise that it's nothing good. The story is about this guy who wakes up in a manor and doesn't remember anything and tries to figure what is going on. He also has a mask stuck on his face and it whispers things to him, but instead of actually using this as a creepy feature by making the player hear the whispers, you'll have to read about it from the journal that periodically gets updated. The update sound is also used in many other places and I got stuck for a while because I didn't realise the journal had new info on it. Practically the first enemy you get to kill with a weapon shows you just how the rest of the battles will go. You see an enemy standing further away and shoot at it. You'll notice that you propably missed even if your aim was spot on. You'll then try to aim with iron sight, but then you'll realise that it's completely useless because it shoots way higher than the iron sight shows. Oh, and don't try to get headshots even at close range. The hitboxes aren't that good. There were maybe two or three jump scares in the very beginning of the game, but as you progress they are completely forgotten, and the game ends up becoming a boring buggy shooter. And the ending? It was a joke. Instead of having an epic battle, you fight 4 waves of enemies and allows you to move onward, but then the game ends with text "End of act I" and that's it. No act II, even though I think it mentioned somewhere along the way that the collectible items would become useful in act II. I wouldn't recommend this for the price of 10€, but maybe you'll find it mildly enjoyable for 2 or less.