Boreal Tenebrae Act I: “I Stand Before You, A Form Undone”

Overall, I liked this game a lot. The atmosphere is mysterious and spooky, the story is intriguing, the retro style is charming (though I ended up bumping the resolution up a bit). Controls and the camera feel janky, but the game is not long enough for it to get annoying. The bugs, on the other hand, were pretty annoying. I got stuck with no ability to move a few times. Once it cost me about an hour of progress because the autosave wasn't working (it seems to be fixed now, but I still recommend saving manually). Sometimes you can get unstuck by toggling the inventory, but not always. Also, at one point I had to look up a walkthrough on YouTube because even with a hint from Dad (who can point you in the right direction at any time) I didn't know where to go. Despite this, I think it's a great game. If you like adventure and are intrigued by the premise, it worth a try. I hope the story continues!

Really cool game, great vibes. Got a bit overwhelmed by the non-linearity though. I'll come back to it some day.

Nice atmospheric adventure game with Grim Fandango style gameplay. Music and sound effects are at just the right level of unsettling.

The game is fantastic and feeling with Yume Nikki is really good The surrealism from the graphics sometimes just got a little off guard The retro style with PS1 are pretty nostalgic It's an awesome game I'm

The game was good and the story was fun. The controls' explanations on "how to open the inventory" or "how to swing the bat" are missing (they're not even mentioned to the player), luckily the "i" key for the inventory was easy to guess, while to swing the bat I had to press literally every word on the keyboard to get the right one (a "control" section in the menu, showing the player all the controls, wouldn't be so bad to have). To this day, there are still a lot of visual bugs/glitches: the camera or some videos ended up freezing; some sections got bugged; some icons sometimes fail to appear; the game’s resolution went haywire when I tried to launch it; some sections ended up not closing, etc.. (luckily you can fix all of this either by playing the "esc" key or by reloading the autosave or your own save file, so it's only a matter of seconds). So, the end my review: the game still has plenty of issues to this day, but I managed to look past them because the plot was well-constructed and interesting, and the gameplay (solving all the puzzles) was fun.

a little buggy still but full of personality and atmosphere, story is good.