
Drawing heavily from classic survival horror tropes, Carnival Massacre takes players on a haunting quest in a cursed theme park. Explore your surroundings, manage your messy inventory, solve puzzles and kill the four ringleaders of the park!
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After countless nightmares about your missing little sister, you embark on a journey with one goal: to bring her home. You play as Harley, a girl who’s going to face horrors worse than anything her nightmares could produce.
Retro-styled graphics reminiscent of the PS1 era!
Classic survival horror gameplay!
An atmospheric theme park with engaging puzzles!
Inventory and storage box management!
Fully voice acted cutscenes!
Collect (in-game) patches and outfits for achievements!
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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This game is a mess. The first 15 minutes are spent aimlessly wandering around a completely empty map with no sense of direction. I thought my game had bugged out, until I finally found the first scripted enemy encounter at the far end of the park in a random side room. I then proceeded to kill it in a single shot with the aimbot shotgun that I had picked up. This game doesn't feel like a survival horror title at all. The map is far too spacious. You can pretty much ignore every enemy. The bad voice acting, and awkward animations brought me out of the experience as well. The voice acting isn't just badly delivered, it's also poorly recorded. It comes off as extremely amateurish. There are many other indie survival horror titles that I would recommend before this one.
A beautifully made fixed multicam retro survival horror with a few flaws but at a great price...! Your sister is missing in a weird carnival! Find your sister! ...And that's basically the plot, though there are some sinister elements that perhaps indicate further depths, but these are never elaborated upon. The environments and enemies are memorable and well made - some very attractive locations! The game makes great use of third party assets and really makes them play well in this context. The fixed multicam elements are very well handled - lots of static angles, occasional but very well-implemented panning camera and some interesting, appropriate trucking camera. Some great shot composition - but it's a shame you can skip right past the establishing shot for the carnival! There's some occasional blindspots, but nothing egregious. Environmental effects are also strong - great mist / smoke effects, alongside some effective falling water and ripples. Love the falling confetti - really keeps the environment feeling dynamic. The player character is dynamic and charismatic - and it's lovely to see the inventory displayed on the body (eg. unequipped shotgun is slung against your back). Enemies aren't spectacular, but are very servicable in the most part. The Iron Maiden has a tendancy to move through the world collision, sometimes phasing through walls and making unexpected appearances at boss fights. The bosses themselves are inventive but quickly forgotten. There's a good, exciting stalker enemy, but it's comically easy to shrug off their threat by dipping into another area and then returning to the original area - to find the Stalker has despawned. The controls are mostly solid, though the camera-relative input is badly implemented (with no angle threshold on camera transition). There's no option to return to the main menu from gameplay, nor is there the ability to load a savegame while in-game, which is very aggravating - sometimes the fastest way to reload is to get an enemy to kill you. However, there's a nicely implemented map / checklist, so... swings and roundabouts? Finally - special mention for the grungy nineties-style rock music that supports your boss battles: LOTS of character there! Sound effects are well designed in general and keep you fairly well informed of enemies just out of shot. Small wobbles aside, this is an excellent fixed multicam survival horror adventure, and at €5, a very solid investment. Will keep you highly entertained for two to three hours! If you enjoy these kinds of games or are looking for more like Carnival Massacre, be sure and check out the [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/fixedcamera]Fixed Camera Appreciation Society[/url] group and Discord server!
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Pretty great game, easy, fun old school vibes and by the end of it I wished it was longer.
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Fun little resident evil and silent hill like, a lil short but for its price its great
If I could give this game a "meh" rating I would. The music and gameplay are very reminiscent of the original PS1 Silent Hill game, but it really lacks a lot of the main charm that made SH1 so good. The storyline is basically non-existent and what little storyline there is, is just a load of BS. You play a girl who's looking for her little sister who went missing in a theme park. You get to the theme park and there are monsters. It's never explained how/why she went missing or what is wrong with the park. It's not a BAD game, but it's not really GOOD either... It's very short and plays okay on both the Steamdeck and PC, but movement can be a bit clunky. I appreciate the effort and as a massive SH and horror fan I still found it enjoyable enough to play all the way through, but I don't expect the majority of gamers to love this.
A short sweet Resident Evil-like game with around 1 hour of game-play so it is very short but I had fun. I will definitely try to 100% this game. There really is not a story or lore so do not go into it looking for any of those elements.
It was good, 7/10. Nothing too crazy but it reminded me of Alisa & Silent Hill :)
Bom jogo porém com historia curta e problemas de jogabilidade. portanto fator replay baixo. Como pontos positivos temos o som, duas faixas sonoras dos chefes são muito boas; puzzles interessantes, especialmente o uso do caderno para anotar palavras chave para resolver os desafios. A aventura em si também foi interessante, boa quantidade de inimigos, pouca munição nativa então você é obrigado a eliminar eles se quiser salvar e comprar munição e cura, já que as moedas no cenário são muito poucas. Câmera é útil no começo porem depois de eliminar alguns inimigos ela se torna dispensável. Como pontos ruins temos a interface, no meu gameplay um quebra-cabeça simples se tornou um pesadelo por causa dela, Segunda grande falha são os controles. Como outro comentário disse: esquerda e direita invertem sem motivo enquanto cima e baixo não, tornando a movimentação horrenda, levei muito dano desnecessário por causa dessa dificuldade, fora se movimentar no cenário foi complicado. Ultima falha foi uma sessão inteira inútil que e a roda gigante. tirando uma munição e o diário da protagonista que estavam lá essa parte não tem sentido algum. A única coisa boa e usar a sniper lá pra observar onde tem inimigo e, com custo, acertar algum. Minha recomendação agora seria consertar os controles com urgência. E em caso de continuação desenvolver um pouco mais a historia. No demais é um jogo interessante. Se o autor do jogo ler o review peço que não leve pro pessoal. E incrível fazer o que fez com poucas pessoas, e a intenção não e ofender, mas pra crescimento e necessário ouvir o feedback do publico. Se eu recomendo, Sim, mas não pelo valor atual. Eu aguardaria uma boa promoção na steam.
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