Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy has a wonderful start, but very quickly tails off into a tedious set of fetch quests and the exploration of ugly, boring locations. After such a long development period and a lovely setting and premise, it's a real shame the finished product is so lifeless. SPOILERS FOLLOW! And these are probably the best parts of the game, so don't read if you intend buying and enjoying this! The opening sequence is excellent - a cold open that feints at being a fantasy horror adventure, before revealing through a visual novel section (with really GORGEOUS, characterful 2D art) that we've been playing through fiction that the true main character - a new college student - is writing. The 2D art is so good, the drop into 3D (with lacklustre character models, rudimentary environments, murky lighting and shading) is a shock. But the narrative remains brisk, with the main character's life quickly threatened by a cult that operates behind the scenes of the college - sometimes literally behind the walls of the dormitory! There's no interesting visual design to the enemies, who also lack engaging combat or patrol behavior - mostly patrolling and navmeshing to the player for a single, repeated attack method. These enemies await you in a garden maze and an endless library sequence. Puzzles are initially fine, but slowly become increasingly tiresome and outrageous, in the worst manner of survival horror moon logic. The game tries to maintain some liveliness with references to fan culture, but aside from some rote betryals, there's no interesting story here. At least the game started with an interesting, entertaining role for the main character (erotic fic writer) - but this dissolves as the game continues. In it's favour, the game DOES taking the effort to introduce tank controls or alternatives to the player, through a questionnaire at the beginning of the game, so there's some points for accessibility there. There's also an excellent hallucination sequence where the player character model changes during a camera angle transition, which is a brilliant effect that I don't believe I've seen used anywhere else. The game takes a few hours to complete, but is not worth anything more than a few euro. If you're looking for a strong fixed multicam survival horror at a low price, my advice is to seek out Carnival Massacre. If you do like games made with a fixed multicam approach, perhaps check out the [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/fixedcamera]Fixed Camera Appreciation Society[/url]! We've got a great curator, the most complete list of games made with this approach AND a very welcoming Discord. =)