Harthorn

Half a decade late to the game but I found this game to be very impressive, it was spooky, excellent atmosphere and setting, this game reminded me a lot of Condemned Criminal Origins without the violent homeless, the ambient music and the school reminded me of Condemned. Anyway very late review but I loved this game all the way through the slow build of dread and tension was spot on. Well done to devs.

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HARTHORN es un titulo de terror en primera persona en donde somos un guardia de seguridad encargados de cuidar una escuela en unas vacaciones de invierno, la ambientación y sonidos de este juego hacen que te sientas acechado constantemente, ya que tener que recorrer una escuela oscura ademas de la cantidad de aulas desoladas generan una inquietud a la cual tendremos que afrontar, mientras el juego nos va contando sucesos que pasaron en la escuela mediante notas, habran items que tendremos que encontrar, algunos pequeños puzzles, una trama que atrapa hacen de este titulo recomendable para los amantes de terror , duracion aprox. de 2 horas, ademas de que cuenta con logros.

[B]Harthorn[/B] is a short story-driven horror game taking place in a high school during winter break. You're playing as the new part-time security guard aided by a radio dispatcher, a setup somewhat similar to [B]Firewatch[/B] in how the dialogue between the two plays out and how nothing our of the ordinary happens during the first couple chapters. Even though you can take your time to familiarize yourself with your surroundings, it's not necessary as there won't be any game of cat vs mouse where you have to be able to navigate efficiently, but the maps scattered around the school pointing out your current location are quite helpful either way. It doesn't take long until ♥♥♥♥ hits the fan and you have to do a bit of sneaking with an instant-death-adversary roaming about: luckily, these sections don't take too long and the AI isn't hyper sensitive to the point of being able to detect the player from the most impossible angles. Harthorn has been developed by the Canadian one-man-team Vincent Lade and it's his 4th commercial release on Steam, all of his projects being horror-themed with a high emphasis on atmosphere rather than jumpscares: this is also the first release to run without any technical drawbacks, at least on my end. There's really not much to say here: both voice actors are certainly no amateurs, the first half in particular is pretty creepy and it's just perfectly bite-sized in what it's trying to achieve. If you like it short & sweet, it's worth a playthrough.

its the best game i played

Game is super lame, maybe worth $.50. It's not well optimized, at least for AMD. It crashes at almost every loading screen. This caused me to restart certain levels over again multiple times because the checkpoint, which happens when loading the next area, doesn't save because the game crashes. I verified game integrity multiple times, tried windowed mode in 1080p instead of 1440p but this had no effect. Enabling vsync seems to make it crash less but didn't completely fix the issue. Also when I press shift tab for the steam overlay, once exiting from it, the character won't move anymore. I would have to restart the game. Don't bother.

Genialer als ich vorher dachte :)