Killer Frequency

Insanely immersive, must-experience once type of game

This was absolutely one of my favorite games within the past year. The premise was clever, the script was charming, and the characters were easy to root for (or against). I really enjoyed the chance to make the protagonist *not* the typical surly, bored, arrogant big-city-guy, and instead make him someone who is trying to keep peoples' spirits up, despite the 80s-style horror playing out in his little town. The color palette was also incredibly pleasing. As someone who chases that vaporwave feeling, the mood of this game was perfection.

Muito bom! O jogo é lindo e muito criativo! Consegue gerar tensão e medo nas horas certas, mas também é descontraído e conta com diálogos muito interessantes. Para quem gosta de jogos de terror e boa música. Recomendo

good spooky vibes

O conceito desse jogo é simplesmente genial. Você é um DJ de rádio de madrugada numa cidade do interior, lá nos anos 80. O plot é que a única delegacia pegou fogo e tem um assassino a solta, o tal do "Homem Assobiador" ou o "Homem Que Assobia" voltou pra tocar o terror na cidadezinha. De repente, você vira a única linha de emergência da cidade porque não tem policial atendendo, então você o radialista recebe as ligações. A tensão é absurda porque o negócio é muito pessoal. Cada ligação é um "se vira nos trinta" de vida ou morte. Tem gente se escondendo do assassino enquanto fala com você, e se você der uma instrução errada ou moscar, a pessoa morre. O peso dessa responsabilidade te deixa tenso. E a dublagem? Sensacional. E o clima do jogo, então? Melhor vibe anos 80. Neon, VHS e uma trilha de sintetizador que é muito boa. Parece que você caiu dentro de um filme de terror trash que alugou numa fita VHS antiga. O gameplay não é só ficar batendo papo porque você tem que investigar a rádio, resolver uns quebra-cabeças e decidir tudo na pressão, ao mesmo tempo é um baita podcast interativo. O que mais me impressionou foi que Killer Frequency não precisa de sustinho apelativo. O terror vem do fato de que a vida dos personagens depende de você e a história que se desenrola com o passar do game é muito boa. É, de longe, um dos jogos mais criativos que joguei nos últimos tempos. É inteligente, estiloso e tem muita personalidade. Se você curte um terror que te faz pensar e que entrega uma atmosfera insana, esse jogo é obrigatório. Obra-prima do terror.

Хорошая и очень атмосферная игра. Интересный сюжет, где от твоих решений зависит жизнь других людей. Практически всю игру была в напряжении из-за открытых дверей и отсутствия функции запереть их нафиг. Поэтому, 10 открытых дверей из 10

Killer Frequency is a fun little puzzle and dialogue focused game that I enjoyed as a palette cleanser. It’s short, but atmospheric and pretty amusing. Set in a small town in the 1980s, you play a late night radio host who is suddenly forced to answer 911 calls, while a serial killer is on the loose, and the sole surviving sheriff’s deputy has to leave to get help from the neighbouring town. Graphically it will win no awards, but it looks decent. Much of the game is just you in the booth selecting dialogue options, however the story periodically sends you out around the radio station to collect clues and useful information. The building is packed full of detail, and has quite a creepy atmosphere. There’s only ever a couple of characters who appear directly in person, but the game essentially obscures them in a couple of different ways to make up for the lower budget in detail and animation. There are a lot of characters though, but you interact with them through an intercom or down the phone as they call in. Here when it comes to the voice acting it’s clear that the budget was well spent, because everyone is voiced very well. The game has a decent soundtrack as well, which is not surprising for an 80s based game set at a radio station, although I would say nothing really wowed me from it. Gameplay wise as mentioned it’s selecting dialogue options and solving puzzles. Your choices and success is vital to characters who ring in surviving, and ultimately your own character as well. I found for the most part the puzzles made sense and were interesting and satisfying to do, without being too hard. I will confess there were just a couple where I save scummed a bit to pass as there are some leaps in logic, but that’s less moon logic puzzles and more just rather silly situations. It also seems that everyone in the town has access to mobile phones, despite it being 1987, or phones with very long cords. I felt that this could have been addressed somewhat in a tongue in cheek nature at least, maybe mention of a company testing out a mobile phone network as an early test or something rather than it just going ignored to make the game work. Having said that in terms of atmosphere, it’s obviously designed to be a game not to be taken seriously. While it is somewhat of a horror game, and as mentioned has quite a creepy atmosphere, I didn’t find any parts that were utterly horrifying. There’s a lot of comedy as well, and while I wouldn’t describe it as the funniest game ever, there were several parts that got a good laugh out of me. Storyline wise it’s pretty fun, a little cliched but that’s to be expected when it’s clearly inspired by 80s slasher films. I rolled my eyes a bit when a character depicted as a conservative was revealed to be a villain, because that felt on the nose and very ‘modern writer,’ however for the most part the script is decently written, funny and has plenty of twists and turns. As long as you take it in the manner it’s meant to be, a very cheesy riff on 80s horror, it’s a good time. Overall well worth getting on sale, I got it for a fiver. There’s between 6 to 7 hours long for one play through, and there’s some re-playability with multiple choices and outcomes.