Not in Heaven

This is a short horror game by indie dev Ricardo Pratas. It is his second game, and this one is much better than his first one. I enjoyed playing this one, and a few of the jump-scares actually got me. When I started up this game for the first time, the language was set to German. However, since I can not read German, it took me a few minutes to figure out how to switch it to English. You play as Emily, an eight year old girl, in third-person view. Your mother had gotten sick and died a while back. Then, one night while riding in the car with your dad, there was a bad car accident. Emily narrates all this in the intro cutscene, but the music was so darn loud that I could not really hear her. Thank God there was text on the screen so that I could read what she was saying. You "[i]wake up[/i]" in a hospital bed, but it is not real. It is not clear whether you are medically dead, in a coma, or just currently unconscious, but you are definitely having an out-of-body experience. As soon as you leave your hospital room to look for your dad, you are thrust into a nightmare which is dark, surreal, and challenging. You cannot defend yourself, but you have stealth. You must navigate some maze-like areas, solve some puzzles, sneak past monsters, and collect some items. At the end, you must make it back to your body. Movement is sometimes kind of janky. Also, there are no visual cues to tell you when you need to interact with something or talk to somebody. Thus, you must constantly press 'E' as you walk around to see if anything happens. The graphics are decent, and the game is free. It will only take you between 1.5 to 2.5 hours to complete, depending on your pace of exploration, your sense of direction in the dark, your puzzle-solving skills, and how many times you die. Since the game is short, there are no manual saves. When you die, or leave the game and come back later, you will restart back at the last checkpoint. The game lacks any brightness controls, and some areas are so dark that it is hard to see where you are going, even with the light orb which often follows you. There are neither trading cards, nor achievements. Although the game does not really have any replayability after the first time, it is an interesting game worth playing. The game ran perfectly fine. I experienced no glitches.

Not in Heaven, sekiz yaşında bir kız olan Emily olarak oynayacağınız Üçüncü Şahıs gerçeküstü bir macera korku oyunudur. Annesinin ölümünden sonra Emily'nin babası onu tek başına büyütmek zorunda kaldı. Emily bir gün bir hastane odasında uyanır ve hatırladığı son şey babasıyla birlikte bir yolculuğa çıktığıdır. Emily'nin babasını bulmasına yardım edin, sorun şu ki, o hastane odasından çıkmaya çalıştığınızda beklemediğiniz bir şeyle karşılaşırsınız...

Tried to deal with the crappy camera for 25 min and quit. I can't do it. The cursor doesn't anchor and its hard to look and move around without a good camera. Anyway the one puzzle I solved was pretty easy and the graphics looked good. I didn't like the voice acting- it's garbled. Maybe with a little more work this could be a good game.

Guterntag, sher sehr bedauwerlivhes spiel. Warr manchmal ziemlich unbegeisternd aber übung macht das vollkorfn. ganz okayses spiel, wouldnt recommend. I love you emeliy kiss LG mayatron

GG verry creeppy uwu 's

I paid nothing for this and I want my money back.

[h1]Overview:[/h1] '[i]Not in Heaven[/i]' is a short third-person horror game where you play as a little girl named "Emily" on an unsettling journey in search of her father who had mysteriously disappeared when comforting her during her hospitalization. After being in a tragic car accident leaving her mother dead and both her and her father injured, Emily finds herself waking up in a hospital bed with an empty chair beside her where her father was sitting. Confused and distraught, she sets off to look for him and finds herself in numeral creepy environments along the way. It's not too bad for a free horror game but it isn't very good as it stands alone. [h1]Gameplay:[/h1] '[i]Not in Heaven[/i]' plays like a walking simulator with elements of survival horror and puzzling. The pace is very slow and I mean [b]very[/b] slow. Emily walks incredibly leisurely despite things that would normally scare the typical 8 year old girl being present everywhere around her. Not only that but her sprint isn't much better. Considering there [i]are[/i] actually pursuits in the game, a slow paced approach for a game like this isn't really the best idea. The distances you have to walk are for the most part tolerable and only once or twice did I find myself pushing down the shift key harder and harder hoping in vain that Emily would run faster. Despite this I still managed to complete the game in just under an hour which is a true testament to how short the game could have been had Emily been able to move faster than a windup robot. Other than that, the game [i]does[/i] have a few interesting and surreal events that are quite disturbing and does keep the player on their toes at times. The problem is that there isn't much of them and for the most part the game feels like a slog, you're essentially just walking around either solving puzzles or just trying to get from point "A" to point "B", Half the time I was wondering when the game would end because the insensibly slow moving was driving my brain to the brink of insanity. The environments were nice enough to look at which is probably what kept me going. The puzzles on the other hand are extremely easy to solve and are relatively straightforward. There's literally nothing special in this game and there are a good number of flaws in it. However, the flaws don't take away from the games playability as It isn't [i]too[/i] bad but a lot of the mechanics do not compliment one another. [h1]Graphics:[/h1] Honestly I have mixed feelings here. On one hand the skies are very nice and certain areas of the game are visually pleasing but the game has a lot of graphical inconsistencies splattered throughout. An awkward sheen can be seen on far too many surfaces making the entire game look like it's covered in some type of oil or grease. It doesn't look pleasing at all despite knowing what the developers were trying to do. That being said, some of the lighting and reflections are actually well done and looks good so they didn't botch all of the visuals which is the least that can be said. [h1]Audio:[/h1] I also have mixed feelings here as well. The ambience combined with the music don't go too well together, I feel as if the developers should have picked one or the other. Sound effects on the other hand are appropriate enough but sound like the typical sound you hear in most free indie horror games. Nothing special here since everything works fine enough although not of the best quality. If it isn't broken, don't fix it. [h1]Conclusion/TL;DR:[/h1] '[i]Not in Heaven[/i]' is a very slow paced horror game with light elements of survival and puzzling. Walking is extremely slow and makes the game feel dragged on despite it not being a long game. It doesn't have jumpscares but does have some creepy moments which are quite interesting. It isn't too bad for what it is but if you hate games where the character is slower than the average person walking, then this one will drive you nuts.

Camera doesn`t lock the mouse in place, the graphics aren`t great, it`s easy to get stuck in the stage after you save the boy and girl and the controls and brightness aren`t changeable when you load the game as well as awful sensitivity and the diagonal movement when sprinting is really bad as well.