Considering the price of this game, it's decent enough for what it is. If the game was any more expensive it wouldn't be worth it at all. That said, a dollar isn't bad, though you can wait for it to go on sale for 49 cents as well.
This is an odd little game, that I feels like, not someone's first attempt at a game, but perhaps this is their 3rd or 4th time and they are starting to figure out a lot of the mechanics and atmosphere while experimenting with 3D games. It runs really rough, but I can tell someone had a good idea here.
I'm putting this in the not recommended because it's not really that fun to play.
You start off being dropped into a random spot in a neighborhood with the goal of searching each house for 5 cursed dolls. Somehow, for unexplained story reasons, finding all 5 dolls lifts the curse of "laziness" and the haunting goes away. Somehow, "laziness is why there's ghosts in the houses, dead people.. and a 3 headed monster roaming the streets. Why and how does this work? no idea. Why does finding 5 random cursed dolls that look like winged orc rejects lift the curse? no idea.
Anyways, the location of each doll is somewhat randomized so you have to explore every house to find them. All the while there's a large 3 headed CGI monster that walks the streets, if it sees you it sprints at you to catch you. If it gets you, it's game over and you start again. You have to enter a house and close the door behind you to stop it from chasing you. Just don't stand too close to the door or walls as it's arms can still clip through and grab you anyways.
I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but sometimes the monster will also spawn inside a house and you just have to leave to other houses, wait for it to despawn and come back later. I even had one case, in the very first game of this I played, where I had 3 of the dolls and suddenly the monster spawned on top of me in the house and I instantly lost. No warning at all, just boom it was there and had me.
Other than the monster, there's also ghosts that are somewhat random in houses. Your camera shakes and you start moving really slow when your close to one. If you touch the ghost outright, you die, which also there's an achievement for that. you also have a health meter of some sort but it only goes down when you're staring at a ghost and you heal when you look away. so you can also die by staring at a ghost for too long. A strange mechanic.
There's nothing else to do in the game, find the dolls, avoid the monster and don't die to the ghosts. there's also "secret" locations for achievements, but they're not so much secret as just visiting certain locations or staring at the right objects. there's a guide on the community hub that helps with these if you get stuck.
This game also makes my computer run super sluggish. I finally had to turn the graphics settings down a bit to help with this. I don't understand why it does though as the whole game is literally one neighborhood block with probably less than 20 houses total. there's no real sky box, and if you stand on a trashcan by the boarder fence can see the world ends just a few yards out. I have no idea why a location that amounts to about 6 CoD zombies Nuke Towns put around each other makes a 3 and a half GB game and runs so bad.
That being said, it's not terrible. If you want something that's fairly easy to get 100% achievements and good for a slight scare, as well as see someone's decent attempt at a horror game, maybe give this a shot. it's worth it at the price. However it's not really a fun game.
so I'll leave it at that.
