Stairs

As a player with impaired reflexes I can not recommend this game. There are two running or chase sequences. After many frustrating tries I managed to beat the first one in the mine but then when it came to the second one where you chase the light I end up getting killed and I even though I got to the pole and flipped the switch I still died.

A not so bad horror, crashes sometimes. Generic but not too bad.

Stairs was an exercise in patience. This due to a plethora of bugs, random crashes and a history that becomes boring in the first 15 minutes. A game that tried too hard to capitalise on the Stairs creepy pasta, but, unfortunately, lacks the stairs of said creepy pasta. Weird as it sounds, the game doesn't feature a demonic stairs leading you to your doom, but features one leading to boredom. Fair warning, the game crashed 4 times and bugged in the last 10 minutes, meaning I couldn't finish it, and had to restart the game all over again, which, I didn't. The game runs very well on Steam Deck, although I suspect this is because it's an 8 year old game... If you want to check how it runs on Steam Deck, just press the link below: https://youtu.be/yFan7VS--fk

Ich habe dieses Spiel nach 3 Stunden dann beendet, weils nur noch Schmarrn war. Der erste Teil mit Valerie war ja noch cool, auch wenn die Story keinen Sinn ergeben hat (zumindest ohne das Ende) . Der zweite Teil mit den Bergleuten war auch noch ok, auch wenns keinen Sinn zusammen mit Valerie ergeben hat. Aber was zur Hölle war der 3. Teil in dem Dorf??? Als ich dann Türen hinter Türen gefunden habe, wars mir zu blöd.

Stairs is a fairly basic Unreal asset flipped first person horror adventure, one of many hundreds, if not thousands of these glutting Steam. The "developer" paid for/pirated a few Unreal Marketplace assets, arranged them haphazardly in a first person adventure game template, and submitted it to Valve as if they're real game developers. Two notable criteria for what makes an asset flip instead of legitimate use of stock assets are whether those assets comprise the majority of the game, and whether the "developer" properly credited the people who created most of the assets in the game. This game fails both of those tests. The "developers" here didn't credit any of the artists and real, actual game developers who created the assets here, so this is plagiarism, as well as cash grab shovelware. Stairs is an older game from 2015. It's a venerable 10 years old at the time of this review, and, in fairness, some effort went into arranging the assets into a comprehensive story, but it's an incredibly hard sell given the utterly unrealistic pricing on a 10 year old asset flip. Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game, it doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. The developers didn't design the game for modern gaming PCs, as such the display resolution caps out at around 1440p, there's no support for the state-of-the-art 4K or higher resolutions. The game simply won't look right on modern gaming displays due to this failure on the part of the developers. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. This kind of asset flipping isn't harmless. It makes it harder for gamers to find genuinely made games from ethical developers. It makes it harder for genuine indie developers, who put hard work into trying to make real games, to find an audience for their products. It gives indie developers a bad name. So, should you buy this asset flip? Is this better than any of the 110,000+ genuinely made games on Steam? Of course not! Stairs has the far too high price of $13 USD, for which you could easily get any number of older AAA games. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, and the questionable ethical nature of the developer and/or their associates (as outlined above), this is impossible to recommend. For comparison, the $13 asking price for this game could get you games like "Dead Cells", "SCUM" or "Cuphead". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.

The game has a lighting issue that occurred after going in the shelter, i started the game again anew after reaching the mine in the first one but it happened again. The game intrigued me but that glitch simply destroyed the game, and lighting in a horror game thats based off of the darkness and flashlight is kinda massive.

Stairs could of been better if they added on check points when you reach certain part of the mine maze, made it controller friendly, and not try to make it all dark all the time no matter how much you turned the gamma up.

The first hour of this game was promising, however the remaining 2 convinced me that this game is not worth anything 3 dollars, if even that. A genuine disappointment. Nothing is ever really fleshed out or explained. Like the game just ends with no closure or anything. Like the dev team filed for bankruptcy 60% of the way through and had to ship what was finished. Saves are inconsistent so if it crashes (it will) you will have to make up 30 minutes of progress. Aside from one VA, the voice acting sucked. 2/10