The Dire

Doesn't support 21:9 at all (16:9 image stretches over your 21:9 and there's no option to alter it) The game itself was okay but not really too captivaing or scary. 2/5

This game is awful. The voice acting is lame. The flashlight is so bright it bleeds everything out. I got as far as entering the house and that was enough for me.

First thing's first, Head bob is bad especially early on don't play it if that causes issues for you. The Dire is another abandoned building horror exploration game that's main selling point is that it is fully content to rest on it's atmosphere instead of throwing a bunch of jumpscares at you. That isn't to say that their aren't jumpscares, but considering that if you do everything right you should only encounter one that shouldn't be used as a point against it. While the game doesn't do anything exceptional, it shows a good understanding of how to build up a sense of dread as well as a good map layout that helps to add to the sense of horror. The sound effects are well done to make it so that you will likely realize that something is going on far after you got the feeling that something wasn't right and if you go back and try to figure out what point exactly it's obivous you'll find a bunch of little cues you didn't notice earlier. That said, the ending of the game is fairly weak, the game is split into three chapters and the first and first large block of the second really carry it. The second third ends with a section likely to kill you but it's frustrating more then anything else and can have issues working properly that resulted in me having to skip it. The last third fails to really deliver on the horror trying to do a mix between the atmospheric build up used so far and more obvious ways of showing you that something is off but the space provided doesn't really work well for it. Furthermore the game has a lot of sections that are just hard to read. While the game does have a number of issues with it, the experience is both polished enough and cheap enough that it's still worth playing (Though still consider getting it on sale) if you're a fan of this sort of game.