The Fear Island

[h1] A Confusing Attempt at Coop Horror [/h1] I look all over Steam for random / unknown Steam games to play. This was one of the chosen titles this week! If you'd rather watch than read, you can do so here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8L1eEeBWgw [b] [Thoughts and First Impressions] [/b] I love coop games. It's so nice to sit down with someone you like (or hate, depending on the game) and play a game where you have to work together to solve puzzles and get to your goal. It's always fun, even when the game isn't necessarily great if the puzzles are good then you can forgive a lot and get through it. This game is not that case. This game is a case of a neat idea that just failed on the execution. Let's focus on the coop portion of the game and ignore the horror for a moment. If you make a game that's coop, I expect a certain amount of needing to work together in the game for it to be considered co-operative. This game requires exactly 0 help from your partner to get through and beat. In fact, your partner can stay right at the very spot they spawn in at and they don't need to move the entire game. Your buddy can beat the whole thing by themselves. Instead of being a coop experience... the game feels more like a theme park where you just walk through each area and look at the attractions. OH NO! A spooky monster! Okay side step it and continue on. They have the objective of getting 15 cans of gasoline and you just pick them up as you go through the game. No challenge. No real puzzles or issues to solve. You basically just walk around the game until you get to the end and every once in a while the specter of death shows up and kills one of you randomly. Super fun. As for horror aspects... just expect a lot of invisible ghost zombies that will kill you frequently. They are glitchy and unpredictable. There is also a very loud laughing scarecrow that just wanders around a hedge maze attempting to get within the zip code of you to kill you. If you die to him... You probably should reevaluate. tl;dr - No actual cooperation needed with your partner. Just a theme park of weird stuff to walk though. No real gameplay. Join the Curator group for more reviews and "unboxing" of unknown games! https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34634494/