The Painscreek Killings

This is a short game. So if you're going to purchase it despite reading the cons, get it on sale as it's not worth it's full price point. [hr][/hr] I'd hate to give this one a thumb's down, it's just that this game, while great in some ways, fails to deliver in many others. I liked the lack of handholding. It was fun opening up a note file and jotting down everything I saw along with various clues. At the beginning, I felt like a real detective. But as time went on and I started to see the direction the game was taking me in, it lost it's thunder real quick. This isn't so much a detective or mystery game as it is a massive scavenger hunt. There's a lot of buildings, but only a few are accessible at all. Almost every accessible building has something inside of it that has to be unlocked, either with a key or with a code. The locations of some of these keys are a real headscratcher and it makes no sense why it would be there in the first place. And some of these things make no sense on why they are locked at all. Some of the codes are easy enough to figure out, others are literally handed to you, while quite a few make zero sense at all and no reasonable person would come up with it nor write down the key to it in a random place. I got about 80 or 90% of the way there before I just gave up and went with a guide to finish it because I had ran out of steam with this one. But the biggest issue with this game was the presence of a previous private investigator. His own notes state that he has read other journals and diaries, so why does the town appear as if no one has been there in a long while? Things and locations are locked as if he had never been there at all. The journals are in the same place as their original locations and not in his (locked) hotel room. What kind of private investigator wouldn't collect the diaries he read? What kind of private investigator wouldn't have a ♥♥♥♥ load of notes on everything that he had seen or read? It's just a few offhand notes here and there. Maybe a few photographs of places that are LOCKED that he has gotten into (yet he does not possess the keys). And of course the ending. Which is essentially a chase scene that completely throws you out of the vibe the game was going with. You can die and the whole investigation will be for naught as all that you discovered is lost along with you. Fortunately for you, you have a friendly ghost to literally point you in the right direction.

PQP que jogo absurdamente bom, excelentes puzzles que te prendem e um misterio que te surpreende a cada nova pista, recomendo que usem bem o bloco de notas e anotem tudo, excelente jogo

还是挺好玩的，就是前期体验实在太糟糕了。别的游戏都是开头一堆信息后期才卡关，这游戏开头哪哪都进不去信息密度又低又没用，中期才像通马桶终于通开一样爽快起来。要是地图缩小一倍或者开头引导明显一点就好了。 总体还是很有趣的，推荐

♥♥♥♥ that aXE KILLA

操作很不方便，画面也很一般，也没任何提示，后悔买了，玩了十分钟再也不想玩了

spooky but u gotta lock in

纯粹的找钥匙模拟器，没有任何的交互感，推理带来的成就感还不如玩两关推箱子

very cool