The Painscreek Killings

我朝，刚从七号房间出来有个女的在河对面，黑长裙，视角一转就不见了。我超喂，你要是敢来突脸我必让你差评如潮！话说怎么有恐怖TAG没看见。。（小声BB） 操评论区还说有追逐戏，直接溜了

I revisit this game at least once a year, and recommend it to anyone who loves horror/detective/exploration games. I love the atmosphere, the music, the gameplay, and the constant haunting feeling that you're being watched, and that something has gone horribly wrong. Exploring the (seemingly) empty town to find any clue you can that can solve the case at my own speed only makes it all feel more real. It has easily become one of-- if not my favorite-- horror games ever. Every time me and my wife sit down for another playthrough we get more excited than the last time, and we somehow KEEP finding new things. It even feels like some playthroughs are more creepy than others. I'll never get over how dramatically the tension changes the first time you enter the hotel, where I'm constantly looking over my shoulder even years after completing the game. Some fear just sticks with you forever. 10/10 game, and I hope everyday for another game like this one.

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It's trying, but it does not have the sauce. I dunno, I gave it a shot, but it does not have the magic it needs to really grab you that a lot of its contemporaries possess.

I went into The Painscreek Killings completely blind, and that was probably the best decision I could have made. If you like detective games where the game actually lets you BE the detective, play this. There are no quest markers constantly telling you where to go or a character conveniently announcing that you've just found an important clue. You're given a town, a camera and a mystery. Good luck. 😂 I spent an embarrassing number of hours reading people's diaries, photographing documents, remembering dates, revisiting houses I'd already searched five times and staring suspiciously at random pieces of furniture. I even ended up keeping my own notebook beside me while I played, writing down names, dates, codes, relationships and anything else that looked suspicious. At some point I realised I wasn't playing a detective anymore. I had apparently accepted employment as one. 😂 There were moments when I'd suddenly connect something I'd written down HOURS earlier and genuinely go, “WAIT... WHAT?!” PLEASE play this as blind as you can. Some of the discoveries are so much better when you've spent hours building your own theories about these people, only for one tiny piece of evidence to suddenly change how you understand everything. I also wasn't expecting to become this emotionally invested. What starts as a fairly straightforward murder investigation gradually becomes a really sad, complicated story involving years of relationships, secrets and terrible decisions. By the end, these people I'd only known through diaries, letters, photographs and abandoned houses felt strangely real to me. For what I thought was going to be a quiet detective game, this got some surprisingly genuine shrieks out of me. 😂 At one point I was FULL-ON SHOUTING at my monitor. That's all I'm saying. I don't think I've ever gone from calmly taking investigative notes to pure survival instinct quite that quickly. Also, some interactable objects are VERY easy to miss. Sometimes the greatest mystery in Painscreek isn't who killed someone. It's “WHAT THE HELL HAVE I NOT CLICKED IN THIS ROOM?” If you're prone to motion sickness, I strongly recommend adjusting the FOV as well. I initially got horribly nauseated while playing, but increasing mine made a massive difference. I originally finished the game at 98%. Unfortunately for Painscreek, I took that personally. So I went back. 😂 I searched everything again, found things I couldn't believe I'd missed, reached 100% Completionist, and then went back one last time for the achievement I was missing. 33/33 achievements. 100% complete. I can finally leave Painscreek. ...although I will probably continue thinking about these people's family drama for the foreseeable future. 😭 Highly recommended if you love slow-burn mysteries, environmental storytelling, taking notes, making your own deductions and occasionally yelling at your computer.

I really enjoyed the game. There were some small things that were hard to find, in my experience; but if you are thorough, you can find almost all of it (if not all). The ending was not my favourite part (mechanically, the story is great), because i'm easy to scare and wasn't expecting the new mecanic, but after i mentally prepared myselfit was fine. Overall a very nice experience for the most of the 8h it took me to do the 100 percent. I recommend.

A liberdade que esse jogo traz para quem está do outro lado da tela é sensacional. Você não tem ninguém dizendo o que fazer ou o que é certo e errado. Ele basicamente lhe entrega a sensação que todo jogador sonha em ter ao iniciar algo investigativo: se vira. Excelente.