In this grim return to the STASIS universe, expectant protagonist, Hadley, wakes up in a facility. Where is she? Why is she there? And, why do they want her baby? Help panicked and anxious Hadley find her feet and brave stomach-churning situations to break free, by solving puzzles in this FREE horror adventure game.
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Despite the graphical upgrade, this just didn't live up to Stasis.
The puzzles were frequently completely unintuitive in Cayne. I've played a fair number of adventure games and rarely have to use guides on the modern ones. That wasn't the case here. I really don't know how they intended people to come upon the solution, outside of brute forcing every possible combination of items in your inventory and in the environment. This issue is compounded by the slow movement and backtracking -- unintuitive puzzles are much more frustrating when it takes a couple of minutes to even check something.
I don't think the writing was as good, either. The main character this time around is a pregnant young woman who has been abducted for some sort of experiment. She quips left and right throughout the game, which feels very at odds for how horrifying her situation and environments are. I think a couple of nervous jokes would have worked well, but, I was just taken out of the horror a bit too much for my liking with how blasé she seemed. Additionally, where the lore PDAs were the highlight of Stasis, they felt a bit too cartoonishly evil here across the board. Stasis had a few cartoonishly evil characters, but they were mixed in among a lot of characters who felt like regular people, if frequently a bit apathetic or greedy.
That's not to say the game is terrible. There's some great body horror going on, and the environment are once again extremely well done. The sound effects and music were solid. Even if the moment to moment writing felt a bit worse, the overall plot was interesting given how short the game is, and I enjoyed seeing the world of Stasis expanded. It would have still been a 3 star game despite my qualms with the writing if it didn't do all of the Bad Adventure Game things. Still excited to move on to Bone Totem, though!
The puzzles were frequently completely unintuitive in Cayne. I've played a fair number of adventure games and rarely have to use guides on the modern ones. That wasn't the case here. I really don't know how they intended people to come upon the solution, outside of brute forcing every possible combination of items in your inventory and in the environment. This issue is compounded by the slow movement and backtracking -- unintuitive puzzles are much more frustrating when it takes a couple of minutes to even check something.
I don't think the writing was as good, either. The main character this time around is a pregnant young woman who has been abducted for some sort of experiment. She quips left and right throughout the game, which feels very at odds for how horrifying her situation and environments are. I think a couple of nervous jokes would have worked well, but, I was just taken out of the horror a bit too much for my liking with how blasé she seemed. Additionally, where the lore PDAs were the highlight of Stasis, they felt a bit too cartoonishly evil here across the board. Stasis had a few cartoonishly evil characters, but they were mixed in among a lot of characters who felt like regular people, if frequently a bit apathetic or greedy.
That's not to say the game is terrible. There's some great body horror going on, and the environment are once again extremely well done. The sound effects and music were solid. Even if the moment to moment writing felt a bit worse, the overall plot was interesting given how short the game is, and I enjoyed seeing the world of Stasis expanded. It would have still been a 3 star game despite my qualms with the writing if it didn't do all of the Bad Adventure Game things. Still excited to move on to Bone Totem, though!
i sorta feel like i got bludgeoned by lore i do not understand all that much, but it was an interesting and free introduction to the stasis universe so im interested to pick those up sometime to see more
<3 esoteric point and click puzzles <3
<3 esoteric point and click puzzles <3
It’s free so I recommend playing it if you enjoyed Stasis or usually like point-and-click adventure games. Having said that, I thought that Cayne was a bit of a downgrade compared to Stasis in almost every aspect except graphics quality. The world feels a bit more cartooney, the characters are charicatures most of the time and there are more moonlight logic puzzles with annoying backtracking. Still, an enjoyable experience but I'm not sure I'd given Stasis a chance if I had played Cayne first.
It took me too many years to finish a game that seems like it would be short. In the end, this adventure game takes up a surprising amount of time for being entirely free.
You play as a pregnant woman wandering around a collapsing facility stuffed to the brim with gory contraptions, hideous creatures and horrible people. There's a strange sense of being transported back to the 90s, with janky character models and a distinct influence from Sanitarium and I Have No Mouth carrying my fascination. I struggled with a lot of puzzles too.
You play as a pregnant woman wandering around a collapsing facility stuffed to the brim with gory contraptions, hideous creatures and horrible people. There's a strange sense of being transported back to the 90s, with janky character models and a distinct influence from Sanitarium and I Have No Mouth carrying my fascination. I struggled with a lot of puzzles too.
Just more of the Stasis universe, but the gameplay has improved a bit.
It's a short but interesting story, kinda convoluted puzzle solutions with a questionable ending, but it's what you'd expect from a "horror" game