The Corruption Within is a kinda okay point-and-click adventure game.
Gameplay-wise, it's pretty standard. You click on stuff, get inventory items, and use them to solve puzzles. It's not the most obtuse puzzles, but there is the occasional weirdness. One problem, is that because the game is short and there aren't many puzzles, it can be way faster to trial and error through rather than think. I also don't really like having to click on something multiple times to get something useful from it.
Unfortunately, the story wasn't very compelling either, although a little bit of that is my own fault. For some reason, I thought this would be a horror thriller. It was not. There are no horror elements and that did dampen my impression of the story a bit. Aside from that, the mystery and plot are just okay. The villains don't have any interesting motives and the mystery isn't particularly compelling or suspenseful. The "plot twists" weren't very shocking and my response to all of them was: "Oh... I guess that makes sense." A lot of dialogue also feels kinda stiff. Like the writer wanted to communicate some information to the player/reader and didn't bother dressing it up to sound natural sometimes. Looking back on the story now, it feels like the whole game was written with the minimal amount of story and dialogue needed.
Ultimately, it's passable. It's a short story that I killed an hour playing. It's not bad, just completely middling. Got it on sale for $2.49 and felt it okay with that, but probably wouldn't pay full price.
Gameplay-wise, it's pretty standard. You click on stuff, get inventory items, and use them to solve puzzles. It's not the most obtuse puzzles, but there is the occasional weirdness. One problem, is that because the game is short and there aren't many puzzles, it can be way faster to trial and error through rather than think. I also don't really like having to click on something multiple times to get something useful from it.
Unfortunately, the story wasn't very compelling either, although a little bit of that is my own fault. For some reason, I thought this would be a horror thriller. It was not. There are no horror elements and that did dampen my impression of the story a bit. Aside from that, the mystery and plot are just okay. The villains don't have any interesting motives and the mystery isn't particularly compelling or suspenseful. The "plot twists" weren't very shocking and my response to all of them was: "Oh... I guess that makes sense." A lot of dialogue also feels kinda stiff. Like the writer wanted to communicate some information to the player/reader and didn't bother dressing it up to sound natural sometimes. Looking back on the story now, it feels like the whole game was written with the minimal amount of story and dialogue needed.
Ultimately, it's passable. It's a short story that I killed an hour playing. It's not bad, just completely middling. Got it on sale for $2.49 and felt it okay with that, but probably wouldn't pay full price.