I never really understood these games where the horror is mostly present when you're NOT doing well. If you pay attention and are good at the game (I feel like I was, I mostly had perfect scores until the very end!) most of the horror is stuff you'll have to look up on YouTube. It seems common in this scene of games, what's up with that?

I'm fond of this game, though! The horror that is there is entertaining enough, there are some interesting ideas here. When you beat the game you get to see some developer artwork and commentary, and it's clear that this wasn't just some quick job to capitalize on what YouTubers would make a viral video on. It's funny, too. I also am realizing I'm a sucker for games that have interfaces that resemble older operating systems!

Reviewed on Apr 22, 2024


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10 days ago

I think the horror of this game is pretty present throughout. You must fail to get the "jumpscares" (or this game's equivalent of that), but the often tragic implications of callers' problems and the descriptions of said problems in the manual are creepy enough. It's sort of a "ohhh noooo" as you realize what the issue is. It's subtle, but I appreciate it for that. It's the horror in treating fantastic/horrific stuff like it's normal and mundane.

10 days ago

@sijrben Yeah that's true, especially given that a pretty big chunk of the solutions are just "Erm well that's too bad" without any solution, so finding somebody that has that kind of problem is pretty sad