I think the first episode of the game is honestly the best part.
"The House Abandon" (the first episode) is what Stories Untold should have been. It's wonderfully creepy, has a great unsettling atmosphere, and concluded in a way that I enjoyed and didn't feel too anticlimactic. It had small twists and slight changes of detail between actions that I really loved, and there was a sense of horror throughout. The one issue I had with the chapter is the fact that the game's text inputs required very specific verbiage, and I often ended up stuck, looking to a walkthrough to see that I just needed to change one word in my input to progress.
The 2nd and 3rd episodes were not nearly as compelling. They each had a good mechanic that setup the episode, but they both threw that mechanic away about 3/4ths through the episode, whereas the first chapter reintroduced the same initial mechanic in a new way. These two chapters weren't as creepy as the first, and ended in unsatisfying ways, which sucks because they could have been so much better. Overall they weren't terrible, but they felt almost incomplete.
The final chapter does well in recycling gameplay and presenting new scenarios and I really enjoyed this one. It does in fact have a creepy atmosphere and a decently satisfying ending, so this episode was pretty good as well.
Overall it was a decent game that unfortunately leaves more to be desired from its horror and gameplay in certain places.
"The House Abandon" (the first episode) is what Stories Untold should have been. It's wonderfully creepy, has a great unsettling atmosphere, and concluded in a way that I enjoyed and didn't feel too anticlimactic. It had small twists and slight changes of detail between actions that I really loved, and there was a sense of horror throughout. The one issue I had with the chapter is the fact that the game's text inputs required very specific verbiage, and I often ended up stuck, looking to a walkthrough to see that I just needed to change one word in my input to progress.
The 2nd and 3rd episodes were not nearly as compelling. They each had a good mechanic that setup the episode, but they both threw that mechanic away about 3/4ths through the episode, whereas the first chapter reintroduced the same initial mechanic in a new way. These two chapters weren't as creepy as the first, and ended in unsatisfying ways, which sucks because they could have been so much better. Overall they weren't terrible, but they felt almost incomplete.
The final chapter does well in recycling gameplay and presenting new scenarios and I really enjoyed this one. It does in fact have a creepy atmosphere and a decently satisfying ending, so this episode was pretty good as well.
Overall it was a decent game that unfortunately leaves more to be desired from its horror and gameplay in certain places.