I feel like a dickhead for abandoning this in the first chapter, but two things happened within about ten minutes of each other:
First, dialogue that went, roughly: "That sound... it came from the east!" "You're right... perhaps we should go east..." [walks two screens east] "If we follow this corridor, it will go east!"
2: got a game over trying to open a trapdoor because i had not investigated it enough times first
It didn't make me tense due to fear it made me tense due to annoyance, which is less than ideal for a horror game