Charon's Staircase follows a man named Desmond who was requested to enter an estate which had been closed off for many years. He was tasked to find several documents and leave.

The story was surprisingly interesting and I like how the mystery of what happened to this dead estate was revealed in pieces. Much of it is gotten through documents, journals and letters which is similar to many survival horror games. It didn't do anything too amazing, but it was interesting nonetheless.

The game is on the short side however. 3-5 hours is pretty much all it takes to clear the game without using a guide mostly. The gameplay is shown through first person and you spend most of it just looking through rooms and searching for keys and switches.

There's a lot of jump scares throughout that isn't executed very well, but at least the atmosphere is pretty solid for a horror title.

There's no combat and there's barely any enemies in the game. You can die in less than a handful of parts so people don't have to be concerned with this issue.

There is a decent amount of puzzles though. Some are on the simple side while others got me looking up a guide.

The graphics aren't very good. Probably about PS3 era type graphics. Despite the performance and presentation graphic options on the PS5, they didn't seem to make it any better. Even the frame rate is iffy. The game can be glitchy at times forcing me to reboot the game.

Overall, it's a decent mystery story with some horror elements, but not much content otherwise.