I can't believe I haven't talked about the game on here yet (I have on steam). I played and finished it before I left on holiday, and loved it to bits. It's short, but very good and ridiculously good at evoking a psychological horror. You can't fight the things that are behind you and have to be sparse with light and candles as you're running on oil/using tinder...the more time you spend in the dark, the quicker your sanity will drop. This is clearly only worsened by certain events and the proximity of monsters.
At one time, I was looking in a dungeon for something when I see the Beast/Shadow/God Knows at the end of the hallway, howling. I turn around into one of the cells and throw closed the door behind me, then huddle up in a dark corner of the cell. I don't hear anything for a few moments, then it starts bashing down the door. My (in-game) breathing picks up and my sanity goes on vacation...I know it's gonna peer into the room any second but that gazing upon it will only increase my panic/insanity, so I stay in my corner but against all intuition I face TOWARDS the corner. The door comes crashing down and I hear it in the door opening for seconds that seemed to last for minutes. All the while I'm sitting at home with my hands before my face, looking in between my fingers whether it'll get me or not. Then it walks away and I (in-game) catch my breath.
Moments like that are just sheer brilliance.
I actually played in short sessions of an hour, hour and a half because the constant idea of there being something there wears you out. The story is good too, balancing somewhere between a classic historic horror story and Lovecraftian. Graphics extremely efficient for the genre, with an intuitive handling system (mouse-operated) that it borrowed from the Penumbra series.If you like horror games, a must-buy.
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