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• gamedeal user

  Sep 30, 2021

  Alright. You’re curious about this game, and you’re looking at reviews hoping for someone to sell their position so well, it helps you make a definitive decision. That guy would be me. Why do you want this game? Is it the horror? The game has about 3 chase sequences, all last for about 10 seconds, 2 of which is by the same naked guy, one of which is by a monster that looks identical to aforementioned naked guy. The only spook is jumpscares in the stealth sequence that go “-LOUD NOISE- NEVER SHOULD’VE COME HERE” with a zoom in on the guard’s face. Maybe you wanted this game cause it’s a bit of an homage to Lovecraft? The only things this game has in common to Lovecraft is: a cult, some tentacle imagery, and exaggerated expressions. There is no descent into madness. Here is a collection of things the protagonist said, with a monotone low protagonist-eque tone: “oh no. not another portal…” “I better get out of this world.” You’re basically Newt Scamander from Fantastic Beasts: instead of being engaged in the plot, experiencing the fear of discovery and descent yourself, you are a bypasser, looking at the cult from the outside, listening to their shallow conversations about something that they “might’ve” done, or “might” do. Maybe you want this game cause you're a degenerate who wanted seggs in your horror? Unity models twerking at each other is probably not what your tastes would want. Maybe you want this game cause, lets face it, you just want another horror title, preferably short, where you just sneak and move and hide and solve puzzles: imagine that every cabinet can be opened, VR style, WITHOUT having a lot of secrets: its an exercise in red herring where you look through an entire room’s Ikea collection, whereas the secret is somewhere else. Clicking on a doorknob then moving your mouse to slide the door would’ve been a great opportunity for spooks, and doing the same thing for cabinets would’ve been a great opportunity for secrets. Two opportunities that the devs valiantly waved at as they passed them by, leaving you with nothing but….clunky a$$ mechanics. Their problem? No, its YOUR problem. That’s YOUR suffering. That’s probably the only Lovecraft despair factor in this game. As for the devs, if you are reading this, before you send a SWAT team to my house for defamation, I noticed you're making a sequel. Here are a few tips for you from a humble consumer: 1. Make a LOVECRAFTIAN GAME. Not a game that fangirls over Lovecraft: having Cthulhu imagery in a story that has nothing to do with Cthulhu, Lovecraft’s face on a fridge magnet of Rhode Island (you heard me right, curious potential buyer), and a ‘ in your other world’s name isn’t enough to make a game Lovecraftian. Expand on the cult. Show us how they integrated into society, what their origins are, what their true goals are. Don’t make the “other world” empty. 2. Tell the voice actor that he doesn’t need to sound like Solid Snake to make a good protagonist, and give him a script where he reacts to things a bit more realistically. 3. Either capitalize on your game mechanics, or scrap them for something simpler and more intuitive. There's no shame in that, my devs and devettes. Mechanics serve the game ideas. That’s their job. 4. A bit more FOV would be nice, especially in the other world where we want to take in the alienness of the place but oh, we could not. 5. Add stuff to the other world. Create disparity between our world and the other world. 6. Ditch the portals, or anything that removes the mystique of the other world, and makes it a casual thing you can walk into and interact with. 7. Don’t make the protagonist someone who feels overpowered. He waltzes in, goes through 3-4 portals in one night, and comes out victorious and in control. He should be someone who very misfortunately got in the mess, very fortunately and barely escaped, and the more he moves, the more he delves deeper in stuff he shouldn’t delve in, and his chances of survival slim down even further. I call it the “oh sh*t” effect. In conclusion: raise the standard, and good luck on the sequel.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 14, 2021

  It doesn’t take very long for Lust for Darkness to overplay its hand and reveal just what kind of horror game it really is; for all the shock value of seeing some Giger-esque creature with an overtly phallic head or yet another doorway shaped like genitalia, you realise it’s just that: hollow grotesquery employed for the sake of making you cringe. There are a handful of moments of genuine unease, but they’re few and far between in what is ultimately a short trudge through sex-inspired horror landscape that wastes the opportunity to find some genuinely interesting allegory in all that face-value titillation. Still, at around three hours to complete, at least it’s a mercilessly brief experience.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 7, 2022

  One of those cases, where you need a middle mark, because it really took me some time to decide how to rate this game. LFD indeed has some interesting ideas and strong aspects, but unfortunately overall lack of quality prevents me from recommending it. The intro you can see above promises more than the game can deliver. Let's start from the main selling point of the game - a synergy of ero-horror stuff. Are these two aspects good? Unfortunately the answer is "no" and "no". As to the horror part, I can't even call a game as a bad horror - it's just not a horror at all. And there is nothing "psychological" here either, like, let's say in Layers of Fear. Few rather predictable jumpscares here and there, few chases and that's your horror. Events take place in a huge mansion full of dangerous freaks, who can finish you on spot, but there is no feeling of some hidden threat, anxiety or obscurity. And those few chasings are ultra short, as if the game understands that this stuff is not very impressive. So what about adult content? Maybe this aspect is better? Sad but no. It's overall quality is somewhere from the dawn of TES Oblivion modding era. I can give you one more vivid example of it's quality. There is an achievement for staying (yeah just staying) at local orgy for 10 minutes. A-a-and... man, it was boring. Orgy. Boring. I even checked overall statistics and turns out that only little more than 5% of people bothered to get it, so it's not just my opinion. Gameplay in general? - typical walking simulator. Walking from one room to another, sometimes hide, reading stuff, getting visions, 2-3 chases, fast interactions here and there, few nice but easy puzzles. And one boss "fight" in the end. As to the voice acting - it's different. For the antagonist and female protagonist I'd call it great, ok for male protagonist and terrible for cultists. The main story was ok for the most part. But the ending was rather... The final actions of the antagonist were rather strange, to say the least. I know, I know "Ideas are eternal" and so on, but still... As to the visual aspects - that's without a doubt the strongest aspect of the game. Visuals definitely doing most of the job here. You see, the mansion is full of freaks who do some, let's say, "weird and unconventional" stuff. But they feel here like some kind of unnecessary filler. And exactly visuals via local aesthetics are doing much better job in creation of both thrilling and twisted atmosphere. Setting of LFD is also great. Local lore behind main events is very interesting. Defintely a lot of efforts were put into this aspect to create something unique. Unfortunately, developers chose rather strage way to tell you about this setting. First, you have to gather (of course) all the collectibles which give you brief information about the setting and only then you will get all the info in form of short VN, which can be activated via... main menu. Yeah. Kinda hard to recommend the game for a great setting, if people will have to read about it [b]after[/b] the game's end in the main menu. Technical issues. I didn't encounter any bugs and almost the whole game worked smoothly for me, but I had some atrocious perfomance issues in one of the initial locations - specifically in the garden, where you get cultist outfit. Overall, while I hesitate to give it firm recommendation, I wouldn't dissuade you to give it a try either - the game is constantly on sales, so why not.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 13, 2022

  When the protagonist finds his wife keeping a big ass dildo in a locked chest, his insanity level rises (blurred vision, heavy breathing, shaking, etc) as if he encounters a demon. Now this is a horror game done right!
• gamedeal user

  Nov 29, 2022

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• Venirto

  Jan 1, 2023

  An interesting take on the Lovecraftian horror with some grotesque environments. The gameplay however, is very clunky and I barely made it to the end due to boredom and badly done stealth mechanics.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 2, 2023

  It is sexy. It is scary. It is atmospheric. It is short. It is ideal for a 3-4 hour experience.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 6, 2023

  HORRIBLE GAME MECHS.
• faba

  Mar 27, 2023

  This is an Amnesia-like were you play a prude that gets upset when seeing naked bodies (well, at least this is proper Lovecraft).

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  Technical aspects (graphics, music, voice acting) are ok for it's price. Art direction and story are lacking it's not lustful enough, it's not Lovecraft enough, it's not Giger enough.

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  Wasn't impressed by the gameplay, Amnesia did the stealth and puzzle thing much better, this is just derivative gameplay intended to deliver a mediocre story.

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  I think this was a missed opportunity, if the gameplay and story would have given the player agency in doing lustful acts themselves isntead of being a mere watcher the game would have been MUCH more interesting.
• FairyThea

  Apr 24, 2023

  This game is better to be played before the other one ("lust from beyond") because it's about events that happened before. Interesting story, a very atmospheric world, lots of mature content. This game is much shorter than "lust from beyond" but still a good one, I enjoyed it.