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• gamedeal user

  Aug 16, 2023

  One of the best horror games in recent years, highly recommended. P.S. play in offline mode or your gonna end up with an empty steam friend list ;)
• gamedeal user

  Feb 4, 2016

  [i]"There is a way to turn an entity into data..."[/i] Between games like Undertale, Pony Island, and IMSCARED, the idea of breaking the fourth wall of the game to terrify the player directly is quickly becoming one of my new favorite tricks. IMSCARED is the full retail version of the original, much smaller game of the same name released back in 2012. If you've heard of it or seen any gameplay videos or Let's Plays, chances are you're already aware of the game's central "gimmick". If you'd prefer to go into the game blind (which I recommend) then don't read any further. IMSCARED is a good game for a very cheap price. Worth the play. If you're curious, then read on: IMSCARED's main idea is that the game will mess with your computer itself to deceive, attack, and scare you. Essentially created a horror game acting like a malicious, haunted virus. Right off the bat the game automatically creates a folder on your desktop where it will send you messages, sometimes to aid you, and other times to taunt you. The ways the game requires you to think outside the box and the ways it uses your computer become more creative and more clever as the game goes on. For a gimmick, it's a well implemented gimmick. It should be noted that when I say the game's tricks get more clever as you go along, the entire game really is the same way. The first gameplay section of IMSCARED (past the short tutorial) is the original 2012 game in it's entirety with one or two very minor changes. Compared to the rest of the game afterwards, the beginning segment feels amateur, and it's not a great testament to what the game had up it's sleeve. It feels very much like the developer took the original game and has been building and improving on it since 2012, leaving the segment feeling a tad uneventful and slow (not that the segment is bad, mind you, but the rest of the game just feels a lot better). You're probably going to either tolerate or hate the graphics. It's VERY low-res and can make finding small object sprites hard. On the flipside, it does help push the idea that "this is a video game that's acting very wrong". Movement can be annoying, as the game has a tendency of having you get stuck on objects or even in narrow corridors, especially when running. The game's no Silent Hill 2, but it has some fun, creative scares and incredibly creepy atmospheres, especially when it incorperates the gimmick of a haunted video game. Even the least subtle parts are still better than many cheap indie horror games. Much of the gameplay consists of puzzles, which get better as the game goes on and it fully utilizes the central idea to it's potential, even if there's a bit overreliance on keyhunting, usually there's more than just backtracking to keep it interesting. Overall, for four dollars, IMSCARED is a good game to check out. Maybe it won't for your style if you can't suspend some disbelief at times, but if you can, then I believe you're in for an enjoyable and scary ride.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 11, 2023

  scary game, the ghost girl is hot
• gamedeal user

  Oct 13, 2022

  imscared really is an underrated gem of a game, and is by no exaggeration the forefather of meta-horror in the PC game realm. It has laid the foundation for moments in fantastic games like Undertale and Dok Doki Literature Club, and I think its sad that this game has not received as much attention as these ones. It was originally released in 2012 and scared the pants off of many people who, at the time, had no clue what this game was, why it was messing with their files, or even why it began to pop up all over their screen acting as if it were a virus. In lots of ways it was similar to the movie The Blaire Witch Project, a movie that presented itself as a collection of lost video footage with the intentionally fake goal of trying to find these missing students - it even went so far as to create a website to gather information on the subject. It was marketed as authentic, and this game did the same. It truly sold the thought that maybe this game wasn't just a horror game, but rather a virus developed with intentions unknown - some took what it said at face value and even began to think something was wrong with the game, as if it were alive. It preyed on that fear in spades within the extremely short 10-15 minutes it held. Now that we talked about the history, lets talk about the updated game here on Steam. To do a remake of something like this is already difficult due to the fact that the gimmick has been discovered. Additionally, with such a simple premise it would be hard to evolve from that without straying too far from its roots. Ivan Zanotti had to find the right balance to make sure he didn't lean too far to either side, and he tread the line exceptionally well. Although much of the core elements of what made the game scary remained the same, a newfound lore and story began to surface, one that is shrouded in vagueness, yet with intent. And at the very end of the game, a specific location reveals a bone-chilling secret that doesn't announce itself with noise, with effects, or anything. Its silent, and its just there - but the things that are placed there have so much symbolism that when you see it, your skin crawls. Its incredibly powerful and disturbing. And yet there it lays before your eyes, no audio, no nothing. And you have to deal with it. In certain ways, the ending itself is more disconcerting than the entire game, which is surprisingly astonishing considering the amount of fear, tension, and terror one feels when they come across the antagonist. Let's talk about that. The main antagonist, who I'll name as X to avoid spoilers, is a very unique one. When you think of a monster, or something terrifying, you think of something aggressive, monstrous, or beast-like in nature - but X isn't like that. He's terrifying in a completely unique and unexpected way, one that doesn't specialize in an initial shock that shortly dissipates once you know he's there - but one that sends constant waves of pins and needles shooting down your neck and back, making you shake in disturbing vulnerability. And yeah - it makes you scream too, but it doesn't just dissipate once he finds you - that feeling remains there every moment he remains on screen. X is absolutely disturbing without even trying to be - and you'll see what that means near the end of the game. Part of what makes this game so great is how it doesn't feel like it tries to be this grandiose immersive world - it understands the environment, this pixelated map. And it embraces it. It embraces the lack of definition and uses it as a tool in horror. In some ways it pushed people in the direction of the polygon graphical horror. Moreover, the sound design was absolutely brilliant and further leaned into this aesthetic by using intentionally bit-crushed sounds. The visuals and sounds harmonized to truly amplify the horror experience. IMSCARED is truly a pixelated nightmare. Both literally, and figuratively. Of course the graphics look terrible - and that's the point. Horror isn't about ray tracing or high quality graphics - that stuff can be great and is an amazing new tool, but in and of itself is just that, not a replacement for fear. This game proves this, as it doesn't matter what kind of material you're working with, whether its Unreal Engine 5 or a simple ancient version of Gamermaker Studio, if you know what you're doing, you can make something absolutely fantastic. The one single complaint, the only one that I could ever possibly come up with - and it is a rather big one - is that there is a choice that is made at the end, and depending on what that choice is, you either get your ending, or you get effectively nothing and restart. While the latter truly makes sense within the context of the story, it forces you to replay events if you wish to get another ending, and I don't think it makes sense to have a player replay about 1-2 hours worth of the exact same thing to get back to that choice. I believe it would have been fine if there were variations or things that shaked up on the replay, but sadly its not the case. Everything I said here will make sense when you get to the choice, so I don't have to spoil what the decision is for you to know what choice to choose. If you're curious on what happens if you make the choice that restarts your progress, just look it up, its quite literally 5 seconds long. That's all I really have to say. This game is a phenomenal masterpiece and even among games like Amnesia, I truly believe this is my personal favorite purely because of how it effectively helped kick off the start of 2 genres - both low-res horror, and meta-horror. It embraced the unknown among the large pixels and the bit-crushed rasps behind your ears. It never tried to veer away into being something fancy, it knew what it was. It knew what it wanted to convey and specifically how it wanted to go about it, and it wasn't afraid to embrace what was at the time an unpopular style. It grew in the shadows and behind your back. It knew when to attack and when to bide its time in the dark. It knew when to tell you things that you really wish you didn't read. And most of all, it fed on our most vulnerable and primal fear: the fear of things we don't understand. This is IMSCARED. And it truly is... A Pixelated Nightmare.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 4, 2021

  better than poppy playtime, no nfts
• gamedeal user

  Mar 19, 2023

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• gamedeal user

  Jul 19, 2023

  Sadly no sex scene with HER
• gamedeal user

  Feb 4, 2022

  I got scared.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 18, 2023

  I am sexually attracted to ghosts.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 7, 2023

  ghostussy