Reviews

• Kc

  Jan 14, 2023

  This game is a nice throwback to the original Clock Tower game, from the multiple endings, vague plot, hiding mechanic, although it fell short in catching up to all the former's aspects, but in the general essence it's done a mostly good job. When comparing to the original Clock Tower, which has a lot of creative usages in the hiding mechanic where you could actually fend off the villain, the game's hiding mechanic is extremely barebone, with an even lazier single frame hiding animation, but for the other aspects the game did a competence job for a very low budget title, the sounds design and especially the musics are greats, and create a capable tension, the graphic style for a side-scroller is well-done and charming to look at even if simplistic. The plot is barebone, with nothing really explained but you did get some bit and pieces to pierce together an interpretation, though when compared to Clock Tower is pretty uninteresting and uninspiring, though at least it does its job for a simple horror game. Overall, this is a decent love-letter to the original Clock Tower game, that I'm confident that anyone that is a fan of would be able to get enjoyment out of it, and for the already low price especially when on sale, it definitely worth getting.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 12, 2023

  it is okay
• gamedeal user

  Apr 15, 2023

  Women who are scared of and scream over everything? Check Men who feel no fear and their Asian fetishization is seen as just a 'wacky endearing' trait? Check Ew.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 31, 2017

  I'm really enjoying the game so far. It's a side scrolling, horror game, with clock toweresque hiding mechanics. Its a port from a 3DS game, so you will have a whole window showcasing both your image screen and the bottom options/inv screens. But I could easily get past all that, simply because i didnt wanna play on my 3DS. You will have to expand your window size, to fit your screen, but for those who are use to pixel horror games, or pixel games in general on steam, this will be no problem to do. I picked up this game, bc i love everything to do with surivival horror and so far, its great! Will edit my review again, once completed, if I find anything glaring. \o/
• gamedeal user

  Feb 18, 2018

  The game is decent, I enjoy my time playing it. The game doesn't contain any real puzzle or complex hiding mechanics, and the plot itself is kind of like a B-Movie horror, if that turns you off then I say stay away. But if you want to enjoy something short, and a horror game kinda similar to Clock Tower then maybe you'll enjoy it too.... maybe.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 20, 2018

  [h1] Enter the world of boredom[/h1] Survival horror shouldn't be that hard to replicate: item management, clever map design, challenging enemies, scary stuff. Creeping Terror fails at all of that. Controlling protagonist Arisa you explore a creepy mansion and an adjacent abandoned hospital while discovering their backstory, and also being chased by a guy with a shovel, a woman with a chandelier, and a dog. Where do I start... how about that every map is composed of straight lines? How about that all characters (including the villains) have zero development, resulting in zero empathy for them? How about that the enemy encounters are boring and just pad out the game's hour and a half of actual progress into 3 fucking hours of running around and cheesing enemies by hiding right in front of their noses? How about that all of the documents you find are your standard "I'm scared/I discovered this 101"? How about that the game has no puzzles whatsoever, having you run around just to find keys and more keys? And you'd be forgiven for thinking the devs just compiled emulated 3DS code and passed it for a PC version (at least it runs fine). The game even has the gull to have 4 endings. But guess what, the game doesn't make it clear when you have to make the branching choices that lead to the different endings (there are 3), because when the moment comes the objective text on the screen funnels you towards ending A (the happy ending). Mediocrity is hard to appreciate, but Creeping Terror almost makes a compelling case for it: there's nothing inherently wrong with it. It works. And you should stay the fuck away from it.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 25, 2018

  It's telling when you finish a game and the first thing you think after beating it is: "Ahh Finally!" A thought that I couldn't help having after crossing the metaphorical finish line of Creeping Terror's story, and honestly I don't even know why I bought this game looking now at the screenshots. What is [i] CLEARLY [/i] a 3DS port, Creeping Terror is also a mediocre at best survival horror game that does nothing new and nothing well. I take most issue with the port job here, a 3DS title lazily adapted to "run" on a PC at the resolution of a 3DS. What was even the point of porting it to PC if PC players can expect the same visuals that a handheld system can render? There is a point at the end when you and your friends are escaping and a cutscene is playing, and since the bottom screen isn't needed anymore it disappears and makes room for the top screen, the top screen then almost fills my monitor and I'm left thinking: "Why couldn't it have been like this the whole game?" You push "C" to open your inventory and that pauses the action, the inventory screen could just take over until you exit out. But no, instead we get a tiny resolution screen of the characters and exploration bits up top. and the inventory that can't be manipulated until it's "opened" on an even smaller resolution screen on the bottom. The moment to moment gameplay is also underwhelming, as, after the first 20 minutes or so, you have played the whole game. Walk around and find where the next story part is, run away and hide while being chased sometimes, turn your flashlight on while running to avoid falling over, find keys to open doors, and mash "enter" when caught to not die. Do that for 2 hours and you win! A kiddy pool is shallow, Creeping Terror is paper thin. I won't rag on the visuals of this game too much as it appears to have been done on a budget, but the characters look like they've been animated in flash and move very stilted. I do enjoy making Arisa, our protagonist, trip on rocks over and over again. Mostly because she lands face first and doesn't brace herself with her arms at all, I also take no damage if I'm not being chased, Maybe I'm a sadist but I found it stupid funny. The story could best be described as "standard" as far as survival horror goes, some cues seem to have been taken from the old Clocktower games but this doesn't have anything I could get invested in. If you really want to play this buy it for 3DS, the Steam port is pointless don't play it here.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 16, 2018

  i have emulators on my raspberry pi that emulate DS games better than this shit payed version of a game. So where is the point in paying for it? Really, there was no effort put into it at all. Then now to the game. It's bullshit. When constantly running away from the "monsters" becomes annoying instead of frightening you missed the point. And the end is just a bullshit marathon trial and error party. I stopped and simply watched the ending on Youtube instead of wasting my time with this crap.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 16, 2018

  You play the role of a school girl turned electrician while fumbling around in the dark and barely looking up from your map screen, except to count which exit you're taking, in this water downed Clock tower clone. Sometimes, a dog, robed man or a tentacle rid shovel wielding miner chases you and you either chuck shit at them, hide or blatantly run into them then slam the A button because they're blocking your path and you can't be fucked backtracking. Multiple endings exist that do nothing to help the clichéd and unclear narrative. But I love this shit, so will keep playing in 30 min stints until I can figure out how to unlock 100% notes achievement. (After clocking this game I'd recommend using a walkthrough to unlock the addditional endings as it was ridiculously bu££$hit and unfair to find.) Not a bad port, but not a good one. Slight jarring and freezing at times on my PC. The invetory is awkward as fu(k to use, obviously intended for the Nintendo DS stylus. Five twelths of the screen is used for map, inventory (so on and so forht), five twelths of the screen for navigating your character through the maze and two twelths of the screen is reserved for black bars that hold no purpose. Why the fuck does anyone need to crouch or sneak in this game ever?
• gamedeal user

  Oct 31, 2018

  This is a very enjoyable game.