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• gamedeal user

  Apr 4, 2016

  Have you ever wondered what would happen if you fused Dark Fall and Silent Hill together? I'll tell you what happens: you get Lost Souls, the creepiest game by far in the Dark Fall series. What a game. What a finish. Where do I even begin, since it's all great? I love the look of this game. You can tell Jonathan Boakes definitely had a bigger budget to play with since this game moves away from the Myst like feel, and more towards 360 degree surroundings, in which your character turns, sweeping the surroundings around him, instead of slide images. Time has not been kind to the Dowerton Station and Hotel. In Dark Fall 1, the train station is unsettling, but still just an empty, abandoned train station. In DF: LS, Dowerton has turned into a hell hole - a place where vandalism, illicit activity, and even satanic activity have become commonplace. The train station and hotel is beautifully rendered, yet is visually disturbing. This game does not bank on jump scares, though I was suprised a couple times. The scares come from knowing that you are exploring an evil place. The story is fairly simple and very reminiscent of a Silent Hill kind of story. You are an Inspector who failed to apprehend the kidnapper/murderer of a young girl named Amy. She was last seen at the train station. Your guilt and shame lead you to return to the station and hopefully find her and bring about closure. As you explore, you meet other ghosts who for some reason or other are also trapped in the hotel. Because you are such a nice inspector, you help these lost souls find their way so they can move on. Each ghost you help gives you a key that will be useful. What I love about this section is that you are able to jump back in time to 1947, seeing the hotel at its peak. It makes returning to the present all the more horrifying as you see the decay of the place. Just like the previous Dark Fall games, the use of sound is great. With visuals and sound creating an eerie, disturbing world, this is a game that would definitely be one to play in the dark with a good set of headphones. So, good basic story, good visuals and sound, what about the puzzles? They are by far the easiest puzzles in the Dark Fall series. Yes, you will still read a lot and you will need to take notes, but I feel that the puzzles are a lot more intuitive than the previous games. There are three floors to the Hotel, and each one serves as a kind of level. The Train Station itself serves as a level. Within each level, there are puzzles that are meant for just that area. To me, that makes this game a lot easier, unlike Dark Fall: The Journal where you just jump in and have no idea what the first objective is. Speaking of learning objectives, your character has a cell phone! Throughout the game, you will receive texts that will give hints to where you should go, and the next mission. It will also serve as filling in parts of the story. This game was a fitting conclusion to the Dark Fall series. I enjoyed revisiting the Dowerton Station and Hotel. It has really made me curious and excited to look at other games made by Jonathan Boakes. If you like ghost stories, you owe it to yourself to try the Dark Fall series.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 4, 2013

  First off, only get this game on sale. Even though I recommend it, I don't for $13. It's more of a under $5 game. Also if you are looking for a really creepy game that keeps you on your toes, and/or have balls of steel, then this game might not be for you. This game has a few good jump scares but for the most part you end up losing the fear until the jump scare puts you back into it. And if you are pretty comfy with most horror games then the jump scares will make you jump a bit then be like "Meh." Finally, if you want a 'simple' game that is easy to play, then this isn't for you either. The puzzles are hard and for most of the game me and my friend had a guide we would go to every time we couldn't figure what to do. With all the said, Me and my friend enjoyed the game. The surroundings were spooking, the story was interesting. Hell the main reason we didn't want to stop was because we wanted to figure things out. Why was he there? What were those statue? The Voice acting is pretty bad though, I remember asking my friend if they just pulled some guy off the coding crew to voice the main character. I think that might be my biggest complaint, that the voice acting was horrible. It really pulled you out of the game whenever they spoke, especially the main character. But I've dealt with worse. If you are easily creeped out and good at puzzle games, I recommend the game. If you are more into being chased and always having to be on your toes, then maybe you should go look somewhere else.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 9, 2017

  3 attempts at game, 3 crashes within 5 mins of starting game :( gave up, was looking forward to game but looks like the game has other ideas. Update: Use Vista SP2 + Administraive compatibility settings, now past the crashes. Also created my own desktop shortcut as wil not open from within steam. Still more crashes and sound loops :( Now starting to get into the game, classic point and click old style game. Only let down once you are playing the game is there are no graphic/video settings so you have what you have. If you like old style pojnt and click (easy) games then give this a try when on special price as long as you use compatibility settings for Windows 10.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 21, 2014

  6/10 A bit of a 'meh' game, really. If Steam had the option for a middle spot between recommend and don't recommend, I'd choose it. It had its moments, some of the puzzles were good and much of the story was okay as well, but nothing really shone. Some confusing UI. Some horrible voice acting (and some okay). Some cheesy horror aspects. No ability to skip repetitive dialog or animations. Quite linear, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but there are some obtuse prerequisites to move the story along at times. For instance, you're in a room, do everything you can...and move on. Explore some other area, do all you can...then get stuck. Well if you then go back to the first area, something will have changed for some reason...triggered by something else you did but for no apparent reason. But overall, it just didn't grip me enough to make me want to work through things...or I would just assume something illogical was going on even if in the end it just might have just taken a little more scrutiny...but time I didn't feel like spending on it. In the end, it was good enough that I at least was willing to finish it. I got it on a 75% Steam sale, so I can't complain. If you like horror/spooky and maybe have an interest in the occult, it might grip you more than it did me and you can overlook some of its flaws.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 2, 2021

  I came to this game right after finishing The Lost Crown. I'm playing all the games these developers made (dark fall, lost crown and barrow hill sagas) in the order they were created, and so this was the next one on the list. It was also advertised as "in development" inside the Lost Crown; and while that may seem like a random, unrelated detail, I think it explains a LOT about this game. Clearly all efforts went into that game, which was waaaaay more developed and better executed than this one. I'll start by saying the good things about this game, and then on to the list of bad ones (which won't be complete, that's for sure). Good things: - Graphics: way better than any of the other games. They took their time with each location (even if what they used in those locations doesn't make sense, they still look great). - Soundtrack and sounds: very creepy, although I still prefer the ones from their previous games. - You help some ghosts throughout the game, and those moments are actually quite fun; I wish the game had more of those. Bad things: - Very boring at times; it resorts a lot to very simple jigsaw puzzles. By the third one I was already thinking "why the hell do I have to make more of these"? And sadly, there were many more after that. That's just an example, many many puzzles were quite repetitive and generic, which is one of the trademarks of this game. - A LOT of the puzzles don't make any sense story-wise (and sometimes, they aren't even logical at all). This is a real downgrade from all of their previous games, especially the first dark fall and the lost crown, where all the puzzles made perfect sense and were very reasonable. - Many puzzles are just pixel-hunt, in hidden object style screens. Why was that necessary? I had to resort to walkthroughs several times, and felt perfectly justified to do so, since I didn't want to just spend hours clicking every possible pixel until I got the one I actually needed (when you try it a lot and don't find anything, you can of course think that there may not be anything there, at least not yet, and so you waste even more time looking elsewhere; this happened to me once, and after going to a walkthrough, it clearly became my preferred method for those puzzles). I almost gave dark fall 2 a bad review because of the very same problem; this one got me, because it has a LOT more. - Moving through the map is a real pain; you move veeeeeeery slowly. And adding to the pixel-hunting problem, you can look up and down in every screen, even though it's only useful five or six times in the whole game. That's clearly a time wasting ploy to make the game last longer. There's also a lot of zig-zag, especially in the first location, which means wasting a lot of time when you need to backtrack through there to reach somewhere. Overall, the whole became feels very much like a chore, most of the time. - The game is VERY linear. You do everything in the order the game tells you, which many times requires to leave some puzzle incomplete, in order to follow a clue they make you follow, for another puzzle which will also be left incomplete to follow a third one, and so on. So you basically have only one order for doing things, and you still leave many things incomplete and complete them later. Feels like the worst of both worlds. The first game was beautifully non-linear; compared to that, this is awful. - This game resorted to a lot of common horror tropes from a million games, making it a lot more generic than the previous ones. The first dark fall was so original, so different than most games, it was really something else. This one, has the usual blood on the walls, floors, etc., for no real reason (no one actually died that way or anything), it is LOADED with syringes, rusted scissors, and creepy mannequins, also for no reason at all, making it look a lot more like the usual insane asylum from sooo many generic horror games, even though it's a hotel and there's no real reason for any of that being there (and if the location isn't a factory that makes scissors and syringes, it makes absolutely 0 sense to find that many in one place; there's really hundreds of each, wtf?). There's also the soooo overused "creepy little girl" trope; she even had dark hair (like so many others), until the developers decided to make her blond, but didn't bother to change all the "missing girl" posters that cover A LOT of the areas, which show a girl with black hair (again, wtf?). - The jumpscares are fine, but some of them repeat themselves when you go through the same location, and it becomes boring fast. Also, in the same vein, this game reuses a lot of stuff several times, even when it makes no sense. Each time you play games with a ghost, your character says the exact same thing to her (something like "I'm too tired for games"), and the ghost answers the exact same thing over and over again. It was like "really?". Three times in the game!! There are many more examples of this. - This location is the same as the first game, however, story-wise, this is completely unrelated. The problem with that is that, while in the first game it was perfectly clear by the end what the dark force at play was, and the confrontation with it was resolved, here, you don't really get any kind of explanation of what that dark force is, wants, or comes from. Everything seems to be due to the usual [spoiler] evil little girl, which for some reason is in league with said dark force [/spoiler]. All in all, it's a much more generic horror story, with a VERY different atmosphere than that of the first game (which was awesome, even lovecraftian in nature). - These games are famous for the ghost hunting gadgets you use, allowing you to see things that normal people can't; there's none of that here. - The story is VERY predictable. There's a reveal near the end which isn't a reveal for anyone other than the character (which is an incredibly thick person, who sees a flying, translucid little girl and believes, somehow, that she's still alive, again, wtf?). You can see it coming for, at least, half the game, perhaps even the very first minutes. - The way to access the easter eggs (bonus documents) is either illogical ("look at that thing 6 times"; why would you do that???) or simply unreachable without a walkthrough (when you use a ouija board, you have to input letter by letter, which takes like 5 seconds for each letter; who would even try inputting names from the original game, randomly, and very time-consumingly, until you find that one character whose name gives you an easter egg??? It's ridiculous). Achievements would have helped a lot here, because you could add an achievement for each, an provide a clue in its name or something like that; however, all such efforts went into the Lost Crown, and this one was left as a mere cash-grab. - Not counting the dark force at play, other things remain unexplained by the end ([spoiler] crying in the window, for e.g. [/spoiler], and there's no way to infer any of them. - Dialogs are not well though-out, many things look like placeholders even. This is the first game by these developers that I feel deserves a negative review. The others had their flaws, but also provided a lot of new and original things, which made up for them. This one comes out as a generic horror game, with a generic story, generic characters, generic locations and items, and generic gameplay, with many many many flaws (way more than the other games had). Thus, I'd advice against this one, sadly.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 2, 2013

  There is nothing like good horror game and this is one of the best I've played. This third instalment in "Dark Fall" -trilogy provides interesting storyline and most of the puzzles are logical. Some players might be annoyed with moving mechanics which are out of date, but this did not drive me off. (horror almost did :) ) One of the brightest pearls in small lake of horror games; check the 2 prior Dark Falls too and note that all 3 games have independent stories.
• gamedeal user

  May 16, 2022

  I had to beat this in one sitting because I did not want to come back to it. It isn't that the game is bad but rather it feels like it trips over it's own feet with being all over the place. Point and Clicks are great but be ready to devote some serious time to understanding what the game wants from you.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 1, 2016

  Coming from the first two Dark Fall games this one was a huge disappointment. I miss the ghost-hunting and the eerie historical Cornwall vibe I got from the previous games. Even though this takes place in the Station Hotel, it doesn't feel like the same setting as the first game. Lost Souls relies way too heavily on boring, over-used tropes from the modern horror genre: Creepy little girl? Check. Scribbles on the walls? Check. Old hospital paraphernalia? Check. Scary dolls and mannequins? Check. Random gore? Check. Nonsensical jump scares? Check, check, check, and check. Definitely play the first two Dark Fall games (and the Lost Crown games from the same dev), but I say pass on this one unless you get it at a huge discount.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 7, 2014

  Definitely if you like point and click adventure puzzle games, this is a great title to get. It's pretty spooky and has a fairly interesting storyline. Happy to have played this for sure
• gamedeal user

  May 25, 2016

  I wanna start out by saying I LOVE old school point and clicks, and the first 2 dark fall games were amazing to me, story, gameplay, environments, etc. They had everything I look for in an adventure game. I cannot say the same for Dark Fall: Lost Souls. It feels like they just handed the location setting to a completely random team, and said "make a ghost story!" The story is cliche and forgettable. The first 2 titles in the series had very original, deep plotlines that I loved delving into. The lore was awesome, and traveling to different time periods was essential AND fascinating. In Lost Souls, the story is about a ghost girl that is haunting a haunted place. That's literally it. The depth of "malakai" from 2, or the intrigue of the well are completely gone from Lost Souls, and replaced with a snotty-spoiled ghost-child wearing pig tails. A huge let down. The environments are a GREAT improvment! This game looks amazing compared to the first entries, however it's a huge shame that the improved graphics isn't met with better game design. Instead of being afraid of the story, you will be afraid of the graphics, if you're afraid at all. Something will jump on the screen, you won't find any notes in this game that give you chills to simply read. And I found that to be a huge let down. Another thing that really bothered me was the padding. It wasn't the content that was padded, but the controls and gameplay itself. It takes a FULL SECOND to just turn your character in a single direction. This sounds negligible, but when you're trying to figure out where to go all of a sudden you realize you've been in the same hallway for nearly 2 minutes doing literally nothing but trying to orientate your character. The game (for no real reason) also allows you to "look" up/down on every single screen. Despite how this is only used once or twice in puzzles or story exploration, it's ultimately just a trap to spend MORE time looking around slowly and accomplishing nothing. I know my account shows nearly 30 hours of gameplay—I assure you that is not because I loved it OR because it's that long! I literally fell asleep multiple times playing this game. How uninteresting the story is, how much nothing seems to actually fit into anything, how slow it is to even MOVE, all add up to an incredibly dull game. The most successful thing this game did, was put me to sleep. EDIT: If you're still reading and want another example of how watered down bad this is compared to the first 2, you remember the "over here!" or "here!" voice mechanics in 1 and 2? That were creepy to hear cuz it meant something creepy was happening? In this game, when you hear "Over here!" it means "HEY TURN YOUR FLASHLIGHT ON, YOU CAN'T SEE!". That's all. It only happens when you need your flashlight out. Because not being able to see wasn't hint enough? Completely ruined a creepy mechanic. TL;DR As a standalone game, it's better than most other point and clicks, but still forgettable 6/10 As a sequel to Dark Fall 1 & 2, it's an utter disappointment 3/10. Just play 1 or 2 again, is what I recommend.