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DUSK (Steam)

When this game is good, it's really good. I wouldn't call it scary, exactly, but it can be very tense and dripping with atmosphere. The look and especially the sound of the game are on point. It's incredible how quickly this game can turn on the paranoia with just a dark hallway and a few sound effects. Especially with the invisible wendigo enemies.

Of course, as you keep playing you'll realize a lot of it is cheating. Like, some of the ambient noises really are enemies but mostly it's just an ambient noise track. Like you'll hear something clanking but it doesn't actually exist in the level, you can't find it or interact with it. And of course when a game is pitch fuckin black it's scary but also it's bad game design. It was bad game design in the mid-2000s and it still is now.

Dusk plays pretty well. I wish the weapons were more interesting. You have a mostly useless pistol, two shotguns, an assault rifle, a sniper rifle, a grenade launcher, and a rocket launcher. Plus melee weapons of very marginal use. Level design is solid, though there's a lot of reliance on monster closets (and sometimes just spawning shit in out of plain air).

I loved the Christian horror stuff going on but the final couple levels really dropped the ball on it, with the final boss being especially doofy.

My understanding was that this was widely regarded as better than Amid Evil but I definitely preferred that game by a fair bit.