![]() A surreal-horror mythology based on drugs, grotesque nudity and disturbing but bizarre entities. The game is able to create its own personal mythology without stealing ideas from other games, creating a new and unique way to scare and to make feel the player uneasy. Every new room is a terrible and disturbing surprise, a new grotesque character or an unexpected enemy. A constant sense of uncomfortable dread will always follow the player around, while exploring the bizarre and surreal guts of this abandoned building. The atmosphere is interesting, disturbing and innovative. ![]() If you want to discover everything, it will be necessary at least around 12 hours of gameplay (using guides). Sometime you can pass for the same room twenty time, and the next time something really unexpected will happen. Secret areas, random events, hidden monster, there is really everything. Red Haze is also full of secrets, even without considering the 20 endings. In the picture below you can have an idea of how much creepy and disturbing the game can be by watching the icons of the STEAM achievements. However, the constant feeling of surprise, the joy to discover and to achieve a new ending is always able to keep the interest high. Exploring and experimenting allows to discover many endings, but for others a guide is necessary. However, other endings are incredibly difficult not only to achieve, but also to just figure how to get them. Some endings are very straightforward and the player can obtained them in few minutes of gameplay, or just by failing. Red Haze right now has around 20 different endings and multiple replays are necessary to discover everything. The game is build on trial and error, but in an effective way. Also there is only one save slot available and, combined with the permanent death, it makes the game very frustrating in some moments. Not always, but usually being caught by an enemy means to restart the game from the beginning, without the possibility to load a save. Rockette can evade the enemies sprinting or trying to hide, but a hidden stamina bar will make more difficult to outrun an enemy without slowing down. The game also feature several enemies, able to kill the main character with a simple touch. The gameplay is simple and based on exploration and puzzle solving. All the things that will happen in the abandoned building where she is living are far more difficult to explain by simple logic, painting a plot based on abandon, regret and grudge. ![]() Not a nice start, but from here on everything becomes more twisted and surreal. The protagonist of the game is Rockette, a homeless girl escaped from home and forced to prostitute to pay for drugs. The game is really harsh, mature and disturbing, so surely it is not for everybody. and Amnesia, you will have an idea of how much a rare quality this is right now. And if you look in STEAM between the hundreds of uninspired copies of P.T. It is incredibly original and somehow really addicting, while it is able to create its own mythology and setting without stealing ideas from other horror games (maybe just a little from Silent Hill, but who doesn’t). Red Haze is an indie surprise of the last year. ![]()
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