Psychroma is a narrative-driven side-scroller where you play as a digital medium. Confront the past by piecing together the broken memories of a cybernetic house, and exorcise the ghosts in the machine.
Short narrartive about identity and memory. A fun bit of body horror although with a touch of cosmic horror. Got on sale, which I'd recommend for the amount of content. Content is delivered in interesting ways, albeit most if not all is reading. Unique piece of art, happy to have played it.
If you are looking for a queer, sci-fi, horror point and click this might be for you
You have a good message and good body horror visuals, I'll give Psychroma that.
But the game fails at everything you claimed it would be. It's not scary. I didn't even twitch once, and I physically can't play Spooky's House of Jumpscares without screaming like a little girl.
It's not psychological, because you made your story devolve into incomprehensible...
Now that was an unexpected trip! Great short story with very interesting world building around it and a beautiful approach to both visual style and the complex themes it portrays.
I didn't really know what I was gonna get when I started this, but now that I've gone through it I'm glad I did. I'm not entirely sure about what happened, but I really liked the themes in play and how they were handled. Keeping it intentionally vague as that's in keeping with the start of the game. If you enjoy story-forward adventure games that touch...
