The Emptiness: Deluxe Edition

Ugh... This was something completely macabre and unnecessary in my humble opinion. I've played some really disturbing horror games before, and enjoyed some of them to their inhumane depth. I played tons of HOGs, that one would think that I'd get sick of the genre by now. But by no means have I ever played a HOG that masquerades as a horror game before,... Read more

I can't, in good conscience, recommend this game. I love hidden object games. Really love them. I've played so many of them it's stupid. But this one, I only got through about twenty minutes and the idea of playing any more makes me cringe. I will probably go back and finish, just because I have a complex about leaving things unfinished, but it will... Read more

This is a hidden object game that tries to hide that it's a hidden object game. To it's credit, it doesn't follow the traditional pattern. The game has a single location that expands as you unlock doors and get access to other rooms, but you will continually find yourself looking through the same rooms and in all the same corners and shelves trying... Read more

While I found this pretty boring and repetitive to play I stuck with it to the end just because I wanted to find out what the point of the whole thing was and well the ending I got was a massive anticlimax. Basically this is a point and click "horror" puzzle game, there's really no psychological adventure here. The game relies on jump scares throughout... Read more

It's really underwhelming. You find the door with a rune on it, same FMV video gives you a spell to dispel the rune, then you look around for the letters of the spell in the house. Usually with a minigame-like thing after dispelling the rune. I gave up after the fourth? one, as the game proved way more annoyance than challenge. The "A unique and thrilling... Read more