The tone, tension and striking visuals compliment what little story there is wonderfully and end result is likely to leave most players wanting more. The sound design is just as effective with sharp, twisted sounds and ominous rumbling to create the sensation that the player is not alone.Įvil Inside is criminally short considering how effective of an atmosphere it manages to create and story it tells within the confines of less than a dozen rooms or areas. The house is so beautifully realised and the lighting appropriately elevates the tension at key moments, particularly when the house becomes illuminated with a demonic red tone. While extremely short it does manage to feel adequately tense, due large in part to the incredible visuals. Littered with jump scares, effective manipulation of lighting and spooky apparitions, Evil Inside is sure to satisfy players with an appetite for the supernatural and disturbing spirituality. Luckily this means a player that may feel lost can easily find and trigger what they need to progress, possibly even by accident. This can cause a little confusion, especially as this is at no point explained and sounds that may seem like just a creepy distraction are actually cues to indicate something somewhere has happened.Īs the house is small, particularly early in the game before opening up with progression, there aren’t many places to explore and can be fully backtracked through in less than a minute. Doors in particular may not open unless certain items have been found or specific noises have been heard. The solutions to the scenarios thrown at the player are combinations of physical interactions with key items within the house and audio cues. Completing this game is as simple as navigating the house ten times which can be done in as little as half an hour. Any change is essential to progression and in most cases the story.

A previously locked room may now be accessible or an object that wasn’t there before has now appeared. Playing as Mark the player must simply find their way through the house ten times.Įach time the player passes through a particular door, they are sent back to the first room of the house though this time something will be different. There are no enemies, no ways to die or lose, there are only environmental puzzles to solve and answers to find, both on a character level and literally in regards to the puzzles. It won't be.Evil Inside is a linear experience unfolding within a changing yet familiar environment. After passing through the house a number of times, you'll hope for your patience to be rewarded with a dramatic and unexpected twist at the end. Luckily, there's little of it to listen to. The dialogue is short, emotionless and does nothing to further or build any sort of meaningful drama. There's no development of the story, no character arcs, and after a bit, you'll question exactly what the protagonists mission really is. Jump scares? Check (over and over again). Baby in the crib with distorted lullaby audio? Check. All the stereotypical horror flick elements are there, and basically little else. You're the teenage protagonist son who is the sole caregiver for your infant little brother, living in the same house.perhaps the most horrifying part of the entire plot is the apparent ineptitude of the local Child & Family Services authorities. The premise is old and tired, a happy family that has their life turned upside down after dad murders mom.

You might even get a full 2 hours of entertainment from renting a movie, which you're unlikely to get from Evil Inside.

You'll have no decisions to make, and no one to interact with, and no other objects in the setting can be manipulated or moved other than the few specific to that 'level'. You'll have no inventory to check (nor will you need anything), and only once will you have to do anything more that Hit X to interact with an object. The 'gameplay' level isn't much higher here. If you have 13 dollars to burn while staying at home, pick any old campy horror movie to rent.

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