Thankfully, shadows and the overall atmosphere have a gloomy feeling that works just right for a horror game. Character models look blocky, and the rest of the environments don’t look much better. Let’s address the elephant in the room: the game’s visuals look, for lack of a better word, dated. Unlike Fatal Frame, however, your combat abilities are more limited here, with stealth and running being your best allies during most encounters. This is no common smartphone, however, as it has the ability to reveal the spirits, much like the Camera Obscura from Fatal Frame.
To fight the ghosts lingering in this haunted place, Linda has access to her trusty cellphone. However, that’s where DreadOut’s first twist comes: the game takes place in Indonesia. When we hear a plot like that, the first thing that might spring to mind is Japanese horror, complete with the usual black-haired female ghosts. There, Linda, a high school student, must do everything to survive the horrors that haunt the village. The game’s story takes place in an old abandoned town. You never know what might be lurking in the shadows – and, to be honest, sometimes it’s better not to know. Fans of scary games who aren’t expecting some impressive visuals will undoubtedly be satisfied with DreadOut, and its undeniably gloomy atmosphere doesn’t need extraordinary graphics to be effective.ĭespite its short length, the game’s effective use of jump scares and the atmosphere is superb. DreadOut makes use of an underutilized setting in horror games and delivers a satisfyingly scary – albeit short – experience.
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