It’s got a few jump scares here and there, but they hardly ever felt cheap because the game isn’t throwing them at you every 5 minutes. The game is never overly scary, relying instead on atmosphere and solid sound design. They don’t seem to take the stories too seriously, and there’s lots of melodrama and overacting in a way that seems purposeful.

It’s a trend that continues with The Devil in Me. What I’ve always liked about Supermassive’s games I have played up to me writing this is that they stick to the vibes of late 90s/early 00s horror movies.

It’s still very linear, you’ll never get lost, but it created a great atmosphere to play in. There are a couple of sequences where you use a directional microphone to find your way through the hotel’s shifting hallways. I also really liked the hotel as a setting. Occasionally a line read will sound a little flat, but for the bulk of its runtime, the performances were good, and I wanted to keep them all alive to see how the experience played out. Each character has pre-developed relationships as they’ve already been working together for a while. It’s a solid set-up, and as a fan of true crime documentaries and horror movies with a serial killer/mystery element, The Devil in Me had the strongest pull for me out of the first season of The Dark Pictures Anthology titles. Holmes copycat looking for his next victims.

However, they end up caught in a trap by an H.H. The crew go along with it, hoping they can save the show. Holmes’ notorious “Murder Castle”: a hotel he built and ran in the late 1800s that was filled with traps designed to lead guests to their deaths. Suddenly, the director receives a call from a mysterious benefactor inviting the crew to a perfect recreation of H.H. The episode isn’t coming out great, with none of the crew being particularly confident that they’ll be able to book a second season of the show. The Devil in Me follows a crew of 5 characters making an episode of a true crime series about America’s first known serial killer: H.

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