Unholy is an ambitious new stealth-based horror game from a young studio with a lot of potential. Read our review.
, has been marketed primarily as a “psychological horror game,” but having played it, I have to respectfully disagree with that assessment. Sure, it shares many of the trappings of horror—creepy settings, monster chases, a general sense of feeling underpowered—but the horror elements aren’t really the main draw of the experience, in my opinion.
A lot of the credit for the problem-solving working as well as it does goes to the level design. Levels are varied and almost always allow for numerous different approaches. Here’s an example of how this design approach is executed: At one point, you find yourself speaking with a mechanic who warns you that the street near his house is flooded with plague-infected toxic gas.
Another thing I have to commend is the presentation. The developers clearly put a lot of stock in the visual design of the worlds, with art director Tomasz Strzałkowski being the one member of the team getting the most credit in the marketing, and I can certainly see why—the two worlds are both visually stunning in very different ways, with the dark, unnatural, and deeply disorienting hallways of the In-Between and the grotesque cityscapes of the Eternal City both coming to life excellently.
And chances are you will have a good amount of desire at any given time, because the developers seem to be pulling their punches as well in resource scarcity, or lack thereof. A lot of the problem-solving and decision-making is at its best when you have a limited amount of emotion charges with which to tackle any given scenario and thus have to use what you have wisely.
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