Gloomwood is a stealth horror FPS that follows your mysterious abduction to a forgotten, twisted Victorian metropolis in the midst of a horrifying transformation.
Wield your canesword and take to the shadows as you uncover the accursed mystery hidden within the fog.
From the producers of DUSK, AMID EVIL and FAITH comes a frightening, gothic immersive sim that will have you explore haunted streets, dark tunnels and decadent mansions.
Again from creators of "dusk", the graphics look worse than games from 1998. Why would I play this instead of reinstalling a good game like thief or something?
Thief was designed that way as a result of limitations of the tech available (it still looks better than this). This on the other hand just looks like shit. This style works in Dusk as it's more of an arena shooter which isn't about creating atmosphere.
I just tried the Steam demo, it's..actually pretty good and quite surprisingly, it manages to retain an eerie atmosphere despite the cheap retro visuals. As blackeyedboy mentioned, it is definitely close to the original Thief formula: you have a light indicator, you need to be careful about noises since surfaces have varying degrees of sound, and avoiding conflict is vital especially on the harder difficulties. Level design seems solid/complex as well.
The presence of firearms (pistol, shotgun) instead of the ol' bow makes the experience easier, but ammo is scarce and the lack of quicksaving (replaced by a fixed location for saving) counter-balances it a little. I'm definitely interested in the final game.
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