Game 15 of Spooktober 2025 Complete!
Wow, I loved this game a lot. I admit I struggled to get used to the controls for a bit. I'm quite used to tank controls, but the controls here just felt especially jank on top of it. The strafing for instance being inversed when you're facing the screen really didn't work with my …
Game 15 of Spooktober 2025 Complete!
Wow, I loved this game a lot. I admit I struggled to get used to the controls for a bit. I'm quite used to tank controls, but the controls here just felt especially jank on top of it. The strafing for instance being inversed when you're facing the screen really didn't work with my brain and given the snappy animation, enemies move quite quickly and punish any meandering. Once I got the hang of it though, the game got significantly better and it was a blast. I'd highly recommend this to anyone who liked the first game. My only major caveat...well you may notice I'm posting this on Nov 1 despite my goal being to finish 15 games by Halloween night (however late I stay up, no midnight deadline). I binged a lot of the game on Halloween itself but the game was so full of crashes and softlocks that I lost a solid 2+ hours of progress just yesterday. I am much more forgiving of early technical issues given its indie origins and I do hope a lot of these issues can be patched into better shape over time, but I can't help but be frustrated at how game-breaking all that was. The limited saves work well for the gameplay and genre, but I had multiple crashes that hit right before I was about to save after finishing a big chunk and replaying the same sections for that reason rather than because of my own fault for dying got old very fast. Nevertheless, I did get to the very end last night and since I would've finished it had it not been for those crashes, I gave myself an extra day to wrap up the last hour or so, especially since it was already 3:30 am and I wanted to finish The Coma 2B which took me till about 5. So I recommend, but if you wait a while till it gets patched a few times, it might be a better experience. If you do try it though, I highly recommend you save often. Though it defeats the purpose of the limited saves some, you get tons of saving items in the game. I saved 25 times and still had like 18 more items in my inventory so you should be fine.
Anyway, special circumstances aside, I did it!
Overall, I did really enjoy this challenge a lot. I had some difficulty starting out finding good games for my list, partially because I can only afford to do so many longer games and have to pad it out with some really short 1-4 hour games, the available library of which are mostly walking sims. Even aside from that not being my favorite genre of horror game, I've probably tapped out most of the better ones at this point. Still, given I found it quite fun last year to do so, I aimed for a solid variety of spooky games and I do think that ended up paying off with games from all over the place on spooky vibes or straight-up horror stories. Only a couple pairs of games on this year's list even feel like especially similar styles (Tormented Souls 2 and Post Trauma are both tank control old school Survival Horror revivals and Incantation and The Bridge Curse 2 are both Taiwanese haunted house sims). Had some really interesting plays and enjoyed even the worst of the list tremendously. Unfortunately, work and other stressors were a bit distracting and on balance I've been less into gaming this year on the whole, so I don't think I enjoyed the challenge as much this month as I did last year. But it still managed to be a highlight for me and I'm already looking forward to doing a similar challenge in 2026!
Hope y'all had a lovely Halloween, Grouvee!
