Rabbit Hole (2022)

Rabbit Hole is a Resident Evil clone that screams “first project”, but despite the many complaints I’m going to list, it is pretty fun.

Through the course of 3 chapters; you explore 2 areas of a contaminated city and a hospital, killing zombies and solving puzzles to try to find your daughter. The combat is really low budget… there’s no SFX when you hit an enemy or get hit, which really feels off. The AI is wildly inconsistent too. You’re encouraged to pull off stealth knife kills to conserve ammo, but they will spot you from a mile away for no reason (or sometimes ignore you when you’re right next to them). But headshots are the only way to survive, and you can dismember them as well.

But what makes the game really fun is the puzzles. They are pretty standard, but there’s some really fun clever ones as well. There’s some really great set design moments too, and honestly the quality of the locations stayed consistent throughout its 6 hour runtime. I also really loved how awful and corny the B-movie cut scenes were, they are kind of peak.

There’s some annoying stuff, like how much progress you can lose upon death. Saves only happen at key story moments, so if you get bull rushed after doing meticulous exploration; you can lose half an hour of progress. There is a Mr. x / nemesis character in the second chapter that is WAY too persistent and never goes away, which kind of ruins that chapter.

But overall, if you’re a survival horror nerd like me - it’s totally worth $8. It is a decent homage to the genre and despite its flaws, it nailed what really matters - being a fun game.