[1 Dollar 1 Min] Overcast - Walden and the werewolf - Indie game review

Hi there and welcome to 1 Dollar 1 Min. Where I bring you brief reviews of bargain games. Overcast is a 9 level first-person indie game where you play a reclusive hunter named Walden. One day when our agoraphobic protagonist decided to randomly leave his house for no reason whatsoever, the sky turned black, everybody died, and I think a werewolf appeared, although I’m not entirely sure. Ignoring the poorly written and undeveloped story that continues in the same nonsensical manner, Overcast is the type of game that at least deserves a “You tried” award. As Walden, you move clumsily through arbitrarily designed environments, facing cheap jump scares and the same objective over and over again: Find a key, find the door, find a key, find the door. And in case you get lost in the teeny tiny locations, not only do you have a shittily-drawn map, but there are giant green arrows showing you the way. And that’s not even the best part about this game. It has an awful, clunky combat system, you don’t climb ladders you hop up them, and did I mention that Walden has three arms? Yeah, you can pick up and move objects while still holding onto your lantern and rifle Unfortunately you can’t see your third arm, or anything else for that matter, because the game has an intense film grain and is so stupidly dark that it makes you double check your own brightness settings. Don’t bother, they’re correct. Buy or deny? Deny, deny, deny. The most fun I had in this game was listening to the guitar solo on the title screen and later when I got bored and decided to put a dismembered corpse back together again. What has become of my life...