Doorways

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6.3

Mixed or average reviews- based on 34 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 7 out of 34
  3. Negative: 12 out of 34

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  1. RegenaldS
    Dec 15, 2013
    5
    CHAPTERS 1 & 2

    The main protagonist is a cop/detective who is tasked to find 4 criminals, all while trying to avoid being killed by various traps, ghosts, and animated statues. The setting is creepy, dark, and beautifully done. Levels vary from being outside with walls of spikes all around you to the interior of old, dark castles. The game tries to scare you, but doesn’t do a great    CHAPTERS 1 & 2

    The main protagonist is a cop/detective who is tasked to find 4 criminals, all while trying to avoid being killed by various traps, ghosts, and animated statues. The setting is creepy, dark, and beautifully done. Levels vary from being outside with walls of spikes all around you to the interior of old, dark castles.

    The game tries to scare you, but doesn’t do a great job doing so, but there are some pretty scary moments, like being chased by a huge statue when you can only see 5 feet in front of you, or when you’re running through the darkness hoping your torch doesn’t die out leaving you vulnerable to the ghosts that dwell there. The fear from this game comes more from psychological things instead of physical objects or beings, like seeing a man being tortured with a device intended to rip the flesh from your bones. All that and the grainy visual effects still are not enough to make this game reach the level of horror they were probably attempting to achieve.

    There are notes and small statues you can search around for, while the statues unlock achievements, the notes are basically the only story there is in this game, and it could have been done better.

    Pros:
    Beautiful environments.
    Some fun moments.
    Voicing by Sam A. Mowry.

    Cons:
    Controls are bad.
    Very short (60-90 minutes).
    Boring for most of the game.
    Tries to be scary, but fails most of the time.

    Score: 5/10

    CHAPTERS 3 & 4

    -not released yet-    … Expand
  2. PublicNuisance
    May 27, 2018
    7
    Doorways: Prelude was a solid game. Not fantastic in any way but also not bad in any way. That's not a bad thing to be. The graphics were decent but not great. The voice acting was decent. The game had a decently creepy vibe. The puzzles were not overly difficult, usually just a matter of finding the hidden pieces. The game had a couple moments that were close to traditional "run and hide"Doorways: Prelude was a solid game. Not fantastic in any way but also not bad in any way. That's not a bad thing to be. The graphics were decent but not great. The voice acting was decent. The game had a decently creepy vibe. The puzzles were not overly difficult, usually just a matter of finding the hidden pieces. The game had a couple moments that were close to traditional "run and hide" horror but they were few and far between. It was mostly puzzle solving.

    There was one bad puzzle, annoying really. Lets just say it had to do with spears and I am pretty sure I beat it by pure luck. It was basically trying to clear this room where if you got too close to these clay statues they one hit killed you. The story wasn't very fleshed out, which normally isn't an issue when you are playing through episodes 1 & 2 of 4, but still a little more backstory about this Doorway's group would have been nice.

    The game didn't crash once on me. I found no artifacts or other graphical glitches. There were 4 graphics options to play with and you could adjust the FOV to a max of 90. The game ran at a solid 60FPS for the bulk of the game but there were drops to the 20's for short bursts. I am not sure why as the game shouldn't stress this system with these visuals. The game was really dark but I didn't have as much issues with this compared to some. My monitor is 350 cd/m2 so maybe that helps but I only had to up the brightness from 5 to 7 in order to have an enjoyable experience and didn't have to adjust the monitor at all.

    Overall if you like puzzle games with a horror vibe such as Conarium you will probably enjoy this. I beat it in 110 minutes so it isn't very long but it is also not very expensive.

    My system:

    AMD FX-9590 | 16GB DDR3-2133 | MSI RX 580 8GB Gaming X | Mesa 18.1 | Samsung 850 Evo 250GB | Solus 3 | Kernel 4.16.11-71.current    … Expand

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  1. 4P.de
    Sep 27, 2013
    38
    It doesn’t rock and it doesn’t shock. The biggest scare of Doorways is imagining that there will be more episodes like this one.
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  2. GameSpot
    Sep 24, 2013
    40
    Shoots for scares, but elicits yawns.
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  3. Gameblog.fr
    Sep 24, 2013
    40
    Saibot offers an interesting first person adventure here, but Doorways is very short. The story of each psycho killer is dissolved and the puzzles are no problem. But above all, despite a fairly "nice" sordid atmosphere, we cannot say that we have been frightened while playing.
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